Director of Knowledge Leadership

THE FOUNDATION

The Miami Foundation is building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. Since 1967, The Foundation has invested over $772M to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 fundholders and 50,000 donors. By accelerating leadership, generosity, and a sense of belonging across Miami, we inspire people to become changemakers, and we create ways for donors, nonprofits, leaders, and locals to work together on solutions for our community. At The Miami Foundation, everyone has a role they can play in creating a thriving Greater Miami.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

To build a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive, The Miami Foundation believes it is imperative that all Miamians have access to knowledge and information about their community so that they have an opportunity to play a role in addressing Greater Miami?s most pressing issues.

The Director of Knowledge Leadership is a grant-funded position at The Foundation. The person in this position plays a key role in capturing and sharing knowledge about 1) the current state of the issues our community faces; 2) the work that is being done and by whom; 3) what is being learned and what progress is being made; and 4) how Miamians can get involved and play a role in strengthening our community. The Director of Knowledge Leadership also plays a key role in sharing knowledge that better connects philanthropists to nonprofits to maximize the impact of the overwhelming generosity in Greater Miami.

The ideal candidate for this role is a strategic storyteller and educator. This person is a constant learner who can synthesize large quantities of knowledge and data into stories, publications and resources that Miamians can relate to and be compelled by.

Reports to :  Vice President of Strategic Communications

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Serve as a senior member of the Communications Team and work closely with the Vice President to design and implement a strategic approach to enabling The Miami Foundation to become a knowledge leader in Greater Miami and a source of invaluable information for Miamians to grow their civic engagement and social impact.

The Director of Knowledge Leadership will be responsible for driving learning, knowledge leadership and communications and management as follows :

Learning :

• Create tools and processes to operationalize learning across The Foundation?s programs, initiatives, and events so that the knowledge acquired and shared in these spaces can benefit a wider audience.
• Create relationships, tools, and processes to operationalize a way to learn about the social impact work and progress happening across Greater Miami so that it can be shared with The Foundation?s growing audience
• Define and operationalize an approach to learning from grantee data that The Foundation collects so that this knowledge can benefit a wider audience of philanthropists.
• Be a visible community leader and build a strong range of cross-sector relationships, especially with nonprofits in Greater Miami, to stay abreast of the work and progress happening in our community.

Knowledge Leadership :

Communications & Management :

Requirements Experience, Abilities & Skills

Experience

Abilities

Skills

This list of essential functions is not intended to be exhaustive. The Miami Foundation reserves the right to revise this job description as needed to comply with actual job requirements.

The Miami Foundation is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. The Miami Foundation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Please reach out to talent@miamifoundation.org if you need any accommodation in applying.