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The Organization

About Nurture NJ

New Jersey’s maternal mortality rates are among the worst in the nation, ranking 47th in maternal deaths according to America’s Health Rankings. Forty-seven women die, on average, for every 100,000 live births in New Jersey, compared to 20 nationally. For women and babies of color, the statistics are even more dire. A Black mother in New Jersey is seven times more likely to die than a white mother due to pregnancy complications, and a Black baby is three times more likely to die than a white baby in their first year of life. This is one of the widest racial disparities in the nation.

First Lady of New Jersey Tammy Murphy officially launched https://nurturenj.nj.gov in early 2019 as a statewide initiative committed to ensuring equity in maternal and infant health outcomes for Black and brown women, and to reducing overall maternal and infant mortality and morbidity in the state. Nurture NJ is a multipronged, multi-agency initiative that aims to make New Jersey the safest place in the nation to give birth and raise a baby. Improved maternal and infant health outcomes for the state overall will be possible when the racial inequities in health are eliminated. Health equity, in turn, can only occur when racial equity in the social, political, and economic arenas occurs.

The disparities in maternal and infant outcomes are not the result of differences in genes or behaviors but are mostly explained by the differential historical, social, economic, and health environments experienced by Black and brown women. These economic and social differences matter for health; they are determinants of health, and as long as they exist, so will the disparities in maternal and infant health.

Nurture NJ recognizes that addressing these disparities and changing outcomes will require nothing less than the transformation of health, social, economic, and political contexts, systems, and mindsets. As such, Nurture NJ has three primary objectives:

1. Ensure all women are healthy and have access to care before pregnancy, whether or not an individual is actively seeking parenthood.

2. Build a safe, high-quality, equitable system of care and services for all women during prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum care.

3. Ensure supportive community environments and contexts during every other period of a woman’s life so that the conditions and opportunities for health are always available.

About the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan

To advance Nurture NJ and achieve its strategic goals, the https://nurturenj.nj.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20210120-Nurture-NJ-Strategic-Plan.pdf provides an evidence-based, comprehensive, and actionable plan focused on equity and improved outcomes for all women and infants. The Plan is designed to be an organizing force for government, private stakeholder and community partnership action focused on ensuring women are healthy before pregnancy, building a system of equitable pregnancy-related care, and designing supportive community environments and contexts for mothers and their babies. In order to achieve these proximal outcomes, and the ultimate goal of Nurture NJ, the Plan recommends transformation through nine domains of action that prioritize racial equity, community engagement, and shifts in statewide mindset and ideology.

A Note on Language:

This document and the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan use language conventions that are intended to be universal and inclusive. We use the phrase “maternal and infant health” to refer to the health of pregnant individuals, which can include cisgender females, non-binary individuals, and transgender men, and their biological infants. We do not assume that all individuals that give birth to a child will care for that child, so we refer to caregivers, partners and spouses, and the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan intends to address their wellbeing as well.

For more information on Nurture NJ and the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan, please visit https://nurturenj.nj.gov/

Position Overview

About the NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance

In the fall of 2020, four New Jersey private grantmaking foundations – the Burke Foundation, Community Health Acceleration Partnership, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and The Nicholson Foundation – formed the NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance to support New Jersey in becoming a national leader in maternal, infant and reproductive health, racial justice, and health equity. The Alliance, now also consisting of The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation and housed at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, will create an efficient and equitable way to further the Nurture NJ efforts and ensure that community members and community-based organizations are at the heart of this work. Specifically, an initial investment will include the provision of funds for the salary for a Nurture NJ Director (“Director”).

The Director Opportunity

We are seeking an exceptional candidate to share their expertise with the State of New Jersey, leading and coordinating statewide efforts to support New Jersey in becoming the safest and most equitable place to give birth and raise a baby. The Director will advance systemic change by building an inclusive process and engaged community around the initiative. As the primary representative for the initiative, the Director will build and foster relationships across sectors, listening deeply and centering the voices of those most impacted. Through these relationships, they will align and activate individuals, communities, organizations, and state agencies to transform the systems and structures that impact mothers and infants in New Jersey.

The Director will serve as a key leader in supporting all of the activities of the Nurture NJ initiative, including implementing the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan, which seeks to reduce maternal mortality and eliminate racial disparities in birth outcomes; an annual Black Maternal and Infant Health Leadership Summit; supporting the First Lady’s Family Festival event series; and quarterly interdepartmental maternal and infant health meetings, among other initiatives. Housed within the Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), the Director will collaborate with leaders within government, community members and organizers, leading funders, and others to move this work forward and transform the ecosystem around maternal and infant health in New Jersey, including partnering with leaders of the new Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center being developed in Trenton. The Director will report to the Executive Vice President of Economic Security at NJEDA and will work in close partnership with the Office of the First Lady.

Specifically, the Director will:

• Oversee implementation of the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan, including:

– Work with state, local, and community members to reduce maternal mortality and eliminate racial disparities in birth outcomes through policy development, innovative training, service delivery reform, and research;

– Cultivate meaningful relationships with government officials, community constituents, and other stakeholders in New Jersey and support infrastructure for power-building and engagement;

– Working with individuals at the NJEDA and the Office of the First Lady, inform the creation and development of the Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center to ensure priorities around community engagement and equity are embedded in every decision;

– Coordinate and plan quarterly meetings, convened by the First Lady of New Jersey, among state departments and agencies to further the achievement of the strategic objectives of the Plan;

– Collaborate with the New Jersey Birth Equity Funders Alliance and its Director to ensure philanthropic activities are aligned with the Nurture NJ strategic priorities and that the work of the Alliance can in turn help to inform the implementation of the Nurture NJ plan.

– Define, collect, monitor, track, and report progress on the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan performance measurement data;

– Write and disseminate quarterly reports on the status of the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan objectives to the Office of the First Lady of New Jersey, NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance, NJEDA, and other interested parties as appropriate.

– Develop and chair an advisory group composed of sector-specific, state, and community leaders to participate in and guide the implementation of the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan, in cooperation and coordination with existing advisory groups within the Department of Health. This will include:

* Build and regularly convene meetings of an advisory group with diverse representation, including community members, mothers of color, clinicians, birthing professionals, researchers, policy experts, and funders;

* Identify and pursue effective maternal and child health programming for replication and scaling;

* Support the development of a health inequities policymaking agenda;

* Facilitate discussions and learning opportunities for advisory group members; and

* Present and promote advisory group recommendations to the Office of the First Lady for implementation in the Nurture NJ Strategic Plan

– Provide technical assistance and support to public and private stakeholders so they can meaningfully engage with community members in order to address racial inequities in maternal and infant health;

– Coordinate initiatives to shift ideology and mindsets around racial equity, and inform the development of statewide marketing campaign to build support for racial equity in maternal and infant health;

– Represent and communicate about Nurture NJ and related initiatives at meetings, conferences, and public events in New Jersey and nationally.

