Today I’d like to post an interesting opening from the anonymous foundation that funded FORGE. At the time they laid out the reasons why they made the grant. I think this is an interesting, innovative group whose strategies would resonate with the Tactical Philanthropy Community. The job opening is below. If you are interested, shoot me an email and I’ll send you details.

About the Foundation:

The [deleted] Foundation is a family foundation based in Palo Alto, California. The Foundation invests in and serves social entrepreneurs and innovative organizations with a focus on poverty alleviation, and youth empowerment. Additionally, the Foundation seeks to engage and invite the philanthropic community, young people, and every-day citizens to better create lasting social change.

The [deleted] Foundation is not simply looking for individuals in need of employment; we are looking for passionate, dedicated people with a lifelong commitment to improving society. Being a part of the team will provide a unique opportunity to help shape a great foundation. Each team member will have an important role in developing the Foundation’s strategy, program design, and overall positioning in the field. Staff will assume an attitude of learning, a willingness to challenge ideas, and the courage to take risks. Staff will also be responsible for providing discipline and rigor to Foundation activities, in order to promote greater effectiveness.

Overview

The [deleted] Foundation is currently managed by a full-time family member, and is looking to build a small, nimble team (2-3) that can help to better achieve the Foundation’s objectives. These include:
– investing in solutions to poverty and programs which empower young people from marginalized communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world
– serving social entrepreneurs and other leaders through services which add value beyond the dollar
– engaging the philanthropic community to work in a more collaborative, informed, and effective manner
– inviting young people and every-day citizens to apply their talents and assets to improve the world around them
– building the field of social entrepreneurship, so as to promote a more developed marketplace of solutions for the world’s problems

Chief of Staff

New Profit is seeking an energetic, articulate, and passionate leader to join our team. The Chief of Staff provides high-level support to New Profit’s President, serving as a trusted advisor and resource, and critical link in the communication between the President and staff. The Chief of Staff acts as the “air traffic controller” for the organization, helping direct attention and resources to priority matters and ensuring effective leverage of the President and senior management team. The Chief of Staff also serves as an important resource internally on issues such as human resources, talent, operations, and organizational performance. This is a unique opportunity to work across all areas of the organization and play a central role in ensuring that New Profit achieves its mission and ambitious growth strategy. The Chief of Staff position is based in Cambridge, MA, and reports directly to the President.

You can find all the details here.

Program Director, Education and Learning Team

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation believes in the power of thriving children, growing up in stable families that are part of strong, vibrant communities. The Foundation is unwilling to accept a second-class future for the 30 million children in the United States growing up in families that can’t make ends meet; these are the children on the bottom rung of the economic ladder who end up in the lower tier on every possible indicator. Focusing significant grantmaking and programmatic resources in the areas of Family Income and Assets, Community Assets, Education and Learning, Food, Health, and Well-Being, and Civic and Philanthropic Engagement, the Kellogg Foundation works to strengthen families and communities to transform children’s immediate surroundings so that they can thrive.

Reporting directly to the Vice President for Programs, the Program Director, Education and Learning Team, is responsible for leadership and vision in program conceptualization, design, planning, management, coordination, communication, evaluation, policy and learning from programming efforts. Working in teams and in partnership with others, the Program Director will serve as a convener, collaborator, and catalyst, particularly in the areas of Foundation programming for new immigrant communities.

You can find all the details on the position here.

Global Social Engagement/Intern
Liquidnet

The Global Social Engagement (GSE) intern will assist in the program management for Liquidnet’s innovative CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) program. Reporting to the GSE manager, the intern will help manage specific projects supporting the company’s overall commitment to being socially engaged.

Started in 2007, Liquidnet’s GSE leverages all the resources of the company – from the nearly-unprecedented financial commitment of one percent of revenues to the time and expertise of employees – to make a positive impact in the broader global community and minimize the company’s environmental impact.

For full details, click here.

“Bolder Giving” Program Director
Zing Foundation

Bolder Giving is a creative, national nonprofit initiative that challenges and supports affluent people to give at their full potential.

We seek a mature and competent visionary to oversee Bolder Giving’s current programs (coaching, presentations, media and publications) and to help us develop and run new programs that promote bold giving.

For full details click here.

Event Associate
New Profit is seeking an energetic, articulate, analytical, and highly organized individual to support events planning full-time, primarily for New Profit’s annual signature event, the Gathering of Leaders. The Gathering brings together 50 world-class social entrepreneurs and approximately 100 other visionary leaders in business, philanthropy, academia, and government to catalyze the development of new ideas, relationships, and resources needed to advance a shared agenda and create transformative systems change. The next Gathering will be held in February 2009. Design, planning, and follow up for each Gathering is a year-long process, with a very intensive period of planning and execution occurring in the four months prior to the Gathering each year (November-February). During periods that do not require full-time attention on the Gathering, the Events Associate (Associate) will support other New Profit events and special projects as needed.

