Category: Job Posting

The Organization

Feeding America is the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization–a powerful and efficient network of 200 food banks across the country.  We feed 46 million people at risk of hunger, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Chief Development Officer, the VP will set the new partnership development strategy and annual operationg plans to deliver eight-figure revenue from new institutional partners, spanning philanthropic giving, focusing on corporate partnerships, cause marketing, donor employee engagement, in-kind support and other institutional engagement.

How To Apply

Koya Leadership Partners has been exclusively retained for this search.  To express your interest in this role please submit your materials to:

https://koyapartners.com/search/feeding-america-vice-president-partnership-development

or email Marissa Marein and Chartise Clark directly at koyachicago@koyapartners.com.

The Organization

Feeding America is the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization–a powerful and efficient network of 200 food banks across the country.  We feed 46 million people at risk of hunger, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors.

Position Overview

Lead the implementation of Feeding America’s plan for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) rooted in our mission, outcomes, and vision for ending hunger.  Ensure that our ED&I vision is infused into the DNA of the network and national office through its systems, tools, policies, structures, and practices.  Serve as a  member of the Equity and Programs Leadership Team and as as member of Feeding America’s Senior Management Group.

How To Apply

https://app.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Job.aspx?j=ogOoafwm 

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.

Mission and Approach

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. As responsible stewards of our resources, we seek to ensure that our initiatives contribute to Wallace’s dual goals: (a) benefits for our partners and those they serve in the form of increased capacity, and (b) benefits for the broader field through credible, relevant knowledge.

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 important 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 as a whole. The public reports emanating from this work are the basis for our strategy of catalyzing broad impact, acting as a knowledge hub for credible, useful lessons to be disseminated to key audiences.

Interdisciplinary Team Structure

The Wallace Approach is carried out in an interdisciplinary team-based structure with three disciplines: program, communications, and research.  We seek employees who are highly skilled in their professions, able to work collaboratively across disciplines to capture the synergy of diverse experience and ways of thinking, 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.

For more information on The Wallace Foundation and to see examples of our work, please visit http://www.wallacefoundation.org

Communications strategy

All our communications efforts are designed to support our foundation-wide branding and positioning as a source of relevant, credible knowledge. We thus place a high premium on the preservation of our credibility: we say more only as we know more. Because of this commitment, the Communications Officer is expected to acquire deep knowledge of lessons learned from our initiatives, both those captured in published reports and emerging through grantee activities. She or he plays a leading role in helping members of the interdisciplinary team reach consensus on the foundation’s institutional point of view on the evidence base to inform the development of syntheses, tools, videos and infographics that help translate findings to key audiences.

Wallace’s communications strategy supports the foundation’s overall approach by promoting the diffusion of effective ideas and practices generated through our work toward the goal of strengthening practice and policy broadly. Our dissemination strategies draw on insights from a wide variety of fields —including the diffusion of innovations, communications, persuasion theory, marketing, social marketing, and social psychology—to reach our key audiences: policymakers, practitioners and their influencers in the fields in which we work.

The work of the Communications unit is guided by our foundation-wide communications strategy encompassing four channels: direct dissemination through our Web site, conference presentations and speeches; dissemination in partnership with external membership and issue organizations who help us reach practitioners and policymakers; underwriting of coverage in non-profit trade and general media; and social media. In all cases, we use metrics to assess reach and cost effectiveness.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Communications Officer is a key contributor to the success of the Foundation’s initiatives, bringing substantive expertise and experience in strategic communications to the interdisciplinary team’s work and the foundation’s overall communications strategy. The Officer is member of the interdisciplinary teams that design and implement the initiatives through which the foundation does its philanthropic work. The Officer leads the planning and design of multi-dimensional approaches to disseminate knowledge to catalyze broad impact in assigned areas of focus, and effectively manages a broad range of communications partners.

Reporting to the Director of Communications, the Communications Officer will support our work in Education Leadership and the Arts, serving on these interdisciplinary teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Membership in interdisciplinary teams

Actively contribute to both the design and implementation of the initiatives undertaken by the interdisciplinary teams responsible for the assigned focus areas.

