Atlanta, GA
Deputy Director, Georgia Alliance for Progress
The Organization
About Georgia Alliance for Progress
Georgia Alliance for Progress is a coalition of donors focused on the strategic and financial health of Georgia’s progressive movement – across all issues, all of the time. We Are United by a belief that effective government has a critical role to play in making our State a prosperous and equitable place to live, work, and thrive. We are committed to grassroots community organizing, strategic coordination, and building coalition.
Position Overview
The Deputy Director will be an experienced leader in the development field with a track record of success. They will work with the Executive Director to drive all fundraising strategies that align with our coalition partner’s plans and meet their unique, individual needs. They will create and implement a strategic plan designed to meet or exceed fundraising goals and grow our donor and institutional funder base. The Deputy Director will also provide leadership throughout the organization and be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with partners and allies, working with the Executive Director and senior team.
We seek a passionate, collaborative leader with a strong vision for what the future of progressivism will look like in Georgia and a vision for how to achieve that with an entrepreneurial approach to revenue generation. The Deputy Director will have a deep love for, personal and professional involvement in, and knowledge of the movements, communities, concerns, needs, challenges, and policy issues facing Georgia. With a commitment to intersectionality and racial and economic justice, they will have demonstrated experience in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout their career.
The Deputy Director’s responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
Fundraising & Development Strategy
- Oversee all fundraising operations and create strategic priorities with the goal of expanding on revenue-generating partnerships.
- Anticipate funding needs and continuously identify and recruit potential donors and funders at the state and national levels to support the continuity of important initiatives and advocacy projects.
- Drive Board engagement in the organization’s fundraising strategies, including all efforts to identify, recruit, support, and maintain the organization’s donors, foundations, and institutional funders.
- Serve as the leading development expert, with advanced knowledge of industry trends, providing recommendations for partner funding to the Executive Director and Board of Directors.
- Work with relevant coalition leadership to identify funding needs and draft documents to support aligned fundraising efforts and plans for potential funders.
- Engage diverse networks of civic leaders across the state to ensure alignment and collaboration of statewide strategic plans.
- Interface with relevant local, state, and national partners to ensure strategic alignment of Georgia-based efforts with applicable state and national priorities and efforts and represent the Alliance in meetings and discussions of state and national collaborations as appropriate.
- Establish and maintain relationships with c3 and c4 partner table organizations.
- Serve as a thought leader and ambassador, representing the Alliance in meetings and discussions of state and national collaborations as appropriate.
- Provide leadership and support across the organization including fundraising, coaching, staff development, and management.
- Work closely with the Executive Director to ensure the organizational structure and systems are strategically set up to achieve the overall mission and to advance the work of Georgia Alliance for Progress.
- Care for the organization and the people in it ensuring a culture of inclusivity and belonging that continually strives for racial, economic, and gender justice.
- Support Executive Director in developing and implementing accountability measures and reporting mechanisms.
- Foster an environment supportive to sustainable work cultures where equity is sought after and integrated into organizational structure, policy, and delivery, allowing staff the ability to grow professionally and lead holistic lives.
- Develop performance goals and deadlines, conduct performance reviews, provide training and resources and delegate work to the team as needed.
- Organize the overall workflow and ensure that team members understand their duties or delegated tasks.
- Monitor team members’ productivity and provide constructive feedback and coaching.
- Hire and train new team members as needed.
- 5+ years of experience in nonprofit management, community organizing, or social justice organization.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering philanthropic growth from a variety of individual, institutional and corporate donors; 3+ years working with high-level donors and foundations.
- An inspirational approach to building collaboration and buy-in that generates support for new and existing interested donors and funders.
- Significant care and experience centering the lived experiences and serving on behalf of communities of color.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with successful public speaking experiences.
- A strong commitment to progressive values and connection to Georgia communities and organizations.
- Strong research, writing, and editing skills with a proven ability to manage projects with competing priorities.
- Demonstrated progressive mindset with a diversity perspective and forward-thinking priorities.
- Creative problem-solving abilities with a solution-focused mindset.
- Compassionate yet assertive with the ability to connect with and motivate a team while developing a collaborative culture.
- Effective communication across a variety of audiences with the ability to truly connect with others.
Atlanta, GA
Deputy Director, Georgia Alliance for Progress
The Organization
About Georgia Alliance for Progress
Georgia Alliance for Progress is a coalition of donors focused on the strategic and financial health of Georgia’s progressive movement – across all issues, all of the time. We Are United by a belief that effective government has a critical role to play in making our State a prosperous and equitable place to live, work, and thrive. We are committed to grassroots community organizing, strategic coordination, and building coalition.
Mission
To build a permanent, powerful, strategic, and inclusive progressive movement in Georgia supported by a network of committed donors. Georgia Alliance for Progress aligns and provides the resources needed for progressive political and policy wins in our state.
Vision
We envision a Georgia that is healthy and just, with shared economic success and security, access to high quality public education and a democracy that works for all.
For more information on Georgia Alliance for Progress, please visit the website.
Position Overview
The Opportunity
The Deputy Director will be an experienced leader in the development field with a track record of success. They will work with the Executive Director to drive all fundraising strategies that align with our coalition partner’s plans and meet their unique, individual needs. They will create and implement a strategic plan designed to meet or exceed fundraising goals and grow our donor and institutional funder base. The Deputy Director will also provide leadership throughout the organization and be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with partners and allies, working with the Executive Director and senior team.
We seek a passionate, collaborative leader with a strong vision for what the future of progressivism will look like in Georgia and a vision for how to achieve that with an entrepreneurial approach to revenue generation. The Deputy Director will have a deep love for, personal and professional involvement in, and knowledge of the movements, communities, concerns, needs, challenges, and policy issues facing Georgia. With a commitment to intersectionality and racial and economic justice, they will have demonstrated experience in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout their career.
The Deputy Director’s responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
Fundraising & Development Strategy
- Oversee all fundraising operations and create strategic priorities with the goal of expanding on revenue-generating partnerships.
- Anticipate funding needs and continuously identify and recruit potential donors and funders at the state and national levels to support the continuity of important initiatives and advocacy projects.
- Drive Board engagement in the organization’s fundraising strategies, including all efforts to identify, recruit, support, and maintain the organization’s donors, foundations, and institutional funders.
- Serve as the leading development expert, with advanced knowledge of industry trends, providing recommendations for partner funding to the Executive Director and Board of Directors.
- Work with relevant coalition leadership to identify funding needs and draft documents to support aligned fundraising efforts and plans for potential funders.
- Engage diverse networks of civic leaders across the state to ensure alignment and collaboration of statewide strategic plans.
- Interface with relevant local, state, and national partners to ensure strategic alignment of Georgia-based efforts with applicable state and national priorities and efforts and represent the Alliance in meetings and discussions of state and national collaborations as appropriate.
- Establish and maintain relationships with c3 and c4 partner table organizations.
- Serve as a thought leader and ambassador, representing the Alliance in meetings and discussions of state and national collaborations as appropriate.
- Provide leadership and support across the organization including fundraising, coaching, staff development, and management.
- Work closely with the Executive Director to ensure the organizational structure and systems are strategically set up to achieve the overall mission and to advance the work of Georgia Alliance for Progress.
- Care for the organization and the people in it ensuring a culture of inclusivity and belonging that continually strives for racial, economic, and gender justice.
- Support Executive Director in developing and implementing accountability measures and reporting mechanisms.
- Foster an environment supportive to sustainable work cultures where equity is sought after and integrated into organizational structure, policy, and delivery, allowing staff the ability to grow professionally and lead holistic lives.
- Develop performance goals and deadlines, conduct performance reviews, provide training and resources and delegate work to the team as needed.
- Organize the overall workflow and ensure that team members understand their duties or delegated tasks.
- Monitor team members’ productivity and provide constructive feedback and coaching.
- Hire and train new team members as needed.
- 5+ years of experience in nonprofit management, community organizing, or social justice organization.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering philanthropic growth from a variety of individual, institutional and corporate donors; 3+ years working with high-level donors and foundations.
- An inspirational approach to building collaboration and buy-in that generates support for new and existing interested donors and funders.
- Significant care and experience centering the lived experiences and serving on behalf of communities of color.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with successful public speaking experiences.
- A strong commitment to progressive values and connection to Georgia communities and organizations.
- Strong research, writing, and editing skills with a proven ability to manage projects with competing priorities.
- Demonstrated progressive mindset with a diversity perspective and forward-thinking priorities.
- Creative problem-solving abilities with a solution-focused mindset.
- Compassionate yet assertive with the ability to connect with and motivate a team while developing a collaborative culture.
- Effective communication across a variety of audiences with the ability to truly connect with others.
Augusta, ME
Program and Grants Associate, Maine Health Access Foundation
The Organization
The Maine Health Access Foundation is seeking applications for a Program and Grants Associate (PGA). This full-time position will give the right candidate the opportunity to contribute their talents and enhance their skills in wide-ranging functions including grants program oversight, support and logistics, grants database management, and strategic collaboration around program development, implementation, and evaluation. Based in Augusta, our team of ten engaged staff is committed to our mission to promote access to quality health care, especially for those who are uninsured and underserved, and improve the heath of everyone in Maine.
Over the past few years, our grantmaking philosophy and approach have evolved to prioritize advancing health equity. We have embraced many practices associated with an approach known as Trust-Based Philanthropy. These practices change the traditional dynamic of grantmaking, centering relationships with applicants and grantees and employing methods that foster power-sharing and engage grantees and communities in decision-making, such as with our Responsive Grants and Health Equity Capacity Building Program. This job opportunity will bring the PGA into this continuing evolution through their management of two of MeHAF’s long-standing responsive grant programs, Discretionary Grants and Meeting Support Grants, as well their collaborative work in areas such as grants management and committee support.
The PGA’s role will require drawing on and building different skills and strengths from day to day. One day may include discussing potential grant opportunities with new applicants and guiding them through our application process, the next they may be recording minutes for a committee meeting, or working with the full team to plan new ways to connect grantee organizations across program areas for shared learning opportunities. Our small organization and relatively flat structure offer each person ongoing opportunities to learn new things and to grow, not only within our own walls but also through engaging with the philanthropy community in Maine and nationally and with Maine’s health care systems and health-focused community organizations.
We are currently operating in a hybrid mode, with staff generally in our Augusta office on Mondays and Tuesdays and flexibility regarding working in the office or remotely for the rest of the week. This allows an individual who enjoys and embraces a mix of working collaboratively with others as part of a team and engaging in self-directed, independent work to thrive. We offer a robust benefits package that includes health, dental, and life and disability insurance as well as employer-sponsored 401(k) retirement account with up to 6% employer contribution.
MeHAF is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with federal and state anti- discrimination laws and operating in ways that are inclusive and welcoming for all employees, Board and committee members, contractors, consultants and vendors and free from discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, age, ancestry, genetic information, whistleblower status, military/veteran status, citizenship status, an assertion of a right or claim under the Maine Workers’ Compensation Act, or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to all employment decisions, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, discipline, termination, and training, and any and all conditions of employment.
Position Overview/How To Apply
Interested applicants should review the full position description and send a cover letter sharing how their unique perspective and experiences could enhance MeHAF’s mission along with a resume that highlights both relevant paid and unpaid work and life experience to Dani Kalian by March 23, 2023. The position will remain open until filled.
Interested applicants should review the full position description and send a cover letter sharing how their unique perspective and experiences could enhance MeHAF’s mission along with a resume that highlights both relevant paid and unpaid work and life experience to Dani Kalian by March 23, 2023. The position will remain open until filled.
Cambridge, MA
Director of Individual and Planned Giving, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The Organization
Reporting to the Chief Advancement Officer, the Director of Individual and Planned Giving plays a significant role in increasing revenue to the Academy through major and planned gifts. The Director will bear primary responsibility for managing a recently-created planned giving program within an established development department. This includes defining and actively working toward meeting program goals and objectives, with a focus on building the Academy’s planned giving society, the Minerva Society. The Director will identify and cultivate a portfolio of major and planned gift prospects, and will help to develop strategies for presidential advancement work.
The Director of Individual and Planned Giving upholds and advances the mission and values of the American Academy. The Academy is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and looks to all its staff members to foster and promote its values.
This position is a hybrid role and will be based at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the Academy, we approach hybrid work with a focus on “purpose over presence,” with a blend of remote and in-person work, depending on the needs of the role and current projects. Occasional travel, nights and weekends are required.
Position Overview
Responsibilities:
- Work with CAO to set annual goals, objectives, operating plan, and budget for major and planned giving.
- Identify, cultivate and solicit major and planned giving prospects.
- Prepare Academy president and other volunteers for success in development-focused relationships.
- Serve as a trusted resource to donors regarding multiple planned giving vehicles.
- Working with back-end partners, manage planned giving products and estate settlement issues; act as a resource and liaison with the Academy’s COO and legal counsel where rights are in question.
- Manage highly confidential financial disclosures and ensure discretion for all prospects and donors.
- Working with the Communications team, design effective marketing materials and web content for the Minerva Society.
- Working with Membership Engagement team, leverage Academy events for effective cultivation and stewardship of prospects and donors.
- Serve as a strategic resource for Academy colleagues, the CAO and the President. Provide technical expertise, trainings on planned giving vehicles, talking points and proposals to generate more legacy giving;
- Strategically use Academy databases including Salesforce and Donor Search.
- This position will benefit from the assistance of the department’s development associate; assist with education and mentorship of that role.
- Bachelor’s degree, 8 years of experience in philanthropy.
- Planned Giving experience a must, legal and/or financial experience preferred.
- Proven ability to generate gifts up to $1,000,000+, and deep knowledge of planned giving vehicles, IRS regulations, estate planning and investment strategies.
- Demonstrated success in donor relations;
- Strong organizational skills and detail management;
- Excellent oral presentation and written communication skills;
- Ability to work with a variety of constituencies and Academy staff.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
- Ability to work closely with legal professionals and with complicated instruments.
Cambridge, MA
Analyst, YouthTruth, Center for Effective Philanthropy
The Organization
YouthTruth was born out of a conversation between the Center for Effective Philanthropy and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation back in 2008. The Foundation was seeking to hear from more voices – and one that was missing was the voice of the people whose lives they were trying to affect: the students themselves!
The key characters in this origin story are Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, Fay Twersky, director of the Effective Philanthropy Group at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and former director of Impact Planning and Improvement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Valerie Threlfall, former vice president at the Center for Effective Philanthropy and founding director of YouthTruth from 2008 to 2012.
YouthTruth is based on the simple but powerful premise that when you get timely feedback from those you’re trying to serve, and really listen to that feedback to make changes, you get better.
Position Overview
Analyst
We believe, and research shows, that student and stakeholder feedback matters for school improvement and student success. That’s why, in 2008, we created YouthTruth – to help educators harness student and stakeholder feedback to accelerate improvements. We’ve heard from over two million students as well as hundreds of thousands of family and staff members across 39 states. When you join YouthTruth, you join a small and collaborative team that has a big impact on schools across the U.S. and the education sector.
As an Analyst, you will be instrumental in putting important student perception data into the hands of those making instructional and leadership decisions in K‐12 schools. Being part of YouthTruth, a national nonprofit, gives you the chance to apply and grow your skills while making a difference in education.
The Ideal Candidate:
- You have a deep interest in and passion for education, and a belief in student voice as a powerful tool to make important changes in education.
