NPAG
Remote
Mind Share Partners (MSP) is a national nonprofit that is changing the culture of workplace mental health so that both employees and organizations can thrive. It does this for two reasons: to normalize what it looks like to have a mental health challenge at work--which is everyone at some point in their lives--and to address the workplace factors that can cause poor mental health for all employees/workers. MSP believes that if workplaces commit to reducing stigma, supporting their employees with mental health challenges, and addressing related workplace factors, they can drastically improve individual lives, company cultures, and workplace productivity.
MSP has been at the start of a growing movement to support mentally healthy workplaces and is poised to grow its impact with offerings that meet the increasingly complex needs of employers with customized workplace training, strategic advising, and implementation as well as its advocacy work. Over 50% of MSP’s revenue is from client services earned income, with the remainder from a range of philanthropic sources. As one of the only nonprofits exclusively focused on workplace mental health in an increasingly competitive space, MSP brings a unique mission and value proposition to this important work as both a trusted service provider and a movement builder. In close concert with the Board of Directors and the team, the CEO will guide the development of a newly refreshed vision to drive revenue growth and increased impact.
The next CEO will be an authentic storyteller, entrepreneurial visionary, exceptional fundraiser, and sales strategist who will drive the co-creation of MSP’s next iteration of a vision and strategic plan. They will demonstrate the ability to set clear priorities and goals, formulate and execute new revenue generation strategies, and stay agile to pivot in response to external conditions and impact data. The CEO will bring a nuanced, asset-based understanding of mental health as a spectrum, including an understanding of the intersectionality with DEIBJ concepts and the experiences of people with marginalized identities. They will be able to speak personally and openly about their own mental health experience and inspire others to support the organization and the movement. They will bring exceptional communications skills, sales and fundraising expertise, team management and leadership, and an entrepreneurial mindset to the work of elevating MSP’s mission and nurturing connectivity and culture among the team and stakeholders.
HISTORY AND VALUES
Mind Share Partners grew out of the idea that both employees and organizations should and could thrive in working relationships. Founder Kelly Greenwood knew that mental health is integral to the future of work as well as to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Old systems, practices, and styles that were negatively impacting employee mental health needed to be reevaluated in an effort to improve the future of work and DEIBJ in our country. Since 2020, workplace mental health has moved from a nice-to-have to a must-have, but few workplaces know how to execute well in this area. The pandemic’s lasting effects, racial reckoning, the political divide, and other factors created an unprecedented awareness of the mental health challenges and has normalized the conversation. MSP seeks to eliminate stigma and create more mentally healthy workplaces. MSP tripled its impact during 2020 and is seeking significant growth this year and beyond.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPECTATIONS FOR THE CEO
The CEO will be a seasoned executive leader (10+ years in a senior leadership role) who can passionately and authentically speak to current challenges in workplace mental health, the demands that C-Suite leadership and employees are facing to create and sustain supportive environments, and advocate for practical solutions. In collaboration with the Board and team, the CEO will create a 3–5-year strategic plan to grow and position MSP in an increasingly competitive client services landscape of well-resourced for-profit market players. Essential to success will be: (1) networks and relationships to drive business opportunity in client services and with new major donors, (2) examination and evolution of the client services portfolio to drive growth and maximize earned revenue, and (3) capacity and skill to drive thought leadership, movement building, and communications activities to support strategic growth and impact.
Revenue Generation: Fundraising & Sales The CEO will demonstrate skill in fundraising and resource development, including securing major gifts from high-net-worth individuals, foundation grants, corporate sponsorships, and the like to fuel growth. A core responsibility of the CEO will also be to drive sales and effective market positioning for the client services work. In addition to bringing networks and relationships for potential new work, they will build on a unique mission identity as a nonprofit and support development of new offerings that meet the moment for companies looking for tailored, flexible tools and strategies to measurably improve workplace mental health.
Movement Building The CEO will be an impactful spokesperson who can speak personally to the importance of mentally healthy workplaces across a range of external stakeholders including historically underrepresented communities, cross-sector thought leaders, advocates, and other strategic partners and influencers such as national press/media, nonprofits, companies, and coalitions – to share and build support for MSP’s vision and mission. In close partnership with the marketing and communications team the CEO will support strategic communications and movement building activities including building a social media presence focused on workplace mental health that will engage and grow an audience of followers, bylined articles, and other published contributions.
People Management & Culture Development MSP’s passionate team is the heart of the organization. Throughout the COVID pandemic, racial reckoning, national and global challenges, and internal organizational change, the team has tirelessly pushed to think differently about the changing and increased needs of MSP and its offerings. Aligned with MSP’s mission and vision, the CEO will build and nurture honest, authentic, and accountable relationships. They will embody and actualize an organization-wide commitment to listening to, working with, and learning from internal and external partners. The CEO will be a people-centered leader and strong manager with experience in hiring, coaching, and resourcing managers in a values-driven environment as well as implementing effective performance management practices to facilitate the team’s growth and success.
The CEO will support the development and growth of the team and a healthy organizational culture. Specifically, continued development and measurable progress on DEIBJ integration is critical, such that both MSP’s culture and its programmatic work reflects the organization’s collective understanding of intersectionality and centers the experiences and needs of people with marginalized identities. They will work to foster a culture that values equity, transparency, trust, clear communication, and collaboration across MSP while maintaining a healthy, flexible, and caring culture.
Financial Management & Stewardship In partnership with the senior leadership team, the CEO will lead and nurture a deeply committed team of 14 and bring strong business and financial acumen to manage an operating budget of $2 million and will advance effective business operations. This includes aligning growth with mission, planning for sustainability, and advancing internal policies and practices that reflect the organization’s core values.
