Council on Foundations

Senior Manager, Projects and Strategy

Council on Foundations

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $115,100 - $128,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • **PRIMARY JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES **
  • **Building Common Ground (60%) **
  • - Manage a multi-pronged initiative that supports community foundations to implement community-based projects to connect and collaborate across differences, including a grant portfolio, learning and storytelling agenda, as well as preconference convenings
  • - Lead the implementation of virtual discussion series that highlights leading thinkers and their ideas for how we can come together, not apart.
  • - Support programming offered in collaboration with external partners, such as Communicating Across Divides: A Facilitation Intensive
  • - Work with the Executive Vice President to build internal capacity to implement building common ground related offerings.
  • **Strategy and Special Projects (20%) **
  • - Supports the Executive Vice President to advance strategy related priorities and translate strategy into organizational process and policy
  • - Manage a variety of projects that advance the priorities of the Strategy, Learning, and Leadership team in coordination with both internal stakeholders and external members and partners
  • **Administrative (20%) **
  • - Contribute to overarching organizational goals by participating in cross-functional working groups.

Requirements

  • **QUALIFICATIONS**
  • - 7 years of related experience managing projects.
  • - 3 years of experience managing a grant-making process, preferred.
  • **POSITION SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES **
  • - Strong project management skills, including the ability to positively and proactively engage stakeholders.
  • - Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
  • - Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • - Experience with or aptitude for the process of building new intitiatives
  • - Experience in philanthropy and/or nonprofit sector, preferred.
  • **GENERAL COMPETENCIES (REQUIRED OF ALL STAFF)**
  • - Ability to actively engage in, demonstrate commitment to the Council’s Operating Principles and Inclusion values.
  • - Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to listen well, and positively represent the organization and its mission.
  • - Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
  • - Ability to manage many and/or differing tasks, maintain productivity, and successfully meet deadlines.
  • - Ability to work effectively and positively both independently and on a team with a range of individuals and working styles, and with people at all organization levels including staff, board members, foundation officers, donors, and vendors.
  • - Experience or ability to use CRM database solutions, preferably Salesforce.
  • - Proficient skill in Microsoft Office 365 applications.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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