Candidate Profile

The Director will possess many of the following qualifications, experience, and skills:

• Recognized leadership as a change agent and movement builder who can engage and activate a wide range of constituents toward a shared vision, leveraging an understanding of communities in New Jersey;

• Active engagement at the national or state level and familiarity with research, interventions, and evaluation related to maternal and infant health and/or health equity;

• Deep understanding of the needs and intrinsic resources of communities that are facing the biggest disparities in outcomes related to health and well-being;

• Demonstrated ability to form and manage relationships defined by respect and collaboration with public, private, and community leaders, build leadership capacity among other constituents, and thoughtfully incorporate feedback into their work;

• Proven success as an organizational leader, likely with at least ten years’ experience leading programs;

• Demonstrated ability to facilitate complex change processes and manage long-term and large-scale projects; specific experience working with and across multiple state agencies would be valuable

• Ability to synthesize complex information quickly and present to and engage diverse audiences;

• Excellent oral and written communication skills (bilingual skills considered a plus).

Compensation & Benefits

The NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance provides a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, for this position. The Director will be eligible for a comprehensive benefits package through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Additional Considerations

• The position will be a two-year contract with the NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance and the Director will function as an Executive on Loan assigned to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.

• The position will be based in Trenton, NJ, with frequent travel throughout the state.

• The Director shall be advisory and he or she shall have no financial decision-making authority while working on behalf of the State of New Jersey.

• The Director must comply with all New Jersey confidentiality requirements.

• While the Director is working with the State of New Jersey, the Administration shall be mindful of any potential conflict of interest involving the loaned executive and executive branch agencies.

• The Director shall not be employed by, nor represent any entity that is a vendor to or plans to become a vendor to the State of New Jersey.

• Salary, including expenses, are to be paid by the NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance.

• Eligible candidates must undergo and successfully complete a background investigation.

How To Apply

Contact

The NJ Birth Equity Funders Alliance has engaged Cassie Scarano and Kirstin Griffiths of Koya Partners to help in this hire. Inquiries and referrals can be emailed via nurturenj@koyapartners.com. To apply for this position, please submit a compelling cover letter and resume via https://apptrkr.com/3555276.

All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors values diversity in all senses – people, viewpoints, and approaches – and recruit staff and board members who reflect the communities in which we live, work and serve. We strive to be an organization where talented people flourish and promote a healthy work environment that respects our colleagues’ professional and personal lives.

About Koya Partners

Koya Partners, a part of the Diversified Search Group, is a leading executive search and strategic advising firm dedicated to connecting exceptionally talented people with mission-driven clients. Our founding philosophy—The Right Person in the Right Place Can Change the World—guides our work as we partner with nonprofits & NGOs, institutions of higher education, responsible businesses, and social enterprises in local communities and around the world.

For more information about Koya Partners, visit www.koyapartners.com.

The Organization

About Tides

Tides envisions a world of shared prosperity and social change founded on equality & human rights, healthy individuals & communities, a sustainable environment, and quality education for all. Tides works to accelerate the pace of social change by bringing together mission-aligned funders, changemakers and policies to solve society’s toughest problems.

Tides believes that to achieve shared prosperity and social justice, they must take collaborative and bold approaches to the work. This includes using a variety of vehicles to amplify and scale positive social impact including: philanthropic giving and grantmaking, impact investing, fiscal sponsorship, collaborative workspaces, collective initiatives and advocacy services for policy change. Tides resources and expertise enable its partners to hit the ground running and drive change faster than they can on their own.

In the past, Tides staff have worked predominantly from our offices in San Francisco and New York. Today, our current hybrid work model supports staff with remote work from anywhere in the United States.

For more information on Tides, please visit tides.org.

Position Overview

The Opportunity

In this newly created position, you will build and lead the Talent Management Center of Excellence for Tides.  In this high impact role you will own the roadmap and serve as the “product management leader” for the People team with respect to the design, development, and delivery of systematic People processes, programs, and talent development initiatives.

The Senior Director, Talent is a senior leadership role on our People team and will be a key strategic leader and advisor in creating an organization that attracts the best people, develops them in their careers and abilities and maximizes their talent and contributions.  You will think creatively, bring fresh viewpoints to the discussion and identify opportunities to improve and align programmatic systems to the Tides’ strategic goal of operational excellence. You will be expected to stay current with developments and successful practices in human resources and technology and be comfortable operating at both a strategic and hands-on level. This position will also support partners serving on the front lines to dismantle systemic barriers that impede social justice.

You will ensure that best practices around justice, equity, diversity and inclusion stay rooted in all talent acquisition, employee experience, and development processes and will implement continual improvements to those strategies.  You will build upon and execute on Tides’ recruiting and hiring processes to ensure a best-in-class talent acquisition operation that ensures a positive applicant experience. You will also oversee strong human resources programs across the employee lifecycle from onboarding through ongoing learning and development to exit and ensure that policies and employee actions are consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Bringing a positive and collaborative approach to problem-solving, you will model Tides values and apply a growth lens to the Tides employee experience strategy.

The Senior Director, Talent will report to the Chief People Officer.  You will manage a team of 8 and you will have the ability to add the necessary resources to build and scale a high performing team that can successfully deliver on our strategic plan and impact goal.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive People strategy to achieve Tides’ business objectives while ensuring integration of strategy and solutions within organizational functions and in partnership with People Centers of Excellence and Shared Services.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and key thought partner to executives on all People matters including organizational development, change management, talent development & management, People operations, JEDI, retention, workforce planning, compensation rewards, and employee relations.

• Develop and lead the Business Partner Team to drive scalable support models for executives, managers, and employees.

• Coach, mentor and manage a team and anticipate future staffing needs to scale and deliver the necessary impact for internal and external partners.

• Stay abreast of current and changing human resources regulations and best practices across the industry.

• Measure and analyze the effectiveness of people strategy initiatives and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Talent Acquisition:

• Responsible for the development and implementation of a recruiting strategy, including recruitment protocols, evaluation methods, and training.

• Partner with leaders on the People team and across the Tides Network to forecast staffing needs and set and hit DEI benchmarks in hiring.

• Anticipate and understand where bottlenecks in the recruiting process occur and develop solutions to eliminate them.

Talent Development:

• Lead your team to build out a learning & development function that is consistent with Tides’ goal to strengthen and shift power, center equity in our work, and cultivate agency for staff.

• Align performance management process with strategic plan, impact goal and organizational values; imbed key performance indicators and competencies into performance evaluation process to encourage and recognize growth and measurable outcomes.

• Collaborate with your team to evaluate and improve onboarding and offboarding practices tailored to individual needs.

• Build capacity of leaders across the organization to partner with talent management team members to deliver on organizational goals, ensure managers understand the connection between organizational success and talent development, and are equipped with the resources and skills to operationalize that connection for the effective development and management of their teams.

• Collaborate with the team to design inclusive and equitable talent programs, provide development opportunities, and align staff development to organizational strategies.

Employee Experience

• Partner with the People team to influence Tides leaders and other key stakeholders to ensure that they adopt equitable, inclusive, and remote-first practices and policies, as well as influence other key decisions affecting employee experience.

• Design and implement total rewards strategies to ensure that the organization stays competitive in the market, retains and motivates top talent and provides fair and equitable compensation for staff.

• Oversee employee listening strategy including surveys, focus groups, and other mechanisms and helps drive learning based on data.

• Plan and implement special projects as needed, managing timelines and coordination with stakeholders and associated communication within a highly collaborative environment.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Passion for the Tides mission of shifting and strengthening power of groups who face systemic barriers to resources and opportunities.

• Strategic leadership and demonstrated experience aligning talent strategies to organizational goals.