Board Relations & Governance The CEO will partner with the Board to ensure transparency and accountability in organizational governance, financial health, and compliance, and identify current and future leadership needs. The CEO will also leverage the experience, relationships, and wisdom of the board to mobilize and motivate champions for the movement.
DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
While no one candidate will embody all the qualifications enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:
Personal Connection to Mental Health
A personal mental health story that can be told from the “I-voice”/personal lived experience (rather than from a friend or family perspective) and made broadly relevant and engaging, as well as shared in an authentic and vulnerable way.
Understanding of mental health as a broad spectrum of experiences in a strengths-based frame, both inextricable and intersectional to personal identity and lived experiences. Demonstrated depth of understanding of relevant fields and spaces, such as workplace mental health, human resources, learning and development, and diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice (DEIBJ).
Revenue Generator
Experience and orientation toward other types of revenue generation. Background in client services, sales, and/or earned income revenue strategies, including market positioning, services business development, and connecting with senior leaders around MSP’s unique value proposition.
Strategic fundraising orientation to effectively nurture, build, and sustain relationships with mission aligned donors as well as experience raising significant investments from public and private sources, including high net worth individuals, companies, corporate sponsorships, and foundations.
Inspiring Thought Leader
Experience with thought leadership, advocacy, and external relations via writing and speaking, building strategic partnerships, and establishing effective messaging and organizational voice.
Powerful communicator in writing, one on one, in small group settings, and with large audiences. Ability to authentically share the mission of MSP that draws in others. A natural brand-builder, connector, and networker to help expand the MSP network and motivate others. Models humility, vulnerability (especially around mental health) and authenticity.
Strategist and Scaler
Entrepreneurial and audacious spirit with demonstrated organizational, financial, and operational management expertise of a similarly sized or larger organization. Experience with scaling organizations is highly desirable.
Proven experience developing strategic plans, operationalizing effective planning processes, and implementing action steps that align programs and resources with mission and values.
Capacity to take multiple pieces of data, identify trends, risks and opportunities and make strategic recommendations for a path forward.
Team Culture Builder
Collaborative and compassionate leadership mindset, an openness to shared leadership with the Board and team, as well as an effective internal management style with both individuals and teams that breaks down silos and fosters mutual learning and cross team collaboration. A record of bringing a holistic lens to leadership regarding race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, and other identities impacted by equity barriers.
Strong relationship-building skills and a genuine interest in listening to and learning from others. Ability to establish trust, engage partners, as well as act with intentionality and accountability.
Empathy, emotional intelligence, and expertise in change management to guide and further cultivate a values-centered, positive, supportive, and transparent work environment.
The Basics
Ability and willingness to travel as needed for MSP meetings, fundraising events, conferences, and speaking engagements.
Combination of educational, professional, and lived experience aligned with MSP’s mission and values.
This full-time, exempt role can be based anywhere in the United States; MSP has a nationally distributed and fully remote team.
COMPENSATION, BENEFITS, AND LOCATION
MSP seeks to live its vision of a mentally healthy and inclusive workplace and below are just some examples of what that looks like in practice:
PTO (Paid Time Off) : Four weeks of PTO and 12 paid holidays plus an office shutdown the week prior to New Year’s—more importantly, MSP encourages team members to completely sign off from work when they are on vacation and at the end of their workdays.
Flexibility : MSP has always been a nationally distributed team that puts employees first with flexible work practices. Team members connect often and convene in person for two in-person retreats each year and when necessary.
Benefits : MSP has strong medical (including mental health), dental, and vision benefits, life insurance, a 401k with 2% matching, professional development funds, and a stipend to set up a home office.
Culture : The MSP team is made up of good humans who strive for excellence with balance—they recognize the whole person at work.
The location of this role is flexible within the United States as it is a remote position. The salary for this role will be $220,000.
TO APPLY
More information about Mind Share Partners may be found at: www.mindsharepartners.org
This search is being led with support from the national executive search firm NPAG . We invite interested candidates to submit a cover letter that includes: (1) what draws you personally to care about the mission of Mind Share Partners, and (2) a brief outline of your qualifications and relevant professional and lived experiences, along with a resume or CV via NPAG’s website .
Mind Share Partners’ Hiring Values We look at the whole picture : We recognize that neither job descriptions nor people are perfect. If you think you can be successful in this role but don’t meet every listed qualification, we encourage you to apply—we’d love to get to know you and see what you have to offer. We look for “culture adds” not “culture fits.” We want people who push our thinking and who bring a unique perspective to our work.
We seek to build an inclusive team : Mental health is a new frontier of DEIBJ and an intersectional issue that affects groups differently. At Mind Share Partners, we seek to reflect this in our team. We are an equal opportunity employer deeply committed to building an inclusive team with diverse perspectives and experiences from a range of backgrounds and cultures. We actively seek out identities, experiences, and perspectives that we don’t have represented on our team and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented communities within the workplace mental health space to apply.
Full Time
Mind Share Partners (MSP) is a national nonprofit that is changing the culture of workplace mental health so that both employees and organizations can thrive. It does this for two reasons: to normalize what it looks like to have a mental health challenge at work--which is everyone at some point in their lives--and to address the workplace factors that can cause poor mental health for all employees/workers. MSP believes that if workplaces commit to reducing stigma, supporting their employees with mental health challenges, and addressing related workplace factors, they can drastically improve individual lives, company cultures, and workplace productivity.
