Head of Content Innovation and Programming

Program Director, Childrens Rights Innovation Fund (TF) Posted on January 20, 2020
Tides and Wellspring Philanthropic Funds Global Childrens Right (GCR) Program have launched the Childrens Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF) (a working title) to deepen and scale learning and innovation across the field of childrens rights. The CRIF will address systemic problems and structural challenges impacting the childrens rights field to date and incentivize actors to strategically shift how they design and lead their work.
The following values serve as core guiding principles to the funds work, and for the larger community engaged in this effort:
Child and girl centered
Gender equity and justice
The primary goal of CRIF is to reinvigorate the childrens rights field through piloted innovation, nimble and responsive grantmaking, and robust program learning in collaboration with field partners.
Through the launch of an innovation grantmaking fund, we will:
Develop a robust community of diverse actors that reinvigorates the field
Build a collaborative framework that aligns activities across the field and strengthens collective capacity of grantees
The Program Director (Director) is a full-time role reporting to the Fund Steering Committee and Tides Director of Special Initiatives. In close collaboration with the Tides Special Initiatives and Wellspring GCR teams, the Director will launch and execute CRIFs grantmaking, innovation, and fund development priorities outlined below.
We are seeking a unique philanthropic leader passionate about advancing innovation and progress in global development and rights ecosystems. The ideal candidate will be an experienced grantmaker, charismatic leader, and deeply committed to bringing research to life through innovation. The candidate will be experienced in managing philanthropic and/or grantee partnerships and excels in building collaborative partnerships across diverse stakeholders.
Oversee grantmaking strategy design, grantee application process including interviewing, selection, and notification of selected partners
Develop milestones to assess capacity building needs and organize activities to develop grantee learning, collaboration, and innovation outcomes
Field Building
Design and lead activities to cultivate trust, spur learning, encourage collaboration, and catalyze innovation across partners
Collaborate with community groups to strengthen and expand programs
Initiate funder relationship building to cultivate trust and explore opportunities for collaboration
Organize regular opportunities for cross community learning and reflection for grantees, peer funders, and other stakeholders as relevant
Identify opportunities to pilot and scale innovations. g. design labs, convenings, potential strategic partnerships with innovation-leading institutions such as universities
Ensure programs and grants comply with contracts and funding requirements
Develop content for external facing materials and grant RFPs/reports
Develop and manage program budget
Manage designing, updating, and implementing surveys and focus groups, summarizing and synthesizing evaluation data for internal and external use
Develops quarterly operational structure and budget, including allocations for administrative costs and fees and regranting via the CRIF
Manages the tracking of funding and reviews incoming grantee reports of the CRIF
Identifies opportunities for outreach to other donors
Fosters conceptual learning, analysis, documentation that will help translate grants into program learning for the field
Manages finances in accordance with Tides cash management policies; takes action when notified of cash flow shortages
Authorizes all financial transactions in accordance with funding guidelines and Tides policies
Understanding of program design and management
Experience conducting learning processes, encouraging innovation, and using adaptive management
Experience with nonprofit budget management and operations
8-10 years of background advancing social justice issues through a mix of research, programming, grantmaking, and convening
~ Equivalent life and work experience may be substituted
~ Familiarity with issues related to childrens rights and girls rights
~ Work with community-led, youth-led, child-led or girl-led programming or grantmaking
~ History in recruiting, managing, engaging an Advisory Board, a coalition or other collective processes
~ Experience reviewing evaluations, synthesizing and interpreting impact data
~ Commitment to social justice
Ability to develop strong relationships and work with diverse stakeholders including Steering Committee members, funders, researchers, consultants, and community partners
Willingness to embrace challenge, be flexible, and find creative solutions that fit within established priorities
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Principles
Familiarity with both Google and Microsoft Office suite of products
Employee is required to sit for extended periods of time and work on a computer. The position requires phone conversations and in person or virtual meetings with both internal and external partners.
TRAVEL :
Program Director is expected to travel both domestically within the United States (especially to Washington D.CRIF and Tides believes we are strengthened by the diversity of our staff, and welcomes such diversity including race, gender identity or expression, educational attainment, disability, veteran status, and personal experience with the criminal justice system. We welcome applications from people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, and we strongly encourage people of color and persons with disabilities to apply. We actively cultivate an institutional culture that reflects the values of respect, equity and inclusion that we seek through our work to amplify in the larger world.
All personnel decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, assignment, training, promotion, discipline and discharge, are made without discrimination based on any protected characteristic as defined by law (e.g., race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, domestic partner status, veteran or military status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, and prior criminal convictions, as well as educational attainment.