• Demonstrated track record of leading talent acquisition, talent development, business partnering and employee retention functions.

• Detail oriented and rigorous project management skills to build and implement new systems and processes.

• Committed to engaging, growing and developing a diverse team through a culture of feedback, accountability, and recognition.

• Welcomes a fast pace of work and changing cadences; flexible and adaptable.

• Strong customer-service and servant leadership approach to both internal and external clients.

• Devotion to growing one’s own cultural competence and willing to actively engage in the Tides commitment to integrate justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in all facets of its work.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop strong relationships across a diverse spectrum of stakeholders and the ability to comfortably handle difficult conversations.

• Diplomatic and respectful approach to problem solving; ability to consistently interact with others in a professional and courteous manner, maintain a positive attitude and good working relationships, and work effectively in a team setting.

• Skilled at building and sustaining excellent relationships and ability to partner with senior leaders and other managers to evaluate and resolve employee-related issues. Strong ability to connect, build impactful cross functional relationships, and foster trust.

• High business acumen, emotional intelligence and communication.

• The aptitude to be a strong collaborator and influencer and can engage at all levels within the organization to drive great outcomes for our people and the organization.

• A passion to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that is always looking to raise the bar on how we deliver People programs.

Education & Experience

• 10+ years of direct applicable business and HR experience; 5+ years partnering with executives and 5+ years experience managing teams.

• Proven track record of building from scratch, leading and innovating the People function to deliver exceptional results.

• Experience in building, growing and scaling teams in a remote-first environment.

• A strategic mindset and the ability to develop scalable solutions to support organizational goals.

• Demonstrated track record of building and cultivating culture and measuring outcomes through a justice, equity, diversity and inclusion lens.

• Leadership experience within the People function at a high-growth stage company, establishing core KPIs and effectively measuring performance across key goals and outcomes.

• The successful candidate will possess superior change management skills and experience combined with a service expansion/innovation mindset and partner service delivery excellence to ensure organizational needs are met and new processes and policies are successfully and consistently adopted across all functions.

At Tides, we value the unique background, experience and perspective each Tides team member brings to our work each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match to the requirements outlined above, we hope you’ll still consider applying.

Compensation & Benefits

Tides offers a competitive annual salary for this role commensurate with qualifications and experience. Tides also offers a generous benefits package including comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, life and disability insurances, and confidential counseling and life balance resources designed to support the passion and energy they look for in team members.

Timeline to Hire:

The application deadline is October 21, 2022 and applications received by that date will be given priority but we will accept applications until the position is filled.  Zoom interviews with the Koya team will take place through late October.  Zoom interviews with the Tides hiring committee will take place through November and we anticipate extending an offer by mid December.

How To Apply

Koya Partners, the executive search firm that specializes in mission-driven search, has been exclusively retained for this engagement. Molly Brennan and Karen Yetman Rea are leading the search. To apply for the position please submit a resume and cover letter here:

https://talent-profile.diversifiedsearchgroup.com/search/v2/18602

All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.

Koya Partners is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals living with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual living with a disability and need assistance expressing interest online, please email NonprofitSearchOps@divsearch.com. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

Tides is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions.

Also pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For applicants with disabilities, reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

About Koya Partners

Koya Partners, a part of Diversified Search Group, is a leading executive search and strategic advising firm dedicated to connecting exceptionally talented people with mission-driven clients. Our founding philosophy – The Right Person in the Right Place Can Change the World – guides our work as we partner with nonprofits & NGOs, institutions of higher education, responsible businesses, and social enterprises in local communities and around the world.

For more information about Koya Partners, visit www.koyapartners.com.

The Organization

The Skoll Foundation seeks to catalyze transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

Jeff Skoll, the first employee and first President of eBay, created the Skoll Foundation in 1999 to pursue his vision of a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all. The Foundation is part of the Jeff Skoll Group, which also includes Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) and the Capricorn Investment Group.

The Foundation aspires to fundamentally shift the trajectory on urgent global problems including pandemics and global health systems, racial justice, climate change, effective governance, and inclusive economies. The Foundation does this by connecting social innovators around the world, investing in their solutions, and championing their work. The Foundation is committed to finding new ways to streamline its operations and support the organization as it drives transformational social change globally. Learn more about the Skoll Foundation at www.skoll.org.

Position Overview

This position will lead the strategic vision and execution of the Skoll Foundation’s convening programs, inclusive of both virtual and in-person events. The Managing Director (MD) reports to the Vice President of Partnership and Community Engagement while working in close collaboration with peers across Skoll staff and the executive team to advance the Connect and Champion work of the Foundation. This role is a Connect and Champion team lead.

The MD will drive and manage all components of our convenings including the flagship annual Skoll World Forum. The MD will also connect the Skoll Foundation’s convening strategy to execution; envisioning, planning, and implementing new ways to convene and connect our network of social innovators working in more than 130 countries.

To be successful, the MD must have a robust awareness and understanding of complex global issues and experience identifying diverse leaders to connect and engage in dialog to drive impact. This person should be skilled in complex project management, executive-level communications, and partner cultivation and management. This person will be intellectually curious, thoughtful, creative, humble, and highly organized, with top-notch communications and relationship-building skills.

How To Apply

Managing Director, Convenings

The Organization

About Ascendium

Ascendium is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has helped millions of learners pursue postsecondary education since 1967, when we were formed to help fulfill the promise of the landmark Higher Education Act of 1965. Over the years, we’ve grown to become the nation’s largest federal student loan guarantor, providing information, tools and counseling to help millions of borrowers nationwide avoid default and keep the door to reenrollment open. We also conceive and develop innovative products and services that support academic achievement, financial wellness and student loan repayment success and invest in studying and improving postsecondary education practices through our philanthropy.

We use the net proceeds from our guaranty services and other operations to fund our philanthropy. The Philanthropy team comprises program, grants management, and learning and impact staff who all have a shared commitment to advancing our philanthropic mission of elevating opportunities for learners from low-income backgrounds so they can achieve postsecondary education and career success. Our grantmaking focuses on transforming postsecondary education and workforce training systems so they can support low-income populations, especially those in historically underrepresented groups, including first-generation students, incarcerated adults, rural community members, students of color and veterans. Currently, our philanthropy focuses on removing structural barriers to success, streamlining key learner transitions, expanding postsecondary education in prison and supporting rural postsecondary education and workforce training. Across these four focus areas, our funding supports innovative ideas, the creation of an evidence base and the expansion and replication of effective practices.

Position Overview

Do you have a background in workforce development or rural postsecondary education? Are you passionate about creating pathways for learners in rural areas to achieve academic and career success while staying in their communities? As a Program Officer at Ascendium, you’ll combine that experience and enthusiasm to manage a portfolio of grants and strategic partnerships that support rural postsecondary education and workforce training opportunities. You’ll source grant ideas and partners, assess theories that emerge from the field, shepherd grant applications through the proposal process, develop reporting and payment structures, support grantees and cultivate relationships with peers and other funders.

This position is based in Madison, Wisconsin at our new, state-of-the art headquarters. You’ll have a hybrid schedule, working both in the office and remotely. You’ll also have opportunities to travel to conferences, grantee events and other forums.

This position may be filled at a senior program officer level, depending on your qualifications. Senior program officers typically have at least a decade of related experience and are recognized as leaders in their field.

