Job Description
About Humanity United Humanity United (HU) is a philanthropic organization focused on advancing the dignity and voice of those most affected by violent conflict, exploitation, and injustice. Established in 2008 to cultivate conditions for enduring peace and freedom, HU today focuses on systemic change across three bodies of work: Peacebuilding, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, and Racial Justice and Equity, with a strong focus on leveraging Public Engagement across these issues. Humanity United is part of The Omidyar Group, a diverse collection of companies, organizations, and initiatives united by a desire to improve the lives of people and societies.
Position Summary: Humanity United (HU) is seeking a highly self-motivated, creative, and organized Senior Manager, who will serve as an integral member of HU’s Strategy, Learning and Impact (SL&I) team. The Senior Manager will support a range of organizational learning and development efforts, including advancing HU’s overarching vision to become a DEIJ-fluent systems catalyst and growing HU’s research, evaluation, and learning efforts that inform strategic decision-making. The Senior Manager will play a significant role in cultivating an SL&I team culture that embodies HU values.
The Senior Manager will support a future-ready SL&I and explore innovative ideas outside of HU to keep HU learning and growing in line with our program areas and the broader field of philanthropy. This role will support the Director of SL&I to implement and practice a consistent, rigorous, and practical approach to sensing, sensemaking, planning, and adaptation across HU.
The Senior Manager will:
- accompany HU staff on a learning journey towards greater impact, more inclusive practice, and nimble strategies for complex systems;
- cultivate the enabling environment at HU, within The Omidyar Group (TOG), and in the broader field to continue to learn and innovate around systems-enabled and complexity-aware strategy, learning, and impact practices;
- facilitate cross-departmental learning and help define the journey and learning agenda for HU’s transition to a systems catalyst as we experience and respond to ongoing disruption in our field;
- accompany teams and portfolios in co-designing and following up on their learning journeys;
- build a practice that prioritizes DEIJ in all aspects of our work;
- support several key workstreams related to sensing, sense-making, strategy, impact and cross-organizational initiatives within SL&I.
This is a full-time, exempt role, reporting to the Director, Strategy, Learning & Impact. Our hybrid work approach provides ongoing flexibility for regular remote work for this position, combined with periodic in-person gatherings. This role can be based anywhere in the United States.
Core Job Responsibilities: Support strategy and learning at the portfolio and program levels based on team priorities, bandwidth, and capacity that could include the responsibilities listed below. - Engage in thought partnership and support program staff to develop learning questions and evaluation frameworks, create and validate learning tools, and analyze and interpret data.
- Develop, implement, and manage internal processes for conducting ongoing outcomes measurement and intentional reflection to ensure cohesive, consistent, high quality data collection, analysis and learning.
- Help teams summarize and report impact of programs, including supporting the development of learning documents and other materials that can be shared across HU, with the board, with partners, and other relevant networks and stakeholders.
- Support program staff in developing and refreshing their programmatic and portfolio strategies using systems-enabled tools.
- Support teams with a variety of grantee-level evaluation and learning activities.
- Help grantees strengthen their capacity to collect data responsibly, maintain data security protocols, and learn from the information they have collected.
- Conduct research on new approaches and tools and engage with academic and research partners to help HU continually learn and benefit from the newest evidence.
- Create, and curate field-wide best practices and resources including the development of research, guidelines, and innovative practices to help increase program effectiveness.
- Support the development of research and writing (policy briefs, case studies, white papers) and editing.
- Participate in conferences and informational exchanges globally as needed and support staff in externally facing presentations.
Support strong strategy & learning practice at the organizational level, including co-creating a learning culture (in support of organizational goals). - Help define the journey and learning agenda for our transition to a systems catalyst as we experience and respond to ongoing disruptions in our field,
- Facilitate spaces for cross-departmental learning and collaboration including supporting a learning space within HU to learn in action while grappling with day-to-day challenges of multi-donor funding, generate collective wisdom, and connect learning to action and what it means to be a systems catalyst.
