Director, Black Partnerships

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care for all people, as well as the nation’s largest provider of sex education. Planned Parenthood organizations serve all people with care and compassion, with respect, and without judgment, striving to create equitable access to health care. Through health centers, programs in schools and communities, and online resources, Planned Parenthood is a trusted source of reliable education and information that allows people to make informed health decisions. We do all this because we care passionately about helping people lead healthier lives. 
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that supports the independently incorporated Planned Parenthood affiliates, which operate non-profit health centers across the U.S. PPFA also works to educate the public on and advocate for issues of sexual and reproductive health. Formed as the advocacy and political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Action Fund is a separate non-profit membership organization tax-exempt under section 501(c)(4). The Action Fund engages in educational, advocacy, and limited electoral activity, including grassroots organizing, legislative advocacy, and voter education in furtherance of the Planned Parenthood mission. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund seeks a strategic, experienced, and powerful Director of Black Partnerships. This job reports to the Senior Director of Organizing and Partnerships in the Strategic Partnerships vertical of the Political and Legislative Affairs department. The Political and Legislative Affairs is a new department in the External Affairs Division that maintains our power and presence in Washington and nationally year-round.
The Strategic Partnerships (SP) team ensures PPFA works alongside key partners to build power nationally and in Washington, D.C., to achieve intersectional wins that create the most favorable conditions for affiliates and people everywhere to have equitable access to high-quality health care, especially Black and Latinx patients (PPFA Strategic Plan 2025). The SP team also ​engages partners to ​build the long term political influence and power necessary to achieve a national, durable, expansive right to abortion; ultimately building an unstoppable, intersectional movement for reproductive freedom and equality. 
The Strategic Partnerships engages partners through national advocacy campaigns, coalitions, on-going partner engagement, coordination with the Political and Legislative Affairs teams, as well as supporting Planned Parenthood member organizations to engage their local Black and reproductive justice partners across the country. 

Purpose:

• Under the supervision of the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, and in collaboration with the Director of Movement Partnerships, and Manager of Latino Partnerships, this role will assess, develop, and sustain relationships.
• This role will partner engagement strategy with national Black organizations and/or organizations serving Black constituencies. 

Engagement:

• This role will leverage strategic partnerships to ensure that Planned Parenthood’s power, brand, and infrastructure is recognized as a movement leader, and a trusted source for sexual and reproductive health care and information is known and publicly supported among Black organizations and communities. This includes contributing to the External Affair division’s goals.
• Educating the public, and in this case, the Black community, on the impact of the advocacy and care provided by Planned Parenthood health centers, member organizations, and national office.
• Engage powerful Black organizations, activists, and allies to promote and advocate for Planned Parenthood.
• Drive Black supporters and would-be supporters to take action, access sexual reproductive health care, and engage politically.
• Strengthen Planned Parenthood’s relationships with racial justice, reproductive justice, and civil rights partners.
• The Director of Black Partnerships will assess, develop, and sustain strategic partnerships strategies to ensure that Black organizations and communities recognize the power of Planned Parenthood’s Brand, Culture, Policy and Power.
• Brand: People, including Black communities, are aware of Planned Parenthood and the services affiliates provide; they trust us, come to us for care and information, and support us when we ask them to.
• Culture: Dominant public narratives that affirm sexual and reproductive freedom as essential, and shift perceptions around gender and race among Black communities.
• Policy: Access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) for Black patients and BIPOC communities is protected and expande