Job Responsibilities

Your day-to-day activities may include the following.

• Partnering with the director of education grantmaking and colleagues to ensure Ascendium’s rural postsecondary education and workforce training grantmaking activity is effective and aligned with overall strategy.
• Discovering and applying insights that help refine Ascendium’s grantmaking strategy and effectiveness as a funding partner.
• Monitoring and coordinating future grantmaking prospects.
• Helping develop and plan for one or more of Ascendium’s investment priorities.
• Sharing best practices with grantees and connecting them to other resources as necessary to help them succeed.
• Coordinating with Ascendium’s communications team on focus area messaging.
• Collaborating with the director of education grantmaking to establish annual planning and budgeting priorities to advance focus area goals.
• Developing relationships and partnerships with national and regional funders that support the successful execution of Ascendium’s grantmaking strategy.
• Representing Ascendium at national and regional conferences and engaging with funder networks and field working groups and committees.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

A highly qualified candidate will possess the following.

• Knowledge equivalent to a master’s degree in philanthropy, social sciences, social work, community development, education, economics, business or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in postsecondary education; local, state or federal government; workforce development; economic development; philanthropy and/or nonprofits.
• Familiarity with state or local workforce development strategies, training pathways that create access to well paying, high-growth jobs and federal and state government rural workforce training funding streams.
• Ability to work cooperatively and inclusively with others to achieve shared goals.
• Effective interpersonal skills exemplified by initiative, courtesy, diplomacy, positivity and professionalism.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with and among a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Curiosity and a desire to continuously learn.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, continually evolving work environment.
• Strong project management skills with a demonstrated ability to execute and follow through to achieve intended results by honoring commitments, prioritizing work and managing time and resources well.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Other Information

Ascendium offers an outstanding benefits package designed to provide employees and their families with a high degree of security. These benefits include, but are not limited to:

•  Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Generous time off.
• Continuing education opportunities, including tuition assistance and student loan repayment assistance.
• Paid volunteer time off.

Ascendium provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, creed, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. We are strongly committed to this policy and believe in the concept and spirit of the law.

If you would like assistance with the application process, please email Ascendium Human Resources. We invite all applicants to complete the Voluntary Affirmative Action questions when submitting application materials. The questions are found at the end of the online application process. To learn more about our commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity, please visit the Ascendium Careers webpage.

Ascendium requires criminal, employment and education background investigations before hiring.

How To Apply

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The Organization

Living Cities seeks nominations and applications for the Managing Director of Programs. Reporting directly to the President & CEO, Joe Scantlebury, the Managing Director (MD) will lead a strong team in next level strategy and implementation of Living Cities’ work in cities to identify and advance innovative policy and practices that support economic mobility and wealth building, including through entrepreneurship, and homeownership, to close racial wealth gaps in cities across the country.

Living Cities is a collaborative of our nation’s most prominent foundations and financial institutions that exists to close the racial income and wealth gaps in American cities. The organization aims to connect leaders within local government with philanthropy, financial institutions, business, and community organizations by helping them to identify opportunities to establish and increase equitable economic opportunity as a model response to racialized economic inequities.

Position Overview

The Managing Director will lead a team that will help city government, capital provider, and nonprofit leaders bridge gaps in access to public and private capital and shift the practices, policies, and mindsets of private and public sector organizations and leaders to remove obstacles to access to capital and redress the effects of systemic barriers to equitable economic opportunity with a distinctive focus on access capital. The MD will lead a team that helps the organization leverage its voice and influence to foster hope that a fair and equitable economy is possible and that shared prosperity in American cities begins by including all its people in all levels of its economy. Cities served by Living Cities under the leadership of the MD will specifically increase the number of people of color who start, preserve, and grow businesses. In partnership with the Managing Director for Capital for the New Majority, this role will influence private capital to invest in BIPOC managers, hire BIPOC senior and mid-level staff, and influence investors in private equity and related organizations. The new MD will oversee Living Cities’ strategic approach to engaging and sharing information about the efforts and innovations across a growing network of cities seeking to advance equitable economic opportunity, including, but not limited to, the 21 geographically dispersed cities in the Closing the Gap Network and the Truist Foundation Equitable Economic Ecosystem cities. The MD will also share leadership and partnership with cities that expand the rate of homeownership among Blacks, Latinos, and other racial and ethnic groups who have faced historical and persistent exclusion from access to equitable homeownership and housing. Under the MD’s leadership, the City team will ensure that each city has access to cross-city learning opportunities, collaboration opportunities, technical assistance, and other support. Finally, the MD will lead future strategic initiatives with public, private, civic, philanthropic, and financial sector leaders in select cities committed to equitable economic opportunity.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned and agile leader who is an expert in strategy, has prior national community development experience, and/or has the economic policy influence experience needed to close racial wealth gaps in American cities. They will bring 10+ years of leadership experience in municipal systems, public-private partnerships, entrepreneurship, housing, and/or other relevant fields. They will have demonstrated the ability to collaboratively develop, manage, evaluate, and adjust strategies that advance innovation and systemic support for wealth generation in underserved communities while also advancing internal team cohesion and support. They will also bring significant organizational management and leadership experience relevant to supporting a high performing team to achieve measurable results.

OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES FACING THE NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR

The Managing Director of Programs will be a national leader and current contributor to public-private partnerships, policy, and systems change advancing the health of cities economics across the country and will manage both team and stakeholders to achieve progress and innovation on behalf of communities. The MD will engage immediately in the following opportunities for impact:

Forge and implement next level vision and strategy for Living Cities’ work with city partners to advance innovative practice and policy that supports the conditions for a thriving, multiracial economy.

The new MD will identify, incubate, and scale innovative solutions in collaboration with cities across the country to close the racial wealth gap. They will understand the power of philanthropy, stakeholder alignment, and public resourcing and will advance Living Cities’ cohort-based work at the municipal level to support the public sector to embrace effective, collective impact strategies that center racial equity in governance.

Represent Living Cities’ work at city, regional, and national events and evolve the organization’s platform and influence through building and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders, including funders, to ensure innovation, best practices, and learning are both shared from the team and brought to the team from the field.

The MD will serve as a strong and visible leader for Living Cities, representing the organization and building relationships with funders, partners, and other external stakeholders. The MD will bring learning, perspective, and next-level analysis of opportunities to relationships and networks, translating data and outcomes that inform problem identification and strategic and innovative solutions for cities. The MD will also be a critical field connector, brokering relevant sector partnerships to advance the success of cities by connecting them to needed supports outside of Living Cities (e.g., NAARC, MORE Coalition, GARE, PolicyLink, African American Mayors Association, IEDC, etc.).

Provide executive leadership to Living Cities as a member of the Leadership Team, identifying opportunities for collaboration across programs and evaluating and advancing both existing and new strategies in alignment with budgetary and operational priorities.

The MD will be an internal leader, effective manager, and natural collaborator in service to cross-organizational synergies in the organization’s programmatic and investment portfolios supporting cities. The MD will partner with the Chief Investment Officer to co-identify opportunities for the Capital Investment team to collaborate with the Cities team and will co-develop methods to integrate lessons from the Capital for a New Majority (CNM) team on capital strategies into the Closing the Gaps (CTG) network team’s own strategy, whilst ensuring that the CTG portfolio aligns with the organization’s budgetary and operational framework.