MSP has been at the start of a growing movement to support mentally healthy workplaces and is poised to grow its impact with offerings that meet the increasingly complex needs of employers with customized workplace training, strategic advising, and implementation as well as its advocacy work. Over 50% of MSP’s revenue is from client services earned income, with the remainder from a range of philanthropic sources. As one of the only nonprofits exclusively focused on workplace mental health in an increasingly competitive space, MSP brings a unique mission and value proposition to this important work as both a trusted service provider and a movement builder. In close concert with the Board of Directors and the team, the CEO will guide the development of a newly refreshed vision to drive revenue growth and increased impact.
The next CEO will be an authentic storyteller, entrepreneurial visionary, exceptional fundraiser, and sales strategist who will drive the co-creation of MSP’s next iteration of a vision and strategic plan. They will demonstrate the ability to set clear priorities and goals, formulate and execute new revenue generation strategies, and stay agile to pivot in response to external conditions and impact data. The CEO will bring a nuanced, asset-based understanding of mental health as a spectrum, including an understanding of the intersectionality with DEIBJ concepts and the experiences of people with marginalized identities. They will be able to speak personally and openly about their own mental health experience and inspire others to support the organization and the movement. They will bring exceptional communications skills, sales and fundraising expertise, team management and leadership, and an entrepreneurial mindset to the work of elevating MSP’s mission and nurturing connectivity and culture among the team and stakeholders.
HISTORY AND VALUES
Mind Share Partners grew out of the idea that both employees and organizations should and could thrive in working relationships. Founder Kelly Greenwood knew that mental health is integral to the future of work as well as to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Old systems, practices, and styles that were negatively impacting employee mental health needed to be reevaluated in an effort to improve the future of work and DEIBJ in our country. Since 2020, workplace mental health has moved from a nice-to-have to a must-have, but few workplaces know how to execute well in this area. The pandemic’s lasting effects, racial reckoning, the political divide, and other factors created an unprecedented awareness of the mental health challenges and has normalized the conversation. MSP seeks to eliminate stigma and create more mentally healthy workplaces. MSP tripled its impact during 2020 and is seeking significant growth this year and beyond.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPECTATIONS FOR THE CEO
The CEO will be a seasoned executive leader (10+ years in a senior leadership role) who can passionately and authentically speak to current challenges in workplace mental health, the demands that C-Suite leadership and employees are facing to create and sustain supportive environments, and advocate for practical solutions. In collaboration with the Board and team, the CEO will create a 3–5-year strategic plan to grow and position MSP in an increasingly competitive client services landscape of well-resourced for-profit market players. Essential to success will be: (1) networks and relationships to drive business opportunity in client services and with new major donors, (2) examination and evolution of the client services portfolio to drive growth and maximize earned revenue, and (3) capacity and skill to drive thought leadership, movement building, and communications activities to support strategic growth and impact.
Revenue Generation: Fundraising & Sales The CEO will demonstrate skill in fundraising and resource development, including securing major gifts from high-net-worth individuals, foundation grants, corporate sponsorships, and the like to fuel growth. A core responsibility of the CEO will also be to drive sales and effective market positioning for the client services work. In addition to bringing networks and relationships for potential new work, they will build on a unique mission identity as a nonprofit and support development of new offerings that meet the moment for companies looking for tailored, flexible tools and strategies to measurably improve workplace mental health.
Movement Building The CEO will be an impactful spokesperson who can speak personally to the importance of mentally healthy workplaces across a range of external stakeholders including historically underrepresented communities, cross-sector thought leaders, advocates, and other strategic partners and influencers such as national press/media, nonprofits, companies, and coalitions – to share and build support for MSP’s vision and mission. In close partnership with the marketing and communications team the CEO will support strategic communications and movement building activities including building a social media presence focused on workplace mental health that will engage and grow an audience of followers, bylined articles, and other published contributions.
People Management & Culture Development MSP’s passionate team is the heart of the organization. Throughout the COVID pandemic, racial reckoning, national and global challenges, and internal organizational change, the team has tirelessly pushed to think differently about the changing and increased needs of MSP and its offerings. Aligned with MSP’s mission and vision, the CEO will build and nurture honest, authentic, and accountable relationships. They will embody and actualize an organization-wide commitment to listening to, working with, and learning from internal and external partners. The CEO will be a people-centered leader and strong manager with experience in hiring, coaching, and resourcing managers in a values-driven environment as well as implementing effective performance management practices to facilitate the team’s growth and success.
The CEO will support the development and growth of the team and a healthy organizational culture. Specifically, continued development and measurable progress on DEIBJ integration is critical, such that both MSP’s culture and its programmatic work reflects the organization’s collective understanding of intersectionality and centers the experiences and needs of people with marginalized identities. They will work to foster a culture that values equity, transparency, trust, clear communication, and collaboration across MSP while maintaining a healthy, flexible, and caring culture.
Financial Management & Stewardship In partnership with the senior leadership team, the CEO will lead and nurture a deeply committed team of 14 and bring strong business and financial acumen to manage an operating budget of $2 million and will advance effective business operations. This includes aligning growth with mission, planning for sustainability, and advancing internal policies and practices that reflect the organization’s core values.
Board Relations & Governance The CEO will partner with the Board to ensure transparency and accountability in organizational governance, financial health, and compliance, and identify current and future leadership needs. The CEO will also leverage the experience, relationships, and wisdom of the board to mobilize and motivate champions for the movement.
DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
While no one candidate will embody all the qualifications enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:
Personal Connection to Mental Health
A personal mental health story that can be told from the “I-voice”/personal lived experience (rather than from a friend or family perspective) and made broadly relevant and engaging, as well as shared in an authentic and vulnerable way.
