[Hiring] Managing Director, Advising Services @Tides Network

Role Description

The Managing Director, Advising Services is central to leading Tides Center’s fiscal sponsorship practice to meet strategic goals. Representing the voice of “doers” across Tides, this practitioner shapes policy and ensures exceptional service, supporting partner impact, strengthening retention, and advancing the next phase of organizational transformation.

Reporting to the Executive Director, this role oversees five Senior Advisors and their cross-functional service teams, each supporting a portfolio of projects. The Managing Director ensures the model remains mission-aligned, financially sustainable, and positioned for growth.

This role serves as the operational and financial engine behind the Executive Director’s strategy, with accountability for five integrated outcomes:

• Team performance, development, and accountability
• Partner retention and impact
• Financial sustainability of the model
• Market development and pipeline growth in partnership with Business Development
• Continuous improvement of the cross-functional service approach

Success requires a leader who integrates strategy, people, operations, and business, and brings a customer-centered orientation to a fast-moving, transforming organization committed to social justice.

Qualifications

• Strong alignment with Tides' values, mission, and impact goal
• Strategic judgment paired with operational follow-through
• Financial acumen and comfort making trade-off decisions
• People leadership experience with a track record of building inclusive, high-performing teams
• Sound judgment under pressure on partner escalations and complex risk situations
• Comfort with ambiguity, iteration, and leading others through organizational change
• Clear, concise communication across audiences
• Demonstrated commitment to advancing equity, inclusion, and social justice

Requirements

• 8 years of direct and progressive professional experience, including 4 years directly managing senior individual contributors or people managers
• Direct experience in fiscal sponsorship or services to nonprofit/movement organizations
• Demonstrated track record leading service delivery teams to measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated financial acumen — experience holding P&L, business unit, or service line accountability
• Experience leading in a matrixed or cross-functional team structure
• Senior advisory experience with nonprofit, philanthropic, or movement leaders
• Experience contributing to market or business development
• Experience leading through organizational change
• Familiarity with the financial, compliance, HR, and grants management dynamics of fiscally sponsored projects preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement plan options
• Generous paid time off
• Professional development opportunities

Application Instructions

Please submit your resume and a cover letter expressing why you are well-qualified for this role and your motivation for joining the team at Tides. For best consideration, apply by June 4, 2026 at 11:59pm ET.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We look forward to reviewing applications from all qualified job seekers. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities. No applicant will be discriminated against because of their race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Where required by state law, we utilize E-Verify as a part of our employment authorization process.

Applicants with Disabilities

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that all who are interested may participate in our interview process. If you are in need of an accommodation, please advise in writing at the time you apply.