- You are highly organized, analytical, and detail‐oriented. You consistently produce high‐quality, error‐free work, reflecting an ability to complete tasks on time with quality and accuracy.
- You have an ability to quickly learn new tools, systems, and skills.
- You are flexible, adaptable, and reliable in a fast‐paced environment.
- You are able to manage multiple priorities and timelines simultaneously.
- You are confident that your work can make a difference but humble in the knowledge that you are always learning and improving.
- You are a genuinely wonderful colleague to have around. You work well within a close knit‐team as well as across other departments. You are also excellent at managing up. Your highly positive attitude, shared commitment to excellence, and thoughtfulness are valuable assets to the organization.
- Your interpersonal and communication skills allow you to interact effectively with colleagues at all levels of the organization as well as external contacts.
- Co‐manage survey administration, report template design, and innovation processes for YouthTruth’s surveys
- Create and administer online surveys for our clients on tight deadlines
- Generate data‐driven reports for our clients in an online interactive platform
- Support client leads in preparing and interpreting data for school administrators
- Troubleshoot and problem‐solve operational and client issues
- Provide strong quality control of online surveys and report products
- Co‐develop new features and processes to improve the efficiency of survey administration, data analysis, and data visualization
- Program in Python. You will frequently contribute to YouthTruth’s codebase, implementing improvements, debugging, reviewing others’ code, and writing tests
- Refine survey instruments and reports; contribute to new product development to meet school and district needs
- Contribute to analysis of the large‐scale YouthTruth; gather insights from our data for marketing, blogs, and communications
- Actively contribute to team discussions, collaborating on cross‐team projects and helping to develop CEP’s internal knowledge base and operations
- College degree (B.S., B.A.) and 0‐2 years of work experience
- Strong interest in and experience with analyzing data, and proficiency in basic statistics
- Experience with computer programming, in particular Python and/or R – these languages form the basis of our surveying and reporting processes
- Experience with SQL a plus but not required
- Exposure to Ruby and Javascript a plus but not required
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to remain flexible in response to the business needs of a rapidly growing team
- A work ethic consistent with the CEP/YouthTruth organizational culture: thoughtful; commitment to client confidentiality; demonstrates the highest level of personal integrity as well as a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- While all CEP staff are at-will employees, due to an in-depth ramp-up period at the start of every Analyst’s tenure, our expectation is that analysts will stay in the role for a minimum of 2-3 years, assuming satisfactory performance.
- A work ethic consistent with the CEP/YouthTruth organizational culture: thoughtful; commitment to client confidentiality; demonstrates the highest level of personal integrity as well as a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- A commitment to pay parity and salary equity. The annual base salary for this position is $80,475 (Cambridge). In addition, this role is eligible for a competitive Performance Based Incentive Compensation.
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance plans.
- Generous paid time off plan, including up to 15 holidays, three weeks of accrued vacation, and two personal days per year.
- 401(k) plan with a 1:1 Employer Match up to 5% of total compensation.
- Generous annual personal professional development allowance.
- Flexible spending and dependent care tax free savings plans.
- Life insurance covered 100% by the organization.
Colorado Springs, Colorado; Denver, Colorado; or Los Angeles, California
Senior Vice President, Chief of Operations, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee
The Organization
Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) serves as both the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee for the United States. The USOPC is focused on protecting, supporting, and empowering America’s athletes, and is responsible for fielding U.S. teams for the Olympic, Paralympic, Youth Olympic, Pan American and Parapan American Games, and serving as the steward of the Olympic and Paralympic movements in the U.S.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the USOPC is one of the only National Olympic/Paralympic Committees in the world that does not receive government funding for its Olympic and Paralympic programs (other than for select Paralympic military veteran programs), instead relying on the generous support of a committed community of donors and sponsors. Increasing philanthropic support for U.S. athletes is one of the USOPC’s highest strategic priorities. Hence, the organization has established the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation (USOPF) as the fundraising organization for the USOPC and is investing significant resources in its Development division.
Relying on the generosity of the American public to help U.S. athletes remain competitive with the rest of the world, our nation stands apart from others – our Olympic and Paralympic Teams are not just cheered by an enthusiastic national fan base but funded by one. The Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028 to be held in Los Angeles offer an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement and further growing the base of philanthropic support and revenue. A long-term, moonshot goal of the USOPC is to attain 1 million U.S. households (less than 1% of all U.S. households) each giving $50 to $100 in support of Team USA athletes.
Position Overview
Amid this backdrop of prospective transformational public engagement and philanthropic growth, the USOPC seeks candidates for Senior Vice President, Chief of Operations (SVP). The SVP is a key member of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Foundation leadership team and partners with the Chief Development Officer (CDO) to provide strategic leadership and direction for all development operations functions of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation (USOPF). The SVP ensures that all functional areas develop strategies that support the short and long-range fundraising goals of the USOPF. They manage a team with three direct reports (Director of Development Analytics & Revenue Growth, Director of Experiential Engagement, and Director of Donor Experience) and approximately 14 staff overall.
The SVP must demonstrate a strong ability to inspire commitment and foster an outstanding level of innovation. A key thought partner to the Chief Development Officer, they will be at the vanguard of advancing systemic organizational change and delivering results that take the USOPF to the next level in all operational and strategic business practices. Key areas of focus for the SVP include the following: identifying USOPC and USOPF needs and translating them into strategic fundraising priorities; identifying and interpreting the analytics of effective fundraising and recommending adaptations in behaviors or processes to enhance success; and assisting in the day-to-day oversight of governance matters. From the identification and packaging of fundraising opportunities to providing related trainings to leveraging market segmentation and data analytics to measuring success, the SVP is a key figure in optimizing the performance and productivity of the organization’s fundraisers.
While the USOPC will consider a broad range of backgrounds, the ideal candidate will have the following qualifications/experience:
- Understanding of and passion for the Olympic & Paralympic Movement; deep, nuanced appreciation of the power of sport.
- Fifteen or more years of successful experience in operations-focused roles, preferably in a large, sophisticated nonprofit setting inclusive of development and direct fundraising. Understanding of development and direct fundraising experience is also preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and maintain a multi-faceted, diverse, and high-performing professional staff. Track record of effective recruitment, motivation, leadership, and team development, while setting strategic direction, establishing goals, benchmarking, and shared accountability, as well as working cross-departmentally when necessary to achieve results.
- Demonstrated commitment to and understanding of how to build diversity, equity, and inclusion among colleagues and other stakeholders; culturally competent with respect to issues such as racial, cultural, religious, sexual, and gender identity. Skilled at delivering solutions in evolving, multicultural environments.
- Critical negotiating experience, specifically with regards to contracts with vendors and other external partnerships.
- Proven success managing complex, multi-faceted events. Hospitality experience working with high-net-worth constituents is preferred.
- Strong financial and business acumen and application. Proven skill in analyzing and interpreting data to drive strategies.
- A forward thinker with a track record that demonstrates initiative and creativity.
- Experience partnering with senior organizational leaders and board members to help drive the strategy forward while making significant impact.
- Ability to motivate others, including peers and direct reports, to reach goals.
Dallas, TX
Chief Operating Officer, Advocates for Community Transformation
The Organization
Advocates for Community Transformation (Act) is a Christian, place-based, justice organization that exists to make stronger and safer neighborhoods a normal reality for everyone. It carries out this vision by empowering residents living in high-crime areas to stop illegal activity on their streets using the civil justice system.
Position Overview
During this pivotal time of growth, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) will have the responsibility to develop operational processes that will guide all organizational functions. Act has a current annual organizational budget of $3.9 million with 39 full-time positions. Act’s 36-month plan will grow that budget to $6.4 million with 65 full-time staff by the end of 2025.
Working closely with the Founder and CEO, Reid Porter, the COO will translate the organizational vision into clearly defined procedures and Key Performance Indicators.
As an Integrator, the COO will enhance the Act ecosystem, creating synergy across all team functions including programs, development, marketing and communications, finance, human resources, and administration.
The COO’s charge is to translate the Act vision and growth plans by leveraging organizational accomplishments, including the resolution of more than 225 cases. Building on the sustainable framework to create safety and peace by reducing crime-infested properties, the mission can expand and scale. Over the next 36 months, Act will saturate Dallas and Fort Worth with its model and tackle 12% of the known drug houses by representing and empowering an additional 200 families, doubling the number of full-time employees, and launching a national model. The goal is to demonstrate to other major cities the efficacy of the Act model.
The COO will be responsible for executing Act’s newly created 36-month plan, and innovatively bringing strategy and alignment around scaling the organization. With a proven ability to inspire, manage and nurture high-performing teams, the COO will define and develop a supportive, people-first, fun, and sustainable operational culture during this significant period of growth.
Read the full Leadership Profile here: https://bit.ly/ActCOO
How To Apply
For immediate consideration or to suggest a prospect, please email ACTCOO@BoardWalkConsulting.com or call Cynthia Moreland, John Sparrow, or Lysondra Somerville at 404.262.7392.
Denver, CO
Senior Administrative Assistant, Colorado Health Foundation
The Organization
At Colorado Health Foundation we believe that keeping equity at the heart of our work will lead us to better health. That starts from within, including the intentional application of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices that guide how we operate and work in communities across Colorado. For example, our cornerstones are designed to help ensure that:
- We serve Coloradans who have less power, privilege, and income, and prioritize Coloradans of color.
- We do everything with the intent of creating health equity.
- We are informed by the community and those we exist to serve.
- High School diploma or GED
- 3 years’ experience providing administrative support in a busy professional office setting
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and Outlook
- Demonstrated expertise in both in-person and virtual meeting coordination
- Proven ability to multitask, prioritize, and approach work with nimbleness and flexibility
- Strong people skills to interact with employees and community members at all levels
- Demonstrated track record as a forward thinker with excellent follow-through
- Advanced skills in Zoom meeting set-up and management
- Highly self-motivated
Denver, CO
Investment Manager – Private Markets, Colorado Health Foundation
The Organization
At the Colorado Health Foundation, we believe that keeping equity at the heart of our work will lead us to better health. That starts from within, including the intentional application of diversity, equity, and inclusion practices that guide how we operate and work in communities across Colorado. For example, our cornerstones are designed to help ensure that:
- We serve Coloradans who have less power, privilege, and income, and prioritize Coloradans of color.
- We do everything with the intent of creating health equity.
- We are informed by the community and those we exist to serve.
- Collaborating with the CIO, Investment Consultant, and other service providers on the evaluation of new investment strategies across buyout, growth, venture capital, special situations, real estate, infrastructure, and other private market opportunities.
- Providing document preparation and oversight in coordination with outside counsel
- Monitoring existing investment managers
- Sourcing investment opportunities and funds
- Conducting due diligence regarding potential investment initiatives
- Conduct research and analysis on a variety of investment topics such as strategic asset allocation, portfolio stress testing, tactical investment strategies, asset class reviews, and secondary sales to manage exposures
- Preparation of reports and investment recommendations for staff and board committee
- A Bachelor’s Degree and four years of experience at an endowment, foundation, or similar allocator role
- Solid analytical skills in quantitative and qualitative investment evaluation
- Proven ability to work independently and proactively, within a team, and across multiple projects simultaneously
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, both written and spoken
- High level of professional integrity demonstrated through past professional roles
- Ability to travel two to five days a month, domestic and international
Eden Prairie, MN
Director, Talent Development, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies
The Organization
ABOUT MARGARET A. CARGILL PHILANTHROPIES
Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies (MACP) is the umbrella over the grantmaking foundations created by the late Margaret Cargill: Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and Anne Ray Foundation. MACP provides meaningful support through long-term relationships with strategic grantee partners across seven program domains: Environment, Disaster Relief & Recovery, Arts & Cultures, Teachers, Animal Welfare, Quality of Life, and Legacy & Opportunity. The collective assets of MACP place it among the 10 largest philanthropies in the United States.
The two foundations have separate boards and investment portfolios but share a common mission of providing meaningful assistance and support to society, the arts, and the environment.
- Margaret A. Cargill Foundation is a private foundation that came into existence upon Ms. Cargill’s death in August 2006. At year-end 2021, MACP’s assets are approximately $3.7 billion.
- Anne Ray Foundation is a supporting organization that may make grants only to beneficiary organizations specifically named by Ms. Cargill. At year-end 2021, ARF’s assets are approximately $5.3 billion.
- In December 2021, we formally adopted a DEIJ Vision Statement to guide our work; view it online here.
- Oversee the development and implementation of strategies and related programs to achieve the organization’s talent development goals
- Proactively determine the organization’s longer-term talent development needs and develop strategies to meet them
- Oversee the development and implementation of a hiring strategy that balances diversity, internal applicants, and external applicants
- Ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice are at the core of talent development programs
- Lead effective change management – including stakeholder engagement – to ensure the adoption of new programs to achieve strategic goals
- Leverage people data to track progress on goals and make needed shifts to relevant strategies and investments to ensure continued progress
- Manage direct reports to achieve strategic goals and support their development
- Identify Talent Development team capabilities and needs to achieve strategic goals and make recommendations to address
- Develop and manage the budget related to talent development, including related talent acquisition and DEIJ work.
- Oversee vendor selection for the team, including prioritization of DEIJ expertise
- Partner with leaders to develop and support the implementation of organization-wide and team-specific talent development programs that result in providing team members with the skills they need to develop in-role, competently meet the needs of MACP, and progress in their careers
- Identify team building needs for teams and identify and manage resources to implement programs to meet them
- Ensure that talent development programs are deployed consistently and fairly across the organization
- Manage leadership development and organizational succession planning process
- Provide leadership direction including engaging in the development, implementation, and maintenance of a performance management program that supports managers in identifying and supporting meeting team members’ development needs based on their performance, potential, engagement, and career ambitions
- Drive equity in performance management through the implementation of a calibration process and anti-bias training
- Provide performance management guidance (coaching, counseling, professional development, and corrective action) to managers in partnership with the Manager, HR Partner
- Manage the development, implementation, and maintenance of competency models
- Develop and foster relationships with a comprehensive complement of external trainers and coaches to meet the needs of individuals and teams
- Train managers and leaders, directly or via consultants, on effective approaches to successfully support each team member’s in-role and career development
- Oversee onboarding and orientation programs
- Oversee talent acquisition programs that increase organizational diversity, including a particular focus on management and leadership levels
- Ensure MACP can effectively fill open positions promptly and with a diverse staff capable of supporting MACP’s mission
- Create and implement programs that ensure staff of all backgrounds and experiences feel a sense of belonging at MACP
- Support culturally competent race, equity, and justice conversations at MACP that advance an equitable and inclusive culture
- Provide effective leadership for staff, including training and staff development, assigning and directing work, and providing regular feedback on performance and development. Act as coach and mentor as team members progress towards goals.
- An experienced leader with 10+ years of organizational development, HR, and/or learning and development experience, at least 5 of which have been at a management level leading an experienced team
- A bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Organization Development, or related field; Master’s degree preferred
- Experience providing consultation and guidance on various HR-related matters, including employee development and training, team development, employee relations, recruiting, onboarding, and change management.
