Category Archives: Philanthropy Jobs

Nonprofit Job

From the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board:

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.

Nonprofit Job

From the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board:

Global Donor Program Specialist
TechSoup.org

If you are a project or product manager with international interest and a desire to better the world, we may have the position for you! We are seeking a talented, enthusiastic, socially minded individual to expand the offerings of our highly successful technology donation program. You’ll also be a core member of a team developing strategies to grow efficiently while maximizing our impact on global civil society. If you are interested in challenging projects, international exposure, and making a difference in the world, this could be the job of a lifetime!

Click here to read the full details.

Social Media Job

One of the more interesting jobs posted to the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Change.org:

Want to blog on an issue you are passionate about for an audience of hundreds of thousands of activists and nonprofit leaders? Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action?

Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time.

Positions are part-time and paid.

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action.

You can find all the details here.

Nonprofit Job

TechSoup, a regular poster to the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board, has a new job opening:

Partner Management Specialist
If you have experience in managing multi-national partner alliances and would like to leverage your talents to better the world, we may have the position for you. We are seeking a talented, enthusiastic, socially minded individual to support our global network of partner NGOs. You will play a key role in developing the strategies to grow efficiently while maximizing our impact on global civil society. If you are interested in challenging projects, international exposure, and making a difference in the world, this could be the job of a lifetime!

Click here for details.

Social Enterprise Job

A new job posting on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Louder Than Words:

Louder Than Words, a Waltham-based boutique PR agency, seeks an accomplished communications professional with the management experience to direct client accounts, and the “PR 2.0” experience required to orchestrate strategic campaigns using the social Web.

ABOUT THE AGENCY: Louder Than Words’ mission is to communicate the inspirational stories of organizations and individuals to the world. We provide PR consulting and services to foundations, nonprofits, and businesses that are philanthropically minded, community-driven, and socially responsible. As a small shop, we emphasize team building, professional development, mutual respect, and fun – the requisite conditions to ensure we are communicating “good.”

You can click here for details.

Foundation Job

The newest job on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from the Ford Foundation:

Web Technology Architect

The Ford Foundation is a private philanthropic institution that serves as a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Our goals are to: Strengthen democratic values; reduce poverty and injustice; promote international cooperation; advance human achievement. This has been our purpose for almost half a century.

This is a completely redefined position within the Office of Communications, reflecting a new emphasis on the value of technology in communicating and interacting more effectively with key audiences. The Web Technology Architect reports to the Manager of Web Strategy and works closely with that role to plan and implement the engineering and database components of all web projects.

Working in collaboration with the full Office of Communications team, the technologist will be responsible for recommending and implementing internet technologies that are consistent with the support and advance the broader communication objectives and strategy…

…The Web Technology Architect will also play a thinking and advisory role for the foundation on how the external website can best be integrated with other foundation systems and with third party technologies in ways that advance the foundation’s mission.

You can find all the details on the job here.

Foundation Job

The newest listing on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from ZeroDivide:

Director of Community Investment

ZeroDivide™ invests in community enterprises that leverage technology to benefit low income and other underserved communities.

We are seeking to hire a Director of Community Investment with a proven track record of managing a successful team in a social enterprise, business unit, and/or philanthropic program. Paid experience in a senior position in one or more of the fields of: social enterprise, venture philanthropy, and/or technology is preferred.

Click here to read the full details.

Nonprofit Job

A new social media job at a nonprofit magazine is on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board:

Web Manager

FRIENDS JOURNAL, a nonprofit monthly Quaker magazine, seeks a web manager for www.friendsjournal.org. This is a contract position and can be performed remotely.

Responsibilities:
* Work closely with the publisher and executive editor, associate publisher, director of advancement, and art department to understand FRIENDS JOURNAL style and to further the work of fundraising, promotion, and delivery of content and service to readers.
* Update content of website monthly as determined by the publisher and executive editor and senior editor, including posting articles from current and upcoming issues, updating bios and intern listings as needed, maintaining secure forms, and performing miscellaneous changes and updates to the site upon request.
* Add new features to website in consultation with the publisher and executive editor and other staff, making suggestions for enhancements as appropriate.

