Director of Strategy and Development
Position Summary |
We’re looking for a leader experienced in participatory visioning, guiding an organization to achieve that vision, and making the connections with supporters to fund that vision. You will join two other people in transitioning the Field Academy to a new staff team and scaling our program to provide more opportunities for high school students to create a more just and healthy world.
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Organizational Background |
In 2011, we started a school to make life and learning indistinguishable as we connect, engage, empower, and educate young people to create a more just and healthy world. Our format has been a summer program that brings together diverse groups of students from across the United States to learn about critical regional issues through relationships with communities, story-telling, and experiences. It’s worked really well and our alumni have resoundingly asked us make this opportunity available to more students. The five programs have explored Northern New England, Central Appalachia, and the Southwest. The sixth program will be based in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa this summer, studying food and justice. We have been a scrappy, small organization capable of resourcefulness on a tiny budget, funded mostly by grassroots appeal donations from hundreds of small donors and the support of one (amazing) family foundation.
Our experiment in education has grown into a web of relationships, anchored on the experience of transformative education, between over fifty alumni, numerous community partners, educators, donors, and families across the United States. Now, our three founders are transitioning to support the next generation of the Field Academy as leadership is handed to a new team of three staff, including a Program Director, a Program Coordinator, and this position. |
Position Details |
We’re looking for a leader who feels excited by the challenge of guiding organizational transformation through an empowering participatory visioning process with our alumni, community partners, staff, and board. This person will build a strategic plan and lead the fundraising that helps the organization to scale up from its current small-scale, grassroots fundraising in order to accomplish this vision. We are anticipating that this means fundraising upwards of $200,000.
Time in 2019 will likely be allocated in this way:
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RESPONSIBILITIES
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Organizational Leadership and Strategy
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