POSITION SUMMARY :
The Director of Community Investments is a key member of the Community Impact Team with responsibility for overseeing $3 million in grant investments, strengthening and managing relationships with funded partners, and collaborating with community stakeholders to achieve United Way’s organizational strategy.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITES
Investment and Impact Management
- Serves as a strategic community liaison to UWGC strategic community partners funded by United Way of Greenville County.
- Manages United Way’s grantmaking processes, including volunteer management, proposal review and recommendations, impact assessment, and communications.
- Champions UWGC’s strategic direction, investment priorities, and impact to external audiences. Serves as an effective ambassador of United Way’s investments and initiatives.
- Assesses the effectiveness and impact of approximately $3M in grant investments by analyzing data reports and making recommendations for improvement.
- In alignment with UWGC’s How We Win strategy, leverages data and best practices to identify investment solutions that enhance economic mobility of low-income community members.
Maintains knowledge of current and evolving community needs, resources, and trends related to UWGC’s strategy.
Working cross-functionally, leverages UWGC’s measurement framework to ensure impact targets are met for $3M in grant investments.
Evaluates progress and determines if recalibration is necessary.
Ensures that investment challenges are addressed quickly, and appropriate measures are taken in partnership with the Vice President of Community Impact.
Relationship Management
- Develops and implements relationship management strategies to ensure trust, collaboration, and regular engagement with organizations funded by UWGC.
- Develops and builds relationships that bring partners and stakeholders together to influence positive change and accelerate impact.
Meets regularly with funded organizations and ensures frequent and ongoing input from the community.
- Serve as a liaison with current and prospective partner organizations, providing support and responding to queries as they emerge.
- Participates in relevant internal and external committees, forums, and workgroups.
- Convenes and connects relevant stakeholders to develop strategic and programmatic partnerships that help low-income community members.
Manages and navigates often complex, multi-faceted relationships with public, private, funded, and unfunded partners.
Working collaboratively, proactively responds to issues regarding funding, staffing, capacity and other barriers that might lessen the impact of investments.
Internal Leadership
- Demonstrates impact of investments and leverages relationships with grantees to aid fundraising teams in securing resources.
- Works collaboratively to develop and manage an annual line-item budget for grant investments.
- With a team-focused approached, contributes to and participates in UWGC activities and fulfills other responsibilities as requested by supervisor.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Five+ years of related professional experience in grantmaking.
- Intellectual agility and ability to analyze, think critically, and understand barriers to economic mobility.
- Experience in team leadership and management, strategic thinking, program management, volunteer management, research, evaluation, and report writing.
- Demonstrates capacity to work as part of a team, as well as independently.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Experience with meeting facilitation and public speaking.
- Knowledge and use of current Microsoft Office and its applications. Database experience a plus.
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