[Hiring] Director, Community Investment & Grantmaking @Yoga Alliance

Role Description

Reporting to the Head of Social Impact, Yoga Alliance is seeking a Director of Community Investment & Grantmaking to join its team. Community Investment & Grantmaking leverages Yoga Alliance’s financial and human resources to achieve the organization’s strategic goals, with a special focus on making yoga more widely available to people everywhere – guided by the Yoga Alliance strategic plan.

Successful long-term outcomes of this work will include:

• Funding mission-aligned organizations that support yoga teachers and training
• Systems-level integration of yoga into new environments and contexts
• Programmatic and financial sustainability for yoga within other sectors
• Cultivation of policies that expand access to yoga in more places, spaces, and communities

The Director of Community Investment & Grantmaking partners with the Head of Social Impact to envision the design of Yoga Alliance’s work leveraging granting and resource investment. The two goals for this body of work are:

• Implementing yoga community grantmaking in alignment with Yoga Alliance’s strategic plan and social impact objectives
• Embedding yoga within institutions and policies

The Director will translate this ambitious vision into action, starting with a community grantmaking program, as one part of a broader strategy and roadmap they will craft to inventory and deploy the full slate of Yoga Alliance resources to achieve its goals.

They will then lead the implementation, monitoring, continuous improvement, and expansion of this body of work.

The Director serves as a thought partner to the Head of Social Impact and an expert advisor on cutting-edge strategies to invest for social change, spanning multiple levels and forms of grantmaking.

The director also collaborates internally across teams and oversees the strategic and tactical integration of its efforts with other Yoga Alliance initiatives, bodies of work, systems, and goals; this individual simultaneously collaborates with external parties working to integrate yoga into non-studio settings and contexts.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressively increasing experiences with a minimum of 3 years in supporting development and implementation of strategies for systems and/or sector-level change
• Facilitating discussions with stakeholders as well as providing thought partnership
• Participating in strategic grantmaking / philanthropy targeting ambitious social change, supported by institutional relationships and strategic partnerships
• Establishing and/or running programs for granting / sub-granting
• 10+ years of progressive experience designing & leading implementation of strategic initiatives
• 5+ years managing complex, cross-organizational initiatives
• 5+ years of delegation and management of support staff and/or consultants on project tasks
• 3+ years of collaborating with / contracting external vendors to complete project tasks
• 7+ years of progressive experience leveraging relationships, data, storytelling, and research to pilot, and advocate for innovative programs
• 5+ years of experience using project management and relationship management software tools
• 7+ years of experience managing staff and project teams
• Extensive knowledge, familiarity, and 7+ years of experience with cutting-edge strategies for social change and sector-level transformation
• Finely attuned equity lens, with 7+ years of experience adapting / designing programs, policies, and practices to explicitly counter underlying power and resource inequities
• Innovative and solution-oriented mindset

Requirements

• Excellent skills in collaboration, communications, judgment and decision making, problem solving, project management, public speaking, and strategic thinking
• Strong technology skills with an aptitude to learn quickly to ramp up on new platforms or technology
• Experience working effectively and collaboratively within a fast-paced, nimble environment
• Proven track record of contributing to work environments committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging
• Ability to attend in-person work-related events, work on-site at the Arlington, VA office as needed, and travel occasionally nationwide

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plan offerings that are 100% employer paid for employees and 65% paid for dependents
• A matching 401K plan
• A generous paid-leave program including parental leave and sabbatical leave
• Reimbursement for professional development opportunities
• A casual dress code
• A supportive and collaborative organizational culture

Company Description

Yoga Alliance is the largest nonprofit membership association of yoga professionals, practitioners, and advocates around the globe. We believe if more people practice yoga, the better the world will be. We’re here to amplify the power of yoga and to make it accessible to anyone wherever they are, under whatever circumstances.

• Uplifting the transformative power of yoga
• Surfacing and reducing barriers to the practice
• Building, engaging, and supporting the yoga community

At the core of Yoga Alliance lies a profound commitment to our people. Here, every team member is empowered to lead, innovate, dream, create, and grow.