Director of Learning

The Director of Learning will expand PACFA’s portfolio of professional development opportunities by creating intentional opportunities for community foundations staff and board to learn directly from one another, and to work collaboratively to solve shared challenges.

Working closely with the President, PACFA members, and program partners, the Director will identify current and emerging needs across the community foundation field and translate those needs into high-quality learning opportunities for our members, including webinars, peer-learning cohorts, leadership programs, conferences, and other educational initiatives.

This position will strengthen PACFA’s value to our members. Prior experience working with community foundations is highly preferred.

PACFA is a statewide association representing nearly all of Pennsylvania’s community foundations. Our mission is to help our members connect, learn and act collectively.

PACFA envisions a statewide network of effective, collaborative, and trusted community foundations advancing place-based philanthropy and leadership throughout Pennsylvania.

• Develop and administer periodic member surveys and other methods for identifying education and training needs.
• Engage directly with PACFA members to understand emerging challenges, opportunities, and professional development priorities.
• Translate identified needs into an annual education and training agenda.
• Monitor developments in philanthropy, community foundations, nonprofit management, governance, and other areas relevant to PACFA members.

• Manage PACFA’s Professional Advisor and CEO Learning Cohorts.
• Create and manage additional Learning Cohorts for member staff in other community foundation functional areas
• Recruit participants and speakers, develop learning agendas, coordinate sessions, and maintain ongoing communication with participants.
• Evaluate cohorts and recommend improvements or new programs.

• Create and manage a regular PACFA webinar series addressing timely and relevant topics for community foundations.
• Identify and cultivate qualified speakers, subject-matter experts, and partners.
• Coordinate webinar scheduling, registration, communications, technology, and follow-up.
• Oversee promotion of webinars through email communications and other appropriate channels.
• Ensure webinars and related resources are appropriately posted on the PACFA website.
• Maintain a library of webinar recordings, presentations, tools, and other educational resources for PACFA members.

• Identify materials, tools, research, templates, and other resources that would be valuable to PACFA members.
• Develop and maintain the Education and Resources sections of the PACFA website.
• Oversee updates to relevant PACFA online resources, including Act 50, the PA Giving Pledge, and other designated portions of the website.
• Help identify and implement an appropriate content management system (CMS) to support PACFA’s growing education and resource needs.
• Manage PACFA social media channels.

• Help create and shape an expanded PACFA CEO/Board Leadership Summit.
• Manage the CEO/Board Leadership Summit, including program development, speakers, communications, participant coordination, and logistics.
• Develop other educational programming for member CEO’s and Board that strengthens their leadership, governance, and strategic effectiveness.

• Help create and shape PACFA’s annual Fall Conference.
• Serve as a primary liaison with conference speakers and sponsors.
• Assist with conference planning, programming, communications, and logistics.
• Identify opportunities…