[Hiring] Director, Equity @Global Greengrants Fund Inc

Role Description

The Director, Equity has a deep understanding of philanthropy, grantmaking, and movement accompaniment with a focus on gender and intersectionality. They have a commitment to climate, environmental, and social justice and feminist grassroots movements and an understanding of their importance in shifting social, political, and economic systems from ones that are vulnerable, unsustainable, and unjust, to ones that are resilient, sustainable, and equitable.

• Provide leadership and expertise for the operationalization of GGF’s strategic plan to ensure achieving organizational outcomes from an Equity programmatic perspective.
• Oversee strategy evolution, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation for GGF’s program work in Equity.
• Build, manage, and maintain relationships with the network of advisors, movement actors, and relevant peer organizations.
• Oversee strategic development and implementation of global program strategies, projects, and initiatives.
• Contribute to ensuring strategic alignment, synergy, and cross-team integration among the Programs team.
• Actively participate in the leadership of the organization, providing valued and solution-oriented input on critical problems.
• Provide both strategic and operational advice to the Vice President of Programs on GGF’s work in Equity programmatic areas.
• Support GGF staff in enhancing their capacities for planning, monitoring, and evaluation collaboration.
• Drive a robust, meaningful learning agenda that facilitates continuous improvement in GGF’s work.
• Serve as the key Equity program and impact strategist for GGF.
• Lead in designing and deploying various organizational learning and development programs.
• Promote an organizational culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Advance GGF’s strategic objectives by networking and sharing information with relevant external stakeholders.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks to the organization and its board members.
• Represent GGF and participate in donor meetings, conferences, Board meetings, and special events.
• Lead and/or contribute to strategic development and implementation of global program strategies.
• Contribute to developing and maintaining ways of working that facilitate strong cross-team interaction.
• Lead the transformation within own role and responsibilities towards developing a more collaborative Programs team.
• Oversee strategy development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation for GGF’s program work in Equity.
• Provide strategic vision, direction, guidance, and input to the work of the organization.
• Collaborate with fundraising and development teams to ensure strategic alignment regarding fundraising and gender and equity programmatic goals.
• Maintain active and broad external engagement to ensure awareness of feminist, social justice, and environmental movement needs.
• Oversee research, design, implementation, and dissemination to advance Equity programmatic strategic objectives.
• Build, manage, and maintain relationships with the network of advisors, movement actors, and relevant peer organizations.
• Oversee the provision of proactive, in-depth gender and equity program analysis.
• Provide leadership in analyzing feedback from networks to understand their Equity and intersectional grantmaking strategies.
• Support the growth of GGF Equity program work, grantmaking, and movement accompaniment.
• Work closely with the UK organization and the US Programs team to integrate collaborations in Equity programs.
• Oversee the tracking of our Equity grants progress and lead the development of high-quality analysis.
• Co-create tools and systems to support Advisory Boards to sharpen strategy and improve grantmaking.
• Contribute to the annual organizational budgeting process and ensure strong alignment with annual planning.
• Ensure adherence to approved budget and all internal financial policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the assessment, monitoring, and communicating of GGF’s Program work and practices.
• Team mentoring, development, and support.
• Mentor and provide strategic direction to the Program team.
• Contribute to ensuring the Programs team can meet their day-to-day needs.
• Mentor the team and individual members and aid in setting goals and milestones for success.
• Provide strategic support to coordinators and ongoing coaching and mentoring.
• Create and ensure meeting goals and metrics for success.
• Lead and integrate steps towards more collaboration.
• Contribute to the development of a high-quality team in the organization.

Qualifications

• Significant relevant experience in similar roles in non-profit environmental, development, social/environmental justice, feminist, gender, human rights organization, philanthropy, movement building, grantmaking, and/or funding organization.
• Demonstrated experience in creating Equity, gender, and intersectional program strategies.
• Strong familiarity with social and environmental justice and feminist movements.
• Proven experience in program planning and implementation, operationalizing strategies to achieve priorities and goals.
• Demonstrated capacity to think strategically, innovatively, and analytically.
• Excellent relationship-nurturing and interpersonal understanding skills.
• Strong financial management acumen; knowledge of accounting procedures and protocols.
• Experience as a leader in ensuring the team meets programmatic milestones.
• Experience working with diverse communities from multiple identities across the globe.
• Fluency in English; proficiency also in other languages preferred.
• Strong expertise in the use of various software and a high level of computer literacy.
• Ability to travel within the U.S. and the rest of the world (approx. 8-10 weeks per year).

Requirements

• Commitment to the guiding principles, mission, and values of Global Greengrants Fund.
• Commitment to a value-based intersectional framework and its implications for organizational practices.
• Transparency and accountability.
• Critical thinking and analysis.
• Strategic risk management.
• Build strong interpersonal relations across both the US and UK organizations.
• Influencing and resolving differences across boundaries.
• Self-awareness and insight.

Personal Characteristics

• A transparent and adaptive leader with a commitment to lifelong learning.
• Experience and skills to give, receive, and work with feedback constructively.
• Articulate communicator, storyteller, and visionary.
• Demonstrated skills as a leader who guides wisely and compassionately.
• Experience in complex human resource management.
• Able to innovate and navigate uncertainty and thrive in seeing and taking up opportunities.
• Relevant lived experiences related to GGF’s work and community.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Experience

• Experience in strengthening growing organizations.
• Experience of shared leadership models of work, and more collaborative ways of working.