Lead and manage a team of committed professionals skilled in systems, policy, and community organizing principles, developing a culture of learning and accountability that supports innovation and drives impact.

The MD will provide strategic direction and management for a diverse and talented team in a manner that upholds Living Cities’ core values of collaboration, innovation, leadership, impact, and racial equity and inclusion. The MD will track and manage existing activities as well as incubate new opportunities for the CTG Network team members based on each member’s unique strengths and perspectives. They will strongly advocate for internal policies and systems that support CTG Network team success, e.g., staffing and retention policies, compensation ratio and pay equity, team charter development, and performance management.

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

The Managing Director of Programs will be a seasoned leader committed to closing racial wealth gaps and working collaboratively to operationalize equity values in context. While no one candidate will embody all the qualifications enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:

Strategic Vision

• A strategist and visionary with demonstrated cross-sectoral experience at the nexus of private-sector investment, philanthropy, and public sector practice (particularly at the municipal level) through the lens of anti-racist practices and policies.
• A tactical leader who can analyze and identify opportunities to scale the portfolio’s impact through cross-portfolio alignment and/or the development of strong external partnerships with an orientation towards systems change.
• An expert in the history and structure of systems that have created and perpetuate racial wealth gaps in America, and a leader in dialogue locally, regionally, and/or nationally about effective strategies to bring about change that closes racial wealth gaps.
• Experience analyzing domestic, state, municipal and private sector policies and/or implementing and operating within such policies, especially through the lens of anti-racist practices and policies.
• Training in anti-racist, results-based accountability, and results-based facilitation a plus.

Leadership and Management

• An agile, mindful, and effective people leader who attracts and retains great talent by building a positive, trusting, and inclusive team culture that inspires all to achieve excellence.
• A skilled facilitator and sector leader who can activate, unite, and build trust and shared understanding across a variety of stakeholders while nurturing a culture of accountability to impact.
• Demonstrated ability to collaboratively establish and manage toward the progress of end goals while remaining adaptive to changing circumstances and competing priorities.
• A lifelong learner and natural educator with a growth mindset who integrates the best ideas no matter the source and supports others to do the same.
• Deep awareness of systemic inequity and knowledge of methods for embedding equity broadly construed into strategy, grantmaking, and relationships with staff and community, as well as a commitment to intercultural understanding and sensitivity.
• Great performance manager with ability to coach, lead, be open to feedback, be trustworthy, and be a good advisor.

External Representation

• Experience leveraging local and national networks to achieve outcomes and initiating and fostering strategic partnerships with key leaders from the community, government, private sector, and philanthropy.
• Proven relationship building and communication skills with the ability to have authentic dialogue around sensitive issues.
• Exemplary public speaking communication skills and experience participating in national and regional convenings as a panelist or keynote speaker.
• Thought leader with experience contributing knowledge that shows quantitative and qualitative understanding and resonates across diverse audiences and stakeholders.

The compensation range for this position has been set at $175 – $225K and is commensurate with candidate experience.

How To Apply

More information about Living Cities may be found at:  livingcities.org

This search is being led by Katherine Jacobs and Sharon Gerstman of NPAG. Due to the pace of this search, candidates are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Candidates may submit their cover letter, outlining their interest and qualifications, along with their resume via NPAG’s website.

If you would like to submit a nomination for this role, please email sharon@npag.com.

Living Cities is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions. Applicants with Disabilities: Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

The Organization

About Tides

Tides envisions a world of shared prosperity and social change founded on equality & human rights, healthy individuals & communities, a sustainable environment, and quality education for all. Tides works to accelerate the pace of social change by bringing together mission-aligned funders, changemakers and policies to solve society’s toughest problems.

Tides believes that to achieve shared prosperity and social justice, they must take collaborative and bold approaches to the work. This includes using a variety of vehicles to amplify and scale positive social impact including: philanthropic giving and grantmaking, impact investing, fiscal sponsorship, collaborative workspaces, collective initiatives and advocacy services for policy change. Tides resources and expertise enable its partners to hit the ground running and drive change faster than they can on their own.

In the past, Tides staff have worked predominantly from our offices in San Francisco and New York. Today, our current hybrid work model supports staff with remote work from anywhere in the United States.

For more information on Tides, please visit https://www.tides.org

Position Overview

The Opportunity

The Director, People Operations is a new and critical position created to strengthen knowledge and add capacity to our growing team.  You will lead the way in creating processes and programs that are repeatable, agile, and scalable to support partners serving on the front lines to dismantle systemic barriers that impede social justice.  The Director, People Operations will help to identify and lead opportunities to improve and align operational and programmatic systems to support continuous improvement and operationalize Tides strategic impact goals. The Director, People Operations will be responsible for the HR systems and tools supporting the work across the Tides network, including data, reporting, compliance, compliance training and the annual EEO report.

This is an exciting role for a solutions-oriented professional to serve as a resourceful thought partner to staff across the Tides network and to drive a culture of collaboration. The Director, People Operations is expected to stay current with developments and successful practices in human resources and technology and be comfortable operating at both a strategic and hands-on level. Bringing a positive and collaborative approach to problem-solving, the Director, People Operations will drive impact and foster a culture that is grounded in Justice, Equity, Inclusion & Diversity (JEDI).

The Director, People Operations will report to the Chief People Officer and be responsible for the review, management and continuous improvement of the HRIS, HR Specialists, Compensation & Benefits, Knowledge Management and People Analytics functions. Currently a team of 5, you will the ability to add the necessary resources to build and scale a high performing team that addresses the needs of our internal and external partners.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the People team and the Chief People Officer to align People Operations to strategic impact goals focused on operational excellence and building capacity.

• Ensure the HRIS system, reporting systems, data and all the technical tools that underpin the work of the People team are current, efficient, and effectively serve internal and external partners.

• Anticipate and understand where bottlenecks occur and develop solutions to eliminate them.

• Manage all ongoing training around HR tools, systems, and processes.

• Oversee training on compliance issues such as sexual harassment and other topics.

• Oversee technology evaluation, conduct needs assessments and manage the selection, negotiation, and contract process for HR technology solutions.

• Plan and manage high-profile projects, managing timelines and coordination with stakeholders and associated communication within a highly collaborative environment.

• With the team, oversee strong human resources programs and benefits across the employee lifecycle from onboarding to exit and ensure that policies and management and employee actions are consistent with applicable laws and regulations.

• Contribute to the success of the Human Resources department by leading and participating in cross-organizational projects and committees as needed.

• Coach, mentor and manage a team and anticipate future staffing needs to scale and meet the needs of internal and external partners.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Passion for the Tides mission and its core values of Respect, Accountability, Creativity, Equity and Empowerment.

• An experienced systems builder and leader of change and transformation.

• Exposure to and depth of knowledge in all areas of Human Resources, including recruitment, talent development, performance management and compensation.

• Innovative thought leadership, eager to explore and build new systems, processes, and approaches to organizational challenges.

• Detail oriented and rigorous project management skills to build and implement new systems and processes.

• Committed to engaging, growing and developing a diverse team through a culture of feedback, accountability, and recognition.

• Welcomes a fast pace of work and changing cadences; flexible and adaptable.

• Strong customer-service and servant leadership approach to both internal and external clients.