·         Bring a communications perspective to the interdisciplinary team’s design of major strategies, both in launching new initiatives and in making course corrections. Actively contribute to the identification of learning agendas and the design of professional learning communities among grantees. Ensure strategies build on the foundation’s evidence base and sustain its reputation for credibility, and employ best practices in communications, both Wallace’s and industry-wide, to most effectively reach key audiences and contribute to nationwide impact.

·         Lead the interdisciplinary team’s development and implementation of the overall communication strategy for initiatives that helps us synthesize and share evidence and lessons as they emerge and, if appropriate, provides communications technical assistance to grantees.

·         Lead the implementation of the communications aspects of strategies and actively support program and research colleagues in the implementation of the entire strategy.

Knowledge sharing to catalyze broad impact

Support dissemination of knowledge generated through Wallace’s work with the goal of strengthening practice and policy in the fields in which we work.

·         Lead the process within the interdisciplinary team to distill, synthesize and write the key messages that constitute the foundation’s institutional point of view on relevant topics (which we call developing “message maps”). These maps are used by Wallace staff and/or grantees for meetings, speaking engagements, and media interviews, and as the basis for Wallace products expressing the foundation’s point of view and encouraging awareness, understanding and action among targeted audiences of the evidence and lessons from our initiatives.

·         Participate in staff review of draft reports and knowledge products to ensure the final versions reflect our interdisciplinary perspective and commitment to “say more only as we know more,” are respectful of the grantees whose work is presented in the report, and meet our high standards for credibility, clarity, organization and non-partisanship.

·         Lead planning, organization and execution of conferences, briefings, webinars, and workshops for the initiatives in the areas of focus, as well as Wallace-developed products including publications, videos, podcasts, infographics and other vehicles.

·         Contribute to and/or lead aspects of the Communications Unit’s development and implementation of Wallace’s foundation-wide communications strategy and processes, e.g. guidelines for selecting and managing communication partners, and principles for our editorial review process.

·         Cultivate relationships and participate in external networks, with other funders, and professional associations.

Grants, contracts, and partnerships management

Acting as responsible stewards of our resources, ensure that the funded work of our initiative reflects Wallace’s “dual goals:”

·         Manage the work of public relations firms, grantees, communications partners and media sponsorships to advance the overall goals of the initiative: local impact and broader field knowledge.

·         Effectively build a relationship of trust, candor and transparency with grantees so that discussion of challenges and problems leads to the shared leaning and problem-solving on which progress is recognized and we build on success.

·         Fulfill stewardship responsibilities: (i) ensure grant budgets reflect the scope of deliverables; (ii) monitor spending and review financial reports to inform future funding; and (iii) review reports, provide feedback, and maintain an up-to-date grantee record in the foundation’s grants management database.

QUALIFICATIONS

·         Demonstrated experience designing and executing strategic communications plans, preferably aimed at encouraging the spread of ideas or changing behaviors.

·         Demonstrated collaborative approach to shared problem-solving – preferably in an interdisciplinary setting – that is grounded in advancing the work, assumes good intentions, demonstrates respect, and welcomes diversity of perspectives.

·         Demonstrated experience leading or helping to lead the development and management of briefings, webinars, conferences and workshops, press releases, and other tactical communications efforts.

·         Excellent analytical skills and demonstrated ability to distill key messages from complicated research reports in ways that reflect our commitment to credibility and accuracy rooted in our evidence base, and which will be clear to external audiences.

·         Skill in managing multiple projects at the same time.

·         Ability to bring together and build productive relationships with and among external parties (grantees/partners/vendors).

·         10 – 12 years of experience in a strategic communications, public affairs, journalism, public relations or policy analyst role, of which at least five years should include managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders; experience can be in non-profit, for-profit or government.

·         Bachelor’s degree.

Salary is commensurate with experience. Our benefits include health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a 403(b) Retirement Plan and Paid Time Off (PTO).

The Wallace Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to maintaining a diverse workplace where differing perspectives are a source of strength.

