Vice President of Community Investments

The Miami Foundation is building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. Since 1967, The Foundation has invested over $900M to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 fund holders and 50,000 donors. By accelerating leadership, generosity, and a sense of belonging across Miami, we inspire people to become changemakers, and we create ways for donors, nonprofits, leaders, and locals to work together on solutions for our community.

At The Miami Foundation, everyone has a role they can play in creating a thriving Greater Miami.

The Vice President of Community Investments leads the Foundations efforts to truly understand the most pressing issues facing our region, to maintain deep relationships and partnerships across our vast network of nonprofit and community partners, to steer philanthropic dollars thoughtfully, impactfully, and in alignment with our highest values, and to bring together local changemakers to have a greater impact together than we could on our own.

The Vice President of Community Investment oversees a dedicated team of eight responsible for shaping and implementing a variety of robust grant programs, strengthening our nonprofit sector through year-round capacity building, maintaining regular community presence and community engagement, and overseeing special initiatives all designed to be responsive to our community’s needs. They also work in deep partnership across our executive leadership team to help all departments to operate with deep understanding of our community, and to support our whole organization to lead with wisdom and context.

The ideal candidate for this role is an innovative, highly collaborative, strategic leader, with deep knowledge and extensive networks in Miami’s nonprofit community, experience in grantmaking and capacity building, and a proven track record of leading empowered teams. They should have significant experience and demonstrated success in building coalitions, strengthening nonprofits, and driving impactful community initiatives.

• Team Leadership
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  Enabling, empowering and collaborating with departmental staff to operationalize big ideas for our foundation and our community.
• Strategic Grantmaking
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  Overseeing the full grant lifecycle—from strategy development and proposal submission to proposal review, site visits, and approval, managing competitive, donor-advised, or field-of-interest funds.
• Community Leadership
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  Representing the foundation in public, private, and nonprofit sectors to identify regional needs and foster collaboration.
• Leadership Programs
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  Manage the team overseeing our leadership development portfolio, including our Miami Fellows program, a fellowship for extraordinary rising leaders, as well as our team overseeing capacity building for nonprofit leaders both in the lead-up to Give Miami Day, and year-round at our collaborative space.

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work or life experiences.
• 15+ years of work experience, with a preference for social sector experience.
• Excellent skills and experience with Microsoft Office, Canva, and project management tools such as Asana or Microsoft Project.
• Multilingual is a plus.

• Love for Miami – The Miami Foundation team works hard every day to build a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. We seek to work with inspirational professionals who have an insatiable curiosity and desire to develop a deep understanding of Greater Miami, the issues the community faces, and the vital work being done to address those issues. An excellent candidate in this role feels unwavering optimism and hope for the potential that Miami holds.
• Strong affinity for The Foundation’s values – joy, imagination, bravery, sustainability, togetherness, equity, leadership. Our values are not words in a document. They are how we approach everything we do at The Foundation. An excellent candidate for this role feels an affinity for these values and lives them out in their everyday life.
• Robust commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion – The Miami Foundation prioritizes elevating voices, spreading power, and increasing opportunity for all. An…