- Experience leading organizational/talent development and talent acquisition functions in organizations of similar size or larger than MACP (100+ staff)
- Experience with start-ups or growth-oriented organizations preferred; experience in the nonprofit sector preferred
- Demonstrated experience setting and generating buy-in for an organizational and talent development strategy and successfully implementing programs to achieve the strategic goals
- Demonstrated commitment to intercultural understanding and sensitivity along with demonstrated experience using methods to incorporate equity, inclusion, and diversity into talent development work and relationships with staff and vendor partners
- A proactive and strategic partner and planner, with solid technical skills, analytical ability, and excellent judgment in decision-making
- Solid understanding of organizational and leadership dynamics, and an ability to operate with a high degree of discretion and strong collaboration skills
- Able to effectively relate to individuals at all levels of the organization; excellent communication skills with an ability to be diplomatic yet direct
- Strong team player with a desire to collaborate; ability to communicate effectively across employees at all levels and across a broad range of functions
- Ability to develop strong, trusting relationships to gain support and achieve results
- Strong sense of integrity, high ethical standards, discretion, and trustworthiness, able to maintain the highest level of confidentiality both internally and externally
- Strong presentation skills keeping various learning styles and abilities in mind
- Excellent facilitator with experience resolving conflicts and managing change
- Both strategic and pragmatic, with an operational, implementation, and detail-oriented perspective
- Strong track record of managing and achieving organizational results
- Proficiency with Microsoft products and HR information systems
Fully Remote
President, The Moriah Group
The Organization
To view the full leadership brief with more information about The Moriah Group and the President’s role, please click here.
Founded by Dr. Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant, who will remain as CEO, The Moriah Group works with philanthropy to plan and implement sustainable solutions to build thriving communities of color. In addition to consulting, The Moriah Group encompasses Nafasi Fund, a fiscal sponsor and incubator for black-led organizations, Forward Promise, Rooted Change, and Ayoku Healing Retreat Center. While The Moriah Group is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, most of the team works remotely across the US.
Position Overview
The President is both the strategic leader of The Moriah Group and the steward of the organization’s culture. While advocating for boldness, empathy, openness and authenticity within philanthropy, The Moriah Group President will carefully guard those same traits among the team. There is a desire to grow the business while preserving the delicate balance of passion for the work and the care of the team.
The President will be deeply networked within philanthropic organizations and have a demonstrated understanding of philanthropy and non-profits. The President will be grounded in youth and community development. The President will have experience leading business operations and developing programmatic opportunities.
The ideal candidate for President will have at least 15 years of strategic leadership in philanthropy or non-profit organizations. The President will have an undergraduate degree in a relevant area of study and will ideally have a graduate degree and/or professional certifications.
How To Apply
For more information, or to submit your resume, please email TMGPresident@IntentionalWorks.com
Jackson, MS
President & Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for the Mid South
The Organization
The Foundation for the Mid South has been improving lives in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi for almost 35 years. Created in 1989 by a strong coalition of public- and private-sector partners, FMS has since inception sought to build upon and strengthen a growing spirit of cooperation throughout its three-state region.
The need for the Foundation’s leadership has never been greater. Still an under-resourced part of the country, the needs within FMS’s continue to be disproportionately great, even as increased awareness of racial, social and economic inequities throughout the country mean increased competition for scarce philanthropic and governmental resources.
With the recent retirement of its long-time CEO, the Board of Directors of Foundation for the Mid South seeks an energized, focused leader who can help bring cohesion to the Foundation’s strategy, discipline to its operations, transparency to its communications and renewed vigor to its relationships.
Position Overview
The ideal candidate to lead Foundation for the Mid South may come from a variety of backgrounds, including foundation or nonprofit management or even the corporate and professional sectors. A candidate need not be located within the region to receive serious consideration, but a deep and demonstrated understanding of the mid-south region is critical to success. Among the assets and attributes being sought are the following:
Expertise: The ideal candidate will demonstrate…
- Consequential leadership success in organizations known for significant local and regional impact
- A pattern of visionary, strategic thinking, creative collaboration and pragmatic execution, all informed by a charitable spirit
- Capable hands-on leadership of a dynamic organization staffed with superb people addressing complex issues from both grassroots and policy perspectives
- The personal and managerial capacity to expand the Foundation’s influence and impact while empowering staff members to stretch themselves in new and compelling ways
- Success in tackling the tougher issues of the day, particularly ones requiring consensus (and funding) from disparate groups and constituencies. While we are not seeking a subject-matter expert, working familiarity with at least two of the Foundation’s current focus areas would be additive
- A commitment to leadership development and team-building, both internally and throughout the communities of service, broadly construed
- A record of developing and expanding successful, sustained relationships with major funders
- Savviness in board relations and board engagement
- Consistency, resiliency and creativity in pursuit of progress against bold goals
- Financial literacy; a leader who combines business acumen with a philanthropic bent, someone who intuits the importance of sound budgets, timely reports and the inherent value of data-informed metrics.
- Demonstrates an authentic understanding of the region’s history and the pervasive impact of economic deprivation and racial provincialism across the three-state service area
- Enjoys the respect of foundations, community leaders, program partners and collaborators
- Embodies humility in action and words
- Exhibits deep-seated passion for the Foundation’s focus, balanced with personal humility in pursuit of the Foundation’s vision.
- Demonstrates superb skills and demonstrated success in broad-based resource development on local, regional and national levels.
- Respects the value and integrity of a highperforming team supported by necessary resources, open communications, clear goals and high expectations, all borne of a shared commitment to a bold strategy
- Manifests an overarching commitment to impact; a leader prepared to take decisive steps in pursuit of measurable progress.
- Thinks strategically in partnership with the board, the staff and the broader community in refining and executing the Foundation’s mission.
- Is genuinely comfortable working closely with people of diverse backgrounds, interests, education levels and sophistication.
- Exudes the commitment and the charisma to be an effective champion for the Foundation’s mission and programs with various constituencies, including corporations, academic institutions, philanthropies, elected or appointed governmental bodies, nonprofit organizations or community constituencies.
- Leads with firm values but an adaptable management style; an executive comfortable leading through change.
- Ensures an environment characterized by a positive, multicultural work ethic and a commitment to collective success.
- Supports the professional development of staff, a commitment evidenced by a successful track record of recruiting and retaining a diverse team
Los Altos, CA
Limited Term Program Assistant, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Organization
ABOUT THE DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION
We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. Over our nearly 60-year history, we have worked with thousands of organizations and leaders in the U.S. and worldwide to advance progress in the critical areas of science, ocean and land conservation, climate change, women’s reproductive health and rights, and the well-being of children, families, and communities. At a time of multiple, intertwined crises globally and here in the U.S., the Packard Foundation began in 2021 a long-planned review of our grantmaking strategies. The first step of our process was to rearticulate our vision and mission, reexamine our organizational values, and create a strategic framework that builds on and honors the Packard Foundation’s past while advancing justice and equity in all that we do.
OUR VISION: A just and equitable world where both people and nature flourish.
Our new vision embraces a future where both people and nature flourish in a more just and equitable world. We explicitly acknowledge that the fate of people and the natural environment are inextricably linked. Solutions to the complex challenges we face must account for this interconnectedness.
OUR MISSION: We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Our new mission takes on the critical work of addressing root causes of the challenges we face and mobilizing people for collective action. In addition to building on approaches that have guided our philanthropy for decades — working in partnership, committing to issues over the long-term, and grounding our work in science, knowledge, and data – we focus on understanding the systems that either accelerate or impede progress. It is only through just and equitable systems that we can find and sustain solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face today.
OUR VALUES: Equity, Integrity, Belief in Individual Leadership, Thinking Big, Respect, and Effectiveness.
In addition to clarifying our long-held values, we added equity. We will champion equity by treating people with dignity, honoring a range of ideas and perspectives from those closest to the issues, creating inclusive processes, and funding people who have been historically excluded to spur progress for all. For more information, including our definitions of key concepts, please visit our website.
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW
This role will be a key member of the Grants and Data Operations team (GDO). GDO leads the Foundations grantmaking operations and data practices to further our Foundation’s goals. GDO is responsible for continuous assessment and improvement of our grantmaking practices to enable staff and our grantee partners to do their important work. As a center of excellence for these practices, GDO team members work across the Foundation in close partnership with all departments and functions to understand current and future needs to deliver exceptional grantee experience, insightful data, and information, and proactively adapt to meet those needs.
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for a Limited Term Program Assistant to join our team to support programs across the Foundation. This role includes providing general administrative support and specific support for grantee proposal documents.
This is an ideal opportunity for you if you are early in your career and want to gain experience in the nonprofit sector or have relevant work experience but want to transition into the nonprofit sector. We are looking for candidates who are flexible, detail-oriented, have excellent time management capabilities, and demonstrate skills to work effectively with others. You should enjoy a variety of work and have the desire to contribute to the work of the Foundation and its grantees.
This is a limited term position (no more than two years) and will help build your resume for a role in the nonprofit space. You will report to the Grantmaking Process and Training Manager.
How To Apply
Apply Here
Los Altos, CA
Mission Investing Analyst, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Organization
ABOUT THE DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION
We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. Over our nearly 60-year history, we have worked with thousands of organizations and leaders in the U.S. and worldwide to advance progress in the critical areas of science, ocean and land conservation, climate change, women’s reproductive health and rights, and the well-being of children, families, and communities. At a time of multiple, intertwined crises globally and here in the U.S., the Packard Foundation began in 2021 a long-planned review of our grantmaking strategies. The first step of our process was to rearticulate our vision and mission, reexamine our organizational values, and create a strategic framework that builds on and honors the Packard Foundation’s past while advancing justice and equity in all that we do.
OUR VISION: A just and equitable world where both people and nature flourish.
Our new vision embraces a future where both people and nature flourish in a more just and equitable world. We explicitly acknowledge that the fate of people and the natural environment are inextricably linked. Solutions to the complex challenges we face must account for this interconnectedness.
OUR MISSION: We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Our new mission takes on the critical work of addressing root causes of the challenges we face and mobilizing people for collective action. In addition to building on approaches that have guided our philanthropy for decades — working in partnership, committing to issues over the long-term, and grounding our work in science, knowledge, and data – we focus on understanding the systems that either accelerate or impede progress. It is only through just and equitable systems that we can find and sustain solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face today.
OUR VALUES: Equity, Integrity, Belief in Individual Leadership, Thinking Big, Respect, and Effectiveness.
In addition to clarifying our long-held values, we added equity. We will champion equity by treating people with dignity, honoring a range of ideas and perspectives from those closest to the issues, creating inclusive processes, and funding people who have been historically excluded to spur progress for all. For more information, including our definitions of key concepts, please visit our website.
DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW
The Mission Investing (MI) unit, a small but growing team, is an extremely efficient, high-performing group that works closely together to invest and manage a standalone $250 million Mission Investing portfolio. The team makes an average of $40 million in new impact-oriented loans and investments each year to support the Foundation’s charitable priorities, including addressing climate change, ensuring reproductive health access, and supporting local and California initiatives. Operating for more than 40 years, the Mission Investment portfolio currently encompasses a range of impact-oriented loans and equity investments, in partnership with a diverse array of nonprofit organizations, mission-driven for-profit companies, and impact equity fund managers.
POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the Mission Investing Officer, the Mission Investing Analyst is a key member of the MI team. The MI Analyst coordinates closely with the Mission Investing Operations Manager, providing key analytical and operational support across the MI program’s impact investing activities. A successful MI Analyst demonstrates strong quantitative skills, the ability to work in a small, flat, and cohesive team environment, and an interest in using impact investment tools to address environmental and societal issues.
How To Apply
Apply Here
Los Altos, CA
Program Analyst, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Organization
About Berkeley
The employer is the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, we are committed to creating a community that fosters equity of experience and opportunity, and ensures that students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds feel safe, welcome and included. Our culture of openness, freedom and belonging makes it a special place for students, faculty and staff. The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s leading institutions of higher education, distinguished by its combination of internationally recognized academic and research excellence; the transformative opportunity it provides to a large and diverse student body; its public mission and commitment to equity and social justice; and its roots in the California experience, animated by such values as innovation, questioning the status quo, and respect for the environment and nature. Since its founding in 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world.
About The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is where the Program Analyst will work. The Packard Foundation was established in 1964. David and Lucile Packard believed that along with universities, national institutions, community groups, youth agencies, family planning centers, and hospitals, foundations constitute a great American tradition that complements government efforts to focus on society’s needs. The foundation’s mission is to work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. Through a recent strategic planning process, the foundation identified three overarching, interdependent goals to guide the Foundation’s work: Protect and Restore Our Natural World, Invest in Families and Communities, and Build Just Societies.
Position Overview
About the Global Reproductive Health Program
The goal of the Global Reproductive Health Initiative (Global RH) is to increase equitable access to quality reproductive health care such that quality information and services are accessible and affordable to all who need them. They focus on supporting grantees’ work on essential services such as comprehensive abortion, voluntary contraception, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. To do this, the Global RH Initiative works strategically across the global system to center the needs of women and young people and foster supportive policy, innovation, learning, and connections that will drive change. They believe that the ability of all people to realize their reproductive health and rights is vital to achieving gender equity. Anchoring this vision are the values for how they work as a team and support their grantee partners – with humility, creativity, and care.
The Global RH Initiative sits within the Packard Foundation’s goal to “Build Just Societies”, which are key to supporting families and communities and protecting our natural world. When the institutions, structures, policies, and practices that form societies are inclusive and fair, they create conditions for more sustained progress on issues such as racial equity, reproductive rights, and strong civil society and thriving civic space.
About the Partnership
The UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business (through the Center for Social Sector Leadership) offers this unique fellowship in philanthropy at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to provide next-generation leaders the opportunity to engage with philanthropic and nonprofit leaders and work with a grantmaking team serving diverse issues and populations in the RH program.
The vision for this partnership is to strengthen the future of philanthropy and civil society by providing recent graduates from diverse disciplines and backgrounds a professional-level introduction to philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. The goals of the fellowship are to 1) introduce recent graduates to philanthropy and the role of nonprofits to strengthen their impact in a future career and 2) introduce the Foundation to fresh ideas, new skills, and diverse perspectives. The fellow will join a cohort of five other fellows at the Foundation working on conservation & science, families and communities, reproductive health, and civil society and leadership. There will be quarterly activities for the cohort of fellows.
The position will support RH’s strategic planning, grantmaking, research, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning. This position will take day-to-day direction from the RH Program Officer.
While placed at the Packard Foundation and receiving day-to-day supervision from a program officer there, the fellow will also enjoy full support from UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business Founder and Faculty Director of the Center for Social Sector Leadership. The Berkeley supervisor will provide context for the foundation world, access to resources for fellowship success, and personal coaching and supervision for the fellow. Since the purpose of the fellowship is to develop leaders, the fellowship also includes a professional development budget for the fellow to attend reproductive health and philanthropy conferences, take relevant workshops and seminars, receive professional career coaching, and develop specific skills and knowledge particular to the fellow’s next career goal. More information about present Research Analysts placed at the Packard Foundation is available here: https://haas.berkeley.edu/cssl/programs-events/philanthropy-fellows/.
