Advisor, Tides Advocacy (TF)

Tides Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tides Advocacy seeks an Advisor to provide a wide range of client management and strategic support for the Advocacy team. A successful candidate will work as an integral part of the Tides Advocacy team providing excellent client advising.

This role will collaborate within the Tides Advocacy team and across departments regarding communications, human resources, operations and finance, event planning, and systems implementation. This role is an exempt position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 2-3 years in strategic advising, research, evaluation, consulting, capacity building, or fiscal sponsorship work (preferred).
• Core values rooted in social justice, racial equity, and human rights.
• Expertise in criminal justice to support movement builders and people of color led organizations.
• Understanding of systemic inequities and inequality within U.S. institutions and policies.
• Experience with progressive advocacy and political organizations.
• Successful experience working within diverse populations.
• Demonstrated experience with clear written and verbal communications.
• Demonstrated experience in adjusting and anticipating needs of executives and clients.
• Proficiency with MS Office, Google Drive and Salesforce, Fluxx and NetSuite, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage a mixed client portfolio of grantmaking entities and fiscally sponsored organizations in the advocacy and political space.
• Provide high-level strategic, financial, and organizational guidance to grantmaking entities and organizations for social impact and mission success.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with managers and staff, Tides HR team, and key stakeholders across Tides.
• Deliver high quality service as the single point of contact for clients, ensuring a coordinated and efficient sharing of data, including client communications, systems support, and meetings.
• Leverage and deepen expertise to curate relationships and knowledge in a specific issue area and serve as a lead of a project portfolio.
• Work collaboratively with team members and across departments to address financial and grant management, legal and risk compliance, human resources, and event support for clients.
• Support operational, evaluative, and strategic efforts for continuous improvement.
• Cultivate relationships with individual, foundation, and corporate funding partners.

Skills

Client management

Strategic advising

Cross-department collaboration

Relationship building

Communications

Project coordination

Fundraising support

Data sharing coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree

2–3 years strategic advising

Social justice focus

Tools

MS Office

Google Drive

Salesforce

Fluxx

NetSuite

Job description

Tides Advocacy is a team of political, legal, and financial experts that identify, connect, and fuel movements for social justice and the health of our democracy. We leverage our 25 year progressive network, navigate the rules, and solve problems in order to make advocacy.

Tides Advocacy has over 85 partners who represent activists, donors, movement leaders, lawyers, researchers, and journalists who are promoting equity, justice, and dignity for all. They are engaged in ballot, electoral, and legislative campaigns as well as public education and charitable activities.

From funder advised funds to fiscal sponsorship, grants management to risk management and more, Tides Advocacy gives members of the nonprofit and philanthropic community freedom to focus on the change they want to see. For more information, please visit tidesadvocacy.org.

Position Summary

The Advisor will provide a wide range of core client management and strategic support for the Tides Advocacy team. A successful candidate will work as an integral part of the Tides Advocacy team providing excellent client advising. This role will collaborate within the Tides Advocacy team and across departments regarding communications, human resources, operations and finance, event planning, and systems implementation.

This role is an exempt position. Exempt employees are expected to work the appropriate and necessary time in order to complete key assignments and related tasks on schedule. This role can be based in the New York and San Francisco office.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Client management (80%)

• Manage a mixed client portfolio of grantmaking entities and fiscally sponsored organizations in the advocacy and political space
• Provide high-level strategic, financial, and organizational guidance to grantmaking entities and organizations for social impact and mission success
  Develop and maintain strong working relationships with managers and staff, Tides HR team, and key stakeholders across Tides
• Deliver high quality service as the single point of contact for clients, ensuring a coordinated and efficient sharing of data, including client communications, systems support, and meetings
• Leverage and deepen expertise to curate relationships and knowledge in a specific issue area (e.g., immigration, education) and serve as a lead of a project portfolio
• Work collaboratively with team members and across departments to address financial and grant management, legal and risk compliance, human resources, and event support for clients
• Support operational, evaluative, and strategic efforts for continuous improvement
• Cultivate relationships with individual, foundation, and corporate funding partners

Thought Leadership and Communications (20%)

• Represent Tides Advocacy externally and build collaborative networks across sectors and issue areas
• Research, propose, and present on a regular basis at conferences, gatherings, professional associations and other external events
• Contribute to internal and external bodies of knowledge on innovative organizational models and social impact related to advocacy and political work
  Develop specific issue area expertise and actively engage clients and partners
• Participate in internal and cross-department teams to create materials for events, capacity building services, and business development

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to hold information confidential with excellent judgment
• Ability to work well on a team in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
• Demonstrated commitment to high quality client service and adaptability to evolving client needs
• Strong ability to work collaboratively toward solutions that generally benefit all involved parties
• Demonstrated understanding of specific issue and/or industry areas in the philanthropic, political, and/or nonprofit sector
• A strong understanding of the capacity building services, advisory/consulting work, and/or fiscal sponsorship
• Possess a strong work ethic and “can do” attitude
• Demonstrated success leading and working with cross-departmental teams
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize amongst multiple commitments, and to drive multiple high profile and complex projects simultaneously in a challenging and fluid environment
• Ability to understand clients’ needs and leverage that knowledge to improve service delivery, deepen relationships and identify new or expanding business opportunities
  

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and 2-3 years in strategic advising, research, evaluation, consulting, capacity building, or fiscal sponsorship work (preferred).
• Core values rooted in social justice, racial equity, and human rights.
• Expertise in criminal justice expertise to support movement builders and people of color led organizations.
• Understanding of systemic inequities and inequality within U.S. institutions and policies.
• Experience with progressive advocacy and political organizations.
• Successful experience working within diverse populations.
• Demonstrated experience with clear written and verbal communications.
• Demonstrated experience in adjusting and anticipating needs of executives and clients.
• Proficiency with MS Office, Google Drive and Salesforce, Fluxx and NetSuite, preferred.

Tides is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of 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. Also pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Applicants with Disabilities

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.