Priority Initiative Leader, Strong & Safe Communities

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

As the Priority Initiative Leader for our Strong & Safe Communities portfolio, you will serve as the key strategic leader accountable for developing and refining the strategy and theory of change for how Stand Together and its network of partners shift the national paradigm on Strong and Safe Communities—from one that treats people as problems to be managed, to one that empowers citizens and communities as problem solvers.

This role sits at the intersection of movement strategy, coalition leadership, and organizational influence. You will bring together a complex and diverse set of stakeholders—including Stand Together organizations, philanthropic partners, nonprofits, donor partners, policy advocates, and community leaders—around an ambitious, comprehensive strategy designed to move the needle on a national scale. You will integrate the full breadth of Stand Together’s capabilities, from activations and storytelling to fundraising and partner development, to ensure our efforts are coordinated, compounding, and driving paradigm-level change.

The ideal candidate brings experience from a sizable and complex philanthropic or corporate environment and has a track record of shaping and executing strategies that cross organizational boundaries and produce measurable, durable impact. Done well, this role will accelerate a fundamental shift in how Americans think about, talk about, and tackle the challenges facing their communities.

• Set and steward the overarching strategy and theory of change for the Strong & Safe Communities portfolio, ensuring that clear and well-reasoned points of view actively inform the strategy on how paradigm-level change is achieved
• Partner with internal teams to develop and lead audience identification and engagement strategies—defining who the right audiences are, how to reach them, and how to activate them toward meaningful action and sustained engagement
• Convene and align a diverse network of stakeholders—philanthropic partners, nonprofits, advocates, and community leaders—around a shared, ambitious agenda for community empowerment and safety
• Serve as an external face of Stand Together’s work, translating complex strategies into compelling narratives for partners, funders, and the broader field
• Integrate Stand Together’s full range of capabilities—including activations, marketing and communications, and fundraising—into a cohesive portfolio strategy that maximizes collective impact
• Partner with internal investment specialists to structure complex, nine-figure-and-above opportunities with philanthropic partners, bringing sound judgment to deal design without owning execution
• Establish and steward the structures that keep knowledge moving across PI, capability, and business teams, clarifying ownership and closing feedback loops so insight and decisions travel as fast as the opportunities do
• Assess progress across the portfolio, identify high-level trade-offs, and continuously optimize for whole-system outcomes rather than individual workstream metrics
• Partner with capability leaders, Talent, and direct supervisors to build the bench that carries the strategy forward, developing sub-issue leaders and emerging talent through intentional delegation and stretch assignments so execution does not depend on any single person
• Lead through Principle…