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Work with the Foundation’s RH team on a range of activities supporting the grant-making process, including conducting research and analysis on topics that can inform grant-making and strategy development, and contributing to assessments of grantee organizations
- Provide support to the program officers, including preparation of materials and agendas for program meetings, grantee meetings, and field convenings; participation in grantee meetings and site visits, preparation of meeting summaries, and management of follow-up actions stemming from those meetings
- Contribute to grant portfolio reviews on a quarterly basis, compiling information across grantees to create consumable documents Assist with the monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities associated with the
- RH strategies, such as theory of change development, compilation of grantee outcomes and indicators, and creation of program dashboards
- Interact with the Foundation’s program and evaluation staff, grantees, funding partners, government agencies, and content experts as needed to complete assigned projects and gain exposure to strategic philanthropy in practice; travel to meet with new and existing partners, and attend relevant conferences
- Engage in both university and foundation communities and professional development opportunities related to the Program Analyst’s work
- Extensive experience and/or graduate-level education in health, the social sciences, public policy, business, or a related social justice field
- Interest and dedication to work aimed at achieving reproductive health and rights
- Deeply capable as a strategic thinker and creative problem solver; ability to analyze, conduct research, and understand scientific studies
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills, including the ability to structure analysis, synthesize, and deliver reports that clearly explain complex topics
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and an ability to work effectively in a team setting
- Demonstrated strong initiative, self-motivation, and ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks and projects in diverse areas
- Demonstrated ability to apply judgment in ambiguous situations and make sound decisions with limited information
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across virtual teams (all) and international time zones (South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa)
- At least two years of professional experience in South Asia or in Sub-Saharan Africa preferred
- Willingness to travel, potentially for an extended period of time in either region
- Bachelor’s degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training
- Graduate-level education in business, social science, public policy, public health, social work, social science, education, economics, law, medicine, or related fields
- Knowledge of and experience with gender equity and reproductive health
- French language skills a plus
Mountain View, CA (hybrid, 2-3 days per week in-office required)
Vice President, Marketing, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Organization
For the past 19 years, the mission of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has been to advance innovative solutions to challenging problems. The organization has returned to its community foundation roots – engaging donors, corporations, government, and community partners in efforts to make the Silicon Valley region and the world a better place. Based in Mountain View, California, SVCF partners with families, individuals, and corporations to manage and facilitate their philanthropy by connecting donors to communities’ most pressing needs.
Position Overview
SVCF is seeking an experienced leader for its marketing department. Reporting to the Executive Vice President/Chief of Staff, the Vice President, Marketing will be responsible for defining and managing the SVCF brand; design and implementation of marketing campaigns; management for all marketing and sales initiatives; oversight of the production of marketing and promotional materials; oversight of creative content and SEO for the SVCF website; monitoring and managing social media; and producing internal and external visual brand assets and communications.
The salary range for this position is $190,000 to $220,000 and includes a comprehensive benefits package. We actively welcome all candidates from a wide range of backgrounds who have the skills to fulfill this role – regardless of compensation history.
How To Apply
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has exclusively retained The 360 Group of San Francisco to assist with this search. Please visit https://the360group.us/SVCF_VPM_PD.pdf to review the complete position description, which includes detailed application instructions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; earlier applicants may receive priority consideration. To be considered, The 360 Group encourages all interested candidates to submit their applications promptly.
New York
President, National Organization on Disability (NOD)
The Organization
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2022, the National Organization on Disability (NOD) is the nation’s oldest disability rights organization, representing America’s 57 million people with disabilities. NOD is the country’s premier resource for businesses and advocates on disability inclusion, recognized for its annual Disability Employment Tracker – through which NOD collects data from companies on employment rates of people with disabilities; its Corporate Leadership Council, in which more than 60 companies are represented; and its professional advisory services to companies employing – or seeking to employ – people with disabilities.
Position Overview
NOD seeks a President who is deeply committed to the mission of disability inclusion. This leader will demonstrate thought leadership and a growth mindset; depth of experience with hands-on management of an organization of NOD’s size or larger; experience in communicating and engaging with a sophisticated and diverse group of stakeholders including corporate leaders, policymakers, and government officials; fundraising expertise; and advocacy experience.
This position offers a competitive salary with a range of $325,000 to $400,000 and includes a comprehensive benefits package. We actively welcome all candidates from a wide range of backgrounds who have the skills to fulfill this role – regardless of compensation history.
How To Apply
NOD has exclusively retained The 360 Group of San Francisco to assist with this search. Please visit https://the360group.us/NOD_President_PD.pdf to review the complete position description, which includes detailed application instructions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; earlier applicants may receive priority consideration. To be considered, The 360 Group encourages all interested candidates to submit their applications promptly.
New York, NY
Managing Director of Development, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The Organization
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation (“Ailey”) was founded and built on a key premise: no limitations.
For more than 60 years, the Ailey organization has furthered the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader Alvin Ailey by building an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training and education, and community programs for all. Since its founding, the Ailey organization has been widely recognized for its unparalleled artistry and commitment to social change.
More than a dance company, this performing arts community plays a crucial social role, using the beauty and humanity of the African American heritage and other cultures to unite people of all races, ages, and backgrounds.
Position Overview
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, one of the pre-eminent and most beloved dance institutions in the world, seeks a dynamic leader to oversee all fundraising for its unique and diverse range of artistic and educational programs. Reporting to the Chief External Affairs Officer, the Managing Director of Development will manage a staff of 12 and work closely with the Board of Trustees. This position will oversee a diversified fundraising portfolio comprised of leading foundations, major corporate sponsors (both domestic and international), individual philanthropists, and high-profile fundraising Galas. The successful candidate will have at least 10 years of senior-level management experience, a proven track record in top-tier fundraising, an understanding and appreciation of dance, and the ability to work creatively and collaboratively with other members of the senior management team.
The Managing Director of Development plays a key role in developing the funding strategies and campaigns to support Ailey’s initiatives while also managing and participating in the organization’s complex day-to-day fundraising operations.
The Managing Director of Development leads the strategy, development, and implementation of a broad-based funding program to support the Ailey organization’s ongoing programs as well as new projects and initiatives.
Specific responsibilities include:
• Developing and managing plans for achieving the annual fundraising goal for the organization’s operating budget through contributions from individuals, corporate sponsors, foundations, government agencies, and fundraising Galas.
• Assuming a hands-on, creative, leadership role with the Major Gifts program, focusing on the identification, cultivation, and solicitation of individual donors.
• Working together with the Board Chairman and other Board leadership to manage and maximize fundraising efforts, particularly with regard to Gala fundraising events which currently comprise 1/4 of the organization’s annual contributed income.
• Working closely with the Chairman of the Nominating & Governance Committee to identify and recruit new Board members.
• Working closely with the Co-Chairs of the Development Committee to create and implement a strategy for donor and prospect engagement and cultivation.
• Launching special campaigns to support new initiatives, including potential capital projects.
• Taking an active leadership role in targeted fundraising efforts, including the Parents Annual Fund for The Ailey School, the Young Patrons Circle, the Ailey Worldwide Virtual Membership program, and the Ailey & Atlanta program.
• Developing and expanding fundraising through digital and social media.
• Overseeing numerous events and ensuring that they are creative, well-planned, efficiently executed, and cost-effective, with strategies for follow-through and solicitation.
• Recruiting, training, and motivating a high-performing team of fundraising professionals.
• Managing outside consultants on an as needed basis.
• Working collaboratively, especially with colleagues in marketing and public relations, to find synergies whenever possible and ensuring the continuation of the organization’s holistic approach to engaging and communicating with its patrons.
In addition, strong candidates will bring:
• A minimum of 10 to 15 years of significant leadership experience in fundraising with a track record of working with a diverse range of major funders, preferably with a cultural organization.
• In-depth experience working in close partnership with senior management and trustees on major philanthropic initiatives, including capital campaigns.
• A strong track record in Major Gifts with emphasis on identifying, cultivating, and soliciting high-level individual donors.
• Experience in managing a team of highly skilled fundraising professionals.
• Established networks in New York philanthropic circles, preferred.
• Understanding of need to work evenings and weekends, and travel when necessary.
The salary range for this role is $220,000 – $245,000. The Ailey organization’s benefits include an employer-provided health/dental insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), retirement plan, and savings on transit/parking.
How To Apply
Koya Partners, the executive search firm that specializes in mission-driven search, has been exclusively retained for this engagement. Chartise Clark and Tracy Michelle León of Koya Partners have been exclusively retained for this search. The full job description can be found here: https://apptrkr.com/3956527.
To express interest in this role please submit your resume and cover letter here: https://talent-profile.diversifiedsearchgroup.com/search/v2/19405. All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.
Koya Partners is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals living with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual living with a disability and need assistance expressing interest online, please email NonprofitSearchOps@divsearch.com. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, citizenship status, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.
New York, NY
Director, Individual Giving, Echoing Green
The Organization
Echoing Green identifies tomorrow’s transformational leaders today. Through its Fellowships and other innovative leadership initiatives, Echoing Green spots emerging leaders and invests deeply in their success to accelerate their impact.
Echoing Green supports visionary leaders who are transforming their communities by addressing challenges in focus areas related to economic development, racial and gender equity, environmental sustainability, and more. Since its founding, Echoing Green has provided more than $45 million in funding to 800+ Fellows who have worked in more than 86 countries and 39 U.S. states.
They’ve established a global community of leaders who have launched Teach For America, City Year, One Acre Fund, SKS Microfinance, Last Mile Health, Hot Bread Kitchen, Public Allies, and hundreds of others. These organizations have leveraged Echoing Green’s seed investment to raise more than $5 billion in funding for the public good. Echoing Green unleashes longlasting change at the intersection of social justice and social innovation by finding the best and the brightest leaders, bringing them together, and launching them on their path to success.
In June 2020, Echoing Green launched its Racial Equity Philanthropic Fund (REPF) and has since raised nearly $75 million. With this fund, Echoing Green furthers a 35-year commitment to bold, strategic investments in racial equity work. Echoing Green’s Programs Team is responsible for selecting and supporting the Fellows who are selected as part of the REPF, offering funding and capacity-building for the incredible leaders working on the frontlines of racial equity and justice. To learn more about the initiative, visit Echoing Green Campaign.
Those who work at Echoing Green have a front row seat to the brightest leaders with the most innovative ideas driving social progress across the world. They are fired up to be their partners, their advocates, and their biggest champion. To learn more about their 2022 Fellows and recent accomplishments in their 2022 Annual Report.
Position Overview
Scope and Responsibilities
An integral member of the Development Team, the Director of Individual Giving is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies and initiatives to ensure a strong base of financial support for Echoing Green. This role has two core responsibilities: portfolio management, and strategic team development and management. As a portfolio manager, they will work closely with members of the Development Team and the Leadership Team to build, manage and cultivate a portfolio to increase retention and giving levels (in addition to identifying prospective high-net worth donors). They will also closely with the Vice President, Development (VP) to design an effective structure for the growing Individual Giving team (currently two members), by defining roles, building portfolios and leading the overall strategic development of the individual giving program. Over time, they will come to manage that team structure. The Director of Individual Giving serves as an ambassador for Echoing Green, a core contributor in reaching organizational goals and objectives.
We value the ability to serve fellows from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. Therefore, we prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to a professional social entrepreneurship community. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded individual committed to collaborating with an internal team and external community partners who are also committed to closing equity gaps.
The position has hybrid options and will report to the VP, Development in New York.
Specific Responsibilities
Portfolio Management
• Build, manage and cultivate a portfolio of 65-85 existing and prospective five and six figure individual donors.
• Design and execute individual donor fundraising campaigns and activities.
• Analyze prospect research with a keen understanding of moves management to steward donors towards major gifts.
• Develop and implement fundraising policies and procedures, including donor pipeline strategies.
• Ensure proper donor recognition in all publications and oversee accurate donor lists for those publications.
• Manage the creation and production of all fundraising/outreach materials, including (but not limited to) letters, emails, and prospectuses.
• Maintain up to date and accurate records of all individual donors in the Echoing Green Salesforce database.
Team Building and Development
• Use data to design and guide strategic growth of EG’s individual giving program: build the departmental organization chart, portfolios, and define roles and responsibilities to increase gift size and number of relationships under management.
• Over time, oversee the implementation of new portfolios at giving levels ranging from 5&6 figures down to small dollars and annual fund giving.
• Manage EG’s development events strategy.
• Prepare data driven reports, analysis, and PowerPoint decks to develop strategy and support implementation of new programs.
Key Selection Criteria
• A minimum of 7 years demonstrated fundraising experience, success in fundraising management and frontline solicitation.
• A data-oriented person, fluent in Salesforce, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Someone who is flexible and as excited to build a team as they are to get out and frontline fundraise.
• Strong analytical and prospect research skills.
• Experience successfully identifying high potential donors and developing effective strategies to cultivate, solicit and upgrade donors.
• A working knowledge of effective moves management strategies.
• The ability to develop systems to support effective moves management, track donor engagement.
• Experience developing fundraising materials such as proposals and reports.
• A high level of discretion and ethical approach to fundraising.
• Proficiency in Salesforce and to proactively utilize it for donor management and reporting.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to establish effective working relationships with staff and stakeholders.
• Ability to maintain a high level of awareness of and monitor US fundraising trends and best practices.
• A working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite/ Google Suite.
• Alignment with the mission and vision of Echoing Green.
Personal / Professional Attributes
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills with great attention to detail.
• Demonstrates a collaborative, flexible, and well-suited work style to excel in an entrepreneurial, collegial environment at all levels both internally and externally.
• Systems, data, and detail orientation.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and to work/travel on evenings and weekends.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines with competing timelines.
Additional Information
Echoing Green requires all of its employers to verify that all employees (including remote employees) are fully vaccinated unless an exemption is required based on the statutes of this law.
Echoing Green offers a full benefits package including 20 days of Paid Time Off, medical, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, and a 403(b)-retirement savings plan with an employer match.
As an equal opportunity employer, Echoing Green encourages applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, physical ability, or any other legally protected basis.
Salary starting at $130,000.
How To Apply
To apply, please contact our search team at DHR Global:
Amara Kea
Partner
Charlotte, NC
T: +1 914-260-3895
E: akea@dhrglobal.com
Sara Garlick Lundberg
Partner
New York, NY
T: +1 646-200-6423
E: slundberg@dhrglobal.com
Brian Shallcross
Associate
Chicago, IL
T: +1 312-782-1581
E: bshallcross@dhrglobal.com
Emma Kempner
Associate
Denver, CO
T: + T: +1 720 262 7574
E: ekemper@dhrglobal.com
Port Orange, Florida
President, Palmer Florida Campus, Palmer College of Chiropractic
The Organization
Palmer College of Chiropractic is a private chiropractic college with its main campus in Davenport, Iowa. It was established in 1897 by Daniel David Palmer and was the first school of chiropractic in the world.
Position Overview
Palmer College of Chiropractic seeks a highly accomplished and experienced executive to fill the role of President and lead the activities related to the Florida campus, including increasing philanthropic gifts to the College. Under the general direction of the Chancellor, this position provides campus leadership and a commitment to raise financial resources and general support for the College from the Port Orange campus. The ideal candidate embraces the College’s compelling mission – to promote learning, deliver health care, engage our communities and advance knowledge through research – and will support Palmer’s vision to be The Trusted Leader in Chiropractic Education®.
The President is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Florida campus and reports directly to the Chancellor. While it is anticipated that half of the person’s time will be committed to advancement activity, under the direction of the Vice Chancellor for Advancement, the President is also responsible for day-to-day oversight and coordination of all departments, programs, activities, budgets and personnel on the Florida campus. Working collaboratively with other senior administrators, the President participates in the development, review and implementation of College policies and procedures as they affect the Florida campus. The President also represents the College to the community and is actively engaged in alumni engagement and student recruitment.