Understanding of mental health as a broad spectrum of experiences in a strengths-based frame, both inextricable and intersectional to personal identity and lived experiences. Demonstrated depth of understanding of relevant fields and spaces, such as workplace mental health, human resources, learning and development, and diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice (DEIBJ).
Revenue Generator
Experience and orientation toward other types of revenue generation. Background in client services, sales, and/or earned income revenue strategies, including market positioning, services business development, and connecting with senior leaders around MSP’s unique value proposition.
Strategic fundraising orientation to effectively nurture, build, and sustain relationships with mission aligned donors as well as experience raising significant investments from public and private sources, including high net worth individuals, companies, corporate sponsorships, and foundations.
Inspiring Thought Leader
Experience with thought leadership, advocacy, and external relations via writing and speaking, building strategic partnerships, and establishing effective messaging and organizational voice.
Powerful communicator in writing, one on one, in small group settings, and with large audiences. Ability to authentically share the mission of MSP that draws in others. A natural brand-builder, connector, and networker to help expand the MSP network and motivate others. Models humility, vulnerability (especially around mental health) and authenticity.
Strategist and Scaler
Entrepreneurial and audacious spirit with demonstrated organizational, financial, and operational management expertise of a similarly sized or larger organization. Experience with scaling organizations is highly desirable.
Proven experience developing strategic plans, operationalizing effective planning processes, and implementing action steps that align programs and resources with mission and values.
Capacity to take multiple pieces of data, identify trends, risks and opportunities and make strategic recommendations for a path forward.
Team Culture Builder
Collaborative and compassionate leadership mindset, an openness to shared leadership with the Board and team, as well as an effective internal management style with both individuals and teams that breaks down silos and fosters mutual learning and cross team collaboration. A record of bringing a holistic lens to leadership regarding race, socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, and other identities impacted by equity barriers.
Strong relationship-building skills and a genuine interest in listening to and learning from others. Ability to establish trust, engage partners, as well as act with intentionality and accountability.
Empathy, emotional intelligence, and expertise in change management to guide and further cultivate a values-centered, positive, supportive, and transparent work environment.
The Basics
Ability and willingness to travel as needed for MSP meetings, fundraising events, conferences, and speaking engagements.
Combination of educational, professional, and lived experience aligned with MSP’s mission and values.
This full-time, exempt role can be based anywhere in the United States; MSP has a nationally distributed and fully remote team.
COMPENSATION, BENEFITS, AND LOCATION
MSP seeks to live its vision of a mentally healthy and inclusive workplace and below are just some examples of what that looks like in practice:
PTO (Paid Time Off) : Four weeks of PTO and 12 paid holidays plus an office shutdown the week prior to New Year’s—more importantly, MSP encourages team members to completely sign off from work when they are on vacation and at the end of their workdays.
Flexibility : MSP has always been a nationally distributed team that puts employees first with flexible work practices. Team members connect often and convene in person for two in-person retreats each year and when necessary.
Benefits : MSP has strong medical (including mental health), dental, and vision benefits, life insurance, a 401k with 2% matching, professional development funds, and a stipend to set up a home office.
Culture : The MSP team is made up of good humans who strive for excellence with balance—they recognize the whole person at work.
The location of this role is flexible within the United States as it is a remote position. The salary for this role will be $220,000.
TO APPLY
More information about Mind Share Partners may be found at: www.mindsharepartners.org
This search is being led with support from the national executive search firm NPAG . We invite interested candidates to submit a cover letter that includes: (1) what draws you personally to care about the mission of Mind Share Partners, and (2) a brief outline of your qualifications and relevant professional and lived experiences, along with a resume or CV via NPAG’s website .
Mind Share Partners’ Hiring Values We look at the whole picture : We recognize that neither job descriptions nor people are perfect. If you think you can be successful in this role but don’t meet every listed qualification, we encourage you to apply—we’d love to get to know you and see what you have to offer. We look for “culture adds” not “culture fits.” We want people who push our thinking and who bring a unique perspective to our work.
We seek to build an inclusive team : Mental health is a new frontier of DEIBJ and an intersectional issue that affects groups differently. At Mind Share Partners, we seek to reflect this in our team. We are an equal opportunity employer deeply committed to building an inclusive team with diverse perspectives and experiences from a range of backgrounds and cultures. We actively seek out identities, experiences, and perspectives that we don’t have represented on our team and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented communities within the workplace mental health space to apply.
NPAG
Remote (preference for Washington, DC or Los Angeles, CA)
The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund (Equity Fund) is a philanthropic fund dedicated to supporting a multi-state infrastructure of community-based organizations building power to advance an equitable clean energy future. With a proven approach to driving impact and a highly effective set of stakeholders and investors, the Equity Fund is facing a number of exciting opportunities. With the field that the Equity Fund supports growing quickly and public investments in clean energy transition accelerating, the Fund is spinning out of its fiscal sponsorship and establishing a new, independent institution that can meet the needs of the growing and dynamic ecosystem of grassroots organizations and expand their collective impact. Poised for significant growth, the Equity Fund has evolved and is growing its executive leadership structure and operating model to lead effective strategy, systems, and culture for the team. To that end, the Equity Fund invites nominations and applications for the position of Vice President of Programs , who will provide important, executive leadership to both its 501(c)(3), and the Climate Equity Action Fund, 501(c)(4), and the field of climate philanthropy during this dynamic time.
