Impact Manager
About Boldly Go Philanthropy
We are a fast-growing, boutique, philanthropic advisory and execution firm with decades of experience in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Led by former foundation CEOs, we bring innovative strategies, practical approaches, trusted advice, and world-class programmatic support to philanthropists and foundations — rigorously managing execution and powering their ability to solve social issues and address inequities. See more about Boldly Go
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IMPACT MANAGER
The new Impact Manager position will lead philanthropic client projects across a variety of issues, including education, environment, health, economic opportunity, racial equity, and civic infrastructure. This is a critical position within the Boldly Go team.
DAY IN THE LIFE
No two days will be the same. You will design, facilitate, plan, and make valuable partnerships, as you help with client engagements and firm development projects. Your day could include the following:
- Client engagements
- Serve as the Boldly Go leader on projects, leading teams (usually 1 – 3 teammates) in all aspects of client engagement:
- Engage with clients directly, serving as a trusted advisor within the engagement and on other topics related to philanthropy, helping clients become extraordinary philanthropists.
- Design and scope philanthropic advisory projects (strategic planning, learning and evaluation, landscape scans, designing and launching new initiatives, etc.), sequencing project activities and allocating time of team members.
- Manage all components of a project or stream of work, ensuring that deliverables are of the highest quality and deadlines are met.
- Manage Boldly Go contractors for philanthropic advisory projects, providing guidance, workstream management, and review and refinement of deliverables.
- Lead interviews with clients and subject matter experts.
- Design and facilitate highly productive client meetings, using engagement tools and methods and ensuring high engagement and strong follow-through.
- Lead client team meetings for brainstorming, problem-solving, and deliverable development.
- Translate findings into innovative, bold, data-based insights to inform client recommendations.
- Firm development
- Oversee impact area or sector specific business development, being responsible for setting and meeting targets, managing other team members to reach goals.
- Lead, research, draft, and help present proposals to develop new clients and help grow the business.
- Build tools, systems, technology, and other internal infrastructure to make us as equitable, effective, and efficient as possible in supporting our philanthropic clients and running our business.
- Contribute to building a dynamic, inclusive, high-performing, fun culture.
- Intellectual capital
- Contribute to blogs, social media, and other communication vehicles to build awareness of Boldly Go and to spread ideas and insights on social impact.
- Research and help draft influential white papers and reports on effective philanthropy for clients and the philanthropic field.
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
- Passionate and experienced social change agent with a strong background in management consulting and domestic or international experience in philanthropy, civil service, and/or the nonprofit sector.
- Can-do entrepreneur who is excited to help grow a new venture and ready to go above and beyond to deliver results for action and impact-oriented clients.
- Champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion - ready, willing, and able to apply key principles such as disaggregating data, addressing disparities, targeting strategies based on varying assets/needs, designing culturally appropriate interventions and tools, and assessing how solutions may impact a range of stakeholders including marginalized communities.
- Compelling communicator with strong influencing skills, a crisp and convincing writing style, and the ability to convey a point of view in a concise and structured way.
- Insightful researcher with experience gathering and synthesizing primary and secondary data including perspectives of people most directly impacted by a particular social issue.
- Solutions and systems-focused problem solver with an uncanny ability to use strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to unearth insights and translate findings into clear and meaningful recommendations.
- Expeditionary leader and team player, able to be highly productive working autonomously and able to collaborate with and bring out the best in others working as part of a team.
- Confident user of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, able to create compelling charts, graphs, and documents.
When it comes to building our team, we invite and celebrate people of all identities, abilities, ethnicities, nationalities, faith/spiritual traditions, genders, gender identities, political affiliations, educational/career backgrounds, races, sexualities, and socio-economic statuses. We are all enriched by the diversity of the human family and bonded by our common humanity.
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