To Apply:

The Wallace Foundation has retained the services of Chaloner Associates to conduct this search.  Please direct all inquiries, nominations, and applications in confidence to:

Amy Segelin, Partner
Chaloner Associates
580 Broadway, Suite 600
New York, NY 10012
amy@chaloner.com
Please put Wallace Foundation in the subject line of your emailed application

The Organization

Founded in 1919 by the progressive business leader Edward Filene, TCF is a think tank that pursues its mission by conducting timely, nonpartisan research and policy analysis that informs citizens, guides policymakers, and reshapes what government does for the better.

TCF focuses particularly on four basic challenges facing the United States: persistent economic inequality combined with the shift to American households of financial risks previously borne by employers and government; the challenges facing the education and health care systems; and restoring America’s international credibility as an effective and cooperative leader in responding to global security and economic dangers.

TCF is based in New York, with an office in Washington, D.C. Its fellows come from academia, journalism, and public service, but share a commitment to the abiding belief in the power of ideas

Position Overview

The Century Foundation (TCF), a progressive, non-partisan think tank, seeks a policy associate/senior policy associate in the Washington, D.C. office to work closely with the K–12 education team, including education fellows Richard D. Kahlenberg, Halley Potter, and Conor Williams.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Researching education policy topics identified by TCF education fellows and preparing background memos.
• Attending think tank and congressional forums and preparing memos summarizing key insights.
• Writing short essays and other content for TCF’s website.
• Participating in the planning and execution of TCF education projects, including publications and events.
• Assisting with communications and outreach, including identifying stakeholders and promoting TCF’s work on social media.
• Providing administrative and logistical support for the education team and TCF events held in D.C.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and/or work experience.
• Exceptional research and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Background in education policy. 1–2 years of previous related experience in public policy and/or education preferred.
• A commitment to looking at education issues through an intersectional lens, recognizing the importance of elevating the experiences of low-income students, LGBTQ+ students, students with disabilities, English learners, and students of color.
• Experience working on or studying some of TCF’s key K–12 education policy areas (especially advancing socioeconomic and racial school integration and addressing housing segregation) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and Google Apps (Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, etc.).
• A commitment to progressive values and interest in TCF’s education research agenda.

How To Apply

This is a full-time position in our Washington, D.C. office. This role may be structured as a policy associate or senior policy associate, depending on the qualifications of the person hired.

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package to all our selected candidates. To apply, please send resume, cover letter, and writing sample of no more than five pages to educationpa@tcf.org with “[Your Name] Education Policy Associate” in the subject line. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret we are unable to confirm the receipt of your materials or the status of your application. No inquiries by third-party vendors or phone calls please.

The Century Foundation is committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds. Everyone is encouraged to apply, including LGBTQ+ people, people of color, and people with disabilities

The Organization

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is a family foundation with total assets of $200 million and an annual grantmaking outlay of approximately $9 million. The Program Director will be expected to work consultatively and collaboratively with other staff to determine grantmaking guidelines and strategies. Mentoring and developing the Program Team and continuing to enhance and deepen the Foundation’s efforts on racial equity will be critical duties.

Position Overview

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation seeks a highly collaborative, discerning, mission-driven and experienced grantmaker committed to taking on entrenched challenges and structural inequalities for its next Program Director. With its mission of helping people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice, the Foundation is often described as a pioneer and leader in Southern philanthropy, thanks in part to The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation seeks a highly collaborative, discerning, mission-driven and experienced grantmaker committed to taking on entrenched challenges and structural inequalities for its next Program Director. With its mission of helping people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice, the Foundation is often described as a pioneer and leader in Southern philanthropy, thanks in part to a sophisticated array of strategies and approaches, as well as its long-term support of community asset building, civic engagement efforts, and supportive policies and institutions. The Foundation strives to foster respectful, supportive relationships with its grantee partners while diligently developing a deeper understanding of their specific contexts than is common in philanthropy. The Foundation’s grantee partners, with support from the Foundation and others, have made meaningful progress on key issues across the region through boldness, patience and a carefully curated set of multi-strategy approaches. While some raise skepticism about the prospect of social change in the region, the Foundation and its partners believe there are multiple opportunities to make a substantive difference for low-wealth communities and people of color.

