Director of Programs

Third Wave Fund, a leading funder of youth-led, intersectional gender justice activism is seeking nominations and applications for Director of Programs. Reporting to the Co-Executive directors, the new Director will oversee the development and implementation of Third Wave Fund’s various program areas, including streamlining the processes that Third Wave Fund utilizes to disperse money to community organizations and activists. This work includes, but is not limited to, partnering with the Executive Directors on a grantmaking strategy;

collaborating with the programs team to design and implement a work plan to carry out that strategy; maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders; and building team cohesion and clarity.

The ideal candidate will be an expert in philanthropy and a champion in the movement to evolve philanthropy beyond a charity model to a reparative, participatory, justice-centered sector. They will have experience building resource pathways through grant making and capacity building with and for BIPOC, queer, trans, disabled, sex workers, immigrants and all people targeted by patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia and ableism.

This new Director needs (at minimum) seven years of professional experience, with five of those years in philanthropy (regional, national, responsive, participatory etc). They should be a tested team manager who is excited to lead a team, who understands leadership as generative, collaborative and deeply engaged, and who can drive cohesion without compromising the autonomy of individual team members.

Given Third Wave Fund’s mission, we are particularly interested in applicants with lived-experience outside of the gender binary and those who have been intimately impacted by gender oppression. Moreover, we are excited to meet candidates with experience in decolonizing the workplace with a strong disability justice lens. They must have a refined intersectionality lens and demonstrated application of that lens in their work.