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The Organization

Controller

The Controller reports to the CFO and is responsible for all aspects of the accounting department, including financial reporting and GAAP compliance, tax reporting, establishing and monitoring internal controls, supervision of general accounting functions, and implementing best practices for nonprofits and community foundations.

The Controller leverages community foundation and nonprofit accounting networks to stay abreast of and educate staff about accounting and regulatory developments impacting The San Francisco Foundation (the Foundation). The Controller will also be the team leader for the selection and implementation of a new fund accounting and general ledger software package, and oversee the integration of the accounting systems with other systems in use at the Foundation.

Position Overview

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversight of Accounting Department:  Establishes, documents and implements internal controls pertaining to all aspects of the accounting and finance department. This includes accounts payable and receivable, gift processing, grants payable, cash and investment flows and reconciliations, tax and regulatory compliance, and accounting for supporting organizations. Also includes ownership of the general ledger, chart of accounts, and accounting processes and procedures.

·         Staff Supervision and Development: Supervises accounting staff to ensure appropriate understanding of roles and integration of workflow. Sets workloads, assignments, and goals with staff. Develops staff through continuing education and mentoring. Provides feedback and encouragement of staff through performance reviews and goal setting.

• General Accounting:  Ensures that all accounts are appropriately reviewed and reconciled. Reviews general ledger account balances and transactions for validity and appropriateness. Reviews all journal entries and ensures all activity is properly recorded. Ensures proper fund set up and maintenance of fund activity and fund records. Researches current accounting guidance to ensure compliance with GAAP.

• Banking and Investments:  Authorizes investment and cash movements, monitors bank and brokerage activity, submits files to bank for check payments or cancelations, monitors changes to payee vendor records.

·         Annual Audit: Manages audit process and relationship with auditors. Oversees preparation of financial statements, notes, and all supporting documentation for the annual audit. Coordinates handoff of items requested by the auditor for both interim and year end audit. Assist auditors in interfacing with departments to ensure information is provided and any issues are resolved.

• Audit Committee: Staffs the Audit Committee by providing agenda materials and items for action items for approval by the committee. Follows up on committee action items. Ensures appropriate approval for audit and tax work to be performed. Coordinates Audit Committee activities with auditors and the TSFF Board of Trustees. Addresses management letter comment and ensures appropriate follow up.

• Tax Returns: Oversees filing of all tax returns, including Form 990, Form 990-T, 1099s, and California Forms 199, 109, RRF-1, Statements of Information, welfare exemption, property tax return, EDD withholding, and other state tax returns as required. Provides all data needed to for preparation of tax returns by outside CPA firm. Reviews all returns for filings. Ensures all tax payments have been made timely. Researches tax compliance and consults as needed with tax advisors on issues such as donor advised fund compliance, unrelated business income tax, and reporting of transactions with offshore entities.

• Ad hoc Analysis and Support: Contributes finance and accounting expertise and data to support cross-department initiatives and decision-making. Responds to inquiries from other staff or constituents regarding accounting or business processes.  Collaborates with other departments, such as Grants Management and Donor Services to find solutions to operational issues and ensure smooth hand offs. Responds to grantees’ and other non-profits’ questions regarding generally accepted accounting principles for non-profit organizations. Responds to audit confirmation requests for agency funds.

• System Implementation and Maintenance:  As the business owner of the financial accounting system, maintains data integrity, ensures adequate training, oversees quality of the system, and sets system rights for users. The Controller manages the definition of business rules, configuration, and maintenance of accounting system. Administrator of Concur expense reporting system.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:  Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related finance degree.  CPA required.

Experience:  5+ years’ experience in accounting/finance as a Controller or comparable level.  Nonprofit experience desirable. Experience in effectively managing and developing professional staff. Experience in leading accounting system implementation is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:  Ability to effectively communicate (verbally and in writing) to a diverse group of individuals including the Board of Trustees, Auditors, CPAs, IRS, Investment Managers and Staff.  Knowledge of not-for-profit accounting, tax law, investments and banking, and accounting systems. Works well under pressure and can meet multiple, critical deadlines and goals with a high degree of accuracy.  Takes initiative and solves problems with minimal direction.  Skilled in creating a team-oriented work environment.

The Organization

The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) is a national social change organization that partners with pioneering organizations, systems, and communities across the country to fundamentally shift their focus from fixing problems to fostering well-being – the needs and experiences essential for health and hope. We demonstrate how this shift creates lasting change for people and opens the doors for greater equity in society. Through a variety of tools – from policy, practice and culture change with partners; to thought-provoking insights that challenge the field; and mobilization of those who are ready for big change – FFI reveals how a new perspective can turn into new responses. We then amplify systemic successes to spur broader action and seed a movement for well-being. Together with our partners and allies, we are creating possibilities for lasting change in people’s lives and sparking a broader movement that replaces poverty, violence, trauma and oppression with well-being and justice.

Position Overview

The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) is embarking on an exciting expansion and we’re looking for a creative, engaging individual to join our team as the Director of Strategic Partnership Projects. This person will execute FFI’s demonstration partnership strategy and co-develop customized, flexible activities and plans that support our partners work to orient their organizational culture, policies, and practices around wellbeing using the Five Domains of Wellbeing framework.

