The newest posting on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from New Profit, Inc:
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.
The newest position on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Root Capital:
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.
The newest position on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Better World Books (an investee of Good Capital):
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.
The newest posting on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from The Jenesis Group:
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.
The newest posting on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from the Center for Effective Philanthropy.
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.
The newest posting from the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from New Profit, Inc.
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.
The most recent posting on the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Civic Ventures:
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.
The newest posting to the Tactical Philanthropy Job Board comes from Future Leaders of America:
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 29, 2008 – 11:46 am
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.
April 29, 2008 – 11:43 am
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.
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.