The next Program Director will be coming at an exciting time for the Foundation. While the Foundation does not currently envision major strategic revisions to its mission and approach, in recent years there have been a number of personnel and organizational changes that make this perhaps the most fluid moment in its history. New board and staff members are bringing fresh ideas and perspectives to the work. While the team is young in some ways, it is nonetheless a deeply committed, collegial and enthusiastic group that has the potential to carry on and even explore new approaches to achieving its mission. Organizationally, there has been a greater push to instill a clearer commitment to racial equity, and as a result more shared and collaborative decision-making processes.

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is a family foundation with total assets of $200 million and an annual grantmaking outlay of approximately $9 million. The Program Director will be expected to work consultatively and collaboratively with other staff to determine grantmaking guidelines and strategies. Mentoring and developing the Program Team and continuing to enhance and deepen the Foundation’s efforts on racial equity will be critical duties.

Nominations and applications are welcome. All applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Nominations and inquiries should be sent to:

Kahn Lee, Managing Associate

Martens Roc, Senior Associate

Isaacson, Miller

Washington DC, 20036

http://www.imsearch.com/7103

Electronic applications strongly encouraged.

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer, and is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic staff committed to working in a multicultural environment.

How To Apply

Nominations and inquiries should be sent to:

Kahn Lee, Managing Associate

Martens Roc, Senior Associate

Isaacson, Miller

Washington DC, 20036

http://www.imsearch.com/7103

Electronic applications strongly encouraged.

The Organization

Overview 

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is seeking an associate network officer to manage existing Foundation relationships and identify new ones in specific states/regions. The associate network officer will administer a related grants portfolio over time.

Background

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation’s mission is to help people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice. Founded in 1953, the Foundation now makes grants to nonprofit organizations in 11 states in the Southeastern United States. MRBF supports organizations and networks engaged in collaborative, multi-strategy work, particularly those working at the intersections of three mutually reinforcing pathways of change: economic opportunity, democracy and civic engagement, and supportive policy and institutions.

Position Overview

Position Description 

• Develop the Foundation’s relationships in specified states/regions to identify grant and investment opportunities, develop and nurture funding partnerships and other networks to advance the Foundation’s priorities and to understand the economic, political and social context.
• Respond to inquiries for grants, interpret the Foundation’s policies, offer assistance beyond grant seeking, including referrals, networking and general management counsel.
• Participate on Program Team to develop, implement and evaluate programs and reach consensus on recommendations to the board to advance the Foundation’s mission.
• Review grant proposals, conduct due diligence and write recommendations to the board.
• Monitor grants for technical assistance needs, compliance, impact and lessons learned.
• Research, write and present occasional papers on Foundation strategy for the Program Team and board.
• Contribute as needed to external Foundation communications.
• Assist in planning and implementing “value-added” activities such as convenings, technical assistance, peer networks, resource directories and other information.
• Occasionally represent the Foundation at conferences and meetings; stay abreast of the philanthropic field and the Foundation’s program areas through conferences and other professional activities.
• Contribute to a transparent and equitable organizational culture where ethical and equity policies and practices are understood and lived out by all staff.

Qualifications 

• Undergraduate degree required.
• 3+ years of grantmaking, nonprofit or other experience related to the Foundation’s priorities.
• Commitment to the mission and values of the Babcock Foundation and a commitment to equity, particularly racial equity, with a willingness to proactively learn about it and integrate it into all aspects of the work.
• Respect for the dignity and abilities of all people.
• Experience at building relationships and fostering alliances among diverse people to accomplish goals.
• Experience with and trust in collegial decision making, coupled with the ability to work independently, flexibly and with good humor.
• Keen analytical skills, ability to learn and synthesize new information quickly.
• Ability to use instinct and intuition effectively in building relationships and making decisions.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments and meet deadlines; ability to pay attention to accuracy and detail while thinking broadly.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Commitment to the Southeastern United States.
• Ability to travel.