The Director of Strategic Partnership Projects will be responsible for the implementation of FFI’s demonstration partnership strategy. FFI’s demonstration partnerships are deep, multi-year engagements with partners and span diverse systems, contexts and issue areas. They serve to test and refine what it takes to align public systems, nonprofits and communities around wellbeing using the Five Domains of Wellbeing framework, and build the case for how an orientation around wellbeing creates possibilities for lasting change and results in better outcomes.

The Director of Strategic Partnership Projects will co-develop and oversee customized, flexible plans and activities that support partners to orient their organizational culture, policies and practices around wellbeing. They will build and maintain productive, trusting and highly cooperative relationships with representatives from partnering entities and work with them to apply systems thinking and system change tools to strategically guide and adjust the orientation around wellbeing plan. The Director of Strategic Partnership Projects will supervise and work with FFI’s capacity building team to develop and provide training, technical assistance, extended coaching and other forms of capacity building through diverse mediums and methods.

The Director of Strategic Partnership Projects will also support the creation of methodologies for assessing how aligned a demonstration partner is with a wellbeing orientation, tools to assess people’s and communities’ wellbeing, and other related measures. They will refine and document FFI’s understanding of a wellbeing orientation and the Five Domains of Wellbeing framework, including identifying the internal and external incentives and barriers that spur or block change and the sustainability of change.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Help inform demonstration partnership strategy in collaboration with the Chief Strategy Officer, National Partnerships and Outreach and CEO.
• Work closely with Chief Strategy Officer, National Partnerships and Outreach to identify and nurture potential demonstration project partners.
• Oversee the development of and help to implement orientation around wellbeing content, tools and activities that equip partners to implement and sustain an orientation around wellbeing.
• Supervise, support, and mentor a growing team, stationed across the country, that is responsible for managing a diverse portfolio of partnerships.
• Help to create and use measures based on the Five Domains of Wellbeing.
• Write, share, present and promote knowledge gleaned from the demonstration projects and other data and information.
• Develop budgets and recommend personnel allocation in support of the specific partnerships.
• Consciously and systematically move equity and inclusion forward in all aspects of the work.

Qualifications

• Passion for social justice and social change to upend inequities, and for FFI’s mission
• A minimum of 10 years of combined experience:
  • Working directly with people living at the intersection of poverty, trauma, violence and oppression
  • Managing large projects with multiple stakeholders and deadlines
  • Partnering with systems to equip them to incorporate new ideas, norms and practices
• Experience working vertically in large, complex organizations (i.e., working with the head of public system and with those who are involved in that system, and staff in between)
• Strong writing and presenting skills; demonstrated ability to communicate authentically and compellingly, command an audience, and facilitate conversations with diverse constituents
• Experience hiring, supervising and managing staff
• Networked with experts in sexual and domestic violence, trauma, mental health, community development, public health, evaluation, child welfare and/or juvenile justice
• Graduate degree in public health, sociology, public policy, youth development, social work and/or mental health is desirable.

Location and Travel
This is a full-time, exempt position that can be based remotely. For the next 1-2 years, we expect work to be concentrated in Missouri and Massachusetts. FFI’s headquarters are in Greenfield, MA, with a number of staff working remotely throughout the country. This position requires a minimum of 50% regular travel throughout the United States. All FFI staff are required to meet at least quarterly in the Greenfield, MA office for staff convenings. Initial orientation for all staff also takes place primarily in Greenfield. The specific breakdown of time to be spent in FFI’s central office and in other locations is variable and will evolve based on the demands of the work. All business related travel will be paid for by FFI in accordance with our travel policy.

How To Apply

A personalized cover letter and resume are required. In your cover letter, tell us about yourself, why you want to work at FFI, how the Director of Strategic Partnership Projects position is a great fit for you, how you are a great fit for this position. Please include where you heard about this opportunity. This letter is important – your application will not be considered without a customized application to our organization’s posting.

E-mail your cover letter and resume as attached documents via e-mail to talent@fullframeinitiative.org. Please put “YOUR FIRST NAME LAST NAME Director Position” as your subject line.

While applications will be accepted through June 29, 2018, we encourage early submission. Review of applications will take place on a rolling basis, and interviews with competitive candidates may begin prior to the closing date.

The Organization

About the Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation continues its historic commitments to the role of journalism in a responsible and responsive democracy, as well as the strength and vitality of our headquarters city, Chicago.

MacArthur is one of the nation’s largest independent foundations. Organizations supported by the Foundation work in about 50 countries. In addition to Chicago, MacArthur has offices in India, Mexico, and Nigeria. To learn more about the Foundation please visit www.macfound.org.

Position Overview

The Communications team seeks to enhance the impact of MacArthur’s grantmaking by drawing attention to, and sharing information about, the fields in which the Foundation is engaged by spotlighting grantees and ensuring transparency about grantmaking and operations. The team achieves these objectives through media relations, social media, web content, real world and digital events, printed publications, and support and training for MacArthur staff and grantees.

