Hybrid Director of Knowledge Leadership na The Miami Foundation Inc

Description

THE FOUNDATION

The Miami Foundation is building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. Since 1967, The Foundation has invested over $772M to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 fundholders and 50,000 donors. By accelerating leadership, generosity, and a sense of belonging across Miami, we inspire people to become changemakers, and we create ways for donors, nonprofits, leaders, and locals to work together on solutions for our community. At The Miami Foundation, everyone has a role they can play in creating a thriving Greater Miami.
 

POSITION DESCRIPTION

To build a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive, The Miami Foundation believes it is imperative that all Miamians have access to knowledge and information about their community so that they have an opportunity to play a role in addressing Greater Miami’s most pressing issues. 

The Director of Knowledge Leadership is a grant-funded position at The Foundation. The person in this position plays a key role in capturing and sharing knowledge about 1) the current state of the issues our community faces; 2) the work that is being done and by whom; 3) what is being learned and what progress is being made; and 4) how Miamians can get involved and play a role in strengthening our community. The Director of Knowledge Leadership also plays a key role in sharing knowledge that better connects philanthropists to nonprofits to maximize the impact of the overwhelming generosity in Greater Miami.
 

The ideal candidate for this role is a strategic storyteller and educator. This person is a constant learner who can synthesize large quantities of knowledge and data into stories, publications and resources that Miamians can relate to and be compelled by.

Reports to:  Vice President of Strategic Communications

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Serve as a senior member of the Communications Team and work closely with the Vice President to design and implement a strategic approach to enabling The Miami Foundation to become a knowledge leader in Greater Miami and a source of invaluable information for Miamians to grow their civic engagement and social impact. 

The Director of Knowledge Leadership will be responsible for driving learning, knowledge leadership and communications and management as follows:
 

Learning:

• Create tools and processes to operationalize learning across The Foundation’s programs, initiatives, and events so that the knowledge acquired and shared in these spaces can benefit a wider audience.
• Create relationships, tools, and processes to operationalize a way to learn about the social impact work and progress happening across Greater Miami so that it can be shared with The Foundation’s growing audience
• Define and operationalize an approach to learning from grantee data that The Foundation collects so that this knowledge can benefit a wider audience of philanthropists.
• Be a visible community leader and build a strong range of cross-sector relationships, especially with nonprofits in Greater Miami, to stay abreast of the work and progress happening in our community.

Knowledge Leadership:

• Lead the strategic vision and project management to maintain and further enhance The Miami Foundation’s new online platform that is designed to better inform and engage Miamians in social impact work and in building a stronger community.
• Lead the strategic vision, drafting, project management, and publication of The Foundation’s annual report, with the goal of creating a resource that helps readers learn more about the issues Miami faces and the work being done.
• ·Create and deliver a scope and sequence of knowledge publications (of different lengths, styles, and formats) that enables Miamians to have access to the Foundation’s learnings over time.
• Produce knowledge reports for (or as a result of) Foundation events to enable a wider audience to learn from those events.

Communications & Management:

• Manage the contracts and work of consultants and vendors as appropriate to advance the knowledge leadership portfolio of work.
• Develop and implement comprehensive communications plans to disseminate and promote the Foundation’s knowledge leadership resources so that they may be helpful and sought after by the Greater Miami community.

Requirements

Experience, Abilities & Skills 

Experience

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work or life experiences.§ 8+ years of work experience, with a preference for social sector experience.
• Experience designing and implementing learning agendas.§ Experience creating and managing impactful knowledge resources that utilize both quantitative and qualitative data (including stories) to maximize learning.
• Strong writing experience, with the ability to adjust tone and language to adapt to specific audiences.
• Strong experience managing large-scale, web-based technology projects and managing external vendors.
• Communications and marketing knowledge, with professional experience being a plus.
• Excellent skills and experience with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, email protocol, and internet research.
• Multilingual is a plus.

Abilities

• Love for Miami – The Miami Foundation team works hard every day to build a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. We seek to work with inspiration professionals who have an insatiable curiosity and desire to develop a deep understanding of Greater Miami, the issues the community faces, and the vital work being done to address those issues. An excellent candidate in      this role feels unwavering optimism and hope for the potential that Miami holds.
• Strong  affinity for The Foundation’s values – joy, imagination, bravery, sustainability, togetherness, equity, leadership. Our values are not words in a document. They are how we approach everything we do at The Foundation. An excellent candidate for this role feels an affinity for these values and lives them out in their everyday life.
• Strategic clarity – In its pursuit to create a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive, The Miami Foundation takes on an abundance of work across multiple issues at any given time. An excellent candidate for this role can set a vision for the role and identify the most important knowledge to prioritize - gathering, synthesizing, and sharing it with the Miami community in a way that helps to further engage and inform them.
• A Growth mindset – An excellent candidate for this role demonstrates an unwavering growth mindset. This person craves feedback to continually develop mastery in the role and to facilitate learning and engagement across our Greater Miami community.
• Robust commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion – The Miami Foundation prioritizes elevating voices, spreading power, and increasing opportunity for all. An excellent candidate for this role will ensure that this happens across all knowledge leadership in which the organization engages.

Skills

• Strong  interpersonal and relationship-building skills – The Miami Foundation is privy to so much knowledge because of its unique position as a collaborator and connector of philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, public and private sector professionals, and everyday Miamians. An excellent candidate for this role prioritizes and easily builds strong, trusting relationships that enable knowledge to more easily flow to all audiences. 
• Communications excellence – An exceptional candidate for this role not only has strong writing, grammar and verbal communication skills, but this candidate also knows and can effectively implement best practices in communications to maximize  engagement with The Foundation’s knowledge leadership resources.
• Project management expertise – To be successful in this role, a candidate cannot solely be an exceptional independent operator. This role requires deep collaboration and input from multiple voices, the ability to navigate ambiguity, proficiency in proactively identifying solutions, and the management skills to adhere to deadlines. 

This list of essential functions is not intended to be exhaustive. The Miami Foundation reserves the right to revise this job description as needed to comply with actual job requirements.

The Miami Foundation is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. The Miami Foundation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

We offer a comprehensive and generous benefits package which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 403(b)-retirement plan, flex spending and dependent care accounts, professional development stipend, paid time off, cell phone stipend, gym reimbursement and the opportunity to establish a Staff Donor-Advised Fund (DAF), which the Foundation will match when you contribute $500.

Please reach out to [email protected] if you need any accommodation in applying.