Impact & Fieldbuilding Chief — Remote

Friends of the Children - Seattle; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement contributions

Health and dental coverage

Flexible remote work

Job summary

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is seeking a Chief Impact and Fieldbuilding Officer who will shape and drive the foundation's influence strategy, deepen impact for grantees and PRI partners, and connect knowledge, relationships, and infrastructure to move resources and power toward Southern communities.

The CIFO will work with the CEO and leadership team to design and refine strategies, ensure insights inform board learning, and serve as a key external representative across networks,

Qualifications

• Demonstrated background in social sector fieldbuilding, philanthropic influence, resource mobilization, movement support, or related work.
• Experience in program evaluation, impact design, research, or a related field is a strong plus.
• Proven ability to work across lines and less traditional silos, with a strong track record of cross-team collaboration.
• Experience working effectively with a committee or board of directors.
• Strong people manager with experience building and leading teams.
• Strong facilitation and project management skills.
• Astute strategist, comfortable with complexity, who works well both within a team and across team lines.
• Practiced in deep collaboration as a way of working, not simply as a coordination exercise.
• Genuine comfort and enjoyment representing an organization externally — networking, relationship-building, and public engagement with gravitas.
• Capacity and willingness to travel regularly to represent the Foundation in the field.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and collaborative leadership of four core functions: impact, learning, influence and leverage, and narrative and storytelling.
• Define, advance, and refine the Foundation’s Impact and Fieldbuilding strategy, providing oversight for how field intelligence and best practices are collected, translated into actionable strategies, and developed into compelling narratives.
• Collaboratively lead with Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and partner closely with their team to align programs with impact, learning, fieldbuilding, and narrative strategies, and to ensure insights are integrated across grantmaking and program-related investments.
• Foster two-way learning between the institution and the field, ensuring insights from grantee, narrative, philanthropic and PRI partners shape the Foundation’s strategy and practice, while also channeling the Foundation’s own learning back out to strengthen field knowledge and funder behavior.
• Lead the team in coordinating external relationships across the Program Team and guide the Foundation’s approach to field and philanthropic partnership work so its values stay aligned with effective approaches to driving resources to Southern movements and leaders.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Collaboration across silos

Board interaction

People management

Facilitation

Strategic thinking

Collaborative learning

Public speaking

Travel willingness

Job description

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation is seeking a Chief Impact and Fieldbuilding Officer who will shape and drive the foundation's influence strategy, deepen impact for grantees and PRI partners, and connect knowledge, relationships, and infrastructure to move resources and power toward Southern communities.

The CIFO will work with the CEO and leadership team to design and refine strategies, ensure insights inform board learning, and serve as a key external representative across networks,