The Communications Associate provides writing, research, and organizational support to the Foundation’s Communications team, primarily to its Communications Officers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

·        Write short summaries of grantee research and reports and other program content for the Foundation’s website

·        Research and write longer stories and blog posts about the work of grantees

·        Draft daily posts for social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn

·        Manage and grow the Foundation’s photo/video archive, to create a well-organized system of more than 35,000 existing assets

·        Conduct daily media monitoring, share coverage internally and post key media clips to the Foundation’s website

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

·        Compile and edit weekly media clips for staff and Board, as well as monthly updates for the Board

·        Research, develop, and maintain press lists for Foundation announcements

·        Conduct short-term research projects for the Communications team

·        Prepare PowerPoint slides and other materials for team presentations

·        Proofread written materials carefully

·        Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

·        A bachelor’s degree plus 2 to 4 years of relevant, professional work experience

·        Demonstrated interest and experience in nonprofit communications, public relations, journalism, and/or new media preferred

·        Excellent writing skills including experience writing for the Web

·        Well-developed organizational skills and attention to detail

·        Able to manage multiple tasks and projects under tight deadlines

·        Able to take initiative and work proactively

·        Experience with social media and/or production of multimedia content and/or working with databases is a plus

·        Positive, “can-do” attitude and a willingness to do what is necessary to get the job done

·        Trustworthy and respectful, committed to excellence, with a collaborative workstyle

The Organization

The Heising-Simons Foundation is a family foundation based in Los Altos, California. The Foundation works with its many partners to advance sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking research in science, enhance the education of our youngest learners, and support human rights for all people.

Position Overview

Heising-Simons Foundation

Early Education Program Officer

Los Altos, California

Unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibilities

The Heising-Simons Foundation (Foundation) invites nominations and applications for the position of Early Education Program Officer (Program Officer). In 2007, Mark Heising and Liz Simons created the Foundation, a family foundation that works with its many partners to advance sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking research in science, enhance the education of the youngest learners, and support human rights for all people. Since its first grant in 2007, the Foundation has awarded more than $338 million, including over $75 million in 2017. The next Program Officer will join a rapidly growing organization that has quickly distinguished itself and continues to seek ways to accelerate social change through innovative thought leadership and grantmaking.

Reporting to the Education Program Director, the Program Officer will have the unique opportunity to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a new portfolio of grants related to educational improvement and equity which may include a specific focus on dual language learners, low-income children, and children of color. The right candidate will be a person who is inspired by the Foundation’s mission and brings content expertise, intellectual curiosity, cultural sensitivity, excellent written and oral communication skills, and a deep commitment to addressing issues of equity and diversity in education. The position will require a deep understanding of early childhood development and education as well as the science of learning, with a focus on ages birth to eight years. A demonstrated grasp of the strengths and challenges for dual language learners, as well as children facing structural challenges in gaining a high quality early education, is also important. The Program Officer will be a clear thinker who is open-minded, solutions-oriented, collaborative, and daring. The successful candidate will have experience across the education and/or philanthropic sectors. The Program Officer can be based in either the Foundation’s Los Altos office or its San Francisco office.

The full position description, along with information on how to submit an inquiry, nomination, or application, can be found at www.imsearch.com/6582.

The Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome a diverse pool of applicants and make employment decisions based on merit. Foundation policy prohibits the unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital or caregiver status, physical disability, mental disability, military service, legally protected medical condition, prior record of arrest or conviction, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified applicants with disabilities may participate in the application process. Please advise, in writing, any special needs at the time of application.

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How To Apply

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The Organization

The Surdna Foundation
Created by John E. Andrus in 1917, the Surdna Foundation has assets exceeding $1 billion and an annual grantmaking budget of more than $40 million. The Foundation has a staff of 25, based in its Midtown Manhattan offices. Governed by a Board of Directors that includes fourth and fifth generation family members, the longstanding values of the Andrus family – practicality, modesty, excellence, and an appreciation for serving those in need – underlie all of the Surdna Foundation’s work. The Surdna Foundation seeks to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States—communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy and sustainable environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures.

The Surdna Foundation has three grantmaking areas: Strong Local Economies, Sustainable Environments, and Thriving Cultures. The Foundation provides grant support for efforts at the national, state, regional, and local levels throughout the United States. Surdna invests in the exchange of ideas across networks of people, institutions, and places with the intent of seeding innovative projects, programs, and policies and bringing them to scale across the country. The Foundation seeks grantmaking opportunities that include balanced efforts to: demonstrate the effectiveness of specific, targeted projects, practices, and models; advocate for and implement federal, state, and local public policies; and empower, mobilize, and develop leadership in communities and agencies to encourage civic participation. Surdna recognizes its programmatic interests as interrelated and is committed to working cross-programmatically. At the same time, program staff have considerable autonomy and are expected to balance responsibilities to the Foundation, to their program, and to each other.

Position Overview

The Strong Local Economies Program

The Strong Local Economies Program aims to create robust and sustainable economies that include a diversity of vibrant businesses and sectors, improved access to quality jobs for low to moderate income individuals, people of color, women, and immigrants (the Program’s priority populations), economic development practices that produce equitable outcomes and ultimately, opportunities for economic stability and upward mobility. Surdna works to ensure that people of color and members of lower income communities are a part of the decision-making process and have the ability to participate in the renewed economic promise of their regions and cities.

