Director, Community and Field Building

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👫 Community Manager

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Spark Microgrants

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

Spark Microgrants is an organization focused on empowering communities to drive local change and determine their own paths out of poverty. They provide communities with the opportunity and tools to improve their own lives through innovative approaches and community driven development. Headquartered in New York, they work with various communities, emphasizing the capability of people to lead and govern themselves with adequate resources and support. Their mission includes developing strong, self-reliant communities through partnerships and impactful programs.

📋 Description

• Build a global community of practice around community-driven development, participatory governance, and locally led development • Identify and connect organizations, practitioners, researchers, funders, and public leaders • Map the global landscape and identify exceptional organizations and individuals advancing the field • Build relationships and create forums, partnerships, convenings, and shared-learning opportunities • Develop shared standards, tools, and approaches for excellent community-led systems • Build a community of philanthropic, public, multilateral, research, and institutional champions • Develop propositions for philanthropy and institutional partners • Build and manage high-level partner relationships • Identify opportunities for private capital to unlock public and multilateral financing • Develop and lead fundraising strategy for a $100M fund • Cultivate major funders and manage high-value funding opportunities • Lead or support donor conversations, proposals, pitches, and partnership negotiations • Help unlock $20B in public and multilateral financing for community-led systems • Influence large-scale financing mechanisms and programs • Connect Spark’s evidence and field lessons to policy and financing conversations • Develop strategies, systems, communications, and thought leadership for Spark’s field-building capacity • Represent Spark at high-level meetings, conferences, convenings, and with strategic partners • Bring broader field insights into Spark’s strategy and programs • Report to the CEO • Complete a three-month probation period with learning and performance objectives

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally in international development, philanthropy, government, public policy, community development, or another mission-driven field • Strong track record of building high-trust relationships with senior leaders across different institutions and sectors • Experience developing and executing fundraising, partnership, coalition-building, or field-building strategies • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Ability to make complex ideas compelling to different audiences • Ability to develop a big-picture strategy while remaining highly execution-oriented • Strong judgment and ability to navigate ambiguous, politically and institutionally complex environments • Intellectual curiosity and interest in evidence, learning, and developing new approaches • Ability to operate credibly with philanthropists, government officials, researchers, practitioners, and community leaders • Collaborative approach and ability to bring together people with different perspectives and incentives • Comfort working in a highly entrepreneurial environment where the strategy will evolve as opportunities emerge • Ability to respect and uphold safeguarding procedures and principles • Work location in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health insurance premiums for employees • 50% health insurance coverage for dependents • 401(k) plan with a 3% employer contribution • Generous paid leave • Professional development stipend