Network Builder Steward

About IMPACT Silver Spring

IMPACT’s mission is to bring about a more racially just and economically equitable Montgomery County by co-creating spaces based on community priorities that foster trusting relationships, and building people’s capacities to transform their lives, communities and systems.

Position Overview

The Network Building Steward manages and supports the coordination, documentation, and strengthening of community based work across IMPACT Silver Spring’s neighborhood networks and initiatives.

Working closely with Network Builders, resident leaders, partners, volunteers, and staff, this role supports coordination, learning, and connection across geographies and initiatives including leadership development, mutual support efforts, racial equity work, civic participation, local economy initiatives, resident led spaces, and community networks.

This role is ideal for someone comfortable navigating complexity, building relationships, supporting others, and helping diverse efforts move toward shared goals through collaboration and shared accountability.

Core Responsibilities

Support and Coordination

• Support Network Builders with their neighborhood initiatives.
• Support follow up, outreach, logistics, partnerships, and communication efforts that strengthen participation and relationship building across multiple initiatives.
• Build authentic relationships with Network Builders, residents, volunteers, facilitators, partners, and collaborators.
• Help ensure community spaces remain resident centered, welcoming, and responsive to community priorities.
• Support onboarding, accompaniment, and learning opportunities that strengthen staff, facilitators, volunteers, and resident leaders.
• Support coordination and alignment across Network Building work through planning, communication, collaborative problem solving, accountability structures, and ongoing support.

Cross Network Weaving and Ecosystem Stewardship

• Strengthen connections across geographies, programs, and initiatives that share common goals around belonging, trust, leadership, and collective action.
• Identify opportunities where separate initiatives, spaces, partnerships, or engagement strategies can reinforce one another and create stronger community outcomes across neighborhood networks, sports, racial equity work, local economy initiatives, leadership spaces, and other community efforts.
• Help reduce silos through collaboration, reflection, shared learning, and stronger communication practices.
• Support organizational weaving efforts while respecting the unique needs, relationships, and priorities of individual geographies and initiatives.
• Strengthen pathways between community spaces, leadership opportunities, programs, and initiatives to help ensure relationships and learning do not operate in isolation.

Documentation, Data, and Reporting

• Coordinate collection of participation data, demographics, stories, outcomes, and information gathered across neighborhood spaces and initiatives.
• Develop reports, summaries, dashboards, and documentation that support organizational learning, grant reporting, fundraising, communications, and storytelling.
• Support consistent and meaningful documentation practices that balance organizational needs with community centered values.
• Translate qualitative and quantitative information into meaningful narratives about community impact.
• Help maintain systems and tools that support relationship tracking, reporting, and organizational learning.
• Coordinate quarterly work planning processes with Network Builders to help align priorities, goals, and activities with organizational objectives and community needs.
• Support Network Builders in tracking grant commitments, contract deliverables, and program outcomes to help ensure alignment between community work, organizational priorities, and funding requirements.

Strategic Insight and learning

• Identify emerging patterns, recurring concerns, leadership opportunities, participation gaps, partnership opportunities, and challenges across networks and initiatives.
• Help Network Builders surface learning from community spaces that can inform organizational conversations and decision making.
• Recognize early signs of challenges such as burnout, community disengagement, duplicated efforts, disconnected workstreams, or relationship gaps.
• Identify opportunities where stronger coordination, support structures, or systems could strengthen community outcomes.

Relationship Stewardship

• Attend community gatherings, neighborhood spaces, leadership activities, and resident events across IMPACT geographies.
• Maintain authentic relationships with residents, partners, facilitators, collaborators, and community leaders.
• Serve as a bridge between community experiences and internal organizational learning.
• Support storytelling efforts that communicate how relationships, networks, leadership, and community spaces contribute to broader impact.

Desired Qualifications & Characteristics

We recognize that community work creates many pathways for experience and leadership. Candidates may bring these qualifications through professional, volunteer, community, educational, or lived experiences. We value demonstrated commitment to relationship centered work, racial justice, economic equity, and strengthening communities regardless of how that experience was gained.

A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is preferred. We recognize that relevant combinations of education, community work, professional experience, and lived experience may substitute for traditional educational pathways.

Because documentation, storytelling, reflection, and reporting are central to this role, strong writing and communication skills are essential.

Successful candidates will demonstrate:

• Deep belief in resident leadership and relationship centered community change
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and relationships simultaneously
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify patterns, synthesize information, and communicate insights across diverse audiences
• Strong listening, relationship building, and collaboration skills across diverse communities, cultures, perspectives, and working styles
• Strong writing skills with demonstrated ability to document work, tell compelling stories, and communicate complex work clearly
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution
• Bilingual and multicultural communication skills strongly valued

Success in this role is not measured solely by activities completed or reports submitted. Success may look like:

• Stronger connections across geographies, programs, and initiatives
• Network Builders and community leaders feeling supported, connected, and better equipped to do their work
• More consistent learning, documentation, storytelling, and organizational reflection
• Community insights translating into stronger coordination, decisions, and action
• Systems and practices that strengthen relationships, collaboration, and shared accountability

Salary and Benefits

This is a full-time position that requires regular travel throughout Montgomery County, as well as flexibility to work occasional evenings and weekends. The salary for this position is $70,000. At IMPACT, we are committed to fostering a supportive and collaborative work environment that values both in-person teamwork and the flexibility of remote work. We believe in investing in our employees while advancing our mission to serve the community.

Our benefits package includes health, life, and disability insurance, paid vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, participation in MD Saves, flexible work arrangements, and the final week of the calendar year off.

Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to jobs@impactsilverspring.org. Applications will remain open until the position is filled. No phone inquiries please.

Our benefits package includes health, life, and disability insurance, paid vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, participation in MD Saves, flexible work arrangements, and the final week of the calendar year off. At IMPACT, we are committed to fostering a supportive and collaborative work environment that values both in-person teamwork and the flexibility of remote work.

• Bilingual and multicultural communication skills strongly valued