Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Lever for Change is hiring a Vice Presient, Strategic Partnerships.

Lever for Change (LFC) connects donors with bold solutions to the world’s biggest problems—including issues like racial inequity, gender inequality, lack of access to economic opportunity, and climate change. Using an inclusive, equitable model and due diligence process, Lever for Change creates customized philanthropic open calls and other tailored funding opportunities for donors. Top-ranked open call applicants become members of the Bold Solutions Network—a growing global network that helps secure additional funding for these important projects.

Lever for Change, founded by the John

D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation in 2019, has influenced nearly $2.5 billion in grants to date and provided support to more than 500 organizations. To learn more, visitwww.leverforchange.org .

As a Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at Lever for Change, you will lead the Strategic Partnerships team and serve as a primary relationship manager for donor and intermediary contacts as well as networks that could lead to new clients or unlock capital for Bold Solutions Network members
. Reporting to the President, you will also set strategic priorities for the Strategic Partnerships team, be a thought leader, continue to build best in class services that cultivate strategic partnerships, and manage goal setting and professional development for the team>. At the end of twelve months, success in this role would mean developing a team able to bring secure 10M donor dollars annually.

As the Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, you will have three major areas of responsibility: strategic partnerships, strategic leadership, and thought leadership. Success in these areas involves meeting the six growth dimensions for the role listed below.

• Proactivity Collaborates extensively cross-functionally to share insights from donors and guides initiatives and tasks to align with new trends, donor requests, and other external factors.
• Adaptability Enables the team and organization to identify and apply new ways of working to continually improve and shift when internal and external factors require quick change or transition.
• Growth Mindset Amplifies the necessity to learn and develop new skills to live the values and create impact on organizational and industry-wide levels.
• Client Orientation Builds teams that understand the various challenges that clients face and how working with Lever for Change provides innovative solutions and ways to contribute positively in the world.
• Inclusive Leadership Embeds inclusive ways of working in all internal and external processes to showcase the team’s unique skills and the importance of diversity in philanthropy.
• Organizational Impact Establishes communication channels to encourage the team to listen to client stories in order to better align with strategic plans and achieving the mission.

Strategic Leadership

• Serve as a member of the Senior Leadership focused on supporting and executing the vision of the CEO and President
• Use enterprise-level thinking throughout the decision-making process
• Coach all LFC employees on how to market themselves and the organization
• Develop and improve service options for open call clients and Bold Solution Network partnerships
• Strategically partners with Communication team to elevate Lever for Change among client and donor stakeholder groups
• Lead management within and across functional teams and support ongoing professional development
• Provide guidance to direct reports by evaluating skills, experience, and professional development needs
• Exemplify LFC’s values of equity, openness, inclusivity, and transparency and manage the team in a way that demonstrates these values on a daily basis
• Manage and provide oversight to key contractors and vendors critical to the business unit
• Manage budget for business unit
• Identify points of friction in processes and “ways we work” and implement change management
• Serve as a leader/anchor in team culture, embodying the values of transparency, equity, respect, and collaboration

Strategic Partnerships

• Identi…