The Strong Local Economies Program has an annual budget of $9.2 million and we anticipate making between 30-45 project specific and general operating support grants each year. Our resources also support research, communications, leadership development and capacity building efforts across the portfolio. In addition, we manage a $10 million Program Related Investment fund primarily focused on addressing access to capital (debt and equity) challenges for minority owned businesses.

Overview and Responsibilities:

The Strong Local Economies Program Associate plays a key role in managing the day-to-day grantmaking activities of a three-person team composed of the Program Director, a Program Officer, and the Program Associate. The position combines program and administrative responsibilities with active engagement in grant making, relationship management, and internal/external communications.  The Strong Local Economies program has two core objectives; advancing the development and growth of minority owned businesses and fostering accountability and inclusion in economic development in the field of economic development.   In addition, the program supports leadership development, communications and capacity building in the field.  It is assumed that the Program Associate will develop an understanding of the various issues and fields at the center of the program strategy and find an area of work that they want to explore and develop expertise in.

On the administrative side, the Program Associate’s general functions include the following activities: scheduling and managing a high volume of meetings and calls, for Strong Local Economies Program staff; actively tracking and managing grant proposals,  progress reports and other related materials through Surdna’s grants management database system; assembling and proofing grant materials; supporting the management of the program budget; providing technical support and counseling to grantees related to submission processes; managing contractors and consultants; organizing meetings and special events that support the program’s goals; contributing to agendas and taking notes during team meetings; managing overall workflow of grantmaking, event planning, internal operations, etc. for the team; compiling expense reports for staff; facilitating payment of invoices and other matters related to accounts payable; and supporting communication activities that range from story generation to content editing.

In addition to program administration, the Program Associate will have opportunities to engage in substantive programmatic and grantmaking support to the portfolio through the following: review and response to letters of inquiry submitted by grant seekers; some due diligence tasks for potential grants; managing and writing grant recommendations; monitoring the progress of existing grantees; and regular contribution of program-relevant news and policy developments. The Program Associate is also responsible for planning and coordinating special events. The Program Associate helps to ensure strong connections with Surdna’s other programs, departments, foundation-wide initiatives, and outside partners. In addition, this position acts as a liaison between the Strong Local Economies program and the Office of Grants Management, Human Resources, and Finance departments, raising awareness of internal developments and outstanding issues that staff need to address.  The Strong Local Economies Program Associate is also part of an administrative cohort at Surdna whose members provide support on foundation-wide projects and add staff capacity during peak periods.  Overall this position offers exceptional access to the economic and community development field and to the practice of philanthropy. The position also provides opportunities for travel to attend site visits and various conferences.

The ideal candidate is a detail oriented systems thinker with a commitment to social justice and equity.  She or he is also able to manage several tasks simultaneously, and has the ability to gather information, draw conclusions, and make recommendations regarding complex problems and issues. The candidate should be able to manage a high volume of email traffic and be very adept at proofreading and editing large numbers of written documents in a timely fashion.  The candidate should be a strong team player and place a high value on collaboration with peers and colleagues. The candidate should also possess a high level of initiative, and be comfortable working independently, as well as with peers and colleagues.   The candidate will need to be comfortable directing team workflow, deadlines and sequencing from an administrative position – a critical skill to contribute for overall team success.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree required. A degree in a relevant field, interest in the nonprofit sector, and experience in the field of economic development/economic justice is highly preferred
• Minimum of 2 years work experience, with previous office/administrative experience required
• Previous nonprofit or foundation experience is a plus
• An understanding and commitment to social justice and building inclusive practices to effect structural change
• Experience planning events is a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Excellent analytical thinking, writing, speaking and editing skills
• A strong team-player, with a diplomatic, professional manner, and a sense of humor
• Commitment to applying skills broadly within Surdna in support of the foundation’s mission

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary commensurate with experience
• Excellent comprehensive employee benefits package

How To Apply

Please apply using the applicant portal on the Surdna Foundation website found at: http://surdna.hrmdirect.com/employment/view.php?req=666261&jbsrc=1017

If you have any questions or require any accomodations to apply please email Josh Elliott, Manager of Human Resources & Administration at jelliott@surdna.org

The Organization

The Rita Allen Foundation is a venture philanthropy organization that enables early-career biomedical scholars to do pioneering research, seeds innovative approaches to fostering informed civic engagement, and develops knowledge and networks to build the effectiveness of the philanthropic sector. Over recent years we have built new investments, research and coalitions at the intersection of science and society. Our partners include pioneering scientists, emerging startups, renowned national organizations, and many of the largest foundations in the country. We seek to collaboratively support scientific and civic ecosystems where discovery can thrive.

Position Overview

We are seeking a versatile writer and editor to join our entrepreneurial, mission-driven organization. In addition to creating communications that advance our work every day, you will help map content strategies to engage high-priority audiences on emerging areas of exploration. Communications serves a central role throughout our work in advancing shared learning in our networks, celebrating excellence and ingenuity, and building collaborations that help our resources create greater impact.