A Master’s degree is required. An earned doctorate from an accredited institution is preferred, as well as CFRE or other pertinent professional certifications. The ideal candidate will have prior experience in senior management or executive leadership roles with a successful record of executive leadership, fundraising success, constituent relationship management, marketing and/or institutional branding. A strong track record of successfully managing teams, employees, volunteers, and/or volunteer boards is a plus.
To view the position announcement which includes a link to a detailed job description for this position, please click the following link: Campus President, Palmer Florida.
How To Apply
Nominations and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Inquiries, nominations, and applications may be directed in confidence to: Gonser Gerber Search, c/o Gonser Gerber LLP, 1776 Legacy Circle, Suite 100, Naperville, IL 60563; search@gonsergerber.com .
To apply, please submit a cover letter, résumé, and three professional references. References will not be contacted until later in the search process. Nominations and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Diverse and traditionally underrepresented candidates are encouraged to apply.
Providence, RI
Senior Philanthropy Officer, The Miriam Hospital, a Lifespan Partner
The Organization
The Miriam Hospital, a founding partner of Lifespan, is seeking a Senior Philanthropy Officer to help advance the philanthropy program of this highly regarded and beloved healthcare provider and major teaching affiliate of the world-class Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Ranked as a top hospital in Providence, RI, and across the region, The Miriam joins just three other U.S. Hospitals in having received the prestigious Magnet® designation for nursing excellence six consecutive times.
Position Overview
This is an exciting career opportunity for a front-line fundraiser experienced in prospect development and direct gift solicitation to contribute energy and expertise as an integral member of both hospital and health system fundraising teams. Reporting to the hospital’s Chief Development Officer and actively participating in a metrics-oriented prospect management program, the Senior Philanthropy Officer will nurture a portfolio of 80-100+ active major donors/prospects at the $10K+ level, and engage a variety of constituencies in philanthropy, including physicians, patients/grateful families, administrators, trustees, and volunteers.
The Miriam and Lifespan – Delivering Health with Care
Approaching its centennial in 2026, the private, not-for-profit Miriam Hospital is renowned for providing superior patient care as evidenced by numerous clinical quality awards. It offers the latest in medical treatment by leading physicians who are training the next generation of doctors and are at forefront of medical research. The Miriam is a member of Lifespan, the first health system in RI. Lifespan’s partners include Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Newport Hospital, Gateway Healthcare, Lifespan Physician Group, and Coastal Medical.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ progressive experience in a front-facing fundraising role, preferably working with five-figure donors and within complex, multi-institutional, and/or healthcare organizations; successful record of achievement in all phases of the “moves management” process and in achieving annual goals; exceptional oral/written communications and relationship-building skills; and comfort serving as an internal and external ambassador for mission advancement. Lifespan is an equal opportunity employer that values the diversity of cultural background, race, gender, age, religion, identity, ability, and perspectives.
How To Apply:
This is a retained executive search of Exceptional Executive Search.
For inquiries and applications, contact info@eesrecruit.com.
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Advocacy and Organizing Program Manager, TransitCenter
The Organization
TransitCenter is a private foundation that conducts research and advocacy and works nationally to improve public transit in ways that make U.S. cities more just and environmentally sustainable. To do this, we are committed to reforming how and by whom decisions about transit are made, bringing new perspectives, especially those of transit riders, into planning and policy work. We believe that supporting community-based activists and harnessing riders’ voices are critical to advancing change.
TransitCenter is a private foundation that conducts research and advocacy and works nationally to improve public transit in ways that make U.S. cities more just and environmentally sustainable. To do this, we are committed to reforming how and by whom decisions about transit are made, bringing new perspectives, especially those of transit riders, into planning and policy work. We believe that supporting community-based activists and harnessing riders’ voices are critical to advancing change.
More about TransitCenter’s work and staff can be found on our website, transitcenter.org
In order to live our organization values (listed below), specifically to have an equitable and inclusive workplace, people of color, people with low incomes, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.
Position Overview
Job Title: Program Manager, Advocacy and Organizing
Job Level: Manager
Reports to: Director of Advocacy and Organizing
Salary Range: $84,000 to $126,000
Job Location: Preferred: California (LA, Bay or Sacramento), greater New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Greater Washington DC, or Boston.
For candidates located in or around New York City, office attendance will be expected 1-2 days per week, while the other 3 days per week remote work will be permitted; more time in the office may be required in the first few months of employment
For candidates located in cities other than New York City, travel to our New York City office will be expected one time per quarter.
About the organization:
TransitCenter is a private foundation that conducts research and advocacy and works nationally to improve public transit in ways that make U.S. cities more just and environmentally sustainable. To do this, we are committed to reforming how and by whom decisions about transit are made, bringing new perspectives, especially those of transit riders, into planning and policy work. We believe that supporting community-based activists and harnessing riders’ voices are critical to advancing change.
More about TransitCenter’s work and staff can be found on our website, transitcenter.org
In order to live our organization values (listed below), specifically to have an equitable and inclusive workplace, people of color, people with low incomes, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.
About the position:
Position Description: Advocacy and Organizing Program Managers are the primary connectors between TransitCenter and the universe of transit advocates and organizers across the country. They hold routine conversations and meetings with grantees and other field partners to discuss strategies and tactics, work plans, alliances, organizational sustainability, and funding strategies. They recruit and invite organizations into group organizing projects, and they make funding recommendations to senior leadership. They assess alignment between individual organizations and TransitCenter playing a key role in defining the nature of the relationship between field organizations and TransitCenter. Program managers are involved in strategy development and program implementation of both TransitCenter and that of our grantees and field partners.
The new program manager will join a small team with two to three other members. Work plans are highly integrated and candidates should expect to collaborate regularly with colleagues and with staff members from key partner organizations. Division of labor within the team is fluid and distributed through a combination of geographical and issue considerations, personal areas of interest and expertise, fair work load balance, and more.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Help identify, recruit, and get to know potential TransitCenter grantees and other field partners.
2. Develop trusting relationships with TransitCenter grantees and other field partners or strategic allies.
3. Develop shared strategies among field partners through group learning and decision- making spaces. Motivate and take responsibility for moving forward coordinated activities among TransitCenter grantees and other field partners including:
a) common policy demands of local, state and federal transit agencies,
b) common message and narrative pertaining to the central role mass transit can play in creating more racial equity and environmental sustainability,
c) base building and leadership development techniques designed to give riders stronger roles in local organizing and advocacy
4. Facilitate technical assistance to grantees and other field partners including campaign planning, message and narrative development, policy analysis, targeted research and brokering of relationships with agency personnel and other stakeholders.
5. Look for and promote alignment between TransitCenter goals and the current workload and strategic plans of grantees and field partners.
6. Routinely represent TransitCenter in meetings with external partners and grantees, funders, allied organizations etc
7. Consistently participate in routine staff meetings, retreats, ad hoc work groups etc. and perform necessary and routine administrative duties such as maintaining and sharing contact information for advocates and allies, helping chart and measure activities of grantees and field partners, reviewing grantee questionnaires, helping draft grant agreements, preparing grant evaluations, conducting routine expense reporting, agenda preparation and note taking.
Desired experience, skills, and knowledge:
While we are seeking candidates, who have many of these skills, we understand that candidates may not have all of the skills listed below.
1. Minimum of five years’ experience in advocacy and organizing and in implementing local, state or national policy initiatives on economic &/or environmental justice matters, ideally including some familiarity with mass transit.
2. Minimum five years’ experience in coalition work, ideally assisting with coalition management and facilitation.
3. Trained in basic principles of power analysis, campaign strategy, base building and development of grassroots constituency, media tactics, and direct action.
4. Experience with race, class and gender analysis and with promoting race, class and gender justice in programing decisions around messaging and roles.
5. Relationship building skills, facilitation skills, conflict resolution skills, ability to deliver difficult messages, active listening skills.
6. Experience in campaign planning, message and narrative development, policy analysis, targeted research, and brokering of relationships.
7. Ability to discern alignment between TransitCenter’s and partner organizations values and positions.
8. Ability to make persuasive arguments to strengthen common purpose; define and deliver assistance that supports common purpose or recommend redefinition of relationships.
9. Ability to engage in constructive dialogue around disagreements.
10. Ability to work constructively in a team.
11. Past experience representing an organization with external partners.
12. Availability to travel up to four times per year (in addition to traveling to our NYC offices four times per year, if located in another part of the country). Availability to occasionally work evening or weekend hours.
13. Ability to meet mutually agreed upon deadlines.
TransitCenter’s staff and field partners believes that change:
1. Should be informed by research;
2. Should advance big picture ambitious reforms but also secure timely pragmatic wins;
3. Requires the direct involvement of riders in decision making and public roles and the development of allies in multiple sectors: labor; business; independent living, social, environmental, and economic justice; identity; and faith.
4. Involves constructive engagement with transit agencies and local government;
5. Requires attention to racial equity and targeted solutions;
6. Requires work at the intersection of clean energy and climate sustainability, public health, housing affordability and economic opportunity;
7. Requires broad dissemination of narrative & message about the essential role of public transit
8. Should increase ridership, advance equity and accessibility, ensure the health, wellbeing and effective deployment of the transit workforce and advance financial resilience of public transit systems.
TransitCenter’s values are:
1. Strategic: TransitCenter aims to shape transit policy and practice to make cities more just and environmentally sustainable. Our decisions are guided by strategic thinking about how to advance this mission.
2. Public-spirited: Our work is grounded in the interests of transit riders and the broader public.
3. Equitable: To rectify longstanding injustices and achieve greater social equity, TransitCenter strives to improve transit in ways that prioritize the mobility needs of people of color, people with low incomes, and people with disabilities.
4. Rigorous: We hold ourselves to high standards. Our research is methodical and applicable in the real world. Our engagement with transit professionals consistently improves the state of agency practice. Our advocacy produces tangible policy reforms that make a difference in people’s lives.
5. Inclusive and egalitarian: We foster an inclusive, egalitarian workplace where anyone can advance, everyone can contribute to major initiatives, and no one is above gruntwork.
6. Collaborative: Both internally and in our relationships with outside partners, we encourage collaboration, honest communication, and the open exchange of ideas. We believe in teamwork and the power of complementary strengths.
7. Respectful: We conduct ourselves with respect for the transit riders affected by our work, and for the transportation professionals and advocates we interact with.
8. Nimble: We are flexible. We seize opportunities that strategically align with our goals, adjust in response to new information, and change course if it better serves our mission.
9. Stewardship: Our staff are stewards of TransitCenter and shepherd our resources and reputation with care.
In order to live the values listed above, specifically to have an equitable and inclusive workplace and because we believe in the power of complementary strength, people of color, people with low incomes, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.
Benefits package:
The full benefits package will be described as part of the interview process but some of our benefits include:
· 401(k) with 5% matching contribution
· Medical, dental, vision insurance
· Short-term and long-term disability insurance
· 11 company holidays, 22 days of vacation, 10 sick days per year, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents
How to Apply:
Interested applicants can apply by clicking here: https://forms.gle/BPTRJsn8B4hhuks56 and answering the questions and submitting the requested documents.
Other information:
· If you would like to request an accommodation during the interview process, please email Melissa Allen, Human Resources at MelissaA@myhrpartner.com
· Proof of covid vaccination is required for employment. Proof of US work authorization and the successful completion of a background check are required for employment.
· TransitCenter is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, political orientation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
· Employment is on an “at-will” basis, meaning both the employer and the employee can terminate the relationship at any time.
· TransitCenter, a private philanthropic foundation, is incorporated in the State of New York, with its sole office located in the City of New York, and is bound by the employment statutes and regulations of those jurisdictions.
· Employment is on an “at-will” basis, meaning both the employer and the employee can terminate the relationship at any time.
· TransitCenter, a private philanthropic foundation, is incorporated in the State of New York, with its sole office located in the City of New York, and is bound by the employment statutes and regulations of those jurisdictions.
How to Apply:
Interested applicants can apply by clicking here: https://forms.gle/BPTRJsn8B4hhuks56 and answering the questions and submitting the requested documents.
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Executive Director, Broad Reach Foundation
The Organization
FOUNDATION OVERVIEW
The Foundation currently employs four remote staff members as well as an interim managing director. The current Board of Directors is comprised of three members of the Richards family and is expected to grow to include non-family in the coming year. A Senior Advisor to the family has already begun to open up the board. Additionally, the Foundation partners with a variety of consultants across the programmatic and operational functions and with a management firm that provides administrative and investment support. Program areas are funded by separate donor advised funds (DAFs) which are hosted by umbrella community and public foundations. Board-designated grantmaking committees oversee the annual DAF grantmaking for specific focus areas. DAFs affiliated with the Foundation support a range of programs and grantmaking approaches and address widely varied grantmaking priorities cited above.
In 2022, the Foundation made approximately $21 million in grants, an increase from $15.6M in 2021. With an inaugural Executive Director and growing staff, the Foundation is planning for steady incremental growth in both assets and grantmaking over the next five years, in alignment with strategic planning. The Foundation currently has overall assets of approximately $250 million and an annual operating budget of approximately $1.4 million.
Position Overview
Since its inception in 2001, the Broad Reach Foundation has made grants in service of the family’s mission to promote healthy ecosystems, coexistence, community resilience, and human well-being. The Foundation’s grants nurture new ideas, champion important under-represented viewpoints, and advance innovative approaches that lead to sustainable change. Building on a decades-long legacy of grantmaking impact, the Foundation is inviting applications and nominations for an inaugural Executive Director (ED) to lead the Foundation into a new era, expanding organizational capacity and honing strategy for growth and increased impact.
Up to the present, the Foundation has operated anonymously. Moving forward, the Board has begun taking steps to establish a “low-profile” public presence and now seeks an Executive Director to help steward that transition in a way that embodies the Foundation’s value of humility and preference to shine a light on the work of grantees rather than itself. At present, the Foundation makes grants to Donor Advised Funds (DAFs), hosted by umbrella community and public foundations under names that distance grantmaking from the Foundation and members of the Board of Directors and/or family members. Looking to the future, the Board is enthusiastic to build a more cohesive executive-led organization that best positions it for sustainable impact.
Widely varied, the combined program areas represent a powerful and diverse set of philanthropic approaches, willingness to assume risk and try creative solutions, and employ science-driven and evidence-and experience-based practices. Priorities currently include toxic chemical reform, climate change, ocean resilience, healthy ecosystems, indigenous rights, food justice, the arts, and international human rights, with a cross cutting commitment to social justice.
The Broad Reach Foundation’s inaugural ED will work in direct and strategic thought partnership with the Board to continue realization of its mission and vision, leading operations and overseeing all grantmaking components. They will identify and apply best practices, processes, and structures to the Foundation’s work, advancing the craft of the family’s giving through effective management and leadership of the organization and team. They will help design and steward strategic planning with the Board, translating objectives into concrete workplans, timelines, and staffing plans. The ED will represent the Foundation externally with integrity, gravitas, and incisive curiosity, nurturing existing relationships and building new ones as the organization transitions from anonymity. A natural builder of both relationships and systems, they will also be committed to the use of data and research in effective decision making. The ED will continue to ensure that all programs and initiatives are well-supported by expert staff and counsel where needed and uphold shared commitments to excellence and values of measured risk-taking, innovation, humility, creativity, and collaboration.
