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  • ID
    #6100911
  • Job type
    Full-time
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Source
    ProInspire
  • Date
    2020-11-25
  • Deadline
    2021-01-24

Director

Washington, Washington 00000 Washington USA
 
Full-time

Vacancy expired!

Job Description

Are you passionate about leadership, race equity, and social impact at nonprofit and philanthropic organizations? Do you want to help social sector organizations achieve their potential for impact by supporting leaders in building more diverse, inclusive, and equitable cultures? Do you thrive on bringing people together and supporting them in their learning and change journeys?

If so, we’re looking for you…

ProInspire is seeking a Director to play a key role in driving our work supporting organizations with advancing equity and leadership. The new Directorwill work on a portfolio of training programs, consulting services, open enrollment programs, and communities of practice for nonprofit organizations and foundations.

Directors lead large projects, such as an organizational change journey or a cohort program. Example projects include:

  • Designing and facilitating the race equity arc of learning for full-staff of an organization
  • Developing, designing and facilitating a foundation-supported program, such as cohorts for Board/staff teams to advance race equity
  • Supporting a senior leadership team with adaptive change to shift organizational culture through coaching and facilitation

The Director will have experience

advising organizations in their race equity change

journey
, confidence

facilitating senior leaders
through challenging conversations, and understanding how to

move people from talk to action.

This role will report to a member of our leadership team and will work closely with staff based in Washington, DC, as well as ProInspire partners, funders, faculty, and consultants across the country. When we engage affiliate consultants on our project teams, the Associate Director or Director may be responsible for managing those consultants.

Responsibilities

Project Leadership and Implementation (70%)

Play a range of roles on projects, including:

  • Business Development and Partnerships:
    • Establish partnerships with foundations and nonprofit organizations
    • Write proposals, grant reports, and respond to RFPs
    • Manage client engagement on projects
  • Project Leadership:
    • Define goals and priorities
    • Ensure overall accountability for the success of projects, programs, and services
    • Design project scope, change process, or arc of learning
    • Lead project team of staff and/or external consultants
    • Manage consultant engagement and oversight on projects
  • Facilitation and Implementation:
    • Facilitate trainings, learning sessions, and client meetings (virtual and in-person, when in-person sessions return)
    • Incorporate equity analysis into facilitation and client advisory work
    • Design agendas and facilitation guides
    • Create deliverables (e.g. presentations, online workshop tools, etc.)
    • Provide coaching and ongoing support to clients around their learning and change processes both in-person and virtually
    • Manage data analysis and reporting (conducting interviews, surveys, etc)
  • People Management:
    • Hire and manage staff and consultants as needed

Special Projects (15%)

  • Knowledge Building:
    • Capture lessons from our work through team reflection, client/participant feedback, data gathering
    • Rethink our approaches and content to align with our equity goals
  • New Program/Product Development:
    • Develop workbooks or toolkits tied our growing research around the leadership practices that advance race equity
    • Create new open enrollment programs, curriculum and approaches for consulting services, or communities of practice
  • External Engagement:
    • Increase organizational visibility through conference presentations, storytelling, writing
    • Lead engagement with and build relationships across peer groups

Team Engagement (15%)

  • Team Activities:
    • Participate and lead regular retreats, weekly team meetings, etc.
    • Represent the organization at board meetings, conference presentations, and convenings
  • Internal Work:
    • Engage in ongoing internal work around building a race equity culture
    • Push the organization to live into our values and further the theory of change
  • Organizational Development:
    • Support or lead internal projects
    • Mentor and develop people across th

Qualifications

About You

This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual to lead projects and work collaboratively with our staff, consultants, and partners. This role provides a high level of responsibility and independence for individuals to determine how and when to complete their work.

What we are looking for:

  • Relevant Experience:
    • You have experience doing work inside a social sector organization or as a consultant, focused on equity and inclusion, talent, organizational development, or training and facilitation.
  • Design and Facilitation:
    • You have facilitated groups with navigating challenging conversations
    • You have experience with program design or curriculum development
    • Bonus points for skills with virtual meeting design and facilitation
  • Race Equity Experience:
    • You authentically dive into work about the role that identity and race plays inside organizations, and are able to speak from your lived experience
    • You understand how to support an organization’s race equity change journey
  • Communication:
    • You have skills to verbally communicate with groups, including making presentations to senior leaders
    • You have skills to write materials with attention to details, including facilitation guides, training presentations, and survey reports
  • Relationship Building:
    • you are a compelling relationship builder with people working at all levels in organizations
    • You are able to work independently and maintain productivity with colleagues and stakeholders in different locations
  • Approach:
    • You bring integrity, humility, resilience, and passion for ProInspire’s mission
    • You don’t have all the answers, but are willing to figure things out
    • You have an entrepreneurial spirit and desire to expand our impact

Additional Information

Why should you work with us

At ProInspire, we believe that people are the most important asset to delivering our mission and we strive to make ProInspire a great, collaborative place to work. ProInspire values equity, authenticity, collaboration, and courage. In our benefits and HR policies, this means:

  • We prioritize approaches that serve all of us and promote our collective impact, ensuring we meet the needs of those with least access to decision-making power
  • We identify both individual and team-wide solutions, providing flexibility and support for each other
  • We share transparently about the opportunities and limitations we face as a small nonprofit organization, engaging staff in the process to shape our approach
  • We think creatively about how to align our values and meet our goals within our policies, identifying how we various types of benefits can strengthen our culture

We aim to accomplish two goals through our benefits and HR policies:

  • All staff members have what they need to do their jobs well, to do their best work, and to grow individually - including accommodations for various needs and functional roles, considerations for growth within role and organization as well as towards career goals
  • All staff members have what they need to take care of themselves, recognizing the wholeness of who we are, our personal wellbeing, and how that may impact us at work and in our lives outside of work

Our benefits include:

  • Focus on Wellbeing
  • Unlimited PTO: Minimum 20 days expected, includes vacation, sick, mental health, family care, etc.
  • Org-Wide Holidays and Digital Detox Windows: Total of 20 days (10 Holidays and 2 Detox Windows of 5 days each) to support everyone with fully disconnecting
  • Flexible Work Schedules: Includes options for structuring work week/days, space for learning/collaboration
  • Robust Health Benefits with 90% of individual premium covered
  • Short-Term Disability/Long-Term Disability/Life Insurance
  • Wellness Fund (with additional telework benefit for 2021)
  • 401k Enrollment with organizational contribution
  • Benchmarked Compensation with Annual Opportunities for Increases

Support to Do Jobs Well and Grow

  • Professional Development Fund: $1,000/FTE/year
  • Laptop Reimbursement Fund
  • Access to/Participation in Trainings and Conferences
  • Opportunity to Engage in Projects Aligned to Personal/Professional Goals

Position Details

  • Salary: Starting salary ranges from $90-110k, based on experience. Higher end of the range will be considered for candidates who have existing clients and projects they will bring with them.
  • Travel: No travel is currently required due to COVID-19. Once the pandemic is under control, work travel may be required for delivering programs, conferences and meetings; on average, 2-3 trips per month. There are also occasional events during non-standard business hours.
  • Start Date: The ideal start date is February 2021, with some flexibility
  • Location: We no longer have a physical office space due to the pandemic. Currently all of our full time staff are based in the DC/Maryland/Virginia (DMV) area and we expect to be working virtually through the end of 2021. Based on safety and the needs of our staff, we may transition back to a physical location in 2022. We are open to the candidates based outside of the DMV area.

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