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Project Manager, Pathways Fund, New Profit
Position: Project Manager, Pathways Fund
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Organization: New Profit
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Overview:
New Profit
New Profit is a nonprofit venture philanthropy fund that exists to help innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations bring about widespread and transformative impact on critical social problems. We work to fulfill this mission with two approaches: 1) providing multi-year financial and strategic support to help a portfolio of innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations realize their full potential for social impact; and 2) helping to build an environment in which all innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations may realize their full potential for social impact. New Profit believes that just as entrepreneurship and invention have driven our nation’s progress, so too can we harness America’s spirit of innovation, vision, and optimism to help solve our most pressing social problems.
With the support of individual investors and our signature partner, Monitor Group, New Profit works with social entrepreneur-led organizations tackling persistent social problems in education, workforce development, public health, and other areas. In addition, we bring together social innovators from across sectors at the annual Gathering of Leaders, and also drive other initiatives to release the potential of social entrepreneurship. Included among these is America Forward, a nonpartisan initiative that connects social sector innovators and their partners with policymakers, legislators, and thought leaders to advance an infrastructure for innovators and government to act together to scale the impact of proven and promising solutions.
Pathways Fund
The Pathways Fund, launched by New Profit Inc. in our capacity as a Social Innovation Fund intermediary organization, is dedicated to serving low-income youth transitioning from high-school to post-secondary education and productive employment. Over the next five years, the nonprofits in the Pathways Fund (referred to as subgrantees) will work towards the following measurable outcomes: increase in high school graduation and GED attainment, increase in college enrollment, increase in college credit accumulation rates, and achieving living wage employment. The Fund will grant dollars and provide necessary support to build the base of program evidence and expand the reach of six of our nation’s most promising social innovations focused on youth development.
The Social Innovation Fund (SIF) is a new competitive grant program housed at the Corporation for National and Community Service designed to expand innovative solutions to social sector problems with evidence of strong results in communities throughout America. The SIF is tackling some of the country’s greatest social challenges by enabling effective ideas and organizations to grow and replicate to reach more children, families, and communities. New Profit is honored to be selected as an intermediary and looks forward to working with our subgrantees, investors, and the Corporation for National and Community Service to ensure that our administration of these funds leads to an effective expansion of organizations that are already making measurable differences in people’s lives.
Position:
New Profit is seeking a smart, proactive and highly organized Project Manager to serve as the primary point person for the Pathways Fund. As an integral member of the Pathways Fund team, the Project Manager will report directly to Lisa Jackson (Partner, Pathways Fund) and work closely with both internal team members and external stakeholders to lead the process management of a wide variety of projects across functional areas. A strategic and process-oriented thinker, the Project Manager will be skilled at navigating complex relationships and ideas, helping to ensure the successful achievement of the Pathways Fund goals. The Project Manager will take a leadership role in building relationships and camaraderie within the New Profit Pathways team, external Pathways partners, and the broader SIF Community.
Responsibilities:
Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Serve as the programmatic and fiscal liaison to Pathways Partners (six funders, six organizations):
- Distribute and deploy information from and for all external partners
- Facilitate relationship between New Profit and officers at the Corporation for National and Community Service; manage reporting, grant renewals, and ongoing questions related to grants management
- Cultivate relationships with the broader SIF community, including other SIF Intermediaries
- Assist with and/or lead regular convenings of the Pathways Fund partners
Collaborate with other teams at New Profit to manage external communications, development, finance and compliance, and portfolio management for the Pathways Fund:
- Work closely with New Profit’s finance team; support Director of Finance in the fiscal oversight of subgrantees, including quarterly reporting, operating plans and compliance oversight
- Liaise with operations team to manage contracts, reimbursements and payments to organizations
- Gain a strong understanding of federal compliance guidelines in order to provide guidance and links between the programmatic and fiscal sides of the grant
- Work collaboratively and strategically with New Profit’s portfolio management and America Forward teams to ensure communications and operations are aligned between teams
- Work closely with New Profit’s communications team; gain solid understanding of all Pathways work and communicate that effectively to various audiences
- Support development team in managing grant reporting and creation of development materials
Manage processes, workstreams, and communication within New Profit’s Pathways team:
- Create and manage systems to capture priorities, work-streams and evolving needs of staff
Qualifications:
- Three to five years of professional experience in project or program management or graduate degree plus two or more years of experience
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple, detailed projects while driving toward deadlines
- Demonstrated quantitative analysis skills; experience with budgets, finance or compliance a plus
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate New Profit’s mission, impact, and value proposition to a wide range of stakeholders
- Superior attention to detail
- Ability to manage up and laterally, capable of organizing and mobilizing a cross-functional team toward completion of projects
- Unwavering commitment to service and customer orientation
- Adept at establishing and stewarding strong relationships predicated on trust, mutual respect, and shared values
- Demonstrated passion for and commitment to New Profit’s mission and vision exemplified through professional background or a significant history of community involvement
- High level of interpersonal maturity, poise, and judgment
- Ability to work independently and cooperatively as part of a growing, entrepreneurial, mission driven team
- High comfort level with ambiguity and entrepreneurship
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
To Apply:
Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format and addressed to Jen Porter, at http://jobs.cgcareers.org/application.aspx?id=1761. No phone calls, please. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