Additional Information 

The associate network officer is a member of the program team and supervised by the senior network officer. This is a full-time position based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with a generous benefits package and an annual salary range of $52,000 to $60,000. We look forward to receiving applications from a diverse pool of candidates. The Babcock Foundation is an equal opportunity employer committed to maintaining a diverse staff.

How To Apply

To apply, send a resume and cover letter to applications@mrbf.org by July 24, 2019.

The Organization

Founded in 2003, Redstone is a prominent social sector consulting firm and advisor to private foundations, nonprofit organizations, family offices, companies, and governments worldwide.  Redstone works with clients, experts, and stakeholders to solve complex social problems and answer tough questions on poverty reduction, food security, education, health, climate and the environment.
Redstone is guided by three core values:

•  To help leading organizations solve the world’s most urgent social problems
•  To build a firm that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional people
•  To advance the field of philanthropy and social change

Redstone works with clients to assess, design, and execute strategies that make real progress on social change through partnerships, policy and politics, service delivery, impact investing, grantmaking, and research.
For example, in New York City, Redstone facilitated a collaboration of the city’s top food assistance providers to help bring 10 million pounds of new food to neighborhoods where it’s needed most. In Brazil, the firm assisted the Linden Trust for Conservation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to permanently preserve over 60 million hectares of critical Amazon habitat. Redstone also helped the International Planned Parenthood Federation double the number of annual services provided, reaching 137 million people, including some of the planet’s most disadvantaged and marginalized citizens. Redstone supported the design and launch of an initiative to eliminate textbook costs in degree programs at 38 community college, and Redstone helped guide and coordinate philanthropies through the Water Funder Initiative to develop their overall strategy to save the Colorado River.
Redstone has offices in Boulder, Colorado; Redwood City, California; and New York, New York. More information on Redstone is available at www.redstonestrategy.com.

Position Overview

Redstone partners with private foundations and non-profits around the world who aspire to tackle the world’s toughest social problems. Redstone is seeking an individual to join the firm who will advance the firm’s capacity and high-impact consulting practice.  This is an opportunity for an established consulting leader to join a growing and dynamic firm with highly developed business and operating capabilities, a team of talented, ambitious consultants, and a reputation for delivering unparalleled quality in service and insight. The ideal candidate will enter the firm with a developed client network and a demonstrated capacity and interest to engage in business development and client service execution.
Ideally, the candidate will add to the firm’s topical and functional capabilities in areas such as public health, global development, economic mobility, education, and movement building as well as social impact engineering, social media communications and marketing, etc. The new Principal will expand Redstone’s representation with social change clients on the West Coast.  The Principal will also join other senior colleagues in setting the strategic direction of the firm. The position is based in the Bay Area, but consideration will be given to other locations on the West Coast.
Firm Culture
The firm makes every effort to provide an environment where individuals can sustainably achieve significant client impact while continuing to grow professionally and reach personal goals. Following are some professional standards around Redstone’s commitment to clients and one another that carry through their work and foster a sustainable workstyle. Redstone is committed to:
•  Delivering extremely high-quality work that has real impact on the world, meets clients where they are, and is delivered on time.
•  Trusting and helping one another to make decisions that fulfill our commitment to high-quality work and help us establish and maintain sustainable workstyles.
•  Communicating transparently about our needs and values and working together to resolve instances where those needs or values are in conflict.
•  Supporting each other’s professional and personal goals, recognizing that these may not always be perfectly aligned.
The Principal is expected to possess the experience and capacity to serve as a trusted advisor to high net-worth individuals, philanthropic boards and senior program leadership, and elected and appointed public sector officials who serve at all levels of government.

