Program Director, Policy and Advocacy

Job Details

• Location 4500 Cherry Creek Dr South, Suite 900, Denver, CO, 80246, United States
• Base Pay $89,000.00 - $ / Year
• Job Category Policy and Advocacy, Grant making, Philanthropy
• Industry Non-profit, Community Foundations, Philanthropy & Grantmaking
• Employee Type Full Time
• Required Degree 4 Year Degree
• Manage Others No
• Minimum Experience 8 Years

Rose Community Foundation s trives to strengthen local communities, expand opportunities and address critical needs in Greater Denver and beyond through values-driven philanthropy across a range of issue areas including health, economic opportunity, education, Jewish life and more. The Foundation envisions a thriving region strengthened by its diversity and generosity, and it utilizes the varied tools at its disposal – grantmaking, advocacy, convening, investments and philanthropic services – to advance this aspiration.

Rose Community Foundation originated from the 1995 sale of Rose Medical Center, founded by the Jewish community in the late 1940s at a time when Jewish doctors and doctors of color were denied hospital privileges elsewhere due to discrimination. Since the Foundation’s inception three decades ago, Rose Community Foundation has granted more than $450 million to nonprofit organizations and initiatives in the seven-county Greater Denver area and beyond.

The Foundation has $433 million in total assets under management, with annual grantmaking and distributions of nearly $30 million – roughly $11 million of which are the Foundation’s annual discretionary grantmaking dollars and approximately $10 million of which are granted from donor-advised funds to nonprofit organizations of their choosing around the state, country and world.

Rose Community Foundation seeks a Policy and Advocacy Program Director to develop and implement strategies in position-taking, grantmaking, and partnership-building that advance the Foundation’s policy and advocacy work across its four impact areas of Community Wellbeing, Education and Economic Opportunity, Health and Jewish Life. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, skilled executor, and relationship builder with a passion for philanthropy as a tool to advance systems change.

Rose Community Foundation weighs in on systems and policies that impact our region, whether as a thought leader, convener, advocate or funder. The Foundation takes positions on legislation, ballot measures and other policy efforts and dedicates grant funding to organizations that leverage policy and advocacy tools to strengthen communities, expand opportunities, and address critical needs in Greater Denver and beyond. As a nonpartisan organization, Rose Community Foundation engages with a broad range of policy and ideological perspectives in aiming to support values-aligned partners and positions.

The Foundation’s Jewish roots and longstanding commitment to supporting the local Jewish community inform all of our work, and we combat antisemitism, anti-Jewish misinformation, and hate/harm/exclusion in any form against any community.

• Direct position-taking and policy/advocacy grantmaking that advances the Foundation’s goals in our four impact areas – Community Wellbeing (including fiscal policy work), Education and Economic Opportunity, Health, and Jewish Life – in alignment with established priorities and strategic objectives and in partnership with colleagues overseeing these impact areas.
• Advance recommendations for the Foundation to take positions on relevant legislation, ballot measures and other policy efforts – analyzing policy and political considerations within the context of the Foundation’s mission, values and partnerships, managing the Foundation’s state lobbyist and administering grant funding for select campaigns.
• Serve as lead staff person for the Policy & Advocacy Committee and related partner funds and initiatives and help to prepare policy-related memos and presentations for the board of trustees.
• Manage grants and relationships within the policy and advocacy portfolio, serving as the principal point of contact for aligned grantees and…