Click here to find the full details on the job.

Social Media Nonprofit Job

Some interesting jobs being posted on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board recently. This one from from Change.org.

Change.org is seeking a Managing Editor for its forthcoming social action blog network, which will be launched in the summer of 2008.

Change.org’s Managing Editor will lead an effort to hire and oversee a team of several dozen expert bloggers who will be writing about the most important issues facing our world – ranging from global warming to hunger to health care.

In addition to managing a team of part-time writers, responsibilities will include establishing relationships with other media outlets, interacting with the hundreds of nonprofits active on Change.org, identifying and helping to promote activist campaigns, and part-time blogging. The position is full-time and pay is competitive.

If you’re looking for a job with significant responsibility, excited about the thrill of working at a start-up, and passionate about using the internet to advance social change, this might be the perfect opportunity for you.

Applicants should have experience in the nonprofit/activist space as well with blogging or journalism. Otherwise, we encourage anyone to apply – regardless of age or location. We’re more interested in someone who can take this position and run with it than someone who fits a particular mold.

You can find the details on this job here.

Philanthropy Job

The newest job opening listed on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Give2Asia.

President & CEO

Give2Asia (www.give2asia.org) is a public charity that encourages and facilitates charitable giving to meet needs in Asia by providing personalized services to donors and recipients. Founded by The Asia Foundation, Give2Asia helps overcome the common challenges associated with giving overseas. With a flexible menu of custom giving options, Give2Asia provides individuals, families, corporations, donor advised funds, and foundations the tools for fulfilling their charitable goals in Asia. Give2Asia and its overseas program advisors make philanthropy to Asia convenient, accountable, effective, and tax deductible. In its first seven years Give2Asia has served more than 3000 clients in the United States and Canada who have made possible more than $80 million in donor-advised gifts for projects throughout Asia. Give2Asia has a full-time staff of 11 in San Francisco and 3 in Beijing. Give2Asia cooperates closely with The Asia Foundation and its network of 17 country offices in Asia, as well as its own advisors, to bring on-the-ground expertise and value to the philanthropy of its donors: conducting due diligence, researching fields of interest, identifying grantees, and monitoring and reporting on grants. Give2Asia’s current annual operating budget is $2 million and it had total revenues last fiscal year of $30 million.

You can find all of the details about this job here.

Nonprofit Job

CompuMentor/TechSoup, the group that brings us NetSquared, has posted a job to the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board:

TechSoup.org seeks an experienced writer and editor to join our Knowledge Services department to provide information and support about the product donations offered on TechSoup Stock for an audience of nonprofits and libraries. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to participate in a creative, collaborative environment and use their technology know-how and writing skills to help social-benefit organizations. The staff writer will work closely with the Senior Editor and Director of Content for Knowledge Services.

You can find all the details here.

Philanthropy Job

The newest posting on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Foundation Source:

Foundation Source is a philanthropic services company that provides and administers private foundations from $250,000 to over $250 million. Our headquarters are in Fairfield, CT., about one hour outside of New York City. We currently have 750 clients and over $3 billion in assets under administration, and that number will likely double in the next few years. Many of our foundations are established by living donors who are successful entrepreneurs—they are exploring interesting and exciting new approaches to their philanthropy and Foundation Source helps them execute their ideas. The organization itself is still fairly young and entrepreneurial, and as such offers an ideal work environment for an individual who is highly motivated and looking for a position in a fast-paced, exciting environment.

Private Client Advisers (PCAs) are the single point of contact for a group of private foundations and their board members, staff, financial advisors, and other trusted counselors. The PCA guides clients through all aspects of Foundation Source services and must have the professional demeanor to become a trusted advisor in whom clients have great confidence. The PCA is the first line of support, and will become a very strong generalist in all aspects of running a private foundation—compliance, grants administration, governance, investments, taxes, etc. An ideal candidate would have spent time at a family foundation, family office or similar experience. Diplomacy, organizational skills and technology savvy are essential ingredients for a successful candidate. Salary starts at $60K with full benefits and potential for a year-end bonus.

