Program Director, Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (TF)

Program Director, Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (TF)

Posted on January 20, 2020

OVERVIEW :

Tides and Wellspring Philanthropic Fund’s Global Children’s Right (GCR) Program have launched the Children’s Rights Innovation Fund (CRIF) (a working title) to deepen and scale learning and innovation across the field of children’s rights. The CRIF will address systemic problems and structural challenges impacting the children’s rights field to date and incentivize actors to strategically shift how they design and lead their work.

CRIF Values :

The following values serve as core guiding principles to the fund’s work, and for the larger community engaged in this effort :

• Child and girl centered
• Rights-framed
• Inclusive
• Locally generated
• Gender equity and justice
• Evidence-based

CRIF Goals :

The primary goal of CRIF is to reinvigorate the children’s 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 :

POSITION SUMMARY

The Program Director (Director) is a full-time role reporting to the Fund Steering Committee and Tides Director of Special Initiatives. The Director will lead the CRIF vision, steering committee development, and execution of grantmaking and fund development strategies. In close collaboration with the Tides Special Initiatives and Wellspring GCR teams, the Director will launch and execute CRIF’s 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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

Steering Committee

Grantmaking

Field Building

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE :

Required

Preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES :

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS :

Employee is required to work closely with diverse stakeholders including clients, partners, funders, and potential donors.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS :

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.C), as well as internationally, several times throughout the year.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

ABOUT TIDES :

Tides is a philanthropic partner and nonprofit accelerator dedicated to building a world of shared prosperity and social justice. Tides works at the nexus of funders, changemakers, and policy, with extensive impact solutions including philanthropic giving and grantmaking, impact investing, fiscal sponsorship for social ventures, collaborative workspaces, and policy initiatives. Our extensive tools and know-how give our partners the freedom to hit the ground running and drive change faster than they can on their own.

ABOUT WELLSPRING :

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund supports the realization of human rights and social and economic justice for all people. Our work is rooted in respect for the dignity and worth of every human being and is informed by the following beliefs :

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