• Demonstrated experience successfully planning and managing high profile projects and associated communication within a highly collaborative environment.

• Devotion to growing one’s own cultural competence and willing to actively engage in the Tides commitment to integrate justice and equity in all facets of its work.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop strong relationships across a diverse spectrum of stakeholders.

• Diplomatic and respectful approach to problem solving; ability to consistently interact with others in a professional and courteous manner, maintain a positive attitude and good working relationships, and work effectively in a team setting.

• Skilled at building and sustaining excellent relationships and ability to partner with senior leaders and other managers to evaluate and resolve employee-related issues.

• Strong ability to connect, build bridges, and foster trust.

Education & Experience

• 10+ years experience in HR roles.

• 8+ years expertise in leading People systems, technology and operations functions.

• 5+ years people management experience in HR Operations.

• Thrives in a fast-paced working environment, comfortable with ambiguity.

• The successful candidate will possess superior change management skills and experience combined with a service expansion/innovation mindset and partner service delivery excellence to ensure organizational needs are met and new processes and policies are successfully and consistently adopted across all functions.

At Tides, we value the unique background, experience and perspective each Tides team member brings to our work each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match to the requirements outlined above, we hope you’ll still consider applying.

Compensation & Benefits

Tides offers a competitive annual salary for this role commensurate with qualifications and experience. Tides also offers a generous benefits package including comprehensive healthcare, paid time off, life and disability insurances, and confidential counseling and life balance resources designed to support the passion and energy they look for in team members.

Timeline to Hire:

The application deadline is September 9, 2022 and applications received by that date will be given priority but we will accept applications until the position is filled.  Zoom interviews with the Koya team will take place mid-August through mid-September. Zoom interviews with the Tides hiring committee will take place from late-September through mid-October and we anticipate extending an offer by the end of October.

How To Apply

Koya Partners, the executive search firm that specializes in mission-driven search, has been exclusively retained for this engagement. Molly Brennan and Karen Yetman Rea are leading the search. To express interest in this role, please submit your materials here:

https://talent-profile.diversifiedsearchgroup.com/search/v2/18603

All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.

Koya Partners is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals living with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual living with a disability and need assistance expressing interest online, please email NonprofitSearchOps@divsearch.com. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

Tides is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions.

Also pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For applicants with disabilities, reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

About Koya Partners

Koya Partners, a part of Diversified Search Group, is a leading executive search and strategic advising firm dedicated to connecting exceptionally talented people with mission-driven clients. Our founding philosophy—The Right Person in the Right Place Can Change the World—guides our work as we partner with nonprofits & NGOs, institutions of higher education, responsible businesses, and social enterprises in local communities and around the world.

For more information about Koya Partners, visit www.koyapartners.com.

The Organization

About the Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation seeks to catalyze transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

Jeff Skoll, the first employee and first President of eBay, created the Skoll Foundation in 1999 to pursue his vision of a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all. The Foundation is part of the Jeff Skoll Group, which also includes Participant (formerly known as Participant Media) and the Capricorn Investment Group.

The Foundation aspires to fundamentally shift the trajectory on urgent global problems including pandemics and global health systems, racial justice, climate change, effective governance, and inclusive economies. The Foundation does this by connecting social innovators around the world, investing in their solutions, and championing their work. The Foundation is committed to finding new ways to streamline its operations and support the organization as it drives transformational social change globally. Learn more about the Skoll Foundation at www.skoll.org.

Position Description

During an exciting period of growth for the Skoll Foundation, the Sr. Manager or Associate Director, Strategy will take a leadership role in advancing the goals and impact of the Foundation. A key member of the Strategy and Learning Office, this person will help manage the strategic planning process and lead key strategic initiatives incubated within the team. This person will define, facilitate and coordinate strategy development and management for the Foundation.

The position reports to the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), with dotted line relationship to the Director, Strategy and will work closely with the Skoll Foundation’s senior leadership. This is a cross-functional role that collaborates across multiple teams and departments, communicates across broad and diverse audiences, and drives strategic operations and initiatives across the organization. The Sr. Manager or Associate Director, Strategy will be a critical enabler for the organization to collectively move forward in driving lasting impact against our strategy. This person will maintain strong connections with external and internal stakeholders, including internal program departments, oversee a strategic prototyping practice and introduce new partnerships and initiatives within the organization.

To be successful, the Sr. Manager or Associate Director, Strategy should be excited to share their growth mindset with the Foundation, helping to drive strategic clarity while bringing others along. This person should be a demonstrated strategic thinker with strong leadership and problem-solving skills; a known team player, who displays humility, drive and a passion for the work of the Skoll Foundation.

Candidates for either a Senior Manager or Associate Director will be considered for this opportunity, based on experience.

How To Apply

Applicants

Sr. Mgr or Associate Director, Strategy

The Skoll Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

Click the “Apply” button to submit your resume and cover letter. In your cover letter indicate your passion for the mission and your fit for the role. We will contact qualified applicants.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the ADA and related state laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the company. Please contact hr@skoll.org if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

The Organization

When you Join Alight, you’ll find…

• A team with deep experience in co-designing solutions that create new value around the world. We know we need to always be better, and we believe in the power and abundance of everyday people, everywhere, to change the world with us.

• A culture of radical accountability to our customers –as we help build a meaningful life for and with the displaced, we ask them what they want and then deliver on it.

• An organization that refuses to settle for anything less than delivering human-worthy services.

If you are looking to be part of a living, breathing, ever-changing organization full of disrupters and doers, then read on!

We Are Alight

We are and always have been about amazing global citizens taking action to change our world. Forty years ago, Chicago businessman Neal Ball recruited a volunteer relief team who deployed to the Thai-Cambodian border. Even in the face of terrible tragedy, that first team was characterized by their incredible energy and belief that anything was possible.

In 2019, we took the next big step on a journey to unleash and put into action that same abundant belief. American Refugee Committee became Alight. We’re the same organization with the same people doing the same critical work – providing health care and clean water, shelter, protection, and economic opportunity to more than 3.5 million people in 19 countries each year. But in solidarity with the people we serve who are too often defined by a single dark moment in their lives, we’ve dropped the label ‘refugee.’

Alight sees and helps every person make meaningful change in the world – from displaced and marginalized communities in Africa, Asia and the Americas to…anyone, anywhere.

Position Overview

Hello Hello! So, you’re interested in joining us? Welcome, we’re happy you’re here.

The Opportunity

Now three years into our transformation from American Refugee Committee to Alight, we are at an exciting moment with new leadership and a new strategy. We are hiring a new executive leadership role – a Chief Marketing and Engagement Officer (CMEO) – to lead the next chapter of our brand evolution, raise the visibility of Alight, increase private giving, build strategic partnerships, and set Alight apart in the market. This person will oversee Alight’s communications, fundraising, advocacy, and partnerships teams; will sit on the five-person executive leadership team; and reports directly to CEO Jocelyn Wyatt.

We’re seeking someone with a background in strategic communications, someone who brings creativity to profile building and fundraising, a person who loves donor and partner engagement, and someone who is a strong leader of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams. Key responsibilities include:

Strategic Communications and Marketing

• Partner with the CEO, COO, and leaders across the organization to set Alight’s global communications vision, strategy, direction, and priorities.

• Lead the creation and development of robust marketing and communications plans and programs, lead effective systems and processes, and manage a budget of $3-$3.5million/year.

