POSITION SUMMARY
The Community Foundation of Broward (CFB) seeks an experienced nonprofit leader to serve as Senior Director of Community Impact. This newly created role will lead the Foundation’s research, evaluation, data collection, monitoring, and reporting to guide the direction of the Foundation’s work. The Senior Director will develop and lead community initiatives, special projects, community engagement activities, and provide high-quality grantmaking. The Senior Director will also support the daily operations of the Community Impact department and have supervisory responsibilities.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
RESEARCH, EVALUATION, & LEARNING
- Design, build, scale, and improve data management system, including designing metrics and building related processes, system, and rigor for tracking grantmaking metrics, identifying systemic barriers to achievement of outcomes, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting metrics and impact to stakeholders.
- Use metrics and external research to evaluate effectiveness and inform grantmaking direction and strategic initiatives
- Identify public policy work needed to support grantmaking and strategic initiatives
- Conduct research/literature reviews and scans, sourcing relevant reports, surveys, and public data sources to identify best practices, benchmarks, outcome measures and model programs and codify for learning to help refine current and future grantmaking goals, and to identify new opportunities for impact measurement.
- Synthesize complex, data and information into reports, presentations and other materials that promote learning and shared understanding of Foundation priorities, new initiatives or issue areas to stakeholders to position the Foundation as a knowledge source that could help strengthen the community’s understanding of the key issues.
- Responsible for facilitating a culture of learning within the team and overall organization where staff continuously seek, share, take risks and apply new knowledge and skills to improve outcomes - informed by data.
- Establish, build, and maintain strong and trusted relationships with nonprofits, community leaders, and residents, convening and leading participatory processes to solicit input on critical issues (amplifying their first-hand experiences) and identify gaps in resources and the need for support social change.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
- Collaborate internally to identify critical issues and to advance - and lead when appropriate - advocacy and policy on important issues.
- Convene local, regional, and national philanthropic, government and corporate partners to coordinate public-private participation and partnerships in developing change initiatives on Foundation’s focus areas and strategic initiatives.
- Create and implement research-based grant strategies that align with grant priority areas.
- Manage grant process on portfolio, develop grant guidelines, and coordinate committees, prepare grant recommendations, and produce documents for committees and board.
- Support Foundation’s fundraising efforts by identifying additional revenue and partnership opportunities and help with solicitation, grant writing, and other activities to increase operational and grantmaking funds.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Analytical thinker with a solid grounding in theory, mix methods research, evaluation and learning with ability to interpret and translate data and information into practical use.
- Grants administration/ management, and compliance experience, preferably with a Foundation or grantmaking agency.
- Master’s degree in public administration, nonprofit management, research and evaluation, or a related field with 7+ years of experience or Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
GRANTS & FUNDS MANAGEMENT
OTHER
KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Strong organizational, project management, interpersonal, and relationship development skills with great adaptability to work in a fast-paced and multifaceted work environment, balancing multiple projects and coordinating meetings and events.
- Team management and supervision, volunteer, and stakeholder engagement and convening experience.
- Possess impressive communication skills that can influence decision-making, be an excellent facilitator and consensus builder.
- Technology Proficiency: Microsoft Office Suite, Teams, and SharePoint and inclined to learn new databases and technology platforms.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
- Master’s degree in public administration, nonprofit management, research and evaluation, or a related field with 7+ years of experience or Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of relevant experience.
