Senior Manager Partnerships FIU

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Position: Senior Manager - Partnerships

Department: Strategic Initiatives - Financial Systems / Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)

FLSA Status: Full-Time, Non-Exempt

Reports to: Strategic Initiatives Director - Financial Systems

Direct Reports: None

Date Issued: September 24, 2022

Date Revised: N/A

Location: Washington, DC

The Mission

Polaris is leading a data-driven social justice movement to fight sex and labor trafficking at the massive scale of the problem - 25 million people worldwide deprived of the freedom to choose how they live and work.

For more than a decade, Polaris has assisted thousands of victims and survivors through the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, helped ensure countless traffickers were held accountable and built the largest known U.S. data set on actual trafficking experiences. With the guidance of survivors, we use that data to improve the way trafficking is identified, how victims and survivors are assisted, and how communities, businesses and governments can prevent human trafficking by transforming the underlying inequities and oppressions that make it possible.

About Opportunity

The Polaris Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a partnership with PayPal, leverages the reach, expertise, and motivation of the global financial sector to identify trafficking operations through their financial footprints, support criminal cases that mitigate the burden placed on victims to participate, and facilitate the financial restitution process - ultimately decreasing the profitability of trafficking while increasing accountability for the traffickers. To do this, the FIU generates new insights through a combination of in-house research and collaborative efforts with the financial services industry, survivors, law enforcement, and others in the anti-trafficking field. This initiative also works to bolster the financial resiliency of vulnerable populations and trafficking survivors through financial inclusion initiatives and advocates for responsible financing practices to incentivize businesses to implement strong worker protections.

The FIU Senior Manager in charge of partnerships will manage the team's engagement with and communications to strategic partners within the anti-money laundering/anti-financial crimes community, particularly those within financial institutions. The Senior Manager in charge of partnerships will lead the implementation of collaborative information-sharing partnerships with anti-money laundering professionals within financial institutions, law enforcement, government agencies, and survivor communities. The Senior Manager in charge of partnerships will work closely with the other members of the FIU to design and implement high-impact research and analysis projects and ensure analytical findings are effectively communicated to the anti-money laundering audience.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with relevant local and national stakeholders within financial institutions, law enforcement, government agencies and relevant civil society groups across the United States and internationally;
• Represent Polaris's positions and communicate information externally to financial institutions, other nonprofits, public interest groups, coalitions, other organizations, and occasionally, with the media;
• Create briefings, reports, trainings, presentations and other resources specifically for the anti-financial crimes/anti-money laundering community based on analytical and research findings of the FIU;
• Manage information-sharing relationships with leading financial institutions and other relevant entities;
• Collaborate with team members and partners to design innovative research and analytical projects in order to better understand the financial footprints of human traffickers;
• Create and implement systems to evaluate the success and impact of the FIU's work to educate the anti-financial crimes/anti-money laundering community;
• Work in partnership with the Development team to create funding-related proposals and reports and to develop and maintain relationships with current and prospective funders; and
• Work in partnership with the Public Policy and Strategic Advocacy team on advocacy opportunities at the international, federal, state and local level to prevent or address trafficking through financial systems.

This job description provides a summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by individuals in this position. Incumbents may be asked to perform other tasks not specifically written in this job.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Deep passion! Mad skills! Low ego!
• Minimum of seven years of professional experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in anti-financial crimes, anti-money laundering, anti-fraud, financial compliance, intelligence analysis, or related field;
• Demonstrated ability to develop strategic and impactful partnerships across industries;
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills and an experienced public speaker;
• Experience creating trainings and educational resources;
• Genuine interest and passion for Polaris's issues and priorities;
• Ability to consistently apply professionalism and good judgment in a fast-paced environment;
• Ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality regarding all aspects of work at all times;
• Proven ability to deliver results, a natural self-starter who is comfortable working independently and as part of a team, and
• Ability to travel domestically, and on occasion, internationally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in the anti-money laundering/anti-financial crimes section of a financial institution or related law enforcement or government agency;
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) or Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (CFCS) certification;
• Existing strong relationships within the anti-financial crime community; and,
• Familiarity with Salesforce or other similar Customer Relationship Management platforms.

Communication
• Internal: Ability to communicate effectively with executives, peers, and direct reports; and
• External: Ability to build trusted relationships with partner organizations, build consensus across a broad range of actors, respond quickly and calmly in a variety of situations. Frequent contact with survivors, donors, partner organizations, advocacy coalitions, law enforcement, business community and the media.

Working Conditions
• Typical office setting

Physical Requirements
• Prolonged sitting, chiefly at a computer terminal;
• Occasional bending, stooping and stretching;
• Requires eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer, telephone, calculator, and other office equipment;
• Requires normal range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare, and communicate in writing, in person and by phone;

Organization Background

VALUES: Polaris is grounded in a set of values and organizational beliefs and strives to model and embody these values in all that it does.

We work with humility and a spirit of service. We serve a mission that is bigger than ourselves, and we recognize that we cannot do this work alone. We foster a caring community of mutual support, and we actively pursue collaborations and partnerships to expand our reach.

Victims' and survivors' experiences ground our efforts. We honor the dignity, agency, and resilience of victims and survivors of slavery, both past and present. We serve, work alongside, and stand in solidarity with those who have been most affected by modern slavery.

We strive for inclusion and equity. We engage different perspectives to inform our decisions, actions, and positions. We create opportunities that empower individuals of diverse backgrounds and circumstances. We acknowledge the structural inequities that lead to human trafficking and modern slavery, which drives us to create just and equitable solutions.

We approach our work with courage. We promote a culture of inquiry, innovation, risk-taking, and continuous learning. We are resilient and evolve when faced with obstacles or failure. We recognize that what is typical or traditional is not always optimal.

We create positive impact and achieve results. We leverage and cultivate the strengths of our staff, and we work with discipline, integrity, and a commitment to excellence. We embrace a measurement culture to track our progress. We view impact holistically, considering multiple sectors and the effects on individuals' lives, as we pursue systemic and social change to eradicate modern slavery

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

Polaris designs and implements data-driven strategies to prevent and disrupt human trafficking, and restore freedom to survivors. Achieving this ambitious goal requires both trafficking-specific systemic interventions and broader cultural and structural shifts that reduce the inequities that lead to human trafficking. While Polaris alone cannot build a more diverse, just, equitable, and inclusive society, both the success of our work and our organizational values require modeling in the workplace the change we want to see in the world.

This means cultivating a workforce, organizational culture, and priorities that respect and celebrate a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team made up of individuals with different identities, lived experiences, and backgrounds. Within both our team and across every part of our work, we strive to integrate and elevate the full range of survivor voices.

This is a living commitment. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are values to be manifested daily, in the work we do, the decisions we make, and the way that we treat each other and the people we seek to serve. This means creating space where staff can be included, heard, valued, and set up for success, and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, best selves to work. We will not check boxes and consider it done. We will push new innovations and different ways of thinking, and treasure the community built and strengthened by each of our contributions.