You can see all of the details here.

Foundation Job

The James Irvine Foundation has listed a job opening on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board:

Program Associate-Youth
Reporting to the Youth Program Director, the Program Associate provides administrative and program-related support to the Youth Program to facilitate the grantmaking and grants-monitoring processes and to support relationship-building in the field. The Program Associate provides primary support for the Program Director, including schedule management and travel and logistical support, while assisting with coordination of the activities of the Youth Program team. The Program Associate may be involved in the initial screening of potential grantees, arranging and attending meetings with potential grantees, preparing docket materials, monitoring active grants and maintaining grants data and grant files, and ensures that all grantmaking under the Youth Program adheres to Foundation policies, procedures and deadlines.

You can find the full listing on the job board here.

Nonprofit Job

Nurse-Family Partnership (which I’ve pointed out before as being heavily supported by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and which GiveWell recently named as one of their grantees) is hiring for three positions that they’ve listed on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board.

National Director of Marketing & Communications
Develop and implement a comprehensive integrated marketing and communications strategy to support the organization’s goal of serving 100,000 low-income, first-time mothers by the year 2017 by generating visibility and positioning Nurse-Family Partnership as THE prevention program of choice across the country

Regional Program Development Team Leader
The purpose of the Regional Program Development Team Leader position is to assure that the team of Program Developers serving a particular region is successful expanding Nurse-Family Partnership services to reach more eligible families, and does so in a way that fosters high quality, sustainable program operations at the community level.

Program Developer
Enable states and communities in a particular region to implement Nurse-Family Partnership effectively and sustainably, with the goal of serving 100,000 low-income, first-time mothers nationally by the year 2017.

You can find these jobs and others on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board.

Ensemble Capital is Hiring

Those of you who are regular readers know that I am a partner in an investment management firm that serves philanthropic families. The last couple of years has been quite a ride as our growth and media exposure has increased.

Now we need some new people to join us. If you or anyone you know would be interested in either of the jobs listed below, email me a resume and cover letter. As a reader of Tactical Philanthropy, your interest in the conversation here has both directly and indirectly contributed to the success of Ensemble Capital. As always, thanks for reading and for everything you contribute to the conversation.

Investment Advisor

Ensemble Capital Management is looking for a research analyst/junior
portfolio manager to join our team. This is an ideal job for someone
who has experience in security analysis who would like to work with two
experienced investment advisors and grow into a senior advisor position
over time.

Ensemble Capital is a small (5 employees, $200 million under
management) but growing (30% growth last year with faster growth
expected in 2008) investment management firm in Burlingame, CA, which
focuses on serving philanthropic families. Our founding partner has 40+
years of experience in the investment management industry, including
the presidency of a regional brokerage firm. Our other managing partner
is a columnist for the Financial Times and authors one of the most
influential and widely read philanthropy blogs.

We are seeking an investment professional who can work with our two
portfolio managers to analyze financial markets, manage client
portfolios, provide outstanding customer service, and become a member
of our investment committee over time. Our firm provides both
traditional investment management and philanthropic planning services.
While knowledge of philanthropic tools is not required, we are looking
for someone who is willing to learn the process of integrated
philanthropic planning and wealth management.

You can find the details of this job listing here.

And just as important to our future success:

Investment Management Operations

Ensemble Capital Management is looking for an intelligent, driven
person with experience in investment management operations. We are in
the early stages of significant growth and would like to find someone
who can lead the build out of our operational infrastructure.

For this job, who you are is more important than what you know. We are
a small firm where every member of our team is willing take on whatever
tasks are needed to get the job done. This is not just a job, it is an
opportunity to help build a growing investment management firm with a
unique focus on philanthropic clients. We are looking for a
self-directed, ambitious individual who can handle the day-to-day
operations of the firm. While the day-to-day responsibilities are critical in the near term, the individual we hire must be able to direct and manage the expansion of our operational infrastructure. Over time, the job would include the management of administrative or operation associate-level employees.

You can find the details of this job listing here.