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Partnership & Projects Coordinator

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CSS is looking for an organized, resourceful, and highly dependable Partnerships & Project Coordinator to help keep our external-facing relationships, client projects, and youth engagement work organized and moving forward.

You’ll work across entertainment industry partnerships, client engagements, youth programs, events, and grant-funded initiatives—coordinating meetings and projects, maintaining tracking systems, preparing materials, supporting youth participation, and making sure important follow-up doesn’t fall through the cracks.

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves making complex mission based work feel organized, enjoys working with different kinds of people, and gets satisfaction from turning ideas and conversations into action.

This is a full-time position with a salary range of $50,000-60,000, depending on experience. CSS operates primarily virtually, but we are seeking a candidate based in the Los Angeles area who can occasionally support in-person meetings and events.

What You’ll Do

Partnerships & Projects

  • Support CSS’s relationships with entertainment industry partners, clients, researchers, advocates, and other collaborators.

  • Work with CSS project leaders and Senior Entertainment Strategists to support prospect research, introductions, scheduling, meeting preparation, materials, and follow-up.

  • Maintain CSS’s relationship and opportunity pipeline, ensuring contacts, conversations, opportunities, and next steps are accurately tracked.

  • Coordinate client projects, including timelines, deliverables, meetings, documentation, and internal follow-up.

  • Help prepare presentations, briefings, decks, and other client-facing materials.

  • Proactively surface outstanding follow-up, deadlines, and action items to help keep relationships and projects moving forward.

Events & Team Support

  • Coordinate logistics for CSS’s annual Teens & Screens Summit and other events, screenings, workshops, presentations, and convenings.

  • Maintain contact lists, project documentation, and organizational information using Airtable, Google Workspace, and other CSS systems.

  • Provide technology and production support for virtual and in-person meetings and events.

  • Help improve systems and workflows that make CSS’s external-facing work more organized and effective.

  • Provide other administrative and project support as needed.

What We’re Looking For

  • 2–4+ years of experience in coordination, client services, partnerships, production, program, administrative, or project support. Experience in entertainment, media, nonprofit, agency, or another relationship-driven environment is strongly preferred.

  • Exceptional organization and attention to detail, with the ability to juggle multiple projects, relationships, deadlines, and stakeholders.

  • Strong follow-through and initiative—you notice what needs to happen next and help make it happen.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both senior professionals and young people.

  • Strong relationship-management instincts and a professional, responsive approach to external partners.

  • Experience with CRM, database, or project-management systems; experience with Airtable is a plus.

  • Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential or sensitive information, including information involving youth participants and clients.

  • Ability to translate complex information into clear, accessible language.

  • Comfort working collaboratively in a small, primarily virtual organization where priorities can shift.

  • Genuine interest in CSS’s mission and the power of research-informed storytelling and youth voice.

We’d be particularly excited about candidates with experience in entertainment/media, supporting external-facing leaders or clients, working with teens or young adults, coordinating events, or supporting grant-funded projects.

Compensation & Benefits

This is a full-time position with a salary range of $50,000-60,000, depending on experience. CSS offers an unlimited vacation policy, 64 hours of sick time, and 15 paid holidays. CSS provides a stipend to help offset the cost of purchasing individual medical, dental, vision, and/or life insurance coverage and facilitates employee participation in CalSavers.

This position is classified as non-exempt and is eligible for overtime pay in accordance with applicable federal and state law.

To Apply

Please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@scholarsandstorytellers.com with the subject line “Partnerships & Project Coordinator.”

In your cover letter, we’d especially like to hear why this role and CSS’s mission interest you and what makes you particularly good at keeping relationships, projects, and details organized and moving forward.

CSS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decision-making, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.