Position Announcement
Senior Manager, GPC Network
Synergos seeks a motivated, creative and results-oriented manager to join the Global Philanthropist Circle team. This person will primarily manage relationships with global philanthropists, working to help members of the Circle deepen their philanthropy and understand how they can better support efforts to create sustainable changes to the root causes of poverty. The position reports to the Senior Director for the GPC Network and will be based in New York City.
About The Synergos Institute
Synergos is a nonprofit organization working to reduce poverty and promote equity and social justice for poor and marginalized communities around the world.
During its 20 year history, Synergos has worked collaboratively with leaders and leading organizations in civil society, philanthropy, government and business to expand the opportunities and fair treatment for people who do not have full access to human rights, services to meet their basic human needs or the requisite circumstances to participate in civic affairs. Synergos is a capacity building organization that builds networks of change makers and encourages their collaborative initiatives, convenes and supports multi-sector partnerships and conducts and disseminates knowledge about partnerships aimed at making the systems changes that are needed to enhance the living conditions for underdeveloped communities.
Synergos hosts the Global Philanthropists Circle, a peer learning network for eminent social investors and the Synergos Senior Fellows Network, a group of accomplished and innovative social activists. Throughout its history, Synergos has also helped establish, strengthened and partnered with an informal network of major development actors from all three sectors. Synergos engages directly in a limited number of multi-sector partnerships and provides advice and counsel to many others. Synergos is also in the process of establishing a Knowledge Resource Center to provide educational materials, training and conferences about multi-sector partnerships.
In all of its work, Synergos seeks to bridge divides, bringing together people and organizations to change the circumstances that adversely affect communities of poverty. We always seek to do this in a sustainable way by empowering those most adversely affected by poverty and discrimination and by strengthening the ability of these communities to do what's needed to change their circumstances on an ongoing basis.
Synergos is headquartered in New York and has offices on the U.S.-Mexico border, in Brazil, Southern Africa and India.
Synergos' board of directors and staff has experience working for NGO's, government agencies, international organizations and businesses. The members of the staff are from more than a dozen countries and speak 16 languages.
This position represents a great opportunity for an entrepreneurial, innovative and experienced development manager to exert significant influence on activities involving some of the most innovative and important individuals and entities committed to the reduction of poverty and the promotion of social justice. The broad responsibilities of this position are to:
- Serve as primary Relationship Manager for 20-30 member families and at least 10 prospect families in a geographic region or issue area
- Plan annual events enabling member and prospect philanthropists to have the opportunity to connect to each other, leverage their knowledge and resources and act in new, more effective ways. This may include trips, meetings, events, and other learning opportunities that will serve to further the work of these members
- Generate revenue through member recruitment and renewal to ensure financial targets are achieved
- Develop issue or geographic expertise to serve as a resource for Circle members, other Synergos programs and partner organizations
- Contribute to marketing for departmental and specific events
- Contribute to GPC planning, strategy, and reporting systems and to enhance the integration of GPC programming with other Synergos activities
Key functions of the role include:
- Identify and recruit new members including engaging in research to indentify perspective members and designing strategies to recruit well-qualified candidates
- Identify members' expectations and needs and develop a plan for the year including conducting an intake or fact-finding interview with each member to understand key needs and interests and creating an overall strategy that ensure value added to each client in the portfolio
- Help GPC members enhance and improve their own poverty-related work through their network participation
- Engage in joint programming to foster collaboration between the GPC and Senior Fellows networks
- Connect GPC Members with others within the Synergos community to form and execute inclusive partnerships that address poverty and related challenges
- Develop the most effective ways for GPC members to connect with peers and with other stakeholders, enhancing their capacity as change makers
- Provide opportunities for GPC members to gain value from experiences of deep reflection about purpose and legacy
- Develop opportunities for GPC members to enhance their collaborative leadership skills
- Develop marketing and communications programs to support the GPC
- Consistently model and providing leadership around organizational values
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred
- At least eight years of professional experience related to philanthropy or international development
- Proven ability to plan and organize work, taking into account strategic priorities, time and resource constraints
- Outstanding written and spoken communication skills
- Ability to listen, learn from and teach others
- Ability to develop and oversee budgets
- Team player with good interpersonal skills, able to work within and manage diverse groups
- An entrepreneurial mindset, able to identify and pursue opportunities
- A demonstrated commitment to high ethical standards and values consistent with those of Synergos
- A collaborative approach to working with internal and external colleagues to maximize the effectiveness of projects and programs
- Experience in meeting facilitation
- Experience in organizing international workshops, conferences or training highly desirable
- Prior experience and responsibility for organization of program strategy and project management
- Good marketing expertise
- Some experience living or working outside the U.S.
- Proficiency in two or more languages
- Availability for overseas travel
- Computer literate
Competitive salary, excellent benefits. The position is located in New York City.
To Apply
Please send a cover letter, resume and salary history, in confidence, to synergos@synergos.org.
The Synergos Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We seek to hire well-qualified applicants from diverse candidate pools.
March 4, 2008
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