What You’ll Do
Most Important:

• You will write and curate content to engage the Foundation’s growing network of scientists, social entrepreneurs and philanthropic leaders around stories and ideas of shared interest. Topics covered may include a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar’s pioneering research on the role of telomeres in cancer; new proposals for ways to reduce the influence of misinformation; or cross-sector efforts to strengthen the role of science in civic life.
• You will edit, update and oversee the Rita Allen Foundation’s website, newsletter, annual report and occasional publications, including posting stories and managing freelance writers and designers and our external web development team as needed.
• You will track news from our network and fields, curating and summarizing selections to help keep internal and external audiences abreast of relevant developments and underlying themes.
• You will help expand and strengthen the Foundation’s network, including assisting with communicating to the press and public and serving as a communications contact for many of the organizations we work with.
• You will contribute to researching and synthesizing topics related to the context of our work and potential future partnerships.

Who You Are
Most Important:

• You are a clear and compelling writer, able to tell a good story and address complex topics with crisp prose.
• You have excellent news sense. You can sift through incoming material from a number of networks and pull out what’s important to our constituents.
• You are an ace project manager, able to keep teams on deadline while making adjustments with agility when unexpected new opportunities arise.
• You pay meticulous attention to detail. Typos and inaccuracies don’t slip past you, and you love to smooth an awkward sentence.
• You are able to effectively engage diverse audiences, drawing on excellent overall cultural awareness. In particular, we value awareness of issues and communication styles in scientific and academic communities, journalism, the social sector, and underrepresented and underserved communities.
• You are adept at working in collaboration with a diverse mix of people, advancing projects with enthusiasm for working in partnership with others.
• You are keenly interested in developments in biomedical science, civic engagement, philanthropy, and public engagement with science and evidence. A background that includes training in a scientific field is helpful but not necessary. We value demonstrated skill and potential more than any specific course of education or experience.

Compensation
We offer a highly competitive salary, commensurate with experience, as well as a highly competitive suite of benefits including health, dental and life insurance, a defined-contribution retirement plan, and a generous paid-time-off program. This is a full-time, 35-hour-per-week position based in our office in downtown Princeton, New Jersey. The position reports to Kate Belyi, Communications and Knowledge.

How To Apply

Please send a cover letter and resume to communications@ritaallen.org and indicate “Communications Position” in the subject line. While we will continue to accept applications until the position is filled, apply by June 1 for priority consideration. We would like to have the selected candidate start in August or early September.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. The Rita Allen Foundation is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sexual orientation or expression, gender, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, military status, genetic information or any other protected characteristic as established under law. All individuals are welcomed and encouraged to apply.

The Organization

Next City has produced excellent cities-focused journalism for 15 years, giving millions of readers inspiration and ideas connected to the work they’re doing as urban planners, architects, artists, elected officials, entrepreneurs, technologists, community organizers, and academics. In addition to daily journalism, Next City has an established, mission-driven annual event: The Vanguard conference brings together the best and brightest rising urban leaders. Next City also has a diverse and active board committed to supporting the organizational mission.

Next City has produced excellent cities-focused journalism for 15 years, giving millions of readers inspiration and ideas connected to the work they’re doing as urban planners, architects, artists, elected officials, entrepreneurs, technologists, community organizers, and academics. In addition to daily journalism, Next City has an established, mission-driven annual event: The Vanguard conference brings together the best and brightest rising urban leaders. Next City also has a diverse and active board committed to supporting the organizational mission.

Position Overview

Next City is seeking an executive director to lead an experienced team in a sustainable pursuit of journalism and events making an impact in cities across the world.

The executive director manages a team in Next City’s Philadelphia office, and is charged with setting goals and steering the nonprofit with regard to fund development, membership development, events, brand visibility, and media partnerships. The executive director is responsible for developing a cross-platform strategy that leverages journalism to support events and membership growth. This is not an editorial job, but candidates need an understanding of the media landscape in America and its ethics, demands and challenges.

Requirements:

• 10 years in senior management roles that include determining and executing organizational strategy, overseeing multiple reports with varying experience levels
• Experience leading successful fundraising efforts
• Adept at fiscal management and strategy-driven budgeting
• Effective communicator/Comfortable being face and voice of Next City, and advocating for positive change in cities (economic, social, and environmental equity specifically), and motivating Next City followers to be part of that change
• Understanding of challenges that today’s cities are facing and practices for creating inclusive and equitable cities
• Commitment to including equity and diversity in content and narrative development
• Desire to connect with emerging and established urban leaders and thinkers
• Team player and experience with building and supporting teams

Next City’s office is located in Philadelphia, but for the right candidate there’s a possibility of remote work at least part of the time. You’ll have to travel occasionally, domestically and internationally (around 10-15 percent of the time). Next City offers a generous benefits package, including health insurance and paid vacation.

Next City is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.

