Head of Community

Technovation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit organization is seeking a dedicated individual to lead the development of a community infrastructure aimed at empowering women through real economic opportunities. The role involves designing systems that create value for community members, enhancing volunteer engagement, and partnering with corporate entities to deliver tangible benefits. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in community building and a proven track record in achieving measurable impacts. The position is remote, based in the US, and offers competitive compensation aligned with nonprofit values.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in community building or related fields.
• Experience with community data systems and measuring outcomes.
• Strong writing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design systems converting community into economic opportunity.
• Redesign volunteer model for lasting community membership.
• Collaborate with various teams to amplify community value.

Skills

Community building

Public speaking

Data systems expertise

Relationship building

AI tools integration

Tools

CRM systems

Community platforms

Job description

Technovation is a global nonprofit that has spent 20 years building the world’s largest technology entrepreneurship program for girls – reaching 300,000+ participants across 100+ countries. 76% of our alumnae go on to pursue STEM degrees. Following the integration of Google’s Women Techmakers community, we now steward one of the largest ecosystems of women in technology on the planet.

We are at the start of a major strategic evolution: building the systems that turn this community into an economic opportunity and support network – helping each individual grow and thrive. We’re not there yet. That’s why this role exists.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a builder. Someone who can take a 300,000-person global community that currently operates as a seasonal volunteer program and start co-designing the systems that turn it into something more durable – a community where members gain real connections, real skills, and real opportunities that improve their professional and economic lives.

You will be building foundational infrastructure – data systems, engagement models, economic pathways in partnership with the Technovation team and broader community. You will have to be comfortable with ambiguity, resource constraints, and the reality that a nonprofit in a growth phase requires people who can think at the level of strategy and execute at the level of operations.

The community this role serves spans teenage girls in rural Kenya, mid-career software engineers in Berlin, alumna founders raising their first round, and senior executives at Fortune 500 companies. They all need different things. Part of the job is figuring out who to build for first – and designing a system that eventually serves all of them.

What You’ll be Building

A community model organized around real value. We want every community member – mentors, alumnae, WTM members, educators – to gain tangible things from being part of Technovation across three dimensions:

• Resources: New connections, skills, and capital – through mentorship, credentialing, consulting engagements, and career pathways.
• Agency: Confidence, voice, and influence – through leadership opportunities, visibility, and participation in the broader technology economy.
• Achievements: Measurable improvements in earnings, education, career advancement, and wellbeing – the outcomes that prove the community is working.

In the first year we hope to accomplish the following:

• Conduct an end-to‑end review of the current mentor and volunteer engagement model – what’s working, what’s not, and where people are dropping off. Redesign the model for Technovation’s next phase.
• Build the data foundation. We have 20 years of participant data and no unified system for tracking outcomes beyond program completion. You’ll design the infrastructure that lets us start measuring whether community membership is improving members’ lives – not just whether they showed up.
• Design the first version of a progression pathway: program participant → alumna → mentor → working professional → community contributor. Define what value we need to provide at each stage and begin tracking conversion.
• Activate the first economic opportunities for community members – whether that’s connecting alumnae to corporate partners for consulting engagements, internships, or other paid work.
• Integrate AI tools into community operations – from data cleanup to engagement design to personalized outreach – modeling an AI‑first approach for the team.
• Launch a first version of a matching system that connects community members to real economic opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Community Infrastructure. Design the systems and processes that convert Technovation’s community from a support network into an economic opportunity network. Define what “value” means for each community segment and build the connections that deliver it.
• Mentor & Volunteer Model. Redesign how we engage, retain, and develop our 10,000+ annual volunteers – moving from episodic participation toward lasting community membership with real professional value.
• Partnership Activation. Work with corporate and industry partners to surface real opportunities for community members – paid engagements, training, funding, and visibility. Partnerships should deliver value to members, not just revenue to the organization.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration. Work closely with fundraising, marketing, programs, and product teams. Community value should amplify every part of the organization.
• External Voice. Represent Technovation as a voice for what happens when communities of underrepresented women gain real economic power. Comfortable writing, speaking, and building public visibility for the work.
• Data & Systems. Own the community data infrastructure – clean, reliable records that power insights, personalization, and economic matching. Build the foundation to track not just participation, but how membership changes what people have access to, what they’re able to do, and what they’re achieving.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in community building, ecosystem development, platform operations, or network-driven organizations. At least 2 years in a senior or leadership role.
• Experience building or significantly scaling a community or network that produced measurable outcomes for its members – not just engagement metrics, but evidence that people’s professional or economic lives improved.
• Experience with community data systems (CRM, databases, community platforms) and ability to design systems that track real outcomes, not just activity.
• Experience building relationships with corporate partners and converting those relationships from sponsorship into partnerships that deliver real value to community members.
• Strong writing, communication, presentation and public speaking skills
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency with AI tools and experience actively integrating them into workflows.
• Experience building or operating a marketplace, talent network, or platform where members earn, hire, or transact through the platform.
• Background in economic development, workforce development, or social enterprise – you understand the difference between building programs and building economic infrastructure.
• Experience working across emerging markets, particularly in Africa, South Asia, or Latin America.
• Familiarity with wellbeing frameworks, capabilities approaches, or economic empowerment models.

Compensation & Location

Location: Remote, US-based.

Technovation is a nonprofit in a pivotal growth phase – building something that has never existed at this scale. Our compensation reflects both mission-driven values and where we are in our revenue trajectory. We are looking for someone motivated by the scope of the opportunity, the chance to build foundational infrastructure, and the visibility and influence this role carries. Compensation will be revisited as the organization scales toward its long-term revenue targets.