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Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
- Lead organizational vision, strategy, and long-term growth planning
- Identify opportunities to expand impact, partnerships, visibility, and sustainability
- Translate mission and values into clear organizational priorities and measurable outcomes
- Support innovation while maintaining alignment with organizational principles and culture
- Advise and collaborate with the Advisory Board
Fundraising & Development:
- Serve as the organization’s lead fundraiser and relationship-builder
- Develop and execute fundraising strategies that diversify and strengthen revenue streams
- Support grant strategy, donor communications, and philanthropic storytelling
Communications & External Relations
- Act as a compelling public ambassador for the organization’s mission and work by speaking, presenting, and contributing to overall visibility and thought leadership
- Build relationships with civic leaders, nonprofit partners, media, academic institutions, and community organizations
- Represent the organization in national conversations related to dialogue, democracy, bridgebuilding, and civic health
Programmatic & Movement Leadership:
- Ensure programmatic excellence and mission alignment across all initiatives
- Deepen the organization’s role within the broader bridgebuilding and civic engagement ecosystem
- Support development of tools, training, and partnerships that increase public engagement and dialogue capacity
- Foster inclusive, values-centered practices that model healthy conflict and relationship-building
Organizational & Team Leadership
- Lead, support, and develop staff and organizational culture
- Foster a collaborative, mission-driven, and emotionally intelligent work environment
- Oversee organizational operations, budgeting, and resource allocation in partnership with staff and board leadership
- Ensure strong systems, accountability, and organizational sustainability
Qualifications & Experience
Required Qualifications:
- Demonstrated leadership experience in a mission-driven organization
- Proven success in fundraising, donor cultivation, grant development, and partnership-building
- Strong strategic thinking and organizational leadership skills
- Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication abilities Experience serving as a public-facing spokesperson, facilitator, or coalition-builder
- Deep understanding of dialogue, bridgebuilding, peacebuilding, civic engagement, social cohesion, or conflict transformation
- Demonstrated ability to navigate politically and ideologically diverse environments with credibility and care
- Experience managing teams, budgets, and organizational operations
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with national bridgebuilding, democracy, or civic renewal networks Experience leading organizations through growth, transition, or strategic evolution
- Background in facilitation, mediation, restorative practices, deliberative dialogue, or community engagement
- Experience working across sectors including nonprofit, philanthropy, education, business, faith, or public service
- Knowledge of digital engagement, community-building, or national network development
Leadership Profile
The strongest candidates will be:
- Mission-driven and values-centered
- Skilled at building trust across differences
- Comfortable operating in complexity and ambiguity
- Entrepreneurial, strategic, and action-oriented
- Calm, thoughtful, and emotionally grounded under pressure
- Able to inspire diverse stakeholders around a shared vision
- Passionate about strengthening civic culture and human connection
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