Senior Impact Officer, Strategic Initiatives & Collaboration

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; Headquarters (ID); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation seeks a Senior Impact Officer, Strategic Initiatives, to translate strategic priorities into coordinated action across Grantmaking and Impact teams in Kansas City, MO. You’ll lead cross-cutting analysis, support learning, and strengthen collaboration across pillars.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives, you’ll foster stakeholder engagement with internal teams, grantees, and partners to advance entrepreneurship, education, and workforce

Responsabilidades

• Build strong communication and collaboration infrastructure across the three strategic pillars; facilitate shared learning, peer support, and knowledge transfer.
• Serve as Impact Team liaison to the Uncommon Leader Awards work group.
• Work closely with the SDSI to ensure coherence across all grant pathways and to effectively communicate alignment with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Strengthen team decision-making and alignment across all shared grantmaking processes; surfacing risks or decisions that need leadership attention.
• Support change management and continuous improvement by helping with consistent adoption of new tools/processes while identifying workflow gaps and opportunities.
• Provide strategic sensemaking on cross-cutting issues by pulling together internal and external perspectives and translating it into useful assessments of implications and recommendations for leadership.
• Develop productive relationships with internal teams and external partners, reviewers, consultants, and community stakeholders as needed to advance strategic initiatives.
• Serve as a representative of the Foundation, advancing EMKF's strategic priorities and grantmaking philosophy, goals, and opportunities.
• Support the implementation of the Collective Impact grant pathway.
• In collaboration with Impact team members, source and evaluate potential grantees and proposals based on strategic fit and organizational capacity.
• Provide clear, concise, and insightful written analysis and recommendations for funding.
• Manage and oversee assigned grant portfolio, staying attuned to challenges in the field, grantees' needs, learnings, and opportunities for further impact.
• Stay abreast of topic areas associated with respective grantmaking portfolio, including trends, barriers, and areas for exploration.
• Work collaboratively with internal support teams, e.g., grants administration, research, learning and evaluation, legal, or strategic communications, in all stages of a grant request from intake to commitment letter.
• Prepare requested data and updates for board reports.
• Upon grant closure, provide clear and insightful written analysis of strategic and operational learnings to inform future grantmaking.

Descripción del empleo

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation seeks a Senior Impact Officer, Strategic Initiatives, to translate strategic priorities into coordinated action across Grantmaking and Impact teams in Kansas City, MO. You’ll lead cross-cutting analysis, support learning, and strengthen collaboration across pillars.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives, you’ll foster stakeholder engagement with internal teams, grantees, and partners to advance entrepreneurship, education, and workforce