Director (TP)
Company: EPIP
Location: Sacramento
Posted on: May 28, 2023
Job Description:
Third Plateau is committed to providing equal employment
opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment
without regard to their race, color, age, religious creed, sexual
orientation, or other personal characteristics. You can read our
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement here . Furthermore, we
have designed our application process (detailed at the bottom) to
eliminate implicit and explicit biases as much as possible.
Applicants of all backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply!NOW
HIRING: DIRECTORPosition Overview: Third Plateau, a social impact
strategy firm, is growing! We are looking for a self-directed
professional to serve as a Director on our Strategy Team. Under the
guidance of Third Plateau's Senior Director, the position will
primarily focus on overseeing and managing project workflow for
nonprofit, foundation, government, and private sector clients. This
includes playing point on client communication and ensuring on-time
and high-quality deliverables that are poised to help our clients
drive true social change. Top candidates will have a client-service
orientation and excellent project management, facilitation, and
written and verbal communication skills. They will be able to
represent the Third Plateau brand to a wide range of clients,
possess a deep understanding of and commitment to the social
sector, be able to think expansively about what our clients need
and how Third Plateau can continue to grow, and be hungry to learn
and continuously improve.Start Date: ASAPLocation: Sacramento, Bay
Area, or RemoteBenefits: In addition to collaborating with an
incredible team of social impact professionals, benefits
include:
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan with employer matching
- Unlimited routine time off
- Wellness program ($500/year)WHO WE AREThird Plateau is a
multi-disciplinary social impact strategy firm with an aim to
create a world with abundant and equitable opportunity for all. We
partner with people and organizations with game-changing ideas to
improve the world, and we help them maximize their impact. Our work
is driven by six key principles:
- We care about impact. True innovation and meaningful change are
difficult to achieve; we work with the organizations that we
believe are inspired by and capable of meeting those
challenges.
- Big ideas and creative problem solving excite us. We are at our
best when we are formulating, thinking through, and executing new
ideas and approaches.
- We value diversity, equity, and inclusion. Having diverse
teammates and an inclusive work environment makes us a smarter,
more creative, and effective team. We are passionate about
empowering communities to drive profound social impact. We know
that in order to succeed we must more closely reflect the
backgrounds of the communities we aim to serve.
- Knowledge is absolutely essential to effective innovation. We
are intensely curious and are voracious consumers of information
and ideas from a variety of disciplines.
- We build next gen organizational and leadership capacity.
Building and managing organizations is difficult work and often
presents challenges that leadership and staff do not have the
resources to address. Through our engagements, we provide an
infusion of capacity, smart strategy, creativity, and coaching to
help organizations thrive.
- Relationships and networks are how change happens. Relationship
development is at the core of our work and we are very intentional
about how we curate networks for maximum social impact.Social
Venture Strategists We partner with social entrepreneurs,
nonprofits, public entities, leaders, and other mission-driven
organizations around the world on program design, business
planning, community engagement, metrics development, strategic
planning, coaching and leadership development, development
strategy, impact evaluation, and board development. We also partner
with funders to provide capacity-building support to their
grantees.Philanthropic Advisors We advise individual donors,
foundations, and companies on making their philanthropic giving
more meaningful, strategic, and impactful; and we help funders
think more expansively about their potential social
impact.Foundation Managers We help private, family, and independent
foundations become more effective by providing back office support,
managing grants, and overseeing the financial administration and
accounting of their operations.Thought Leaders We write, speak, and
convene programs, aimed at dramatically advancing the work of the
social sector.WHAT YOU'LL DOPotential projects include, but are not
limited to:
- Facilitating strategic plans and business plans for
nonprofits;
- Designing and facilitating convenings and retreats for
nonprofit and philanthropic partners;
- Preparing organizational crisis response plans and culture
plans;
- Developing and managing reporting needs and relationships with
foundations, grantees, strategic partners, peer funders, and funder
networks; and
- Overseeing, training, and supporting board governance,
including committees.The Director will manage client relationships.
The Director will serve as an integral part of the Third Plateau
team to lead our client engagements. You will play point on all
client communication, relations, and management, holding primary
responsibility for developing and growing authentic relationships
with our clients. You will work with clients to oversee and manage
project workflow; design and facilitate retreats; and ensure all
deliverables (memos, strategic plans, etc.) are on-time,
high-quality, and poised to help our clients drive true social
impact. You will bring experience facilitating meetings and
decision-making processes and be adept at anticipating and
responding to client needs and challenging situations.The Director
will manage projects. As the lead project manager on a client
engagement, you will oversee and manage project scopes and work
plans. The Director will need to see the big picture, create a
robust plan, and coordinate a number of moving pieces and
personalities. You will also need to support others to stay
focused, manage expectations throughout, and adapt when necessary.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, paired with
the ability to be calm and focused when juggling multiple projects
and deadlines, will enable the person in this position to
thrive.The Director will be a strong facilitator. This role will be
tasked with guiding our partners through a process. To do that
well, the Director will not only need to create productive meeting
environments (e.g., creation of relevant agendas, facilitation
guides, session materials), but will also need to be able to
energetically command a room, be an active listener, ask relevant
follow-up questions that further group learning, navigate tension
and the unpredictable, and create a space for diverse perspectives
to be heard.The Director will solve problems. Our clients turn to
us when they have complex problems that they want help solving. We
are frequently asked to devise innovative strategies with our
clients to scale programs, develop earned revenue streams, raise
money, and engage their communities. Among other things, our work
often requires analyzing markets, researching best practices,
designing and preparing for scenarios, and creating new programs.
