Website Center for Intimacy Justice
Hours: Approx. 15 hours per week (flexibility to be 12-18 hours per week if best)
Location: Remote; strong preference for United States
Compensation: Dependent on experience
Who We Are
Center for Intimacy Justice (CIJ) is a nonprofit whose first cornerstone program area is working to change content moderation policies that censor female sexual health and wellness information. Today, ads for health of people with vulvas (e.g. for menopause, pelvic pain, and more) are rejected by tech platforms, misclassified as “adult products.” This censorship is applied in ways that discriminate based on gender and other lenses – which holds back women and nonbinary entrepreneurs in particular, and blocks access to valuable and needed health information. CIJ is working to change this – engaging in media, legal, and policy strategies, from investigative evidence building, to advocacy and PR campaigns, to working with government agencies, and more.
- Jan 2022: CIJ published a report, released in The New York Times and covered in 75+ press outlets, revealing Meta (Facebook and Instagram)’s systemic rejections of ads benefiting female health and wellness. 100% of the rejected ads studied were by women- and nonbinary-founded businesses, whereas erectile dysfunction businesses’ ads were allowed. CIJ spoke about the findings on TV and other outlets.
- Jan 2022: Citing and acting on CIJ’s report, The Chair of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, Senator Patty Murray, wrote an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg at Meta/Facebook demanding answers to questions, including asking what actions Meta/Facebook is taking in response to CIJ’s report.
- Feb 2022: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tweeted about Meta’s inequitable censorship of women’s health, to Senator Patty Murray. The tweets increased pressure on Meta, and Clinton wrote that she knew Senator Murray would “keep on them.”
- Summer 2022: Other government agencies took action.
- Fall 2022: Meta published changes to its sexual health advertising global policies, to state that sexual health and wellness, and reproductive health, ads are allowed – and adding examples to its policies of types of health, including for female-bodied people, that are meant to be allowed to advertise on Meta platforms.
The organization recently received an exciting funding injection that will allow us to expand our work!
Summary
CIJ is looking for an initiative-taking, organized, strategic Partnerships Managerto execute a key next stage of CIJ’s partnerships and fundraising. CIJ has built strong credibility and relationships with a number of women’s health businesses and organizations, and others, who see our work as highly valuable to the field and are excited for our next steps. We are working to channel the partnership, entrepreneurial abilities, and collective resources of women’s health ecosystem stakeholders into an important next stage of impact. The Partnerships Manager will execute CIJ’s new membership program and other sponsorship and partnership programs. CIJ’s new membership program is the first membership program in the women’s health field for women’s health organizations to pool financial resources together in support of equitable tech policies in the field – and it’s one of multiple partnership programs, along with sponsorship and others.
Responsibilities:
The Partnership Manager will both generate ideas and strategies for CIJ’s membership programs and partnerships, and will effectively execute and operationalize those strategies, to increase CIJ’s membership and resources for CIJ’s impact work. The Partnerships Manager will communicate effectively to partner with a variety of stakeholders, and will work collaboratively with the CIJ team.
1. (70%) Resource Development:
- Membership: Support the communication and development of multiple opportunities for businesses, nonprofits and others to partner with and support CIJ’s impact, including with financial support:
- Membership: General membership for a large number of organizations/businesses (e.g. analyzing data to create pricing structure, communicating offerings, answering questions)
- Champions Circle: Larger partnership by values-aligned partners that CIJ also refers for press and speaking opportunities
- Sponsorship: Opportunities for larger companies and organizations to support CIJ activities through areas such as funding CIJ’s research/reports
- Execute and organize communications with members, partners, and sponsors
- Create and collaborate on written materials (e.g. decks, one-pagers, summaries) for partnership opportunities
- Utilize CRM software systems (CIJ uses Apollo and HubSpot) for emails and for managing CIJ’s existing database of organizations
- Foundations & Philanthropic Supporters: Drive grant writing and donor communications with foundations and prospective philanthropic partners
- Corporate Sponsorship: Create CIJ corporate sponsorship programs; find sponsors for activities such as CIJ reports and other sponsorship opportunities
- Create important new revenue streams for CIJ’s work to drive critical impact
2. (15%) Amplification/Activation with Partners:
- Drive group communication with businesses and organizations that seek to change this digital discrimination. (CIJ has a database of hundreds of businesses and thousands of individuals who have expressed interest in our work.)
- Communicate with organizations about how they can activate and educate their audiences as CIJ launches social media campaigns and announcements (e.g. sharing opportunities for partners’ audiences to sign petitions supporting change, disseminating engaging content that partners can share, and more).
3. (15%) Other Collaboration Communications:
The Partnership Manager may:
- Support and organize execution of communications with other key CIJ stakeholders, such as US Senate Offices and Congressional subcommittees that CIJ works with, and others (e.g. support correspondence and setting up meetings).
Qualifications
Proven track record of success in fundraising, or sales and business development. Ideal experience is success in social sector fundraising (e.g. foundations and individual major donors, corporate sponsorship, impact investment, or other areas), but experience and success in sales or other forms of resource development, revenue generation, or raising investment will be considered.
Exceptional interpersonal skills and interpersonal sensitivity/awareness
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong passion for the Center for Intimacy Justice’s mission
Preferred:
Understanding of, experience with, and passion for the female health entrepreneurial ecosystem is preferred (for membership cultivation)
Experience with CRM systems (e.g. HubSpot, Apollo) is a plus but not required
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds as well as life experiences, abilities, sexual orientations and identities, relationship structures, races, ethnicities, genders, and other identities. We value an inclusive and diverse team and culture. No matter your background, candidates must also embrace, advocate for, and deeply value the work of equity and inclusion.
Application Instructions
Please send a resume, cover letter, and a note about how you learned of this position to careers@intimacyjustice.org with a subject line “[First Name] [Last Name] Partnerships Manager Application”. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Thank you for your interest in working with CIJ!