How To Apply

Please send cover letter/resume to jobs@nextcity.org, and put Executive Director Search in the subject line. In your cover letter, please share: 1) why you believe solutions-oriented journalism makes a difference in cities today; 2) a successful fundraising effort you’ve led; and 3) one way, in your first year on the job, you’d seek to make an impact on cities through Next City’s journalism or events.

The Organization

ChangeLab Solutions, a leading national organization that helps to create healthier communities for all through innovative laws and policies, seeks a new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Since its founding in 1997, ChangeLab Solutions has played a major role in changing public health practice from primarily focusing on patient education and clinical care delivery to a dynamic and inter-sectoral approach to policy, systems, and environmental change. ChangeLab Solutions has driven major successes across a range of critical public health issues, including its development of anti-tobacco policies which helped California save $134 billion in health care costs, and their widespread adoption has contributed to a 25% drop in tobacco-related deaths.

Position Overview

Increasingly, ChangeLab Solutions promotes an “equity first” approach with a focus on structural inequalities – such as racial injustice and economic dislocation – that drive poor health in communities across the nation.  Addressing these complex and tough issues is where ChangeLab Solutions thrives.  Its staff of nearly sixty is highly multi-disciplinary specializing in law, public health, land use planning, housing, transportation, education, parks, economics, government finance and more. Based in Oakland, California, ChangeLab Solutions has an operating budget of nearly $10 million and is led by a national Board of Directors.

Under the leadership of Marice Ashe, ChangeLab Solutions’ Founder and Chief Executive Officer, the organization has contributed major innovations to public health practice and is experiencing a period of tremendous growth and opportunity.  With Marice’s combined skills in public health, law, and policy and her extraordinary relationships across the field, she has built a strong interdisciplinary team that positions ChangeLab Solutions as one of few organizations that can put practical policy tools directly in the hands of advocates and law makers to address the social determinants of health. The organization is now at a pivotal moment, poised to welcome a new CEO who will usher in an exciting new era and build on its success and expertise.

The new CEO will have the opportunity to  advance national leadership that builds the field of law and policy in addressing the social determinants of health and creating equity; leverage existing tools and strategies to address other critical and emerging public health challenges; expand the organization’s funding base; scale ChangeLab Solutions’ work at the federal, state and local level; and strengthen and attend to the design needs of the internal infrastructure to support ongoing excellence through a period of organizational growth.

How To Apply

This search is being conducted with assistance from Katherine Jacobs and Cara Pearsall of the national search firm NPAG. A full position description can be found here: https://nonprofitprofessionals.com/job/cls-ceo.

Applications including a cover letter describing your interest and qualifications and your resume (in Word format) should be sent to: cls-ceo@nonprofitprofessionals.com.

The Organization

Propeller is a 501c3 nonprofit that grows and supports entrepreneurs to tackle social and environmental disparities. We work to create a powerful community of diverse entrepreneurs and stakeholders working together for a more equitable future where everyone can lead healthy, fulfilling lives free of racism, poverty, and other systems of oppression.

Our strategy is to build a critical mass of small businesses and nonprofits working to tackle disparities in food, water, health, and education. These are areas we have identified as having significant inequities and proven market opportunities for local entrepreneurs to implement solutions.

Position Overview

The Senior Development Manager works as a part of a dynamic team to support and execute on the annual development strategy and work closely with the Director of Impact and Development and Executive Director to achieve Propeller’s fundraising goals. The focus of the Senior Development Manager will be to continue to effectively steward our existing and prospective institutional funders, to both ensure we are meeting the expectations and needs of our funders and that we continue to have robust and quality programming.

Major Responsibilities & Outcomes

•        Accountable for the long-range (2+ year) visioning, conceptualization, planning, implementation, deliverables, and achievement of results of Propeller’s broad fundraising strategies with a strong focus on our institutional relationships.  Duties include:

Development Strategy and Donor Relations

•        Clear Development Plan: Implements development plan and calendar that include a clear statement of internal organizational and external community needs that Propeller seeks to address, as well as fundraising goals that reflect those needs: both dollars and target dates, and selected fundraising strategies. Donors report an excellent philanthropic experience with minimal critiques.

•        Advanced Budget Raise: Obtains full weighted pipeline of new asks in “Convince” stage, with a minimum goal of raising 50% of the $2.5 million 2019 budget by the end of the calendar year.

•        Thriving Venture Fund Pipeline: Maintains list of 10 potential impact investors in active cultivation mode for Propeller’s Social Venture Fund.

•       Exceptional Donor Cultivation: Prepares for all donor meetings in line with standard operating procedures, makes compelling presentations and pitches, and leads all cultivation communications for prospects $250,000 and below to earn the respect and trust of donors.

•        (potential) High-performing Capital Campaign: Develops and executes plan to reach capital campaign goal between $220,000-$500,000.

Grant Writing and Management

•        Mission-Driven, Knowledgeable, and Accurate Communication: Effectively articulates the mission, priorities, and special initiatives of Propeller to a broad range of stakeholders, highlighting past successes with fluency. Develops and executes a communications strategy to support fundraising and institutional revenue growth. Proofs all written fundraising materials, including reports and acknowledgment letters, with close attention to detail, producing no errors.