To do this, the Director will need to be able to approach problems
and solutions creatively.The Director will think critically and
learn quickly. We don't know everything and we know you don't know
everything. In fact, we often find that it is helpful when we don't
have a lot of background about an organization, policy issue, or
market, as it gives us a fresh perspective on our clients'
concerns, needs, and opportunities. This position requires an
eagerness to learn, an open mind, good listening skills, intense
curiosity, and an ability to acknowledge what you don't know and
ask the right questions.The Director will be a top-notch
communicator. The Director will be charged with synthesizing large
amounts of qualitative and quantitative data and communicating the
key findings and recommendations through written reports and
engaging presentations to our clients. We expect you to be a crisp
writer and a clear presenter, able to produce client-ready work
with minimal editorial oversight.The Director will collaborate and
build. We staff our projects as teams so you will work
cross-functionally with peers on every engagement. The Director
will also be expected to contribute to the growth of Third Plateau
by identifying and capitalizing on new opportunities and
partnerships. We are a growing firm and the Director will play a
significant role in helping to shape our future.The Director will
go beyond what is expected. Third Plateau is in the business of
building and leveraging relationships to better support our clients
and strengthen the social sector as a whole. Externally, the
Director will be expected to build a strong professional network;
actively engage in the field; identify opportunities for
collaboration between Third Plateau, clients, and other individuals
and organizations in the social sector; and support our clients
beyond the limited parameters of an individual client engagement.
Internally, the Director will be a valued team member; support
Third Plateau's short-term and long-term growth efforts; support
limited administrative needs (we all do, too!); and help out on
additional tasks as necessary.Other important things to note:
- You will need to bring an unwavering commitment to diversity,
equity, and inclusion, and a willingness to speak up when you see
us fall short. This is a major focus of ours and expect it to be of
yours, too. Top candidates will firmly believe that diversity of
experiences and voices leads to better outcomes, and they will have
demonstrated a consistent commitment to this belief both personally
and professionally.
- Directors take varying amounts of autonomy in their projects.
You will need to be equally comfortable leading project components
and plugging into an existing structure.
- We are committed to delivering the highest quality of work, and
we want you to be You should be able to work in a fast-paced
environment, while also having fun and integrating self-care in
whatever ways are meaningful to you.
- We are a decentralized team, with offices in the Bay Area and
Sacramento. You should be comfortable working with a remote
team.
- This position requires a willingness and ability to attend the
very occasional weekend board meetings.
- Fluency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) is a
must.
- Professional experience is required. Prior experience in
philanthropy is a plus.HOW TO APPLYTo apply, please do the
following:Send an email to jobs@thirdplateau.com with the subject
line "Director - [YOUR NAME]". In the body of your email, include
the following:
- Your full name
- Your phone number (including area code)Please attach to your
email two SEPARATE documents:
- A one-page PDF that answers two questions (and one optional
question):
- Why do this position and firm make sense for the next step in
your career?
- How are you uniquely qualified to enhance the Third Plateau
team and our work?
- OPTIONAL: How will the different pieces of your identity
contribute to this team and work? Please share as much detail as
you feel comfortable sharing to help us create a team that
represents a diverse set of identities.Sounds pretty
straightforward, right? Well, here's the big catch: you cannot use
proper nouns in your response. Yep, you read that right. You are
not allowed to mention by name what schools you've gone to, the
names of organizations you've worked at, or who your paternal great
grandmother was. Instead, focus on the substance of what you've
learned, how you've developed, and how you can contribute to Third
Plateau. ("Third Plateau," by the way, is the only proper noun you
are allowed to use in your 1-pager.)Please save this proper
noun-free PDF with the following title structure: Director -Cover
Letter [seven-digit phone number with no dashes]. Your seven-digit
phone number (i.e., your phone number WITHOUT the area code) will
be used as an internal identification number, to help keep your
application anonymous during the review process.
- Your resume with the following modifications: -
- Your seven-digit phone number (i.e., your phone number WITHOUT
the area code), with no dashes, in the place of your name.
- Remove any reference to your home address and email.Please save
this name-free PDF with the following title structure: Director -
Resume [seven-digit phone number with no dashes] Your seven-digit
phone number (i.e., your phone number WITHOUT the area code) will
be used as an internal identification number, to help keep your
application anonymous during the review process.We are working hard
to build a blind review process that minimizes implicit and
explicit biases from the hiring process, so welcome to our latest
experiment to do just that! Please note that only applications
following these strict guidelines will be considered. Get creative
and have fun with it!One of our team members will receive this
email, save your identifying information in a secure file, and
maintain a tracking system. For the first round of reviews, this
will be the only person who knows what identification numbers
belong to which individuals. See, we told you we take this blind
review process seriously!Third Plateau is committed to providing
equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for
employment without regard to their race, color, age, religious
creed, sexual orientation, or other personal characteristics as may
be protected by applicable law.
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