The Vice President of Programs will be responsible for driving the Equity Fund/Action Fund’s grantmaking and programmatic strategies to achieve its mission of building the power of racially diverse communities to advance equitable climate policies. Immediate opportunities for impact include:
Programmatic Leadership
Lead staff on the Grants and PowerBuilding team to develop grantmaking goals and strategies to win equitable climate policies and campaigns by prioritizing grassroots organizing and building power in the Equity Fund’s 13 portfolio states.
Lead staff on the Policy Accelerator and Communications Accelerator teams to support grantee partners to build key policy and communications capacities and campaigns that leverage and maximize the power of community-led solutions.
Lead the Program team to sharpen, integrate, and refine its strategies to accelerate success across the Fund’s portfolio through continual analysis, learning, and innovation.
Field Leadership
Advance grantmaking approaches and models that prioritize organizing, equity, building power, and building deep partnerships and trust with grantee organizations.
Drive philanthropy to support and accelerate social change impact through innovation, creativity, and bold action.
Staff Leadership and Management
Inspire, mentor, and manage staff by guiding the Program Team through change and continued growth while maintaining high standards of professionalism and impact.
Foster a culture that promotes trust, respect, equity, integrity, and operates with a movement-building orientation.
The ideal candidate for VP of Programs will be a seasoned, mature manager and skilled communicator who thrives in a complex, diverse, and multi-stakeholder environment within a start-up culture; and has demonstrated success developing and deploying philanthropic resources to implement a multipronged strategy for successful outcomes in a campaign or public policy environment. They will have executive experience managing high-performing teams and driving collaborative decision-making, and will be able to shift appropriately between the roles of skilled tactician, team coach, manager, and visionary leader. They will ideally bring experience in community-driven processes of passing and implementing climate policy, organizing and power building experience, grantmaking or re-granting experience, and additional lived and professional experience relevant to the Equity Fund’s work. They will be an entrepreneurial, results-driven, relationship builder who is committed to the Equity Fund’s mission and values of power building to accelerate the transition to an equitable clean energy future.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund (the Equity Fund) is supporting a multi-state infrastructure of community-based organizations building power needed to advance an equitable clean energy future. The Equity Fund is strategically building power by:
Investing in the leadership and organizing of diverse communities (Black, Latinx, AAPI, Indigenous people, and communities bearing the brunt of climate change);
Engaging voters in these communities through nonpartisan civic engagement campaigns; and
Winning climate and clean energy policy solutions that reflect the priorities of communities and advance racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Founded in 2016, the Equity Fund partners with organizations in 13 states (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia), and will expand its reach to additional states in the coming years.
Grassroots groups advocating for and organizing communities of color, Indigenous, working class and rural communities – often people hardest hit by climate change – are accomplishing critical work to build the collective power of communities. These communities are often the strongest supporters of climate policy and are a key political force to advance community demands and win durable policy change. The Equity Fund serves as a conduit for foundations and donors to partner with and support these grassroots organizations across the country. Because of Equity Fund’s expertise and deep relationships with community-led groups working at the intersection of climate change and economic, racial, and environmental justice, the Equity Fund can identify and nurture local grantee partners that have large-scale bases of members and track records of winning policy victories in their cities and states. The team then works to synthesize and share lessons learned from their grantee partners so that foundations and donors can better understand how grassroots groups can more effectively build power to advance climate solutions and then develop and coordinate funding strategies that will have the greatest results.
OPPORTUNITIES & EXPECTATIONS FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS
The Vice President of Programs will serve as a critical member of the Executive Team and advance the Equity Fund’s mission by leading the Equity Fund and Action Fund’s programmatic priorities. Reporting to the President, and in collaboration with the President and program leads, the VP of Programs will drive the planning and execution of the Equity Fund’s Grants and Power Building, Communications Accelerator, and Policy Accelerator program strategies and goals.
As an experienced and decisive leader who knows how to foster relationship building and collaboration across teams to drive progress, the VP of Programs will advance a strategy for climate equity that is centered around building the power of diverse communities to advance equitable climate policies. This role is internal-strategy oriented, driving the big picture strategy and prioritization of the Funds’ programmatic work alongside external relationship building with funders, allied organizations, and grantee partners. The successful candidate will refine and clarify process for each programmatic function, ensuring that the Program Team understands the details of a sharpening theory of change, the process through which their input is received and considered, and how their work connects to the organization's mission and impact.
The VP of Programs will be responsible for providing leadership and driving success in the following key areas:
Organizational & Strategic Leadership
Work closely with the President and other Executive Team members to develop a clear, long-term vision and strategic direction for all Equity Fund and Action Fund program strategies and priorities.
Serve as an executive manager and decision-maker, providing the organizational leadership required to establish processes for team input to strategy, while driving positive change and ensuring strategic alignment, integration, and execution across programs and departments.
Support fundraising and cultivation of funder relationships to drive the organization’s theory of change, anchor the organization’s role in the climate movement, and to gain visibility and opportunities for the Equity Fund and Action Fund.
Ensure strong cross-organizational collaborative approaches and strong communication, transparency and information sharing are nurtured and deepened.
Partner with the President on the strategic direction and agendas for Board meetings, including the creation of memos, reports, and presentations.
Support a positive organizational culture of collaboration, dedication to equity, values, creativity, and respect for a wide range of voices and perspectives.
Program Management & Execution
In partnership with the directors on the program team, develop, implement, and execute cohesive program-wide and state-specific strategies across programmatic areas to support mission impact by translating strategies into actionable workplans with measurable outcomes.
Oversee grantmaking and creation of docket memos, strategy papers, and reports for the program team.