The candidate will ideally possess the following professional qualifications and personal attributes:
Professional Qualifications:
•  Prior experience as a partner, principal or senior consultant with a top-tier business or social-impact consulting firm or experience in a senior leadership position with a philanthropic organization, nonprofit enterprise or public sector agency.
•  Experience developing new analytical tools and insights to guide engagement with client interests in a diverse range of fields. Excellent written, verbal and public speaking communications skills.
•  Demonstrated ability to attract, develop and inspire future diverse leaders of the firm.
•  Experience developing and negotiating substantial projects, and then managing the execution of projects in a timely manner and on budget.
•  Experience building and facilitating partnerships, coalitions and initiatives.
•  Strong work ethic and willingness to travel, including weekends and evening engagements when needed.
•  Eligible to work in the US without sponsorship; ability to travel in both developed and developing countries.
•  Bachelor’s degree required with an advanced degree or equivalent experience preferred.
Personal Attributes:
•  Passionately motivated to address social, economic and environmental issues and deeply committed to the values and mission of Redstone.
•  Ability to inspire trust, to guide and facilitate complex discussions, and to move from ideas to action.
•  The highest level of personal and professional integrity and quality standards.
•  Commitment to collaboration and the values of diversity, equity and inclusion.
•  Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and an energetic and optimistic outlook on life.

How To Apply

Compensation at Redstone is among the best in non-profit consulting and competitive with private-sector firms. In addition to salary and bonus, Redstone offers an appealing benefits package.
How to apply
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter in Word or PDF format responding specifically to the experience and qualifications being sought to: Daniel Sherman, President, Explore Company at resumes@explorecompany.com.  Refer to RSG/Principal in the subject line.  No phone inquiries please.
Redstone is an Equal Opportunity Employer. You are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

The Organization

Arena Stage is alive as a center for American Theater in our nation’s capital with productions, diverse and innovative works from around the country and the nurturing of new plays. Our focus is on American artists. We produce and present all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit. We explore issues from the past, present and future that reflect America’s diversity and challenges. These are voiced through the productions we create, the work we develop, the presentations that move beyond our stages and community and education programs that engage artists, students and audiences.

Position Overview

MINIMUM/CORE REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred. At least 7 years of professional and management experience, with at least 5 years of experience in front-line fundraising, the majority of which focused on corporate fundraising and partnerships. CFRE/ACFRE desired. Must have a passion for the performing arts and be able to work occasional nights and weekends.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

A successful track record in setting ambitious revenue goals and implementing the strategies and plans to achieve them.  Ability to set priorities, manage multiple projects and work effectively under pressure to achieve individual, team, and organizational goals.

Experience in directly managing, supervising and motivating front-line team members to meet or exceed performance metrics and revenue targets. Manages toward clarity, finds solutions, and thinks strategically.

A highly-motivated team player with a collaborative approach who can lead when needed while empowering teammates and colleagues to contribute their best. Personal commitment to employing and coaching industry-best practices.

Track record of securing significant corporate gifts with knowledge of foundation and other institutional donations, development operations, and events.

Highly organized, detail oriented, reliable and flexible with a positive attitude and collaborative spirit.

Effective and mature communicator able to convey ideas and strategies verbally and in writing. Excellent presentation skills. Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to listen to, negotiate and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Ability to use a database like Tessitura and other technical resources effectively.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Primarily administrative, balanced between sedentary and light work with occasional lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to twenty pounds.

KEY FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

Working as a thought partner to the Chief Development Officer and a member of the senior leadership team of the Development Department, the new title will help manage the day-to-day functions of the Development Department and will actively review, develop and implement processes and procedures that are focused on efficiently transforming philanthropy at Arena Stage.

Directly supervise Corporate Giving (1), Foundation/Government Relations (1), and the Operations/Special Event (1) teams with the goal of substantially growing philanthropic revenue from each area. Lead each team’s work with existing funders and enhance efforts to prospect, qualify and effectively engage a growing pipeline of new donors. Build a strong, collaborative and productive team that shares in successes and works together to solve challenges. This position will also supervise the Development Assistant (1) and the work of the Development Fellow or Intern (1). FY20 (7/2019–6/2020) combined revenue targets for Corporate, Foundation, Government, and Special Events is approximately $2M.