Since 1998, New Profit has helped a portfolio of social entrepreneurs build world-class organizations and scale their social impact. New Profit believes that just as entrepreneurship and invention have enabled our nation to create a productive, vibrant economy, so too can we harness America’s spirit of innovation, vision, and optimism to help solve our most pressing social problems. New Profit is working towards a day when innovative, proven solutions to our country’s most persistent social problems can be identified and grown in communities that need them. We believe that by helping to support new, entrepreneurial solutions, we can help to create widespread, transformative social change.

You can find all the details here.

Director, Foundation & Corporate Relations
Root Capital (formerly Ecologic Finance) is a nonprofit social enterprise that works at the critical nexus of international development and environmental stewardship. As a development finance institution, Root Capital provides affordable credit and financial education to environmentally, sustainable grassroots enterprises in the developing world. By working with small and medium enterprises (SME) such as organic coffee cooperatives and ecotourism enterprises, Root Capital aims to fill the “missing middle” of finance – the underserved gap between microfinance and mainstream finance. We target the rural poor, who account for 75% of extreme poverty in developing countries, by opening up global markets to very remote people who are generating wealth by creating jobs, building assets and increasing household incomes. Our support provides economic incentives to stay on the land (not migrate to over crowded cities), encourages sustainable production and farming practices; and helps to preserve valuable environments and ecosystems.

The Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations will manage Root Capital’s investor relations programs and working closely with and reporting directly to the Managing Director for Philanthropic Investments. Our strategic plan has established an ambitious fundraising program with an emphasis on building relationships with key partners including financial institutions, corporations, foundations, and high net-worth individuals. The goal is to increase our lending capital from $19 million in 2007 to over $57 million by 2011.

You can find all of the details here. Root Capital also has an opening for a development associate.

Vice President of Marketing
Better World Books … the “online bookstore with a soul”… is seeking a Vice President of Marketing to help us change the world through a new form of capitalism focused on people, planet and profit.

Founded in 2002, Better World Books is well past the start-up stage. We are a for-profit social enterprise that has a proven self-sustaining business model. With three physical locations, 170 employees, an inventory of over two million books, expansion underway to the UK, $4.0M in private equity and access to multi-million dollar credit facilities, its own e-retail site rapidly expanding to serve both domestic and international customers, Better World Books is poised to move from its current baseline of $20+ million in annual revenues to $100M+ and deliver $30M in direct funding in support of literacy (by 2012)
We seek a top-tier Marketing talent who shares our passion and dedication to helping create a better world……one book at a time.

The VP of Marketing will be a leader in the online used book market, driving integration of brand values across consumer and partner touch points, overseeing customer relationship growth and media relations, and providing tools and support for the book acquisitions team. He/she will provide strategic leadership to enhance BWB’s market leadership and social enterprise and innovation. The ideal candidate will have a track record of attracting and developing high performing teams and skill in brand development and differentiation, digital marketing, and partnership management. The VP of Marketing must exhibit courage and conviction to test, experiment and ultimately drive new business value and customer satisfaction.

You can find the details here.

Program Associate
Established in 1987, the Jenesis Group is a private family foundation bringing innovation and an entrepreneurial philosophy to philanthropy. Focusing their efforts on the education and development of youth & young adults in underserved communities, Jenesis has chosen Social Entrepreneurs as their change agent of choice to empower disadvantaged and/or at-risk youth to become productive citizens in our democratic society. The Jenesis Group considers it a privilege to include entrepreneurial organizations such as Ashoka, Year Up, College Summit, Sports4Kids, Latin American Youth Center and Positive Coaching Alliance amongst its list of impressive grantees. In addition to its diverse grantmaking programs, Jenesis seeks to leverage its impact by collaborating with like-minded individuals and organizations.

A new position created due to organizational growth, the Program Associate will provide integral support to a very small and highly functioning team. As such, the Program Associate will work closely with the Senior Program Officer to manage all administrative components of Jenesis’ grantmaking process, including reviewing and processing requests, ensuring accurate payment and accounting of grants, and providing comprehensive reports to senior management. This position provides an exciting opportunity to be involved in innovative and entrepreneurial grantmaking and offers room for professional growth.

You can find all the details here.

Manager, Client Relations
The Manager, Client Relations is an exciting and critical role that has been created due to organizational growth. It encompasses a broad set of responsibilities requiring analytical skills, client relationship experience and project management capabilities. Using CEP’s assessment tools and research, this person will develop and lead client relationships with some of the country’s largest foundations and will oversee execution of CEP’s data analysis, data generation and assessment tool creation efforts by leading cross-functional project teams. This person will report to the Vice President, Assessment Tools and will directly manage Research Analysts.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) works with funders to help them more effectively address society’s most pressing needs. Specifically, CEP provides data and creates insight, so philanthropic funders can better define, assess, and improve their effectiveness and impact. Since receiving initial funding in 2001, CEP has produced widely referenced research reports on foundation performance assessment, governance, and funder-grantee relationships. CEP has created new data sets relevant to foundation leaders and hosted highly regarded programming focused on key issues related to foundation effectiveness. CEP has also developed new, widely used assessment tools. More than 150 funders have used CEP’s assessment tools – and have implemented significant changes on the basis of what they have learned. CEP works primarily with the largest five hundred foundations in the country, including the Gates, Rockefeller, Hewlett, and MacArthur Foundations among others. CEP is a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, MA.