•        Driven and Well-Executed Writing: Develops compelling, factual, quality, timely, relevant, and comprehensive grant proposals with few, if any, edits needed. Accountable for the drafting and submission of all public and private foundation grant proposals – approximately $5 million in requests per year. Supports the drafting and submission of government proposals, as needed.

•        Collaborative Mindset: Coordinates across departments as necessary to organize proposals and campaigns, as well as drive revenue. Supports the Director of Impact and Development and the Executive Director in building and sustaining a culture of philanthropy within Propeller and with Propeller’s partners.

Administration and Evaluation

•        Organized and Thorough Calendar Management: Manages a grants calendar of letters of intent and grants. Ensures that all deadlines are met in a timely manner. Required grant evaluation is developed and conducted to achieve outcomes.

•        Proactive Evaluation: Ensures smooth reporting by leading the determination of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods for grant requirements in advance. This includes determining outcomes, benchmarks, methods of measurement, logic models, etc.

•        Stakeholder-Wide Development Transparency: Implements systems and tools that ensure all relevant funders, board members, staff, policymakers, thought leaders, and partners in fundraising/revenue development have the tools they need to support Propeller’s development.

Critical Competencies

•        Written and verbal fluency in the history of structural racism in the US and its current manifestations in New Orleans and nationally. Ability to convey compelling racial justice analysis to external stakeholders.

•        Strong writing and editing skills, particularly focused on data-driven value propositions.

•        Outstanding interpersonal skills in managing external relationships, building trust with high-level stakeholders, and conveying compelling opportunities through public speaking engagements, networking events, and other opportunities for relationship development.

•        Self-motivated, innovative, and can work with considerable independence within the context of an overall strategy, team environment, and variety of diverse stakeholders.

•        Ability to maintain a high level of poise and professionalism in all circumstances.

•        Ability to handle a variety of projects in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy and completion in a timely manner.

•        Commitment to Propeller’s mission, vision, and values.

•        Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge + 5 – 7 years’ relevant experience, or Master’s or equivalent knowledge + 3 – 5 years’ relevant experience, and 1 – 3 years’ supervisory experience.

•        (Preferred) Proven and consistent track record of identifying, cultivating, and stewarding institutional funders.

•        (Preferred) Proven and consistent track record developing compelling, data-driven grant proposals to foundation and government funders, resulting in funding.

•        (Preferred) Experience raising funds from institutional donors in areas of racial justice and/or economic development.

Travel with some evening and weekend work required. This is a salaried and exempt position.

Compensation: $62,000+ annually, commensurate with experience and qualifications. Propeller also offers a competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, and professional development.

Start Date: May 2018

How To Apply

Apply here by presenting your resume and responses to the questions below:

·       Why are you passionate about racial justice, nonprofit development, and cultivating institutional relationships?

·       What do you think will be your greatest strength in this role? In what way do you think you will need to grow the most to be successful in this role?

·       What do you find gives you the most energy in your current work?

·       What drains your energy the most in your current work?

·       What are your salary requirements?

The Organization

The Wallace Foundation – an independent, national, New York-based philanthropy with $1.5 billion in assets – traces its origins back more than half a century to DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace, founders of The Reader’s Digest Association.

The Wallace Foundation seeks to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.  The foundation has an unusual approach: in each of our focus areas – Arts, Education Leadership, and Learning and Enrichment – we seek to identify, and help answer, one or more significant questions whose answers are not known but which, if known, could help propel progress more broadly.  Accordingly, we work with a small number of grant recipients both to help them test new ideas and generate improvements for those they serve, and to generate evidence and insights that, when shared broadly, can improve policy and practice in an entire field.

This “Wallace Approach” is reflected in the way the foundation develops its strategies and designs its initiatives. We begin by attempting to understand the context of the fields in which we work in order to identify the right unanswered questions to address.  We then simultaneously fund programmatic work in the field by organizations—including technical assistance and peer learning communities—and research that studies the process and results of their efforts in order to generate improvements and insights that can benefit both the people served by the grant recipients and the field. The public reports emanating from this work support our strategy of catalyzing broad impact, acting as a source of credible, useful lessons to be disseminated to key audiences.

The Wallace Approach is carried out in an interdisciplinary team-based structure.  Our three disciplines are program, communications, and research.  In each discipline, we seek employees who are both highly skilled in their professions and able to work collaboratively across disciplines to capture the synergy of diverse experience and ways of thinking.  Wallace employees need to be able to work collaboratively, think analytically and communicate clearly.  We value the flexibility to adapt to change, a desire to learn, and the ability to work productively both on one’s own and with colleagues inside and outside the foundation.

The Director leads the interdisciplinary team for our work in the arts, actively contributing to building a high-performing team and advancing our mission. As the leader of the team, the Director ensures all voices are heard, options are considered and a discussion of pros/cons leads to a consensus. She/he demonstrates an approach to shared problem-solving that is grounded in advancing the work, assumes good intentions, demonstrates respect, builds trust, and welcomes diversity of perspectives.

Our work in the Arts

We currently have two major initiatives in the Arts: Building Audiences for Sustainability and Arts Education.