In conjunction with the Individual Giving Director and the Campaign Director, create strategies for ensuring the success of Arena’s comprehensive campaign and personally oversee execution of strategies for securing transformational gifts from corporate and foundation prospects. The campaign’s goal of $70M is inclusive of corporate and foundation support.

Develop and implement approaches that build, track and monitor a growing number of prospects in the pipelines and build revenue opportunities that are consistent with the growing restricted and unrestricted revenue requirements of Arena Stage and contribute to the bottom line of Arena’s current comprehensive campaign.

Closely track donor requirements, including reporting, compliance, financial management, programmatic deliverables, activation, and benefit fulfilment. Lead the teams in providing frequent, tailored and professional updates to funders.

Lead and monitor team efforts to draft and finalize letters of inquiry, grant proposals and corporate solicitation decks ensuring that proposals, budgets, and other materials are aligned with donor requirements and tailored to meet their priorities. Collaborate effectively with other departments at Arena Stage on proposal content.

Actively manage a portfolio of high-level institutional donors and prospects (mainly corporations).

Professionally support leadership staff and volunteers who may serve as ambassadors, door openers, relationship builders, and solicitors for Arena Stage.

Liaise with members of Arena’s Board of Trustees on matters pertaining to corporate and foundation support and revenue-generating special events.

Establish and track goals, strategies and plans through the OGSP planning tool for Development.

Ensure that all giving data, strategies, gifts, correspondence, etc. is appropriately recorded and is consistent with departmental guidelines.

Other duties as assigned.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The New Title will support  the Chief Development Officer by managing the operational functions of the Development Department and carrying a portfolio of institutional funders.  The position will  directly supervise Corporate Giving, Foundation & Government Relations, Operations & Events, a Development Assistant and an intern or development fellow.  The New Title will review, develop and implement processes and procedures that will help the department enhance efficiencies and focus strategies and tactics that increase philanthropic support. The New Title will lead effective approaches that ambitiously grow corporate, foundation, government, and special event revenue and will play a vital role in the success of Arena’s current $70M comprehensive campaign.

How To Apply

Please upload cover letter, resume and references to: https://arenastage.applicantpro.com/jobs/

The Organization

Since 1976, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy has served as the country’s independent watchdog of foundations. NCRP promotes philanthropy that serves the public good, is responsive to people and communities with the least wealth and opportunity, and is held accountable to the highest standards of integrity and openness. To achieve the organization’s mission, NCRP produces original research and thought-provoking content, provides tools for grantmakers, engages philanthropy and nonprofits in productive dialogue and advocates for public policies. For more information, visit us at www.ncrp.org.

Position Overview

Research and Development Internship with a Progressive Nonprofit in D.C.

Do you love trying to change someone’s mind about an issue using numbers and stories? Do you sweat the small details on school and/or work projects? Are you driven to make your community and our country a more just and equitable place?

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) in Washington, D.C., is looking for a recent college graduate student or graduate student who can help the organization’s small but mighty team promote philanthropy that builds the power of marginalized communities and leads to long-term equitable change. This one-year PAID research and development internship begins August 2019, with the potential to convert to a full-time staff position during that period.

This internship is a wonderful opportunity for hands-on experience using data to tell compelling stories at a national nonprofit. You’ll practice database design, qualitative data collection, and managing short-term projects. You’ll also get a chance to learn more about and interact with grassroots nonprofits and progressive foundations across the country that are engaged in the daily fight for a more equitable society. If you’re interested in learning more about this sector and building transferable skills for future work at a nonprofit or philanthropic institution, please read more below.

Who will coach, mentor and supervise you? The Research Director and the Senior Director of Foundation Engagement. You will help support NCRP’s research agenda as well as efforts to fundraise to sustain our organization.

You are…

·   Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel

·   An excellent communicator, both in writing and verbally

·   Familiar with the basics of quantitative data analysis

·   Able to quickly synthesize findings clearly and concisely

·   A creative, strategic thinker

·   Empathetic in your approach to collecting data from people with demanding lives

·   Committed to equity and social justice

A major plus: Familiarity or experience with US immigrant communities including those whose first language is not English.

