Vice President, Community Engagement and Impact

Vice President, Community Engagement and Impact                                                                                         

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Concord, New Hampshire

About New Hampshire Charitable Foundation:

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is New Hampshire’s statewide community foundation, founded in 1962 by and for the people of New Hampshire.

We are the place where generosity meets the dedication and ingenuity of nonprofits and the potential of New Hampshire students. For six decades, thousands of people have entrusted their charitable resources to the Foundation, creating a perpetual source of philanthropic capital and making it possible for the Foundation to award more than $60 million in grants and scholarships every year. We have a staff of 54 passionate and dedicated professionals working across the state, and are governed by a highly engaged Board of Directors.

The Foundation’s purpose is to make New Hampshire a more just, sustainable and vibrant community where everyone can thrive. Our current strategic plan, Together We Thrive, is focused on advancing equity, racial justice, and economic security. That’s because when a community can draw on the potential, strength, ingenuity and grace of every person in it, that community will be healthier, happier, more prosperous and a better place to live for all. The plan was adopted in December 2021 and is leading to significant changes in how the Foundation works externally and internally.

For more information on the Foundation, please visit here.

The Opportunity:

The Vice President (VP-CEI) is responsible for leading all aspects of the Community Engagement and Impact department based on the three strategic goals of Together We Thrive, especially Goal 1 – Leading with Community. The VP-CEI serves on the Senior Leadership Team.

Priorities for the role are:

• Strategy implementation and planning

• Vision and inspiration

• People and talent development

• Learning and evaluation

• Resource development and allocation

• Cross-organizational collaboration



Leadership characteristics:

The VP-CEI will exhibit these and other leadership characteristics:

• Deep personal and professional commitment to the Foundation’s purpose, values, and equity and racial justice

● Ability to adapt to change and champion new approaches, incorporating best practices in community philanthropy and emerging ideas from internal and external stakeholders

● Strong interpersonal, listening, and communication skills

● Collaborative and inclusive within and across functions

● Ability to support and advance a team’s work without relying on hierarchy

● Personal and professional integrity along with judgment, curiosity, humor, and humility

The VP-CEI will bring progressive management and/or leadership experience within a mission-driven organization. Strong track record of:

• Experience and understanding of the demographics, economy, culture, and nonprofit/philanthropic ecosystem in NH and adjacent areas of New England.

• Understanding content areas and priorities related to the Foundation’s strategic plan and community impact priorities

• Supporting professional development and growth of colleagues to drive measurable impact and job satisfaction

• Translating strategy into actionable plans within and across functions

• Articulating an engaging vision that can be communicated, personally and by colleagues, to internal and external partners

• Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of operational infrastructure and process, including leveraging technology.

• Partnering to co-create solutions with individuals from diverse racial, socioeconomic, ideological, and cultural backgrounds

Candidate Profile:

The ideal candidate will have the following professional and personal qualities, skills, and characteristics:

Leadership

• Lead the CEI department with vision, a commitment to developing staff, setting and achieving measurable goals, and distributed leadership and decision-making

• Collaborate on SLT to provide enterprise-level leadership in organization-wide communication, coordination, and cohesiveness

• Support the flourishing and collaboration of the major components within CEI:

• Community and partner engagement, listening and learning
• Grant practices, programs, and donor engagement
• Student aid practices and programs
• Public policy and partnerships
• Capacity building for community partners
• Operational effectiveness and efficiency

• Center community, equity, and racial justice in all internal and external interactions and behaviors, modeling the personal commitments needed to authentically support the communities that NHCF most hopes to serve

Strategy Implementation and Planning

• Develop robust ongoing strategy implementation and planning within CEI and across the foundation to ensure that the goals and strategies in Together We Thrive are continuously interpreted, evaluated, communicated, and translated into actions that advance our purpose, center equity and racial justice, and achieve our goals.

• Identify and evaluate initiatives and projects that enhance NHCF’s articulated program goals

• With a cross-departmental lens, identify synergies and encourage team discussions that explicitly explore them

• Ensure that strategies:

• Are integrated and mutually reinforcing of the Foundation’s overarching goals
• Are clearly communicated in simple, accessible, and inclusive language

• Ensure that the CEI team has the structure and resources to effectively achieve goals, including authentic community engagement

• Track implementation and progress against goals

• Collaborate with the VP-DEPS to strengthen systems and staff partnerships to share content with donors and increase informed and aligned grantmaking

• Engage the board of directors to understand, refine, and support community engagement and impact strategies

• Ensure that operational infrastructure and processes support the functions of CEI

Team Development and Culture

• Promote and model the Foundation’s values: accountability, belonging, collaboration, courage, equity, and justice

• With team input, organize the CEI department’s roles and responsibilities to leverage talents and support team member career growth and job satisfaction

• Highlight and celebrate CEI team member contributions

• Co-develop and model a culture of empowerment and trust-building within and across departments, integrated with organizational-wide efforts.



Key Relationships:

•Chief Executive Officer

•Senior leadership colleagues (CFO/CIO, VP-Donor Engagement and PhilanthropyServices, VP- Administration, VP-Communications)

•CEI staff colleagues

•Board of directors

•External stakeholders, including nonprofit and community partners, communitymembers, other funders.

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position. This job description is general and may evolve over time. The description is subject to periodic updating. At management’s discretion, the employee may be assigned different and/or additional duties or responsibilities.

Compensation & Benefits:

Salary for the role is currently anticipated to range from $170,000 to $178,000 commensurate with experience.

Essential job functions and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.



About Koya Partners:

Koya Partners, a part of Diversified Search Group, is a leading executive search and strategic advising firm dedicated to connecting exceptionally talented people with mission-driven clients. Our founding philosophy—The Right Person in the Right Place Can Change the World—guides our work as we partner with nonprofits & NGOs, institutions of higher education, responsible businesses, and social enterprises in local communities and around the world.

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