philanthropy
2008-07-20
Synergos
Filed Under:
Partnership Services Director, New York, NY
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.
The broad responsibilities of this position are to:
Professional Qualifications include:
Compensation
To Apply
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 US-Mexico border, in Brazil, Southern Africa and India. Synergos' board of directors and staff has experience working for NGOs, government agencies, international organizations and businesses. The members of the staff are from more than a dozen countries and speak 16 languages.
The Director of Partnership Services will initiate, design, and lead a new initiative to provide fee and pro bono consulting services to corporations, governments, multi-lateral organizations, civil society groups or others wishing to engage in collaborative efforts to address poverty and social justice issues. The ideal candidate would combine a passion for international development with the energy, experience and risk-profile of an entrepreneurial business-builder. Such a candidate would creatively develop a new set of service offerings that build from and leverage Synergos' 20 years of development experience, its extensive global relationship network, and its strongly-held set of organizational values.
The position reports to the Senior Director of Partnerships and will be based in New York City.
The broad responsibilities of this position are to:
- Develop the business plan for Synergos Partnership Services that identifies an appropriate market niche and crafts a compelling value proposition;
- Create a menu of consulting services, develop a service delivery plan, establish standards to price and value service offerings;
- Develop tools, methods, processes to undergird service delivery; create knowledge management system to organize and deliver knowledge products as needed;
- Mobilize, deploy and manage talent on the Synergos staff, Senior Fellows and external consultants to deliver services;
- Create and implement marketing strategy; generate new business opportunities, designing and delivering consulting engagements for clients; Oversee evaluation activities to assess the ultimate impact of this work on the alleviation of poverty and the promotion of equity and social justice.
The Director should ideally possess the following professional qualifications and personal attributes:
Professional Qualifications include:
• Experience with collaborative and participatory approaches to address issues of poverty;
• At least 10 years working experience that includes work across sectors; at least half of that time in a leadership position;
• Relevant business experience with management consulting, start-up ventures, or marketing; relevant nonprofit experience in international development, philanthropy or poverty related work;
• At least two years direct experience in living and working in at least one country in Africa, Asia or Latin America;
• Masters degree (MBA or degree in international relations, international development, economics, politics, etc.) strongly preferred.
Compensation
Compensation for the Director includes a competitive salary, employee and health benefits.
To Apply
Please see full job description and send resumes and cover letters in confidence to:
Daniel Sherman, President
Explore Company
The Synergos Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We seek to hire well-qualified applicants from diverse candidate pools.
2008-07-19
Synergos
Filed Under:
Senior Manager, GPC Network, New York, NY
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.
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.
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 identify 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
Qualifications include:
• 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
• An entrepreneurial mindset, able to identify and pursue opportunities
• A demonstrated commitment to high ethical standards and values consistent with those of Synergos
• Proficiency in two or more languages
• Availability for overseas travel
Competitive salary, excellent benefits. The position is located in New York City.
To Apply
Please see full job description and 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.