Building Audiences for Sustainability

Building Audiences for Sustainability reflects our rich history in supporting arts organizations in learning about ways to deepen, broaden and diversify their audiences. This six year initiative launched in 2015 with 25 performing arts organizations to develop practical insights onto how arts organizations can successfully expand their audiences in ways that also contribute to their long-term financial health. Grounded in research on a specific target audience, the organizations plan audience-building projects based on what they hope to learn, implement them, analyze the results and use this analysis to plan the next set of projects. Activities to develop audiences have run the gamut from new performances to new ancillary engagement activities. The first part of research related to this initiative, led by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin and scheduled for publication in 2018 will offer a summary of current research literature on audience building and financial health as well as an examination of the gaps in existing knowledge.

Arts Education

Wallace’s work in this area seeks to increase the equitable access to high-quality arts education for young people, especially those in high-poverty urban areas. Our current work, launched in 2014 and scheduled to extend to mid-2021, supports the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Youth Arts Initiative in testing innovative afterschool and summer arts programming for young people in their middle-school years. The arts programs being developed are based on principles of high-quality arts programming described in a Wallace-commissioned report Something to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban Youth and Other Experts. The first report in an ongoing evaluation of the initiative by the education research firm Research for Action, Raising the Barre and Stretching the Canvas: Implementing High Quality Arts Programming in a National Youth Serving Organization, was published in October 2017.

Looking Ahead

Wallace’s current arts initiatives are both well into implementation. One of the early tasks for the new Director will be to lead an interdisciplinary strategic planning process to design the next initiatives in the arts.

To learn more about our work and the more than 400 reports, tools and videos in our Knowledge Center, visit www.wallacefoundation.org.

Position Overview

ROLE

The Director of Arts leads the design, development, implementation and management of the Foundation’s initiatives in the arts.  The Director is a member of the Foundation’s senior management team, and as such shares responsibility for contributing to strategic planning, and policy and organizational development in the achievement of the Foundation’s mission.  As needed, the Director will also be a member of the foundation’s Public Policy Engagement Working Group. This position reports directly to the President.

Our program staff for grants management in the Arts includes a senior program officer on Wallace’s staff primarily dedicated to Building Audiences, four consultants at a Boston-based firm also supporting Building Audiences, and an external consultant for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Youth Arts Initiative. Effectively integrating internal staff and external consultants under our interdisciplinary approach and maintaining relationships with our grantees as partners in learning is a significant focus for the director.

RESPONSIBIITIES

·         Lead an interdisciplinary team of program, communications, and research professionals in the design, development and implementation of strategies and systems to support the Foundation’s mission in the arts.  Foster and ensure integration of program, communications, and research perspectives and ideas to achieve the Foundation’s “dual goals:” benefits for our grantees and those they serve, and benefits for the broader field through knowledge. As part of each initiative’s design, include the creation of learning communities and provision of relevant technical assistance in support of the grantees’ work.

·         Actively engage in and contribute to the strategic thinking and planning for the Foundation’s overall approach to grantmaking and knowledge development as expressed in the Wallace Approach: understand the context; generate improvements and insights; and catalyze broad impact.

·         Manage the work of grantees, contractors and partners – primarily through leadership of the unit and outsourced grants management – to build a relationship of trust, candor and transparency so that discussion of challenges and problems leads to shared problem-solving and resolution, and progress and success is recognized and built on.

·         Fulfill our responsibility as stewards of the Foundation’s resources by ensuring grantee budgets reflect the scope and deliverables to support the initiative goals, spending is monitored, financial reports are reviewed, and up-to-date records are maintained in the grants management database.

·         Cultivate relationships with policy makers, practitioners, thought leaders, external networks such as funder collaborations, and professional associations to advance the thinking and dialogue in the fields relevant to the goals of the Foundation’s initiatives.

·         Contribute to sharing what we learn to support the Foundation’s mission to catalyze broad impact in our fields of interest by representing Wallace at professional conferences, convenings and events.

·         Working with the Director of Research and the Director of Communications, contributes to the development of appropriate knowledge development and dissemination strategies to further the Foundation’s overall initiative goals.

·         Prepare Board book materials and present to the Board of Directors on arts strategies, grant proposals, program updates, new program development and initiatives. Contribute to the development of the annual Year in Review Report.

·         Other duties as assigned by the President.

QUALIFICATIONS

·         Knowledge of policy and practice in the arts based on fifteen or more years of substantive experience in a leadership role in the field.

·         Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and actively contribute to building high-performing interdisciplinary teams across the foundation to improve how we work together, build trust and advance Wallace’s mission.

·         Excellent analytical, conceptual thinking, interpersonal, strategic planning and project management skills.

·         Strong listening, written and oral communication skills.

·         Demonstrated ability to work effectively with grantees and partners.

·         Ability to both lead and collaborate with senior management team colleagues to achieve the Foundation’s goals.

How To Apply

The Wallace Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to maintaining a diverse workplace where differing perspectives are a source of strength. People of color are encouraged to apply. The Wallace Foundation has retained the executive search firm H C Smith Limited for this search. All interested candidates are asked to please contact Becca Smith, becca@hcsmith.com.