Strong candidates will demonstrate capacity for keen strategic leadership and organizational design and development, as well as an ability to oversee and manage diverse programmatic and/or philanthropic initiatives as they grow. They will bring keen judgment and sensitivity to this important developmental moment for the Foundation as it transitions to a more public profile. While interests and expertise in toxics and climate change would be an asset, it is not necessary for the ED to be an expert in any one relevant area. Strong candidates will bring some experience and interest in one or more program areas and demonstrate rigor and flexibility to work across diverse content and strategic domains. Cross-sector experience and perspective is valued and the demonstrated ability to bring clear processes and strategy to shepherd organizational growth and impact is required.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPACT
In alignment with the Board’s vision and strategic direction, the Executive Director will lead all programmatic, strategic, and operational functions across the Foundation. We envision the ED engaging immediately with the following opportunities for impact:
- Strategically and holistically assess the Foundation’s current work to help refine program strategy and direction and ensure consistency and alignment with the board’s vision, mission, and values; facilitate strategic planning and board visioning process and translate to action steps.
- Help identify and vet new program opportunities within the existing areas and new areas as they surface in strategic planning and in the course of the work. In examining current and potential grants and partnerships, include approaches that recognize the historical power imbalances perpetuated by philanthropy and center voices of those most impacted by the challenges we are working to address.
- Effectively convene and/or consult with leading experts in relevant fields in support of the Foundation’s work; engage periodically with peer leaders in philanthropy to share and gather learning toward continuous improvement.
- Build organizational infrastructure and systems to support impact, including:
- Assess needs and set timelines, workplans, and staffing plans for organizational development initiatives.
- Build and maintain grants management, funder stewardship, information technology, and other operational systems.
- Ensure the overall financial health of the organization, including compliance, continuous monitoring, forecasting, and timely budgeting and analysis in concert with the Board.
- Support the process of expanding the board and clarifying roles and governance policy as needed.
- Ensure operational excellence and efficiency across the organization, and as it grows, consider where new models and/or approaches might best serve the mission.
- Bring adaptive, equity-centered leadership and management practices to support a culture of learning, growth, and belonging on the staff and ensure the highest standards of excellence in grantmaking.
- Demonstrated capacity to lead an organization through change, working in partnership with internal stakeholders to translate a vision into clearly defined priorities and results.
- Experience in grant-making and philanthropic settings (strongly preferred), in particular those committed to innovation and willing to explore creative philanthropic opportunities and strategies.
- Pragmatic and entrepreneurial organizational skills combined with the ability to bring intellectual rigor, clarity, and data to decision-making processes; demonstrated financial acumen and ability to manage budgets, track and forecast effectively.
- Experience managing and leading people in a high-performing and diverse team environment; commitment to fostering team culture that is values-centered and the ability to bring a spirit of joy and good humor to work.
- Strong convening skills and an authentic interest in listening to and learning from others; ability to establish and maintain trust with a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders.
- Exceptional relational and communication skills and ability to engage in strategic diplomacy.
- Compelling personal presence and ability to connect across diverse settings and communities.
- Humility and the highest personal integrity.
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Strategic Partnerships Officer, Proteus Fund
The Organization
About Proteus Fund
Proteus Fund connects philanthropy to the frontlines of social justice. We strive to advance the interconnected goals of racial, gender, queer, and disability justice and an inclusive, fully representative democracy. To do our work effectively and with significant impact, Proteus Fund creates dynamic relationships between progressive philanthropists, movement leaders, and other allies that go far beyond transactional grantmaking.
Our trusted position among funders and field actors enables us to support, both through collaborative grantmaking and other efforts, a broad array of strategies to achieve social justice victories. Our donor collaboratives are best-in-class models for bridging responsive philanthropy and cutting-edge social justice movements for deeper impact, aligning resources to address critical needs, and shaping strategy alongside our partners.
Through our fiscal sponsorship program, Proteus Fund partners with initiatives which play a powerful role in the larger ecosystem for social change, providing them with tailored and comprehensive organizational support.
To date, Proteus Fund, and its affiliated 501(c)(4) organization, the Proteus Action League (PAL), have distributed $250 million in grants, and provided other essential tools to support activists, advocates, networks, coalitions, and issue-specific campaigns at the local, state, and national level.
Proteus Fund is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amherst, Massachusetts. Our staff is based across the entire United States.
Proteus operates and pursues its work based on a set of values synergistic with our vision and mission:
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion;
- Integrity and professionalism;
- Transparency and accountability; and
- Respect and humility
- Leads annual and long-term fundraising planning, goal setting, and execution with a view toward meeting and exceeding annual and multi-year fundraising goals
- Develops individualized goals, strategies, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship plans for each current and prospective donor partner to ensure an authentic sense of strategic partnership with each donor and supports the Program Director and Program Officers in their fundraising goals
- Provides direction within RTF to analyze revenue trends and forecast accordingly
- Prepares regular fundraising activity and revenue reports for Program Director and other stakeholders
- Drafts compelling donor outreach and stewardship materials and maintains primary responsibility for developing messages, strategy memos, talking points, and materials for all fundraising efforts
- Writes, edits, and submits proposal narratives and reports to foundations and individual donors in collaboration with the Proteus Fund’s donor services team and the Program Associate
- Partners with the Proteus Fund finance team to review and provide direction on the annual budget and monthly reconciliation process alongside the Program Director, and ensures timely communication of financial reporting and budget needs to donor partners
- With the support of the Program Associate and donor services, ensures Proteus Fund’s organizational donor management system is up to date with regard to all prospective and current donor engagements, reporting and proposal deadlines, and progress on all development-related projects
- Provides support, guidance, and training to grantee partners and other field leaders, and stewards resources to field organizations through recommendations and introductions to donor partners where appropriate
- Coordinates closely with program staff to effectively share RTF’s work and impact within philanthropy, and plans engaging semiannual donor partner meetings. Conceives and implements special events for current or prospective donor partners, including the implementation of tailored follow-ups so that special events are part an arc of authentic strategic partnership
- Plays a key role with the Director in developing RTF’s communications strategy with an eye toward promoting RTF’s work for fundraising purposes. Ensures RTF communications (website, email, social media) are consistent with fundraising objectives. Writes, edits, and coordinates the production of promotional materials for RTF, including a year-end report and email updates on RTF activities for external audiences with the support of the Program Associate and in collaboration with Proteus Fund’s communications consultant
- Coordinates with and meets regularly with other Proteus Fund development staff to ensure consistency and coordination in donor outreach and stewardship efforts
- A working knowledge or commitment to learning the substance, dynamics, and priorities within the field of racial justice and civil rights and demonstrates sensitivity and cultural competency related to the work of the BAMEMSA field.
- Excellent writing, editing, and research skills
- Strong attention to detail, particularly concerning funder specifications and deadlines
- Excellent relationship-building and interpersonal skills
- Excellent project management and organizational skills. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple high-priority tasks and responsibilities under tight deadlines and schedules while inspiring others to do the same
- Ability and willingness to adapt as goals and community needs shift.
- Strong financial acumen to manage budgets
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, including the ability to facilitate disagreement
- Experience with identifying and stewarding new relationships, especially along lines of difference
- Commitment to the mission and values of progressive social justice movements and RTF’s commitment to resourcing the BAMEMSA field equitably
- Cultural responsiveness and an alignment with our values and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging
- Strong relationship building, high ethical standards, discretion, and tact
- Personal qualities of humility and empathy
- Medical and dental benefits for employees and eligible dependents available on first day of work
- 401(k) retirement savings account with an organization contribution of 10% of annual salary
- Three weeks paid vacation in first year of employment; four weeks in subsequent years
- Fifteen sick days per year
- Three personal days per year
- Twelve paid holidays
- Professional development initiatives for growth
- Paid Family Leave
Remote (Continential United States)
Associate Vice President of Philanthropy & Programs (Remote), Scholarship America
The Organization:
At Scholarship America, our team members are motivated by our vision to create an America where every student’s educational dreams can come true. This position can work in a hybrid manner from either of our offices (Bloomington or Saint Peter, MN) or work fully remote within the continental United States. Our team-based, flexible work schedule is a top-rated employee benefit within our organization due to our commitment to supporting a healthy work/life balance. Our schedules allow employees to flex around our core hours of Monday-Friday from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm.
Scholarship America offers employees a robust total rewards package focused on supporting the health and well-being of employees now and in the future. We offer comprehensive choices in areas such as insurance (medical, dental, vision, basic life), disability (short-term & long-term), flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care), and a 403(b) retirement fund with a 3% company match. Due to our commitment to excellence to support work/life balance, we offer flexible work schedules which vary depending upon the position and seasonality of the role. We also provide paid time away from work (vacation, sick, personal, and up to fifteen designated holidays annually), plus employee & dependent educational reimbursement programs that support our overall mission. Scholarship America offers robust learning opportunities for our employees to maintain knowledge of our industry and its practices as well as professional development.
Details on our company values and mission can be found at www.scholarshipamerica.org.
We are an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Position Overview:
The Associate Vice President of Philanthropy & Programs will influence the strategy of Scholarship America’s culture of philanthropy while implementing processes & procedures through the department resources and partners to meet or exceed goals as a part of a high-performance fundraising team. They will work collaboratively to develop, implement and achieve strategic plans for increasing private support; provides leadership and direction for major gifts, corporate and foundation gifts, planned giving, annual giving, donor relations, and prospect research; and are directly involved in the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of gifts. By cultivating a deep understanding of Scholarship America’s donors, this position will help fulfill their philanthropic goals in alignment with Scholarship America’s mission, vision, and strategic goals.
This role will serve in a leadership capacity for fundraising, but also in shaping the culture of philanthropy at Scholarship America, cross-departmental leadership, project management, supporting and championing integrated development in support of donors and our mission across Scholarship America. The AVP – Philanthropy & Programs will have an active voice and be a participant in helping to shape the vision, goals, and outcomes for the Development department.
Position Expectations:
• Manage and grow an existing multimillion-dollar portfolio of strategic individual, corporate, and planned giving donors while diversifying revenue streams through analysis of corporate fundraising performance and identifying opportunities to grow revenue while managing expenses. Regularly report on results, focusing on trends in areas that support long-term sustainable growth.
• Collaborate with the VP, Development & Marketing, other members of the Executive Team, and key stakeholders to maximize fundraising opportunities through strategic partnership with Fortune 500 companies and other major corporations.
• Coach and guide Gift Officers along with managing their own detailed cultivation and solicitation strategies for each corporate prospect/donor within the context of a multi-year strategy targeted to achieve annual fundraising goals and to create mutually beneficial partnerships.
• Build and communicate a clear major donor and corporate partner strategy in collaboration with Marketing that has defined objectives and deliverables.
• Work cross-functionally through an Agile process for prioritization of initiatives to identify and qualify donors and partners with aligned interests to fund prioritized strategic initiatives.
• Work with Vice Presidents of Development & Marketing and Partner Solutions to build, own and steward strategic relationships with key partners.
• In collaboration with Donor Relations Coordinator, sets direction and gives guidance to stewardship programs to recognize donors in effective and meaningful ways.
• Ensure effective strategies are utilized to increase income development opportunities. Income opportunities include sponsorships, strategic alliances, cause marketing campaigns and special event participation.
• Participate in community activities that contribute to the acquisition and retention of donors.
• Be a champion for the mission, goals, and programs of Scholarship America both internally and externally.
• Be an outstanding leader of the team and developer of individuals. Institute best practices to drive high performance and engagement within individual direct reports and the organization as a whole.
Minimum Requirements:
• Proven record of accomplishment securing seven-figure donations, grants, sponsorships and/or corporate partnerships.
• Experience building influential executive-level contacts within Fortune 500 companies.
• Proven record of success in implementing donor-centered strategies and cultivating sustainable revenue growth over time.
• Experience leading and managing fundraising team members and various development processes.
• Experience with a range of giving vehicles including annual giving, fundraising events, major, capital and planned gifts, sponsorship, and marketing partnerships.
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail in order to produce the highest quality work, including follow-up and follow-through.
• Able to informally influence and inspire others with a genuine, empathic interest in people while exhibiting superior interpersonal skills.
• Able to take appropriate professional risks and challenge the status quo.
• Strong analytical skills: able to interpret and compare data to form meaningful insights and evaluate results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Results-oriented, motivated to meet or exceed individual and shared goals by carefully monitoring progress and demonstrating accountability through individual performance and team leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, effectively, and cooperatively with other people.
• Excellent ability to communicate both verbally and in writing, including grammar, spelling and punctuation. Including the ability to effectively present to executives.
• Position will expect up to 30% of schedule spent traveling for donor visits & events nationally.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience with a demonstrated commitment to continued personal and professional development.
• Donor database management systems experience.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite, with a focus on Excel and PowerPoint functionality.
Preferred Requirements:
• Proven experience raising funds geared towards advancing equity with a focus on historically marginalized communities
• Work or life experience with diverse communities.
• Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credentials.
• Higher Education industry knowledge.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience in professional fundraising.
• Seven (7) or more years of people management.
Pay range: Exempt ($90,300 – $112,900 – $135,500)
We Have One Passion. Every Student.
How To Apply:
Submit resume and application online: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=4803858b-974e-40a2-8884-98e0a7f94c36&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=457568&source=CC2&lang=en_US
Check out www.scholarshipamerica.org/About/Careers
Remote (with travel)
Executive Director, Lori's Hands
The Organization
Lori’s Hands builds mutually beneficial partnerships between community members with chronic illness and college students, fostering empathy, connection, and resilience. Students provide practical assistance to support community members’ independence at home, and community members share their health and life experiences to support students’ learning. Lori’s Hands was founded at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware in 2009 and grew from a volunteer-led initiative to a professionally staffed organization in 2017. Today, our college student volunteers support more than 150 clients via weekly visits through three Lori’s Hands chapters: one in Newark, Delaware, one in Baltimore, Maryland, and one in Metro Detroit, Michigan.
Lori’s Hands has been recognized with a Jefferson Award for Public Service and the Delaware Governor’s Outstanding Volunteer Award, in popular media including PBS’s Next Avenue, USA Today, and WYPR, and through state and federal contracts including the inaugural round of Community Care Corps funding. The program is evidence-based, with research demonstrating benefit for both students and clients.
Lori’s Hands is committed to expanding in a sustainable manner that fosters generational, socioeconomic, and racial equity. We intentionally look to learn from and build partnerships with existing community organizations in order to support safe, effective, and connected aging in place for community members. We are thrilled to build on our work in Delaware, Baltimore, and Metro Detroit and to bring our program to additional communities in the future through our continued expansion. As health systems become increasingly attuned to the social and practical needs of their patients, our partnership offers them an opportunity to provide what they provide well – clinical services – and to coordinate rather than directly provide services they value but are not prepared to offer – non-medical home and community-based services. Long-term, we aim to disrupt the current support service sector for older Americans by meaningfully connecting healthcare and social services through a cost-effective, person-centered method that has never before been tried. We envision Lori’s Hands becoming a national program known for best practices in community health service learning.
Position Overview
JOB DESCRIPTION
Lori’s Hands, Inc. is looking for a dynamic Executive Director who will be responsible for the continued growth of Lori’s Hands, based on the established models operational in Newark, DE, Baltimore, MD, and Metro Detroit, MI.The Executive Director will be a “realistic dreamer” who will both develop and lead the implementation of strategic growth plans for the organization. The Executive Director will oversee all development and fundraising efforts and will pursue non-philanthropic funding streams (e.g. mutually beneficial contractual partnerships with higher education and healthcare institutions) to support the continued growth and sustainability of the organization.