• Inspire, define, and nurture a future-forward understanding across the organization and position advocacy campaigns, engagement activities, and communications to both attract new opportunities and advance Alight’s impact in a global market.

• Provide overall creative direction for the brand expression of Alight and steward our brand in the humanitarian and development sectors and philanthropic community.

• Expand Alight’s influence and position us as an expert and thought leader by initiating and leading productive alliances with media, marketing organizations, industry groups, forums, and strategic networks; facilitating media placements, publicity opportunities, and digital engagement; and securing writing and speaking engagements for the organization.

• As a key voice and senior leader, represent Alight in pitches, social gatherings, annual galas, and internally and externally facing events and activities.

Fundraising and Partnership Development

• Hold accountability for unrestricted and restricted private giving through the annual fund and individual donor management.

• Develop comprehensive fundraising plans that effectively engage individual donors, major gifts, corporate donors, and philanthropy.

• Architect effective donor and partner engagement strategies to expand Alight’s financial support base, grow a network of influential friends and allies, and cultivate Board giving and active engagement in fundraising efforts.

• Lead collaboration between Alight’s global communications, fundraising, partnerships, advocacy, and country teams.

• Closely collaborate with country teams to identify and bring in external collaborators, build strategic partnerships, and align fundraising campaigns and partnerships with Alight’s strategic goals and priorities.

Team Building and Leadership

• Build a high-performing, resilient, and optimally leveraged multidisciplinary team of 15.

• Assess, optimize, and design collaborative, responsive relationships between global communications, fundraising, partnerships, advocacy, and country teams.

• Facilitate an inclusive workplace that emphasizes leadership development, career development, and collaboration.

• Establish a culture of innovation by exploring new systems, leveraging external collaborators and partners, and integrating best practices to position Alight as an innovator, change-maker, and disrupter in a crowded market.

Candidate Profile

Like our clients, supporters, and global community, we all bring unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives into the world. We believe everyone has the potential for success and recognize a range of skills and experiences that will complement our team. While candidates might not have experience in every responsibility outlined in the position profile, successful candidates will demonstrate these fundamental qualities, skills, and characteristics:

Mission Focus

A mission-motivated leader, you are attracted to a global organization that sees possibility instead of scarcity, that provides services that transcend the status quo of “good enough,” and who deeply believes that we can inspire and unleash the abundance in every person. Our mission inspires you to leverage your professional skills and experiences to help us build an extraordinary platform of people and organizations that provide lifesaving services and breakthrough solutions for and with the displaced. At your core, you believe that your work can and will amplify Alight’s impact in developing innovative solutions and approaches for the displaced and enable a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose.

Strategic Storytelling and Brand Positioning

A big-picture thinker, you possess extensive experience harnessing the power of storytelling to effectively reach diverse audiences and inspire action. You deploy an audience-centered approach to engaging constituents and partners, develop engagement strategies and activities that appeal to global audiences, and align marketing, communications, and fundraiser campaigns with the broader brand narrative and organizational priorities. Through authentic, innovative storytelling, you craft compelling and authentic narratives, represent the stories and histories of your organization and end users and effectively position your organization for action and impact.

Adaptive Leadership

A systems thinker, you value evidence-based learning; leverage data and analytics to evaluate, measure, monitor, and refine strategic plans; balance competing priorities; and use institutional knowledge to find innovative ways to address challenges and leverage opportunity. Responsive to both our changing world and its impact on your organization’s business needs, you effectively manage organizational and team priorities, set measurable goals and objectives, and hold yourself and others accountable for delivering results. A creative problem solver and generative thinker, you build adaptive, agile campaigns; capitalize on emerging opportunities, and simultaneously drive forward your organization’s short and long-term goals and objectives.

Supporter and Partnership Engagement

A seasoned professional, you understand how to meet the needs of a diverse supporter base. You use data and analytics to segment audiences and turn these insights into effective donor and advocacy campaigns. You engage end users, partners, collaborators, and the broader community to understand their perspectives, challenge their thinking, and inspire connectivity and action. As a leader who values and honors the power of human connections, you cultivate authentic relationships and create compelling narratives, campaigns, and engagement activities that generate connection, trust, and commitment.

Leadership Through Influence

As a leader, you love to make new connections with your staff and have demonstrated success leading high-performing, multigenerational teams. You differentiate your leadership to encourage a diverse workplace characterized by collaboration and mutual respect. You lean into challenges, lead with a solutions-oriented mindset, listen compassionately, and challenge and mentor your team to achieve elevated levels of success.   You see yourself as a leader, coach, and mentor who shares both accountability and success, serves as an ally and ambassador for your team and champions your staff across the organization and in the market.

In addition, strong candidates will offer:

• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally 30%.

• Global experience and cross-cultural leadership experience are preferred.

• Experience telling and affirming stories of refugees, displaced, or other marginalized communities is preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this position begins in the $230,000 range and is commensurate with experience. Additionally, we are proud to highlight:

• Borderless Team of 2,500 staff worldwide that sees possibility, celebrates moments of abundance, shares new ideas, and strives to do a better thing every day.

• Family Friendly – We know that you are a whole person with a life and a family. We honor this. In return, we expect that you will take ownership of your work and follow-through on your commitments; sometimes that means flexing your schedule and we’re good with that.

• Learning & Development – Access thousands of free online learning courses to take at your own pace and tailor to your professional goals.

• Health, dental, and MedEvac Insurance – We strive to offer the best-in-class healthcare plans to our staff each year.  We cover 100% of the cost for your health premium and 75% of the cost for coverage for your spouse/dependents.

• Retirement – We contribute 6% of your salary regardless of your contribution amount, after one year of service.

• Generous Leave Time – Between vacation days, personal leave days, and holidays, you have ample opportunity to take time off when you need it.

COVID POLICY

To ensure our safety and the safety of our staff and associates (including volunteers, incentive workers, and consultants) Alight is requiring vaccination to access US offices and workspaces. For staff and associates with vaccination concerns, our Alight Facilities Health and Safety Team, will be available for open dialogue and to discuss alternative work and operations options.

Alight is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status.  Alight complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

We strive to represent the diverse communities we serve. Applicants who contribute to this diversity and those who bring lived experience with displacement are strongly encouraged to apply.

How To Apply

Contact

Koya Partners, the executive search firm that specializes in mission-driven search, has been exclusively retained for this engagement. Molly Brennan and Malissa Brennan of Koya Partners have been exclusively retained for this search. To express interest in this role please submit your materials here (https://apptrkr.com/3272802). All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.

Koya Partners is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals living with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual living with a disability and need assistance expressing interest online, please email NonprofitSearchOps@divsearch.com. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

About Koya Partners

Koya Partners, a part of Diversified Search Group, is a leading executive search and strategic advising firm dedicated to connecting exceptionally talented people with mission-driven clients. Our founding philosophy—The Right Person in the Right Place Can Change the World—guides our work as we partner with nonprofits & NGOs, institutions of higher education, responsible businesses, and social enterprises in local communities and around the world.

For more information about Koya Partners, visit www.koyapartners.com.

