About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Pipeline Development & Program Strategy Implementation: Work with Interim Chief Grants Officer, Impact and Investments team members to develop tactics for advancing SPP’s strategic objectives related to economic justice. Source and identify prospective non-profit organization partners and relevant networks to create and maintain a robust pipeline of potential grantee partners.
• Impact Investing: Collaborate closely with Investments team on grant opportunities that align with Spring Point’s investment strategies around economic justice.
• Grantee Management: Manage relationships with partner organizations; earn trust and build relationships with and amongst grantees, including by creating a culture of co-accountability where both SPP and grantee partners receive feedback from each other; support grantee capacity and be responsive to their organizational needs; connect partners with leadership coaching and technical assistance as needed; manage consultants working on related projects. Identify opportunities for Spring Point to work with partner organizations to co-create and implement key initiatives and amplify the impact of these efforts.
• Convening, Learning & Evaluation: Work with partners to define learning goals for each partner, as well as in aggregate at the portfolio level. Co-design and implement convenings and other programming alongside the Learning Team that meet identified learning goals and facilitate peer and cross-sector/cross-partner learning. Stay current on key issues and related research. Work with Spring Point’s Learning team to amplify emerging lessons learned.
• Grants Management: Coordinate with Spring Point’s Operations and Finance staff to manage administrative tasks throughout a grant’s lifecycle.
• Organizational Involvement: participate as an engaged member of the organization beyond core responsibilities including, but not limited to, participating in training/professional development, attending staff meetings/events, and contributing to the organization’s values-based culture building including diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work.
• Professional Development: maintain skills and knowledge of industry standards, peer activity, and relevant media/publications and advise on key developments or areas that could impact the organization.

Qualifications

• Professional Experience: 7-10 years of relevant domain expertise at a nonprofit, foundation, or related social impact organization.
• Strategic, Programmatic & Operational Expertise: Deep knowledge of a range of economic justice issues, wealth building strategies, local and national economic development ecosystems, guaranteed basic income projects and research. Familiarity with impact investing, community development investment approaches and organizations, and the financial tools and strategies that power the field and that can be leveraged in the interest of economic justice.  Demonstrates knowledge of a range of wealth building strategies and economic development ecosystems on a national scale and incorporates that understanding into program design, partnerships, and strategies that promote economic justice and opportunity. Demonstrates familiarity with employee-owned business models, such as cooperatives and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and incorporates that understanding into program design, partnerships, and strategies that promote economic justice.
• Technology: ability to integrate technology into work, expert level in Excel and proficient in the rest of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree or certification preferred
• Mission Focused: enjoy working within a small, entrepreneurial environment that is mission-driven, practitioner-led, and community-oriented
• Relationship Management: ability to initiate, develop, and maintain positive relationships
• Collaborative Spirit: Enjoys sharing expertise, learning from and leveraging the expertise of other colleagues, and co-creating strategies, initiatives, and other programming. 
• Team Player: collaborative and supportive of others with diverse backgrounds and skill sets
• DEI Focus: demonstrated experience and interest in supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization
• Learning Focused: ability to seek knowledge about diverse fields within social impact and make connections across the work
• Communication: strong written and verbal communication skills
• Flexibility & Availability: ability to quickly pivot and thrive in a fluid environment, ability to navigate ambiguity, with flexibility in scheduling for periodic night or weekend events, as well as occasional overnight travel
• Confidentiality: ability to handle confidential information with discretion

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