The Executive Director will be responsible for managing a team of 3 full-time and 2 part-time employees, who are responsible for program delivery. The Executive Director will report directly to the Lori’s Hands, Inc. Board of Directors. (Lori’s Hands Organization Chart). The Executive Director will travel approximately 2-4 times per year to each of our chapter locations: Newark, DE, Baltimore, MD, and Metro Detroit, MI. In addition, the Executive Director will travel approximately 5-10 times per year to other locations nationwide for donor meetings, partnership opportunities, and professional development opportunities. This position may be completed remotely when travel is not required.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Development and Fundraising (70% of week spent performing function)
- Lead the Lori’s Hands team in identifying and obtaining new and continued philanthropic funding, including corporate sponsorships, foundation grant opportunities, and individual donations (estimated budget is $520,000 for FY2023)
- Develop fundraising strategy; Mentor program staff to plan and lead local events
- Develop novel revenue-generating relationships (such as contractual partnerships with healthcare and higher education institutions)
- Oversee organization communications to bolster fundraising, engagement, and outreach efforts; Serve as the organization’s primary spokesperson
- Oversee Board recruitment, development and engagement activities; Lead Board meetings with administrative support from Program Assistant
- Identify and assess opportunities for Lori’s Hands’ growth through the expansion of current chapters and launching of new chapters
- In collaboration with the Program Director, cultivate new partnerships to enable the strategic growth of Lori’s Hands
- Lead the development of new chapters with support from the Program Director (e.g. developing and carrying out staffing plans in new locations)
- Lead Lori’s Hands employees in organizing to efficiently provide exceptional services for community members and student volunteers
- Report to and collaborate with the Board of Directors to evaluate service delivery and plans for growth
- Develop and manage organizational budget
- Passionate about the Lori’s Hands mission
- Experience raising and managing funds
- Experience with grant writing and familiarity with the nonprofit sector
- Experience developing, implementing, and managing business plans and budgets
- Strong and effective writer and verbal communicator
- Supervisory/mentorship experience
- Experience and comfort with cloud-based technology (Lori’s Hands uses Google Drive, AirTable, Canva, and email marketing tools)
- Experience fundraising with private foundations, corporations, individual donors, and government funders
- Experience developing and managing revenue-generating partnerships and services
- Lived experience and/or deep understanding of the issues that are central to the work of Lori’s Hands; a strong candidate may not already be working in community health, but must demonstrate a genuine interest in and commitment to community health and intergenerational relationships
- Familiarity with the health care, higher education, and/or community health sectors
- Experience using data analysis to drive decision making and to demonstrate value of a program
- Salary range: $115,000-$130,000, commensurate with experience; This is a full-time position
- Competitive benefits package
Remote, or San Francisco, or New York, or Washington, DC
Foundation Grants Manager, Mother Jones
The Organization:
Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education, climate change, and food/agriculture.
We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website, social media, videos, email newsletters, and print magazine.
Founded in 1976, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington, DC, and New York.
We are independent (no corporate owners) and are accountable only to you, our readers. Our mission is to deliver hard-hitting reporting that inspires change and combats “alternative facts.”
Position Overview:
We are looking for a strategic thinker with superb writing and communication skills to support our foundation revenue strategy. You’ll work closely with the Vice President of Development to maintain existing and develop new funding relationships with foundations. You will be part of a dynamic and experienced development team focused on supporting the growth of Mother Jones’ 47-year-old independent newsroom. Driving our success is a business model grounded in reader support: approximately 60 percent of our revenue comes from our readers and as a member of the development team, you’ll be working directly with our community of support to ensure our newsroom stays competitive and sustainable.
We are a distributed team that includes primary offices in San Francisco, New York, and Washington DC. We are open to remote work in the continental US, but travel to meet funders and colleagues will be required from time to time.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support the maintenance of strong relationships with existing foundation funders that lead to renewed funding and increased support.
- Work with the VP of Development and Donor Researcher to develop and execute strategies for the prospecting of new or stalled foundation relationships.
- Create compelling communication materials for other members of the Development team, including email outreach and updates and other materials to secure meetings with foundation staff and major donors.
- Maintain an organization-wide grants calendar to ensure that all grant submission and reporting deadlines are met.
- Draft and submit all grant proposals.
- Work across departments to track program objectives and outcomes to ensure that grant deliverables are met.
- Maintain working knowledge about Mother Jones’ reporting and special projects, using that information to identify and develop funding opportunities and strategies that may appeal to specific funders.
- Ensure that all information related to foundation communication, meetings, and fundraising goals is fully documented in Salesforce.
- Meet and, ideally, exceed annual revenue goals.
- Work to support the diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging goals of Mother Jones.
- Other duties as assigned.
- BA/BS or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 3 to 5 years of relevant foundation fundraising experience and project management experience.
- A track record of identifying, cultivating, soliciting, closing, and maintaining foundation relationships.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with an ability to build professional relationships with funders.
- Problem-solver with excellent planning and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities and set and adhere to deadlines; ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Outcome-driven, self-starter, and proactive with the capacity to work both independently and as part of fast-paced collaborative teams.
- Grace under pressure, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to manage projects with tact, diplomacy, and good humor.
- Experience with Salesforce preferred, along with a general understanding of data systems and web-based CRMs.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and G Suite; experience with Asana or other project management software preferred.
- Able to travel and work some evenings.
- An interest or experience in fundraising in a news organization or the areas that Mother Jones covers is a plus, but not essential.
Remote/Hybrid – located in the New England region
Senior Major Gifts Officer, Union of Concerned Scientists
The Organization
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is an independent nonprofit that puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future. We envision a peaceful, healthy, and just world where science serves people and the planet by guiding policy decisions, reducing risks, and improving lives.
For over five decades, we have been working as scientists, engineers, economists, advocates, and everyday people to create and advocate for innovative, practical solutions to some of our planet’s most pressing problems—from combating global warming and developing sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves, to fighting misinformation, advancing racial equity, and reducing the threat of nuclear war. Values informing our work include:
• Science in the service of people and the planet.
• Justice and Equity for people of all races and incomes—now, and for future generations.
• Courage to take principled, science-based stands in the public arena.
• Integrity to always examine evidence critically, openly, and honestly.
• Democracy promotes a voice for all in government decisions.
• Action inspires and mobilizes people to build a healthier, safer, and more just world.
Position Overview
Responsibilities
• Carry out front-line relationship management of donors and prospects in the assigned portfolio. Responsible for advancing the major gifts portfolio with approximately 75-125 active donors and prospects; retaining and upgrading existing donors; identifying and qualifying new major gift prospects; and generating revenue in the assigned region(s).
• Move donors and prospects through the stages of identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship in a strategic and efficient manner. Develop and execute individual strategies for each assigned donor/prospect.
• Meet or exceed individual metrics for portfolio engagement, 100 meaningful connections (including 60+ in-person meetings), and 200 personalized contacts annually.
• Schedule, script, and lead donor and prospect interactions (in person, video, phone, and email); guide and direct president, staff, and board in cultivation and solicitation activity.
• Produce high-quality, resonant donor communications, including proposals and reports for donors and family foundations, as needed.
• Develop and maintain familiarity with all UCS program areas and organizational priorities per annual strategic work plans and five-year strategic plan; stay current about significant developments in our issue areas.
• Actively contribute to team priorities, such as enhancing and improving systems, and collaborate with colleagues in Membership, Planned Giving, Foundation Relations, Engagement & Events, Gift & Data Processing, and others as needed.
Qualifications and Experience
• Five to seven years of comparable and relevant development experience, with at least 5 years in major/leadership giving with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Demonstrated success in front-line major gifts work: closing five- and six-figure gifts, utilizing moves management, writing effective and compelling proposals/reports, experience with donor tracking systems, and working with board members and/or leadership-level volunteers.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective external and internal relationships and juggle multiple priorities.
• Support organizational journey and commitment to advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite and experience with donor databases (Raiser’s Edge a plus).
May spend extended periods at a computer. Must be able to travel nationally, including overnight trips, for up to 30% of the time.
Comparable training and/or experience can be substituted for degrees when appropriate.
UCS is an equal-opportunity employer actively seeking to diversify its staff. We’re dedicated to broadening opportunities for individuals from demographic groups that are historically underrepresented in the sciences and environmental advocacy. We’re also committed to building an inclusive workplace culture where talented people of widely diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe the inclusion of culturally diverse perspectives will improve our work and produce better societal and environmental outcomes for all, including historically disenfranchised communities.
Details: This is a full-time remote position based near UCS’s Cambridge, MA office or elsewhere in New England. For those who meet all position requirements, the salary range is $101,931 to $114,670. UCS offers excellent benefits and a rewarding work environment. *CA Resident Only, we offer a 12% salary differential*
UCS offers excellent benefits and a rewarding work environment. Information about the organization is available at http://www.ucsusa.org.
More about the department: Our department is made up of a dedicated group of front-line fundraisers and data-savvy development professionals who collectively raise the organization’s budget each year. We come from wide-ranging backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and a collaborative and supportive work environment where all staff can thrive. We continually strive to create an environment that is a welcoming place for the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, parents, empty-nesters, and people with a wide variety of interests and backgrounds.
To apply: We know there are great candidates who won’t check all these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself. Please upload a cover letter and resume. Upload materials in Word or PDF format only. No phone calls, please.
This position is in the bargaining unit.
Covid mandate for new hires: For roles requiring in-person work (including this one), UCS employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees are considered fully vaccinated as defined by the CDC. All new hires who will be reporting to an office location must provide notice of their vaccination status and vaccination documentation, on or before their first day of work. For all others, UCS strongly encourages full vaccinations among its employees, up to and including booster shots, even if working remotely.
All new employees must comply with the mandatory vaccination requirements outlined in UCS policies as soon as practicable. Union of Concerned Scientists will notify candidates for employment of the requirements of this policy before the start of employment.
Deadline: Until filled.
How To Apply
https://apply.workable.com/j/E4162D2153
Roseburg, Oregon
President and CEO, The Ford Family Foundation
The Organization
The Ford Family Foundation believes in the power of rural communities. As a private, nonprofit foundation proudly headquartered in Roseburg, Oregon, its investments through grants, scholarships and community building create the conditions where children in rural Oregon and Siskiyou County, California have the family, educational and community supports they need to succeed in life.
Position Overview
The Ford Family Foundation seeks a President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who embraces the Foundation’s legacy, mission and values and will propel the organization to an exciting next chapter of impact. Experience inspiring, growing, and leading an organization while upholding the highest standards of innovation, integrity, and commitment to drive for results will be critical to achieving the Foundation’s increased ambitions.
The President and CEO will work closely with the Foundation board, management team, staff, and the communities it serves to actualize philanthropic priorities that reflect and support a recently adopted strategic plan.
The Foundation’s new leader will inherit an organization that has earned and enjoys a strong reputation and deep, trusted relationships across Oregon. The unique opportunity exists to exponentially elevate the Foundation’s influence in the state of Oregon and nationally as a model champion for rural communities.
How To Apply
The full position specification is available at: https://www.tfff.org/about-us/current-career-opportunities
To submit application materials or nominate someone to serve as the next President and CEO of The Ford Family Foundation, please email FordFamilyCEO@SpencerStuart.com.
San Francisco Bay Area
Managing Director of Convenings, Skoll Foundation
The Organization
Skoll Foundation seeks to catalyze transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Position Overview
Skoll Foundation is seeking a Managing Director of Convenings to lead the strategic vision and execution of the Foundation’s convening programs, inclusive of both virtual and in-person events. The MDC will drive and manage all components of Skoll Foundation convenings, including the flagship annual Skoll World Forum. The MDC will also connect the Skoll Foundation’s convening strategy to execution, finding new ways to convene and connect the Foundation’s network of social innovators working in more than 130 countries.
The salary range for this position is $202,500 to $324,000, with a midpoint of $270,000. The role also includes a comprehensive benefits package. We actively welcome all candidates from a wide range of backgrounds who have the skills to fulfill this role – regardless of compensation history.
How To Apply
Skoll Foundation has exclusively retained The 360 Group of San Francisco to assist with this search. Please visit https://the360group.us/SF_MDC_PD.pdf to review the complete position description, which includes detailed application instructions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; earlier applicants may receive priority consideration. To be considered, The 360 Group encourages all interested candidates to submit their applications promptly.
Tallahassee, FL
Chief Executive Officer, South City Foundation
To read the full leadership brief, please visit this link.
To share your resume or for more information, please email SouthCityCEO@IntentionalWorks.com
Less than three miles from the Florida State Capitol building, and just minutes from historic Florida A&M University and Florida State University, lies the South City neighborhood in Tallahassee, Florida, a storied community with deep roots. Over the years, the South City neighborhood has declined due to a lack of economic development and less access to resources. The tide is turning, however, as city and community leaders work to increase engagement from private and public partners. Leading the revitalization of South City is South City Foundation (SCF), a network member of Purpose Built Communities. Working side by side with members of the community over the past 3 years, SCF’s goal is “to honor South City’s history while securing its future.” With a new quality mixed-use housing development in progress and a recent award of $2 million from Florida Rep. Al Lawson, Jr. to develop the Early Learning Center, the South City neighborhood is poised for a renaissance driven by the community members themselves. The South City Foundation seeks a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to be a catalyst for community-centered change that will benefit the residents of South City.
Position Overview
The South City Foundation has made terrific strides in developing trust within the South City community while also championing the neighborhood’s needs to public and private funders and partners. The next CEO will have the support of an engaged and connected Board of Directors as well as the resources provided by Purpose Built Communities. The CEO will thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and will be comfortable wearing many hats as the organization evolves. Fundraising, storytelling, and driving community and partner engagement will be the top priorities in the CEO’s first year.
The ideal candidate will be skilled in communication, relationship building, and resource development, be a curious and innovative leader, and be trusted as an authentic champion for the community. The CEO will report to a committed and supportive Board of Directors comprised of community leaders. The CEO will have opportunities to build the South City Foundation team as funding increases.
The successful CEO will bring proven experience leading strategic and organizational growth in a community-serving organization. Qualified candidates will demonstrate the following:
Convener and listener Build and nurture working relationships and partnerships within the South City neighborhood and the Tallahassee community while sharing a contagious mission focus.
Resource developer Proven experience engaging funders to advance the South City Foundation mission, through significant private and governmental grants and partnerships.
Communicator Communicate effectively to multiple audiences including community members and private and public partners. Champion the needs of the South City community to current and potential allies and funders.
Data-informed Using quantitative and qualitative data, make recommendations and projections that influence initiative development. Experience developing, sourcing and operating within an organizational budget.
Change catalyst Believe wholeheartedly in the goal to end generational poverty within the South City community. Be tireless and fearless in advocating for residents and in engaging private and public partners to advance the mission.
Innovative leader Ability to move an initiative from vision to implementation while engaging stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners.
Sector-informed partner Proficient in housing and real estate practices as well as in opportunities for funding, including New Market Tax Credits.
Culture steward Work to honor the vibrant history of the South City community while also looking to the possible. Embrace diverse communities and celebrate the richness that comes from multicultural groups.
