Teams at Chicago Scholars (The Chicago Scholars Foundation)

Develop and manage strategic partnerships with community, nonprofit, civic, government, philanthropic, and education stakeholders. Build partnership pipelines, cultivate relationships, coordinate proposals and funding opportunities, manage MOUs and renewals, maintain CRM data, create dashboards and reports, represent Chicago Scholars externally, and lead cross-functional partnership projects and events.

Support Scholar communications by drafting newsletters, emails, and texts; monitor and promote opportunities; liaise between staff and Scholars; update Salesforce and manage communications data and archives; assist events and cross-team projects; compile a portfolio and deliver a capstone presentation.

Support the Marketing & Communications team by creating and posting social and web content, managing social inboxes, updating the WordPress site, advising on trends and strategy, covering events with photos and editorial notes, and handling administrative tasks such as organizing assets in SmugMug and Canva. Build a portfolio and present learnings at term end.