Drive Equity Fund and Action Fund organizational planning, prioritization, and budgeting processes by working collaboratively with leaders across Equity Fund and Action Fund to ensure priorities are successfully executed and objectives met on time.
Ensure cross-departmental work is cohesive and working groups hold strategic priorities at the core, ensuring program leadership is aligned around bodies of work.
Foster a collaborative and results-oriented culture supported by systems and processes that help drive agile executive decision-making and reinforce accountability for those directly carrying out Equity Fund and Action Fund strategies.
Assess progress on strategic objectives and communicate that progress to the Executive Team, the Board, and staff.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Support, coach, supervise, and develop program leadership and team members, and maintain a trusting, inclusive, equitable, high-performing team culture.
Provide mentorship and constructive and timely feedback to foster a collaborative environment that develops strengths, improves weaknesses, and encourages continuous learning.
Directly manage 2-3 employees and indirectly oversee a program department of 13, with the potential for additional team growth.
Oversee the daily workflow of direct program leadership reports.
Recruit, interview, hire, and train staff, including managing discipline and termination of employees in accordance with organization’s policy.
Establish a regular meeting cadence for the program team to support alignment and efficiency in the work.
Shared Organization Responsibilities
Champion the Equity Fund and Action Fund’s theory of change and mission of empowering the communities most disproportionately impacted by climate change.
Develop relationships with and support colleagues across all teams, recognizing that each individual brings a unique background and perspective to the work.
Model and nurture a growth mindset and continuous learning posture when facing new situations by collaborating to find fresh solutions, taking on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, and externalizing lessons learned from failures and mistakes.
In recognition of the fluidity of the work and ecosystem that the Equity Fund operates in, other duties may be assigned based on organizational needs.
QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
The VP of Programs will be committed to racial, economic, and social justice. While no one candidate will embody all the qualifications enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:
Strategic Vision and Core Knowledge
Broad knowledge of the climate philanthropy field and an understanding of the historical context, institutions, and systems that combine to compound the effects of climate change on people of color and other disenfranchised groups in the United States.
Ability to apply both a macro and state-level view on relevant trends in climate change organizing, politics, policy, and communications, with a strong curiosity and interest in tracking the needs and developing areas of the field.
A proven thought leader with an understanding of and ability to articulate the value proposition for the emergent role that intermediary funders play in supporting nonprofit infrastructure and capacity building in communities.
Demonstrated passion for and investment in advancing justice and equity. Highly developed critical consciousness and a combination of professional and lived experience aligned with the Equity Fund’s mission and values.
Program Leadership
A background in organizing, power building, and/or community-driven processes of passing and implementing climate policy.
10+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in strategy, programming, and other related fields within the social justice movement and/or philanthropy.
10+ years of deep supervisory and management experience in leadership of large, complex, and multidisciplinary teams.
A track record in managing complex plans, projects, budgets, and deadlines that require coordination across multiple stakeholders and with minimal support.
Experience building relationships and working in partnership with diverse audiences and stakeholders, including funders, elected officials, community leaders, grassroots organizations, and coalition partners.
Experience working within the broader climate movement and in state-level political landscape, including working with state, local, and federal decision makers, partner groups, communities, and/or with 501(c)(4) organizations.
Superb communication and external relations skills and demonstrated success in building an organization’s profile and reputation in regional, state, national, and professional communities.
Management and Team Leadership
Experience mentoring, developing, and providing leadership to high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams to achieve project/program goals.
Cultivation of a relational work environment that builds trust, collaboration, communication, and seeks to foster a culture of equity, transparency, accountability, and integrity.
Commitment to creating a strong and healthy workplace that centers diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and reflects internally the values the Equity Fund advocates for externally.
Systems and Processes
Experience designing and building systems and processes to support multidisciplinary programs and a willingness to rethink or improve upon established systems and processes.
Ability to assess and identify pain points in a growing organization and devise strategies to ensure that processes and systems are being developed in a strategic manner to guide growth.
An inclusive, collaborative, and agile management style and the ability to bring joy, good humor, and purpose to the work environment.
COMPENSATION, BENEFITS & LOCATION
The Equity Fund offers a competitive and holistic total rewards package that includes salary and benefits. Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance; 3% automatic contribution and a 3% employer match on 401(k) contributions; pre-tax transportation benefits; and paid holiday, vacation, sick, and volunteer time off. The target salary range for this role is $200,000 – $245,000.
This role is remote with a preference for Washington, DC or Los Angeles, CA.
TO APPLY
More information about The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund may be found at: www.theequityfund.org
This search is being conducted with assistance from Katherine Jacobs and Sharon Gerstman of NPAG . Due to the pace of this search, candidates are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Candidates may submit their cover letter, outlining their interest and qualifications, along with their resume via NPAG’s website .
The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF), a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. NVF is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding, and enables each of us to realize our potential. NVF’s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.
To center the safety and well-being of its employees, New Venture Fund requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. This position may require candidates to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations may be sought and approved in accordance with the law by contacting human resources at HR@newventurefund.org .
Full Time
The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund (Equity Fund) is a philanthropic fund dedicated to supporting a multi-state infrastructure of community-based organizations building power to advance an equitable clean energy future. With a proven approach to driving impact and a highly effective set of stakeholders and investors, the Equity Fund is facing a number of exciting opportunities. With the field that the Equity Fund supports growing quickly and public investments in clean energy transition accelerating, the Fund is spinning out of its fiscal sponsorship and establishing a new, independent institution that can meet the needs of the growing and dynamic ecosystem of grassroots organizations and expand their collective impact. Poised for significant growth, the Equity Fund has evolved and is growing its executive leadership structure and operating model to lead effective strategy, systems, and culture for the team. To that end, the Equity Fund invites nominations and applications for the position of Vice President of Programs , who will provide important, executive leadership to both its 501(c)(3), and the Climate Equity Action Fund, 501(c)(4), and the field of climate philanthropy during this dynamic time.
