President at Promise Venture Studio

Promise supports innovators and accelerates social innovations in early childhood development to realize an abundant and just future for America's children and families. We envision a world where all children, no matter their background, can fulfill their innate promise.

Promise is an early childhood-focused nonprofit organization driving towards a vision of an abundant and just world where all children can fulfill their innate promise. To work toward that vision, we advance change through two mutually-reinforcing strategies:
1) activate and strengthen the early childhood ecosystem by aligning funders, policy leaders, and practitioners around a shared vision and collective action, and
2) nurture and grow the impact of proximate leaders and their social ventures by increasing resources, connections, and sustainability.

Our strategies come to life through Promise's three programmatic buckets:

• Ecosystem
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  Ignites a cross-sector movement — uniting champions, capital, and collective will behind bold visions and narratives for America's youngest children and families
• Change maker Communities
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  Drive the sustainability, social capital, and power of proximate changemakers across the early childhood field and in their communities
• The Promise Fund
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  Identifies, resources, and scales proximate-led social innovations that prove the future young children and families deserve is within reach

To date, we've supported more than 760 early childhood ventures nationwide through coaching, connections to capital, and community. We've catalyzed over $25M to social ventures, and among our most deeply supported organizations, 91% grew their impact, 80% increased budgets, and 72% expanded their teams. Through the Early Childhood Leaders of Color Collaborative, 500+ leaders across 40+ states are building collective power to reach millions of children – proof that when BIPOC leaders come together, they don't just survive, they thrive.

The inaugural President will partner with the CEO to lead the Executive Team, and to turn Promise's strategy and Theory of Change into coordinated, measurable action. This is a pivotal leadership position for a seasoned executive with extensive program experience in the early childhood sector who will guide strategy implementation, serve as the primary synthesizer of information across all domains of the organization, ensure cross-domain alignment and effectiveness, and grow and develop our extraordinary team.

The President will work closely with the CEO to drive organization-wide strategy implementation and execution, ensure Promise's Theory of Change is translated into coherent goals and measurable outcomes, and coach the Executive Team to operate as a unified body focused on Promise's collective success. This role is responsible for org-wide alignment and synergy, and serves as the facilitator of high-impact senior leadership decisions.

This role is designed for a leader who brings values-driven leadership and excels at turning strategy into action, fostering strong Executive Team collaboration and growth, leading change effectively, and thinking at a systems level. It is an opportunity to architect the organizational structures and leadership rhythms that will enable Promise to achieve transformative impact in the early childhood field.

Organizational Leadership

• Partner with the CEO and Executive Team to lead organization-wide strategy implementation, ensuring Promise's Theory of Change is translated into coherent goals, priorities, and measurable outcomes
• Partner with the CEO and Executive Team to guide annual planning, resource allocation, and organizational learning cycles
• Serve as a trusted voice on field trends, opportunities, and strategic implications, modeling the balance of strategic foresight and pragmatic action
• Partner with the CEO to design and lead Board preparation and partnership/activation: setting agendas and ensuring high-quality materials and presentations
• Identify and reinforce points of integration across mission delivery and support, ensuring decisions and resources align to…