Champion Be deeply embedded in the South City community; known as someone who is a trusted and authentic partner. Be seen by city leaders as a community champion with integrity, passion, and gravitas.
How To Apply
To apply, suggest a candidate, or for more information, please send your resume to SouthCityCEO@intentionalworks.com
Vancouver, WA or Portland, Oregon
Chief Program & Impact Officer, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
The Organization
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust (The Murdock Trust) is a private foundation supporting the capacity and growth of nonprofits in the Pacific Northwest. From day one, their mission has been to serve individuals, families, and communities across the region, including Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, through grantmaking, enrichment programs, and convenings that strengthen the region’s educational, social, spiritual, and cultural base in ways that are innovative and sustainable.
Position Overview
This is a unique opportunity to join the Murdock Trust at a pivotal moment of growth and change and to positively impact how the organization approaches grantmaking and programming in the future. This is a newly created role designed to innovate approaches within the foundation’s areas of focus as well as operationalize their ambitious programmatic objectives. The Chief Program & Impact Officer will be a key contributor in setting the direction for and shaping over $100M of annual grantmaking.
The programmatic areas of focus include:
– Arts & Culture
– Health
– Scientific Research
– Education
– Human Services
As a member of the executive management team, the Chief Program & Impact Officer (CPIO) will report to and serve as a thought partner and collaborator with the CEO. Acting as a strategic generalist across the Foundation’s portfolio of work, the CPIO will provide program leadership, design, and implementation rooted in the values, culture, and grantmaking philosophy of the Murdock Trust.
The salary for this role is expected to be approximately $275,000-$320,300, commensurate with the desired level of program leadership experience.
How To ApplyTo view the full position profile and apply for the role please visit: https://www.goodcitizen.com/executive-search/m-j-murdock-charitable-trust-chief-program-impact-officer/
Washington DC
Membership and Development Specialist, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
The Organization
About GEO:
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) exists to help grantmakers turn their desire to improve into real progress. The GEO community bridges the gap between grantmaking as usual and transformational change. Our community includes more than 6,600 grantmakers working together to turn a hunger for more effective philanthropy into clear pathways for achieving it. We’re cutting through the noise to lift up the practices that matter most to nonprofits. GEO cultivates a community for grantmakers to work with their peers while they are navigating the same journey towards improvement. To learn more about how GEO is making faster progress possible, visit www.geofunders.org.
Position Overview
Position Description:
Under the direction of Membership and Development Director and as part of GEO’s revenue team, the Membership and Development Specialist is responsible for supporting the health of GEO’s vibrant and growing membership base as a strategic priority of the organization with a significant focus on fundraising and supporting administrative development activities. The Membership and Development Specialist is responsible for reinforcing and overseeing the process of member renewals, including tailored communications at various stages of the member relationship, and ensuring data integrity of over 500 organizational members.
The Membership and Development Specialist will support new members and funders through conferences, in-person meetings and email or phone, ensuring an excellent member experience.
Key Responsibilities:
Member Renewals and Retention
· Collaborate with the Director of Membership and Development to implement recruitment and engagement strategies
· Contribute to GEO’s membership revenue projections and retention targets
· Reconcile payments and membership payments with monthly financial statements from GEO’s accountant
· Manage renewals and maintain a strong renewal rate
· Ensure data integrity required to enable effective membership operations
· Help keep our membership materials and marketing fresh and up-to-date
Member and Funder Relations Management and Engagement
· Help implement a program of member events and engagement activities
· Support the Membership Manager and the Development Manager to build a sense of community to advance GEO’s mission of transforming philanthropic practice, deepening relationships in the field, and promoting peer learning
· In coordination with the communications department and the office of the President, ensure members and funders are well informed of the latest updates and events, using a tailored and personalized approach
· Support the communication of the value of GEO to prospective members and for retention purposes
· Maintain and build relationships with members and new members
· Help create and maintain a pipeline to generate new members
· Help implement a first year on-boarding experience for all new members, and coordinate member orientations with funders
Fundraising and Development
· Support the identification and cultivation of new funders through prospect research and outreach
· Maintain cross-department communication within GEO to identify new funder prospects and support staff on other teams to contribute to fundraising efforts
· Coordinate funder meetings including scheduling and providing GEO team members with funder research
· Assist in gathering materials for grant proposals and reports
· Support the development of Salesforce reports and dashboards to track key membership and fundraising data, including revenue generation, member renewal, recruitment, and engagement
· Monitoring data processes and the data quality and integrity as it relates to fundraising efforts
External Representation
· Represent GEO at external events and in prospect meetings to align with revenue goals
· Attend other philanthropy events to learn about other organizations and build GEO’s prospect pipeline.
Culture Transformation/Racial Equity
- Help GEO make progress on our strategy, advance our change agenda and serve the field in the areas of culture, racial equity and organizational structure and talent
Washington DC
Vice President of Operations, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
The Organization
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations is a community of funders committed to transforming philanthropic culture and practice by connecting members to the resources and relationships needed to support thriving nonprofits and communities. We envision courageous grantmakers working in service of nonprofits and communities to create a just, connected, and inclusive society where we can all thrive. With more than 6,000 grantmakers who belong to philanthropic organizations of all sizes and types across the globe, we work to lift up the grantmaking practices that matter most to nonprofits and that truly improve communities. Join us to create a greater impact for these communities by helping grantmakers better serve nonprofits. To learn more, visit www.geofunders.org.
Position Description
The vice president of operations (VP) is a member of GEO’s senior leadership team and leads the operations team. The senior leadership team operates as a shared leadership body to steward organizational strategy, policy, culture, financial health, and resilience. The VP holds the long-term vision for operations, administration, finance, accounting, human resources/talent, facilities management, information technology, knowledge management, and learning. The VP manages complexity in integrating and harmonizing technical knowledge and advancing equitable operations to achieve GEO’s mission. The VP monitors GEO’s finances and supports the staff, board of directors, and other stakeholders in strengthening GEO’s financial performance. This position reports to the CEO and Executive Vice President and has three direct reports: the director of operations, the director of people and culture, and the associate director of learning. The VP has strong management skills, experience stewarding a range of organizational infrastructure needs in nonprofit/philanthropic settings, and the ability to contribute to cross-team alignment, collaboration, and information-sharing. This job is based in the Washington, DC region and includes between 5-10% travel.
If you were working with us, here are some of the things you would have done last week:
- Met with the senior team to discuss organizational annual priorities and followed up with the associate director of learning to map out and define progress indicators
- Held operations team meetings to align departmental work toward areas of greatest organizational need and discuss how to share timelines with other staff
- Talked with a GEO member interested in equitable operations as a driver of shifting philanthropic culture and practice; prepared for a related presentation at a partner organization’s conference
- Met with the director of operations and operations manager to finalize audit plans
- Facilitated conversation with the board finance committee about revisions to GEO’s investment policy
- Worked with the director of people and culture to review proposed changes to policies/benefit options
- Participated in a working group session to inform GEO’s strategic direction and considered implications for the business model
- Scheduled check-ins with team members to support their individual goal-setting and identify connections between those goals and GEO’s mission
- Experience: Minimum of 10-12 years of relevant work experience managing operations, administration, finance, human resources/talent, knowledge management, and learning in nonprofit/philanthropy settings. Broad understanding of the full range of business functions; demonstrated experience effectively planning and integrating organization infrastructure and operational needs
- Leadership & management: Experience leading and managing teams and supporting teams through change; organizational leadership experience preferred
- Financial expertise: Track record of success in financial planning, budgeting, and analysis
- People & culture expertise: Demonstrated success in human resource management and employee relations; ability to handle confidential information with discretion
- Relational & communications strengths: Ability to connect with people, building and maintaining strong relationships with staff and GEO community members (funders, members, prospects, and partners); excellent communication and facilitation skills
- Field knowledge: Knowledge of philanthropy, philanthropic support organizations, and the nonprofit sector; commitment to GEO’s mission and vision to transform philanthropic culture and practice
- Racial equity experience & capacity:
- Experience supporting an organization working to center racial equity in culture, practices, and work; ability to contribute to internal and external conversations around centering racial equity
- Ability to attend to results, relationships, and processes in all facets of work
- Technology: Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Salesforce, Bill.com, Intaact, and Concur experience are pluses
- Why you are a good fit for this position
- Your experience advancing nonprofit/philanthropic missions through operations
- Your experience integrating racial equity into operations
- What appeals to you about working at GEO?
Washington, D.C.
Senior Director of Branding & Audience Development, WAMU 88.5 American University Radio
The Organization
A Storied National Public Radio and Media Presence
- Leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the greater Washington, DC area with a devoted following in DC, Maryland, and Virginia
- 60+ years as a trusted public news source in one of the world’s media capitals
- Consistently ranks among country’s top stations in audience share and size
- Award-winning programming ranging from national talk shows to local news and podcasts
- Close, unique working relationship with NPR and American University (AU)
- Owns DCist and seeking to expand its digital presence
- 100+ employees, annual revenue of $30+ million
- Passion for WAMU’s mission, high-quality journalism, and the broader public media landscape.
- Ten or more years of overall, progressively responsible experience and demonstrated excellence in integrated fundraising, including marketing, individual giving, corporate communications, branding, or related fields. At least five years of progressively responsible experience with internal and external communications, responsibility for developing and implementing outreach and engagement plans, or other relevant experience. Experience managing a membership program and working in a nonprofit or media-based environment preferred.
- Several years of supervisory or management experience. Proven ability to build, manage, evaluate, and develop a diverse team of professionals and contribute to the ongoing fostering of a high-functioning, results-oriented, multiracial/multicultural workforce.
- Broad understanding of marketing and communications best practices, including public relations vehicles and social media platforms.
- Experience with strategic media strategy in a contemporary multi-platform media environment.
- Ability to offer sound media relations advice to senior leadership.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communications skills, with superior ability to write in a journalistic style that is customary for corporate and external publications. Capability to serve as a highly visible and public-facing ambassador of WAMU.
- Outstanding leadership abilities and interpersonal skills, including strong capability as a facilitator and coordinator and to collaborate with partners across functional areas of the organization.
- Creative, innovative thinker with a track record of translating strategic concepts into successfully executed, integrated action plans and utilizing new methods of constituent engagement and connectivity.
- Strong analytical and reasoning abilities; demonstrated ability to integrate data into decision-making and strategy development.
Washington, DC
Program Director, Grantmakers In Health
The Organization
GIH is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to helping foundations and corporate giving programs improve the health of all people. Our mission is to foster communication and collaboration among grant-makers and others, and to help strengthen the grantmaking community’s knowledge, skills, and effectiveness.
Position Overview
If you are:
- Passionate about making a difference on issues related to health equity, health policy, community empowerment, and public health
- A great communicator, able to synthesize information and distill key trends, challenges, and implications, both in writing and verbally
- A natural connector, good at networking, making meaningful connections, bringing people together, and spreading ideas far and wide
- Excited about leveraging philanthropy to be a powerful force for change
- Substantive expertise in health equity, health policy, community engagement, and/or public health
- Experience developing programs in a nonprofit, government agency, or foundation environment
- Experience in policy research, data analysis, and advocacy at the state or federal level
- Experience in offering strategic guidance, building partnerships, and forming networks
- Excellent verbal and written communications and facilitation skills
- A graduate degree and at least three years of work experience in a health-related field (or a bachelor’s degree and at least five years of work experience in a health-related field)
- A competitive salary of $75,000 – $95,000, based on experience.
- Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave at the beginning of each year to encourage work life balance and a generous benefits package.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance along with voluntary life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
- The option to participate in our Health Care and Dependent Care flexible spending accounts, SmartBenefits program, and to purchase supplemental insurance such as accident or hospital insurance through Aflac.
- Eligibility to participate in our retirement plan upon hire, including a matching contribution and, after one year of employment, a generous discretionary contribution.
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Salary requirement
- At least two supervisory references and one professional colleague reference (including name, title, organization, phone number, and email)
White Plains, NY
Chief Advancement Officer, Westchester Jewish Community Services
ABOUT WJCS: Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) is a comprehensive human services organization that helps people of all ages and backgrounds overcome emotional, social, educational, vocational, disability, and spiritual challenges so they can lead lives with strength, resilience, and confidence.
A not-for-profit organization founded in 1943, WJCS has grown to be the largest provider of licensed outpatient community mental health services and one of the largest human service agencies in Westchester County. The WJCS highly trained staff provides more than 80 state-of-the-art programs and services and compassionate care to more than 20,000 people of all ages and backgrounds throughout Westchester. WJCS is driven by the spirit of “tikkun olam”—repairing the world.
WJCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fighting racism. Through its staff-led Undoing Racism Alliance, WJCS has hosted companywide Undoing Racism Lunch ‘n’ Learn Workshops for over 20 years. Speaker presentations and discussion forums have been focused on raising awareness about racism and its effects and joining in communitywide efforts to fight racism. For more information, please visit wjcs.com.
FUNDING: WJCS has a current annual operating budget of approximately $45 million. Revenue sources include Westchester County, New York State, the U.S. Federal Government, the WJCS Board of Directors, foundations, corporations, and private donors. Additionally, grants, foundations, government, and UJA funding represents approximately $18 million annually under management. Approximately $3 million is generated through private philanthropy annually.
Position Overview:
WJCS seeks a seasoned, entrepreneurial development professional to join the Executive Team as Chief Advancement Officer (CAO). He/she/they will be responsible for expanding and strengthening WJCS’s impact and visibility by implementing a comprehensive plan for developing new and deepening existing relationships with key external partners to maximize philanthropic support. The CAO will drive revenue growth and lead a team to achieve defined fundraising goals, collaborate with the CEO and board to maximize their development efforts, oversee the organization’s communications related to fundraising, programs, and brand awareness, and oversee the management of the volunteer department.
The CAO will join a very well-respected human services organization with a track record of high-quality programs, recent significant growth, a dedicated staff, and an engaged board. The individual in this role will inherit a strong team in development, grants, marketing, and communications, and volunteer management. The CAO will be a contributing member of the executive team, participating in strategic direction and planning for the overall organization.
The CAO reports to the Chief Executive Officer and serves as the primary staff liaison to the Board of Directors. The CAO leads a team of nine through 4 direct reports. The estimated annual base salary is $180K plus generous benefits.
IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- At least 10 years of experience in a senior fundraising leadership position.
- Demonstrated track record of success leading and building an innovative, strategic, superior advancement program.
- History of success in major gifts work.
- A solid understanding of the social service sector and its unique funding sources and challenges.
- Experience working successfully with a board of directors and senior executives to maximize their organizational engagement and fundraising success.
- Openness to innovation, creativity, and willingness to incorporate new modes of fundraising techniques and strategies.
- Working knowledge of the Jewish philanthropic communities, particularly in Westchester.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills.
- The ability to craft persuasive proposals and donor correspondence as well as engaging effectively and appropriately face-to-face.
- First-rate team leadership and management skills, and the ability to inspire, encourage, and assist team members in reaching ambitious fundraising goals.
- An understanding of how to use social media to increase brand awareness and drive contributions. Experience with databases such as eTapestry.
- A compassionate and collaborative spirit.
- Demonstrated commitment to the principals of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access, and building and leading a team that reflects the many dimensions of diversity.
- Ability and willingness to attend evening/weekend activities to cultivate and steward key donors and prospects.
- A bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree is preferred.