The Vice President of Programs will be responsible for driving the Equity Fund/Action Fund’s grantmaking and programmatic strategies to achieve its mission of building the power of racially diverse communities to advance equitable climate policies. Immediate opportunities for impact include:
Programmatic Leadership
Lead staff on the Grants and PowerBuilding team to develop grantmaking goals and strategies to win equitable climate policies and campaigns by prioritizing grassroots organizing and building power in the Equity Fund’s 13 portfolio states.
Lead staff on the Policy Accelerator and Communications Accelerator teams to support grantee partners to build key policy and communications capacities and campaigns that leverage and maximize the power of community-led solutions.
Lead the Program team to sharpen, integrate, and refine its strategies to accelerate success across the Fund’s portfolio through continual analysis, learning, and innovation.
Field Leadership
Advance grantmaking approaches and models that prioritize organizing, equity, building power, and building deep partnerships and trust with grantee organizations.
Drive philanthropy to support and accelerate social change impact through innovation, creativity, and bold action.
Staff Leadership and Management
Inspire, mentor, and manage staff by guiding the Program Team through change and continued growth while maintaining high standards of professionalism and impact.
Foster a culture that promotes trust, respect, equity, integrity, and operates with a movement-building orientation.
The ideal candidate for VP of Programs will be a seasoned, mature manager and skilled communicator who thrives in a complex, diverse, and multi-stakeholder environment within a start-up culture; and has demonstrated success developing and deploying philanthropic resources to implement a multipronged strategy for successful outcomes in a campaign or public policy environment. They will have executive experience managing high-performing teams and driving collaborative decision-making, and will be able to shift appropriately between the roles of skilled tactician, team coach, manager, and visionary leader. They will ideally bring experience in community-driven processes of passing and implementing climate policy, organizing and power building experience, grantmaking or re-granting experience, and additional lived and professional experience relevant to the Equity Fund’s work. They will be an entrepreneurial, results-driven, relationship builder who is committed to the Equity Fund’s mission and values of power building to accelerate the transition to an equitable clean energy future.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund (the Equity Fund) is supporting a multi-state infrastructure of community-based organizations building power needed to advance an equitable clean energy future. The Equity Fund is strategically building power by:
Investing in the leadership and organizing of diverse communities (Black, Latinx, AAPI, Indigenous people, and communities bearing the brunt of climate change);
Engaging voters in these communities through nonpartisan civic engagement campaigns; and
Winning climate and clean energy policy solutions that reflect the priorities of communities and advance racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Founded in 2016, the Equity Fund partners with organizations in 13 states (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia), and will expand its reach to additional states in the coming years.
Grassroots groups advocating for and organizing communities of color, Indigenous, working class and rural communities – often people hardest hit by climate change – are accomplishing critical work to build the collective power of communities. These communities are often the strongest supporters of climate policy and are a key political force to advance community demands and win durable policy change. The Equity Fund serves as a conduit for foundations and donors to partner with and support these grassroots organizations across the country. Because of Equity Fund’s expertise and deep relationships with community-led groups working at the intersection of climate change and economic, racial, and environmental justice, the Equity Fund can identify and nurture local grantee partners that have large-scale bases of members and track records of winning policy victories in their cities and states. The team then works to synthesize and share lessons learned from their grantee partners so that foundations and donors can better understand how grassroots groups can more effectively build power to advance climate solutions and then develop and coordinate funding strategies that will have the greatest results.
OPPORTUNITIES & EXPECTATIONS FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAMS
The Vice President of Programs will serve as a critical member of the Executive Team and advance the Equity Fund’s mission by leading the Equity Fund and Action Fund’s programmatic priorities. Reporting to the President, and in collaboration with the President and program leads, the VP of Programs will drive the planning and execution of the Equity Fund’s Grants and Power Building, Communications Accelerator, and Policy Accelerator program strategies and goals.
As an experienced and decisive leader who knows how to foster relationship building and collaboration across teams to drive progress, the VP of Programs will advance a strategy for climate equity that is centered around building the power of diverse communities to advance equitable climate policies. This role is internal-strategy oriented, driving the big picture strategy and prioritization of the Funds’ programmatic work alongside external relationship building with funders, allied organizations, and grantee partners. The successful candidate will refine and clarify process for each programmatic function, ensuring that the Program Team understands the details of a sharpening theory of change, the process through which their input is received and considered, and how their work connects to the organization's mission and impact.
The VP of Programs will be responsible for providing leadership and driving success in the following key areas:
Organizational & Strategic Leadership
Work closely with the President and other Executive Team members to develop a clear, long-term vision and strategic direction for all Equity Fund and Action Fund program strategies and priorities.
Serve as an executive manager and decision-maker, providing the organizational leadership required to establish processes for team input to strategy, while driving positive change and ensuring strategic alignment, integration, and execution across programs and departments.
Support fundraising and cultivation of funder relationships to drive the organization’s theory of change, anchor the organization’s role in the climate movement, and to gain visibility and opportunities for the Equity Fund and Action Fund.
Ensure strong cross-organizational collaborative approaches and strong communication, transparency and information sharing are nurtured and deepened.
Partner with the President on the strategic direction and agendas for Board meetings, including the creation of memos, reports, and presentations.
