Sr. Director Of Operations & Administration

POSITION

Senior Director of Operations & Administration

Boston, MA. This is a hybrid position, in‑office Monday – Thursday.

Founded in 2006, the One8 Foundation aims to support and accelerate social impact in its priority grantmaking areas. The Foundation operates as a venture philanthropy working alongside partner grantee organizations to improve and scale while also incubating new ideas and scaling those with demonstrated outcomes.

Our strategic grantmaking teams come from premier consulting firms, giving us the expertise to provide strategy support to our most important grantees. We believe deeply in the importance of high‑quality implementation and sweat the small stuff alongside our grantees in pursuit of measurable outcomes.

The organizations that One8 believes are most promising have game‑changing ideas, excellent leaders, high‑fidelity implementation, measurable impact, and sustainable approaches. The One8 Foundation is committed to identifying and providing meaningful support to a select set of nonprofits that achieve results and have the greatest potential to create large‑scale, sustained change. The Foundation’s trustees have high risk tolerance and are committed to impact.

One8’s grantmaking portfolios are:

• US
  
  Education:
  
  Support educators to shift the instructional model of core and elective K‑12 classrooms to Applied Learning HQIM Curriculum where students learn critical content while applying what they learn to real world problems, preparing students for a rapidly changing, high‑tech world.
• Jewish Engagement:
  Help unaffiliated Jewish young adults and couples experience the joy of Jewish community by supporting efforts to make Judaism accessible, joyful and personally relevant.
• Addressing Antisemitism:
  The dramatic rise in anti‑Semitic acts and beliefs must be met with effective strategies to combat this age‑old pernicious hate in education, the digital world and through relationship building across lines of difference.
• Israel Engagement:
  Increase the understanding among Americans of the complex reality of Israel and its people.
• Israel:
  Strengthen a diverse Israeli society supporting equitable access to economic opportunities for those farthest from opportunity and supporting the rebuild of communities after the devastation of 10/7.
• Direct Community Support:
  Provide grants to effective nonprofits who assist children and families in need and that create access to opportunities that help people help themselves.

The Senior Director of Operations & Administration is responsible for management of all finance and administration of the Foundation including operations, grants management, budgeting, bill pay, information technology and human resources. The One8 Foundation is at an important growth period, scaling giving and reach. It requires a senior leader who can ensure the administration of the organization keeps pace with the Foundation’s actions and aspirations.

The strategic, ambitious, hands‑on nature of our approach to grantmaking must be matched by an internal operation committed to flawless customer service and continual improvement. The Senior Director is responsible for staying one step ahead of the grantmaking team, continually looking for systems and processes that increase both our effectiveness and efficiency. We are an analytic, data‑oriented team yet our existing systems do not capture the promise of new technologies that can improve our work.

Although we are not seeking an IT expert in this role, this operational leader must have demonstrated experience in identifying and using new technology to drive improvement.

This Senior Director will work across portfolios, grantmaking needs and administrative functions managing internal practices, procedures and day‑to‑day operations of the Foundation efficiently and effectively while reflecting the Foundation’s values and principles. Reporting directly to the President, this individual works closely with Foundation leadership as well as across the whole team to ensure staff are resourced and supported to focus on social change rather than administrative functions of efficient grantmaking.

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