Director of Movement Capacity Building, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Palo Alto, CA
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is dedicated to advancing human potential and promoting equal opportunity through technology, grantmaking, impact investing, policy, and advocacy work. We look for bold ideas — regardless of structure and stage — and help them scale by pairing world-class engineers with subject matter experts to build tools that accelerate the pace of social progress.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We engage directly in the communities we serve because no one understands how to address our society’s challenges better than those who live them everyday. These partners help us identify problems and opportunities, learn fast and iterate toward our audacious goals for the next century. We strive to be humble, empathetic and scrappy life-long learners who work collaboratively to develop community-centered solutions.
We believe that high-performing teams include people from different backgrounds and experiences who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative actively seeks a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized groups — women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming, first and second generation immigrants, and people from low-income families.
THE ROLE
On top of traditional grant-making, the Advocacy and Engagement team is looking to provide advocacy partners with a rich variety of leadership development; creative, technical, product development; communications and other resources to help spark the next wave of social movements. We’re looking for a problem-solving maven who can help us design and build the ultimate in-house “geek squad” of policy, engagement and technical experts to help strengthen practices in various advocacy fields. The Director of Movement Capacity Building will partner with key stakeholders, staff, and engineers within CZI and outside to create a nimble and radically human-centered suite of support resources that empower advocates to address key gaps in advocacy group-specific and issue area-wide organizational capacities.
The ideal candidate is a proud coach, trainer, and systems-change guru. The Director will live and breathe creative, cross-sector partnerships with deep experience in government, issue advocacy, and electoral advocacy. Experience in philanthropy and/or the tech sector is a plus. The ideal candidate will also be energetic, organized, detail-oriented, flexible, possess excellent communication skills, and be able to plan around and through ambiguity.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop a community-first strategy for CZI’s partners, improving and accelerating programs across Science, Education, and Justice & Opportunity
• Recruit, build and grow a team of support specialists accordingly
• Design criteria for assessing communications, engineering, data services, creative and engagement needs of an advocacy partner and larger movement ecosystem in order to allocate in-house and external resources
• Build and test the delivery mechanisms for support resources, with a particular penchant for flexible models that can be customized for the unique circumstances of a particular project, organization, or campaign
• Evaluate existing capacity-building, upskilling, and acceleration programs in the field, measure impact, and codify best practices in order to amplify widely across key stakeholders and advocacy partners within and outside CZI
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and partner organizations to anticipate capacity-building support in grants proposals, structures, metrics setting, and reviews
• Maintain a broad view of program activities across teams and ensure there is high collaboration and consistency in process
REQUIREMENTS
• 10+ years experience working in the Advocacy/Engagement sector successfully driving time-sensitive, cross-functional projects across a variety of issue areas
• Extensive, hands-on training and/or executive coaching experience, with a particular penchant for developing radically interactive curriculum for a diverse range of audiences and issue topics
• Electoral and Issue Advocacy experience, with a preference for campaigns that have moved change through a variety of legislative and policy levers including ballot initiatives, state-level legislation, city-council level policy change, and c3 work
• Proven track record of building complex, innovative, and inclusive programs from the ground up within the social impact space
• Exceptional relationship-building skills, organizational awareness, and ability to persuade others to accomplish project objectives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to collaborate and work with a diverse team across various geographies
• Strong time management skills with ability to multi-task across projects
• Experience and knowledge of advocacy ecosystems and city ecosystems
• Tech/data experience a plus
• Travel required, particularly in early stages of program development and hiring
ABOUT THE CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was launched in December 2015 by Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician and founder and CEO of The Primary School in East Palo Alto. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a new kind of philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing human potential and promoting equal opportunity through world class engineering, grantmaking, impact investing, policy, and advocacy work. Initial areas of focus include supporting science through basic biomedical research and education through personalized learning. CZI is also exploring ways to build stronger, more equitable communities through affordable housing and criminal justice reform. To learn more, visit our Facebook page or https://chanzuckerberg.com/
To apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/chanzuckerberginitiative/jobs/1031793?gh_jid=1031793#.Wooj4NenGUl