Support a positive organizational culture of collaboration, dedication to equity, values, creativity, and respect for a wide range of voices and perspectives.
Program Management & Execution
In partnership with the directors on the program team, develop, implement, and execute cohesive program-wide and state-specific strategies across programmatic areas to support mission impact by translating strategies into actionable workplans with measurable outcomes.
Oversee grantmaking and creation of docket memos, strategy papers, and reports for the program team.
Drive Equity Fund and Action Fund organizational planning, prioritization, and budgeting processes by working collaboratively with leaders across Equity Fund and Action Fund to ensure priorities are successfully executed and objectives met on time.
Ensure cross-departmental work is cohesive and working groups hold strategic priorities at the core, ensuring program leadership is aligned around bodies of work.
Foster a collaborative and results-oriented culture supported by systems and processes that help drive agile executive decision-making and reinforce accountability for those directly carrying out Equity Fund and Action Fund strategies.
Assess progress on strategic objectives and communicate that progress to the Executive Team, the Board, and staff.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Support, coach, supervise, and develop program leadership and team members, and maintain a trusting, inclusive, equitable, high-performing team culture.
Provide mentorship and constructive and timely feedback to foster a collaborative environment that develops strengths, improves weaknesses, and encourages continuous learning.
Directly manage 2-3 employees and indirectly oversee a program department of 13, with the potential for additional team growth.
Oversee the daily workflow of direct program leadership reports.
Recruit, interview, hire, and train staff, including managing discipline and termination of employees in accordance with organization’s policy.
Establish a regular meeting cadence for the program team to support alignment and efficiency in the work.
Shared Organization Responsibilities
Champion the Equity Fund and Action Fund’s theory of change and mission of empowering the communities most disproportionately impacted by climate change.
Develop relationships with and support colleagues across all teams, recognizing that each individual brings a unique background and perspective to the work.
Model and nurture a growth mindset and continuous learning posture when facing new situations by collaborating to find fresh solutions, taking on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, and externalizing lessons learned from failures and mistakes.
In recognition of the fluidity of the work and ecosystem that the Equity Fund operates in, other duties may be assigned based on organizational needs.
QUALIFICATIONS OF THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
The VP of Programs will be committed to racial, economic, and social justice. While no one candidate will embody all the qualifications enumerated below, the ideal candidate will possess many of the following professional and personal abilities, attributes, and experiences:
Strategic Vision and Core Knowledge
Broad knowledge of the climate philanthropy field and an understanding of the historical context, institutions, and systems that combine to compound the effects of climate change on people of color and other disenfranchised groups in the United States.
Ability to apply both a macro and state-level view on relevant trends in climate change organizing, politics, policy, and communications, with a strong curiosity and interest in tracking the needs and developing areas of the field.
A proven thought leader with an understanding of and ability to articulate the value proposition for the emergent role that intermediary funders play in supporting nonprofit infrastructure and capacity building in communities.
Demonstrated passion for and investment in advancing justice and equity. Highly developed critical consciousness and a combination of professional and lived experience aligned with the Equity Fund’s mission and values.
Program Leadership
A background in organizing, power building, and/or community-driven processes of passing and implementing climate policy.
10+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in strategy, programming, and other related fields within the social justice movement and/or philanthropy.
10+ years of deep supervisory and management experience in leadership of large, complex, and multidisciplinary teams.
A track record in managing complex plans, projects, budgets, and deadlines that require coordination across multiple stakeholders and with minimal support.
Experience building relationships and working in partnership with diverse audiences and stakeholders, including funders, elected officials, community leaders, grassroots organizations, and coalition partners.
Experience working within the broader climate movement and in state-level political landscape, including working with state, local, and federal decision makers, partner groups, communities, and/or with 501(c)(4) organizations.
Superb communication and external relations skills and demonstrated success in building an organization’s profile and reputation in regional, state, national, and professional communities.
Management and Team Leadership
Experience mentoring, developing, and providing leadership to high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams to achieve project/program goals.
Cultivation of a relational work environment that builds trust, collaboration, communication, and seeks to foster a culture of equity, transparency, accountability, and integrity.
Commitment to creating a strong and healthy workplace that centers diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging and reflects internally the values the Equity Fund advocates for externally.
Systems and Processes
Experience designing and building systems and processes to support multidisciplinary programs and a willingness to rethink or improve upon established systems and processes.
Ability to assess and identify pain points in a growing organization and devise strategies to ensure that processes and systems are being developed in a strategic manner to guide growth.
An inclusive, collaborative, and agile management style and the ability to bring joy, good humor, and purpose to the work environment.
COMPENSATION, BENEFITS & LOCATION
The Equity Fund offers a competitive and holistic total rewards package that includes salary and benefits. Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance; 3% automatic contribution and a 3% employer match on 401(k) contributions; pre-tax transportation benefits; and paid holiday, vacation, sick, and volunteer time off. The target salary range for this role is $200,000 – $245,000.
This role is remote with a preference for Washington, DC or Los Angeles, CA.
TO APPLY
More information about The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund may be found at: www.theequityfund.org
This search is being conducted with assistance from Katherine Jacobs and Sharon Gerstman of NPAG . Due to the pace of this search, candidates are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Candidates may submit their cover letter, outlining their interest and qualifications, along with their resume via NPAG’s website .
The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF), a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. NVF is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding, and enables each of us to realize our potential. NVF’s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.
To center the safety and well-being of its employees, New Venture Fund requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. This position may require candidates to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations may be sought and approved in accordance with the law by contacting human resources at HR@newventurefund.org .
