Civic Advocacy Manager at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York’s premier human services providers, is a settlement house founded in 1894 that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated services—social, educational, health, housing, mental health, nutritional and fitness—which significantly improve the lives of 16,000 people each year, ages 3 to 100-plus, on the East Side of Manhattan and across New York City. Our clients include older adults, unhoused and formerly unhoused adults, children and families, adult learners and more. For more information, please visit lenoxhill.org and check us out on Facebook or Instagram.

Salary: $75,000 annually 

Intended Start: June 2026

The Neighborhood House is expanding our policy, advocacy and community engagement efforts with a Civic Advocacy Manager, who will collaborate with our senior leadership and clients to engage elected officials, local leaders and other partners around civic issues critical to our community. Working closely with and reporting to the Director of Institutional and Civic Engagement, the Civic Advocacy Manager will assist with developing and managing an organizational policy and advocacy agenda that will focus on creating positive change in the systems that directly affect our clients and other low-income New Yorkers.

The Civic Advocacy Manager must be committed to the mission of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and have a passion for advocacy to improve the lives of our clients. The Civic Advocacy Manager will work across multiple human services disciplines, from education to social work to housing, and with diverse populations including young families, older adults, English language learners and many more. The goal of this position will be to strengthen and unify our organizational policy and advocacy efforts to better position the Neighborhood House to work toward long-term change on behalf of our community. The Civic Advocacy Manager will work both independently and collaboratively with internal and external key stakeholders, our clients and neighbors, government leaders and local elected officials, and select coalitions as we advocate for laws, regulations and policies that will improve our clients’ lives and enhance our community’s prosperity.

The Civic Advocacy Manager will begin by focusing primarily on three of the most crucial issues affecting our clients and community: 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Qualifications:

Applicants should include a Cover Letter and a relevant writing sample.

What We Offer

All individuals, as a condition for employment by Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, are required to undergo a pre-employment background check. Certain positions require more extensive background checks to comply with applicable laws.

At Lenox Hill Neighborhood House we value respect, diversity and integrity. We are an equal opportunity employer. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Lenox Hill Neighborhood House conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. The policy of equal employment opportunity (EEO) and anti-discrimination applies to all aspects of the relationship between Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and its colleagues.