The Organization

Since its founding in 1983, the Sacramento Region Community Foundation (the Foundation) has focused on connecting people who care with causes that matter. As the Sacramento region’s primary provider of philanthropic services, the Foundation brings together caring donors, local nonprofits, business leaders and community members to contribute both financial resources and innovative ideas that affect change. By managing charitable giving, this organization supports donors in El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties with achieving their philanthropic goals.

As the Foundation prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the organization manages more than 700 charitable funds for local families, businesses and nonprofits across the Sacramento region. Most of these funds are permanently endowed, and total assets have grown to over $200 million. Grants are directed by the Foundation fundholders according to their interests. Annual grants awarded to nonprofit organizations from these charitable funds have grown from $272,900 in 1983 to over $18 million in 2021, and more than $200 million since the Foundation’s inception.

The Sacramento region is composed of numerous fast growing and diverse communities. As in other communities, Covid-19 has spotlighted the systemic challenges that exist in this region. By increasing philanthropy and connecting the expertise of local nonprofits to addressing wider community outcomes, the Foundation works toward improved community resilience with a focus on dynamic leadership, inclusion and equity.

Position Overview

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation seeks a Chief Executive Officer who is a bold leader, passionate about serving the people of the four-county region and determined to move the organization forward during this period of significant transition. This leader will work collaboratively with constituents, stakeholders, community leaders, partners, donors, fundholders, Board and staff in a dynamic operating environment and rapidly changing region to ensure that everyone can prosper and reach their full potential.

Candidates will demonstrate a career path of progressive leadership and management experience in the nonprofit, corporate and/or government sectors. This person is a proven leader who has significant experience in growing the capacity and impact of an organization that focuses on complex, systemic issues.

An ability and desire to raise private contributions, while expanding and diversifying the Foundation’s donor base is necessary. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to operate effectively within a nonprofit governing environment.

The salary range for this position annually is between $225,000 and $275,000 and will be commensurable with experience. The comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental, vision, group life insurance, a 401(k) plan and EAP benefits program. The Foundation observes ten paid holidays each year and offers Paid Time Off as well as Sick Leave.

The Foundation is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in employment. All candidates who are passionate about the mission of the Foundation are strongly encouraged to apply.

How To Apply

To apply, submit a current resume and letter of introduction, as soon as possible, to Kittleman & Associates, LLC at https://bit.ly/3v8MSy6 (click on the Apply button at the bottom of the page).  

For more information about the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, visit https://www.sacregcf.org/.

The Organization

About Ascendium 

Ascendium is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has helped millions of learners pursue postsecondary education since 1967, when we were formed to help fulfill the promise of the landmark Higher Education Act of 1965. Over the years, we’ve grown to become the nation’s largest federal student loan guarantor, providing information, tools and counseling to help millions of borrowers nationwide avoid default and keep the door to reenrollment open. We also conceive and develop innovative products and services that support academic achievement, financial wellness and student loan repayment success and invest in studying and improving postsecondary education practices through our philanthropy.

We use the net proceeds from our guaranty services and other operations to fund our philanthropy. The Philanthropy team comprises program, grants management, and learning and impact staff who all have a shared commitment to advancing our philanthropic mission of elevating opportunities for learners from low-income backgrounds so they can achieve postsecondary educational and career success. Our grantmaking focuses on transforming postsecondary education and workforce training systems so they can support low-income populations, especially those in historically underrepresented groups, including first-generation students, incarcerated adults, rural community members, students of color and veterans. Currently, our philanthropy focuses on removing structural barriers to success, streamlining key learner transitions, expanding postsecondary education in prison and supporting rural postsecondary education and workforce training. Across these four focus areas, our funding supports innovative ideas, the creation of an evidence base and the expansion and replication of effective practices.

Position Overview

We’re growing and need your help to take our grantmaking strategy to the next level! In the newly created Senior Learning and Impact Officer position, you’ll lead grantmaking that builds rigorous, relevant and useful evidence about policies, practices and programs that warrant scaling. This will ensure that we, as well as policymakers and practitioners, know and act on the best evidence when making critical decisions about initiatives and reforms that will improve outcomes for learners from low-income backgrounds.

This position is based in Madison, Wisconsin, at our new, state-of-the-art headquarters. You’ll have a hybrid schedule, working both in the office and remotely. You’ll also have opportunities to travel to conferences, grantee events and other forums.

Job Responsibilities 

Your day-to-day activities may include the following.

Validation Grantmaking Strategy 

• In partnership with the director of learning and impact, leading investments in validation grants. (Validation grants are grants to support independent third-party evaluations that focus on determining reforms’ effectiveness and on identifying the conditions and elements that contribute to success.)
• In partnership with the director of learning and impact, further developing and refining our grantmaking strategy and infrastructure to support investing in evaluations that examine workforce and postsecondary education reforms’ effectiveness (with methods that support causal inference) and implementation.
• Further developing and embedding our commitment to equity into our validation grantmaking strategy and execution.
• Identifying and prioritizing opportunities for third-party evaluation that use mixed methods, in consultation with program officers representing our four funding focus areas and with the field. This may include designing, commissioning and overseeing literature reviews to assess the current evidence and guide future evaluation efforts.

Validation Grantmaking and Stewardship 

• Sourcing and reviewing grant proposals for validation grants aligned to our focus areas and presenting them for funding consideration to Ascendium leadership and board members.
• Managing a portfolio of validation grants, which includes working with grantees to develop and register pre-analysis plans and reviewing reports to monitor progress and ensure adherence to standards of research quality and transparency.
• Providing strategic support to validation grantees through the sharing of best practices and connecting grantees to other resources necessary to help them succeed.

Field Leadership 

• Representing Ascendium’s education philanthropy and actively sharing lessons learned from funded evaluations for the benefit of our partners and the broader field by presenting at conferences and engaging in networks, workgroups and advisories.
• Coordinating with the Strategic Communications team to ensure findings from validation grants are shared through our media channels.
• Partnering with focus area colleagues to plan and execute Ascendium-led convenings that feature evaluation findings.
• Developing relationships and partnerships with national and regional funders of evaluations.
• Staying abreast of and contributing to evaluation in the broader philanthropic field.

Other Responsibilities 

• Contributing to the review of grant applications that include other types of evaluations at the request of individual program officers and/or philanthropy leadership.
• Advising on third-party evaluations of grant clusters, grant initiatives and philanthropic strategy advanced by other Learning and Impact team members.
• Collaborating with the director of learning and impact to establish priorities for administrative budget planning.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements 

• A highly qualified candidate will possess the following.
• Knowledge equivalent to a master’s degree, Ph.D. or Ed.D. in education, education policy, economics, public policy, sociology or another relevant social field.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in evaluation and research, ideally in workforce or higher education.
• Knowledge and experience with mixed-methods evaluations that use quantitative methods to make causal inferences, including randomized controlled trials, regression discontinuity designs and quasi-experimental designs that use propensity score matching and other methods.
• Capacity to create and build new systems, practices and cultures to support making investments in and learning from rigorous and relevant evaluations.
• Ability to work cooperatively and inclusively with others to achieve shared goals.
• Effective interpersonal skills exemplified by initiative, diplomacy, a positive attitude and professionalism.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to a fast-paced, continually evolving work environment.
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolution, including in the position’s roles and responsibilities.
• Strong project management skills with a demonstrated ability to execute and follow through to achieve intended results by honoring commitments, prioritizing work and managing time and resources well.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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