Associate, Engagement & Activation

Position Overview

The Associate, Engagement & Activation plays a critical role in ensuring that Commit’s high-impact convenings, stakeholder engagements, and activation campaigns are executed with precision, consistency, and operational excellence.  

This role supports the Communications and Engagement team by coordinating events and campaigns, managing engagement systems, tracking stakeholder data, and ensuring strong follow-through on activation efforts. The Associate ensures that stakeholder engagement strategies translate into disciplined execution that strengthens Commit’s visibility, influence, and impact.  

This role requires disciplined execution, strong organizational systems, and proactive communication and follow-through to ensure deliverables are completed accurately and on time.  

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, systems-driven, and collaborative, with a strong commitment to operational excellence and measurable results that advance student-centered outcomes.  

Salary Range

$60,000-$78,000 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive planning and execution support for stakeholder convenings and events, including registration management, vendor coordination, timeline tracking, run-of-show documentation, day-of logistics, and post-event follow-up.  
• Serve as a primary logistics point of contact for the Communications and Engagement team and cross-functional partners.  
• Coordinate with venues, caterers, technology providers, and other vendors to manage contracts, budgets, and timelines.  
• Research, catalog, and maintain a centralized database of venues, documenting capacities, amenities, and suitability for various convening formats.  
• Design and implement standardized event planning protocols, templates, and operating procedures to improve efficiency and consistency.  
• Lead internal training sessions to ensure teams effectively utilize event planning tools and systems.  
• Oversee procurement, organization, and safekeeping of event assets including signage, promotional materials, branded items, hospitality supplies, and communication equipment.  
• Maintain inventory tracking systems and monitor check-outs and returns to ensure accountability and resource availability.  

2. Engagement Documentation & Activation Follow-Up  

• Support post-event communications, including thank-you messages, resource distribution, and coordination of next steps with stakeholders.  
• Attend convenings and key meetings to document discussions, stakeholder feedback, and commitments.  
• Maintain and manage stakeholder relationship data in Salesforce to accurately track attendance, engagement, participation, and follow-up actions.  
• Ensure activation efforts (e.g., event sign-ups, commitments, continued engagement) are documented and monitored to completion.  

• Serve as Salesforce administrator for the Communications and Engagement team, ensuring accurate and timely data entry, segmentation, reporting, and system integrity.  
• Track and process invoices, contracts, and vendor agreements for communications and engagement initiatives, ensuring compliance and timely payment.  
• Maintain organized documentation systems for contracts, vendor relationships, and event materials.  

• Track campaign analytics and engagement metrics, including email performance, website traffic, social media engagement, and event participation.  
• Generate performance reports to support learning and continuous improvement across campaigns and engagement initiatives.  
• Identify opportunities to strengthen data capture, reporting processes, and stakeholder segmentation.  
• Support continuous improvement efforts by translating engagement data into clear internal summaries that inform decision-making.  

General Project Coordination  

• Provide additional project coordination and communications support to ensure timely, high-quality execution of initiatives aligned to annual organizational goals. 

Qualifications and Skills Required:

• Demonstrated commitment to improving student outcomes and advancing public education.  
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.  
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams with shifting priorities and deadlines.  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for internal and external stakeholders.  
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).  
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and functions.  
• Comfort interacting professionally with diverse stakeholders.  
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt in dynamic environments.  
• Commitment to continuous improvement and responsiveness to feedback.  

Education and/or Experience Required: 

• Associate degree or higher in communications, business, nonprofit administration, or related field.  
• 2–4 years of professional experience in communications, nonprofit administration, stakeholder engagement, event coordination, or related field.  

Preferred: 

• Experience with Salesforce (Nonprofit Marketing Cloud preferred).  
• Experience managing event logistics and stakeholder data systems.  

Language Skills:

• Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.  
• Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.  
• Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• Ability to read and write in Standard English. 
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others. 
• Ability to interact with persons of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds. 
• Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness. 
• Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting. 
• Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment. 
• Ability to maintain level-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions. 

Work Environment:  

Generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.   

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, experience and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Job Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, experience, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  
 
The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.  

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our collective actions, Dallas County—which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation—can become an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared fairly. That’s why our True North Goal is that by 2040, at least half of all Dallas County residents ages 25–34, irrespective of race, will have the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand, well-paying jobs—maximizing the cumulative impact from early education through college, career, and military readiness to strong postsecondary completion. Our team aligns community stakeholders around this shared roadmap for the future, using data to surface strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding. Together, we work to address the systemic root causes that hinder progress and strengthen our community’s capacity to serve every student effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, the Commit Partnership has grown into the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, uniting more than 70 backbone team members and over 200 partners across Dallas County and Texas—all working together to address the systemic education challenges facing our region and state. Our team brings community stakeholders together around a shared roadmap for the future, using data and practitioner insights to inform effective policy solutions that accelerate progress toward our goals and strengthen our collective capacity to serve every student well.

Together, we advocate for an excellent public education that ensures all students—regardless of race, place, or socioeconomic status—can shape their own futures, earn a living wage, and share in the prosperity of the world’s eighth-largest economy. We pursue this mission through several key initiatives, including Early Matters Dallas, Dallas County Promise, the Texas Urban Council, and the Texas Impact Network.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.