Associate Director, Advisory Services (AA)

Arabella Advisors; Durham, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington (NC, IL, CA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Arabella Advisors is seeking an Associate Director for Advisory Services to lead a diverse portfolio of client projects and guide teams toward meaningful social impact. You will deepen client relationships, contribute to business development, and help advance priorities for team- and firm-wide strategy.

The role emphasizes equity-centered consulting across areas from education to health and environment, demanding strong organization, collaboration, and the ability to move resources—human,

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of client projects on the Advisory team and maintain strong client relationships.
• Support business development and contribute to firm-wide strategy and objectives.
• Collaborate with diverse foundations, families, individuals, and corporations to define and implement social impact goals.
• Center equity in every engagement and manage complex logistics of impact delivery.

Job description

Associate Director, Advisory Services (AA)

Arabella Advisors helps foundations, philanthropists, corporations, and investors who are serious about impact achieve the greatest good with their resources. We work on issues ranging from the social and economic advancement of women and girls, and conservation of our climate and planet, to reducing poverty and inequity in the United States and around the world. Our staff members are mission-driven and action-oriented, and have a unique combination of experience in philanthropy, business, nonprofits, government, finance, law, and other fields. We combine creative, strategic thinking with knowledge and networks developed through decades of hands-on experience. The fastest-growing philanthropic advisory firm in the nation, Arabella is also a certified B Corporation.

About Arabella's Advisory Team

The Advisory team is a collegial, client-focused, and DEI- and impact-driven community that provides a range of strategic consulting services to institutional foundations, family foundations, corporations and corporate foundations, impact investors, and philanthropic individuals. Our team helps clients chart their social impact and philanthropic journey, design and build new initiatives and organizations, develop grant-making and impact investment strategies, implement programs and grant initiatives, conduct diligence, evaluate impact, and collaborate effectively with other donors and investors. Together, we work with many of the nation’s leading philanthropists, helping them achieve equity-focused impact in education, health, conservation and the environment, and more.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Associate Directors play an essential role on the Advisory team in managing a portfolio of client projects and teams, maintaining client relationships, supporting business development, and advancing priorities for team- or firm-wide strategy and objectives. We anticipate that this Associate Director will work with a diverse client portfolio including a mix of foundations, families and individuals, and corporations to help them define and implement on their social impact goals.

We are looking for a candidate who is enthusiastic about working with clients seeking to achieve impact in a wide range of issue areas-from early childhood education, to closing the racial wealth gap, to global water and sanitation-by partnering every step of the way from initial strategy development to implementation and grantmaking to learning from the outcomes. You will need to be highly organized, bring exceptional project and client management skills, and be committed to centering equity in every engagement. You are someone who understands that long-term, systemic change requires a deep understanding of the complex logistics of impact, including when and how to move the human, financial, and even intellectual resources needed to accomplish a goal.