You’ll be responsible for…

Research (67%):

·   Data entry and database maintenance

·   Quantitative and qualitative data analysis

·   Scheduling interviews with research partners

·   Working – often collaboratively and sometimes independently – on a 3-       person research team to change hearts and minds about grantmaking         for marginalized communities

·    Other duties as assigned

Foundation Fundraising Program (33%)

·    Manage the data entry process for foundation support

·    Assist with updating fundraising records in our online database

·    Oversight of the gift acknowledgement process

·    Research foundation prospects as needed

·    Assist with maintaining foundation fundraising files

You’ll learn how to…

·    Gather and interpret quantitative data on the nonprofit sector from diverse sources

·    Build relationships with leaders on the front lines of social change

·    Gather information in an interview setting

·    Support a thriving organizational culture at a nonprofit dedicated to respect, ethics, affirmation, and diversity in the workplace.

This is a 30 hour per week internship.

To Apply: See NCRP’s website to apply. Applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received. We are hoping to fill the position by late August.

NCRP is an equal opportunity employer, and welcomes and strongly encourages people of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ-identified candidates to apply. NCRP will provide, excepting any undue hardship, reasonable accommodations, on request, for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

The Organization

Georgia State University (GSU), a public research university in Atlanta, seeks a vice president for development and alumni affairs to lead the department’s operations to unprecedented levels of success and productivity.

Position Overview

The vice president will lead a large and complex fundraising and alumni affairs operation for GSU, the most comprehensive public institution in the Atlanta metropolitan area and largest in the state. GSU offers more than 250 undergraduate and graduate degree programs spread across 10 academic colleges with around 3,500 faculty members. The institution has an economic impact on the Atlanta economy of more than $2.5 billion annually. The vice president will inherit an operation that has made significant progress by finishing a $328 million comprehensive campaign on December 30, 2018.

Reporting to and working closely with President Mark Becker, the vice president will join an energized and ambitious leadership team. He or she will have the opportunity to play a principal role in advancing a university deeply committed to and engaged with the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia. This is a university eager to continue moving ahead into a new era of excellence and prosperity. Accomplishing these ambitions will require a leader steeped in best practices and experienced at change management. The vice president will build and sustain strong and sincere interpersonal relationships both internally and externally. This person will demonstrate a track record of major and principal gift fundraising success, and will possess the leadership and managerial acumen necessary to galvanize a large and complex institution.

The vice president will have a collaborative approach to leadership as a hands-on leader in a development program of similar or greater complexity and scope. He or she will resonate with the particular mission and history of GSU, and demonstrate significant intellectual curiosity characterized by the ability to translate the work of the faculty and the college’s programs. It will be important for the new VP to have experience working directly with and managing the activities of the foundation board. The VP will have a superior strategic ability at the prospect, departmental and institutional level. He or she will have comfort with the capacity to leverage technology to support a robust and contemporary approach to outreach, and communication will be a particular advantage.

GSU seeks a vice president who will assess and mentor the team, raise it to a new level of quality and effectiveness, and continue to enhance its strong culture of collaboration and collegiality. Strong leadership skills are imperative as this organization responds to increasing expectations for philanthropy. Integration of best practices is expected to improve both results and performance within all areas of development on the GSU campus. The new vice president will have broad authority to shape and build a development program in the annual fund, corporate and foundation relations, major gifts and gift planning programs, endowment, capital campaigns, alumni and constituent relations efforts, stewardship and advancement services. The vice president will take leadership in preparing the institution for and carrying out the next comprehensive campaign. Additional information, including a Leadership Profile, can be found at www.wittkieffer.com.

How To Apply

Inquiries, nominations and applications are invited. Confidential review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Nominations, expressions of interest, and applications (including a statement of application and a resume) should be submitted via email to GSUVPDAA@wittkieffer.com. Confidential inquiries and questions may be directed to the Witt/Kieffer consultants supporting this search: Mercedes C. Vance and Kim Brettschneider at 630-575-6993.