Social Responsibility Program Coordinator

WORK OPTION: In Office 4 days/week in New York, NY

The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.

Postion Summary:

The Social Responsibility Coordinator will support the planning, coordination, and amplification of the NBA’s and WNBA’s social impact efforts. They will be responsible for supporting the successful execution of NBA Cares tentpole activations and helping manage department operations and administrative needs with a focus on efficiency, collaboration, and information sharing. A small percentage of the role (10%) will also require supporting the NBA and WNBA’s Youth Basketball Development’s events and social/digital efforts.

Major Responsibilities:

• Assist with the planning, communication, and implementation of NBA/WNBA social impact programming including drafting planning materials, organizing meetings, managing events from start-to-finish inclusive of all prep (ordering signage, t-shirts) focused on ensuring an exceptional and hospitable attendee experience.
• Support social, digital and broadcast community and impact storytelling efforts, coordinating effectively across internal and external groups, crafting content with a keen attention to detail, ensuring content on internal and external platforms are current and refreshed, providing creative solutions for storytelling around the impact and youth basketball development efforts of the NBA, WNBA and its teams, players, partners and stakeholders, and helping to amplify existing impact and youth basketball content from league stakeholders.
• Manage social impact partnerships, including tracking new and existing marketing and licensee partner conversations and contractual deliverables with an eye towards open inventory opportunities that help drive business and impact priorities.
• Participate in cross-departmental program planning meetings to support multiple business objectives, with a particular focus on supporting Youth Basketball Development efforts where and when needed.
• Manage and track team and player community and youth basketball-related efforts for both the WNBA and NBA.
• Manage and foster meaningful relationships across internal departments as well as with WNBA and NBA teams, community partners and other community-based organizations.
• Communicate key issues internally via status update reports and meeting updates while proactively recommending solutions.
• Manage vendor and partner relationships, support the creation of contracts and manage budgets, all while meeting strict deadlines.
• Prepare documents for community-based event planning such as event runs of show, key messages, suggested social media copy and emcee scripts.
• Research and vet potential non-profit partners, social impact issues in specific markets, team or player social impact activations, etc.
• Identify and highlight relevant social impact content from partners, teams, players, and coaches.
• Manage event orders, such as partner signage, merchandise, shipping, etc.
• Identify and solve operational challenges proactively.
• Research best practices across teams and players as well as across the sport and impact industry at large
• Support department operations, including managing department expenses, while keeping an eye towards utilization and implementation of tech tools that allow for seamless information tracking and sharing.
• Support internal efforts to engage employees in volunteer programs or other social impact-related opportunities (e.g., sustainability)
  
  

Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes:

• Excellent organizational skills, including multitasking, time management, and attention to detail.
• Ability to handle pressure and make good decisions quickly.
• Advanced written and oral communications skills.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Knowledgeable in community programming focused on issues of health and wellness, sustainability, education, and racial and social justice.
• Ability to think creatively and communicate clearly, professionally and persuasively (both verbally and in written form).
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent at building and maintaining professional relationships.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize effectively, exercise flexibility as needed, communicate changes/updates to colleagues in a timely manner.
• Experience using tech tools such as Airtable or Salesforce to enhance collaboration and information sharing.
• Experience using Survey Monkey, Google Forms, or another tech platform aimed at gathering, synthesizing, and tracking data and patterns to inform larger strategy.
  
  

Experience Needed:

• Minimum of 1-3 years of experience working with community program management (preferably in a non-profit or professional sports setting).
• Previous experience with event management.
  
  

Required Education/Professional Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
  
  

Salary Range: $70,000 - $75,000

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About The NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball.  Built around five professional sports leagues:  the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 215 countries and territories in more than 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2021-22 season featured a record 121 international players from 40 countries.  NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass.  The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with 2.1 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms.  Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.