- Convene organizational-wide learning spaces around a wide range of themes and synthesize and document grantmaking best practices.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Must-have requirements: - Commitment to HU’s mission and values (including Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice) is a must.
- Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different cultures, backgrounds, and functions.
- Ability to engage in a work environment that embraces change, diversity of thought, and self-reflection.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn in non-extractive ways.
- Experience facilitating strategy development and applying learning and data to support effective decision-making.
- Substantial, progressively more responsible work experience including work in a nonprofit or philanthropy setting, and experience in monitoring and evaluation, quantitative and qualitative research methods, tool design, validation, data collection, and analysis in the human rights, peacebuilding, international development, or comparable fields.
- Experience in strategic thinking, program planning and implementation.
- A high level of professional skills in the following competency areas:
- Responsible Data: Experience working on international programs, especially those which involve data collection among vulnerable populations and fragile contexts
- Systems and Complexity: Strong foundations in systems thinking and complexity science frameworks; Commitment to ongoing learning and bringing relevant ideas back to the organizations.
- Demonstrated flexibility and non-dogmatic approach to strategy, learning and impact; strong problem-solving skills combined with a track record of pivoting in response to opportunities and challenges
- Change Management and Internal Communications: Proven experience moving teams and organizations through periods of ambiguity and transition.
- Collaboration and Team Building: Solid experience collaborating effectively across multiple functions and geographies
- Experience managing projects and budgets.
- Experience building and cultivating team learning culture and practice.
- Strong problem-solving skills combined with a track record of pivoting in response to opportunities and challenges.
- Ability to work independently in an unstructured setting yet within a framework of careful communication, consultation, and decision-making.
It’s a bonus if you bring: - Direct lived experience of the issues we work on.
- Masters’ degree in relevant area, equivalent qualifications or equivalent experience.
- Experience developing and testing new approaches to assessing impact in complex environments, including but not limited to behavioral economics, design thinking, emergent learning and complexity, social network analysis, and comparative models.
- Fluency in relevant languages, including Spanish, French, or Arabic.
- Network curating: Ability to use outside relationships to help create hub of learning and convening at HU .
We encourage qualified candidates with informal or indirect experience to describe how their background has served as preparation for this role. Salary :
The salary range for this position will vary by geographic location to account for local job market & cost of living. Starting salaries within the range are based on job-related skills, experience and background. At HU, salary progression is based on performance and proficiency in a role over time.
Example starting salary ranges are provided below, with other locations available on request. We will share more about the starting and full salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
- San Francisco - $167,904 - $186,560
- New York - $159,509 - $177,232
- Washington DC/Boston/Seattle/LA - $151,114 - $167,904
- Chicago, Denver/Boulder, Philadelphia - $142,718 - $158,576
- Cincinnati, Raleigh, Dallas, Milwaukee, Miami - $134,323 - $149,248
Humanity United believes that diversity, equity and inclusion make us more successful in our work, and we are able to grow and learn better together when our team is diverse and representative of the communities we serve. We are actively engaged in a formal DEIJ journey as an organization, and expect that prospective employees are enthusiastic about advancing these goals.
We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and staff. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, class, religion, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status and any other characteristics protected by law. We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse identities or who are members of marginalized communities.
HU is proud to offer all staff an inclusive and comprehensive benefits package to accommodate a diversity of needs and life circumstances and to accommodate staff at all life stages with flexible and supportive benefits. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, flexible spending account, 401(k) plan, paid vacation and sick time with generous holiday closures, paid parental leave, charitable gift matching, employee assistance program and mental health support via our partnerships with Modern Health, Calm and Headspace, commuter benefit, wellbeing benefit, phone and home internet benefit, hybrid work flexibility and half-day Fridays.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to fully access our benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation or describe your needs in your application.
Humanity United’s Values: We encourage all candidates to learn more about our organizational values at
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