You can find all the details here.

Portfolio Analyst
Organization: Since 1998, New Profit has helped a portfolio of social entrepreneurs build world-class organizations and scale their social impact. New Profit believes that just as entrepreneurship and invention have enabled our nation to create a productive, vibrant economy, so too can we harness America’s spirit of innovation, vision, and optimism to help solve our most pressing social problems. With the support of individual investors and our signature partner, Monitor Group, New Profit provides multi-year financial and strategic support to a portfolio of social entrepreneurs working in education, youth development, workforce development, and other areas. In addition, we bring together social innovators from across sectors at the annual Gathering of Leaders, and also drive other initiatives to release the potential of social entrepreneurship. Included among these is America Forward, a coalition of more than 60 social entrepreneurs and high-impact organizations that have come together to present presidential candidates and policymakers with a new and transformative way to solve the difficult social problems facing our nation.

Position Overview: The Portfolio Analyst is an essential role that encompasses a broad set of responsibilities requiring analytical skills, project management capabilities, and general research abilities. This person will work closely with the New Profit Portfolio Management Team, representatives from New Profit portfolio organizations and other relevant external stakeholders. The key responsibilities fall into four main categories:

• Support pipeline development—includes ongoing research and logistical support to develop a strong, robust pipeline of potential portfolio organizations.
• Participate in due diligence process—includes research and interviews to assess the attractiveness of candidate organizations as new portfolio investments.
• Contribute to quarterly reports for management and Board—requires participating in the quarterly data collection process and managing the logistics of analyzing and evaluating that data, culminating in writing summaries and reports for Board members and other external audiences
• Assist with cross-portfolio learning and portfolio support—includes providing research and analytical support to New Profit partners in their work with portfolio organizations as new opportunities and challenges arise, and facilitating the portfolio organizations’ ability to access all New Profit learnings and best practices through cross portfolio learning sessions

You can find the details here.

Director Web Services
Civic Ventures, an innovative and influential national nonprofit working to transform the aging of America into an opportunity for social renewal, seeks an exceptional individual with superb managerial and technical Web-based skills to head up a three-person Web department responsible for the organization’s multiple public and internal Web sites.

The Director of Web Services works with the organization’s senior management team to leverage social networks and information technology to advance the organization’s strategy and support its projects.

The Director of Web Services builds and leads a high-performance Web team that integrates existing and emerging technologies and best practices to create a vibrant and compelling online presence. The director coordinates feature and function launches and upgrades, as well as periodic overhauls and redesigns, for the organization’s Web sites, compelling user experience and high-quality presentation.

You can find all the details here.

Executive Director
Interested in inspiring young people to develop leadership skills and become engaged citizens?
We are now seeking an outstanding individual to lead our Latino youth leadership program that has a 26-year history of successfully implementing a peer-to-peer mentorship model. Future Leaders of America is based in Ventura, California, and has historically offered programs from the Bay area to San Diego. The Executive Director is responsible for the overall administration and management of Future Leaders of America, including service programs, fund-raising, and business operations related to achieving the organizational mission.

You can find all the details here.

Communications Manager
Social Venture Partners Seattle

Social Venture Partners Seattle is seeking a Communications Manager. The Communications Manager will be responsible for efficiently managing Social Venture Partner’s strategic communications and brand. These strategies will result in an informed and engaged community of donors and non-profit organizations. We hope to increase our visibility in the community as a recognized contributor– building better philanthropists, strengthening nonprofits, and positively impacting our community. We will improve and accelerate our efforts at reaching out to the community and strengthening the diversity and cultural competency of SVP.

We are not able to change the world on our own. However, we would like to be a part of that change – as a follower, catalyst, convener, and sometimes a leader. The Communications Manager will help us achieve this goal through the dissemination of best practices, knowledge, and thoughts on the advancement of the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

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Senior Program Executive
United Jewish Appeal Federations of New York

UJA-Federation of New York’s Jewish Leadership Forum (JLF) offers current and future leaders of the Jewish community, between the ages of 30 and 50, both locally through federations and nationally through United Jewish Communities, a venue for sharing ideas, exchanging views, and developing initiatives in both entrepreneurial and organized ways. The audience comprises donors and prospects with major giving capacity.

The senior program executive (SPE) will be responsible for developing innovative giving opportunities for JLF. The SPE will manage two venture philanthropy funds, including donor development and grant research and management. In addition, the SPE will create new giving models and philanthropic opportunities, including developing new funds. The SPE will also work with JLF and the Emerging Leaders and Philanthropist teams to cultivate high-end donors, and may take on management responsibilities as the position develops.

You can read the details here.