Description

Summary

The Senior Community Impact Officer (SCIO), Capacity Building, operates under the direction of the Director of Learning, Evaluation and Capacity Building, in administering the financial management, strategic technology, organizational assessment, and evaluation capacity programming activities of the Foundation’s Nonprofit Support Program (NSP). Working collaboratively with internal colleagues, and external community partners, the SCIO ensures capacity building curriculums, programs, services and grantmaking resources are effectively monitored and invested to produce positive, sustainable outcomes in the Greater Hartford Region.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead financial management programming including: evolving and designing curriculum/programs; identifying, selecting and overseeing consultants with appropriate expertise; marketing program to eligible organizations; reviewing and approving applications for financial management assessments and training programs; reviewing grants; and providing technical assistance.
• Lead strategic technology programming including: evolving and designing curriculum/programs; identifying, selecting and overseeing consultants with appropriate expertise; marketing program to eligible organizations; reviewing and approving applications for program; reviewing grants; and providing technical assistance.
• Oversee the Nonprofit Revolving Loan Fund and collaborate with administering agency in reviewing applications to determine organizations’ viability and capacity to repay the loans. Maintain relationship with HEDCO, attend loan committee meetings and manage formal agreement.
• Lead and refine Organizational Assessment programming including marketing the program to eligible organizations, coordinating the application process, overseeing consultant support, recruiting and developing the consultant pool, and evaluating program effectiveness.
• Lead and refine evaluation capacity programming including marketing to eligible organizations, coordinating learning opportunities, overseeing consultants, reviewing grants, and providing technical assistance and monitoring program effectiveness.
• Manage assigned capacity-building related grants including those awarded to essential nonprofit infrastructure organizations.
• Serve as primary contact for the partnership with Catchafire including: negotiating annual contract; monitoring usage; and marketing program to eligible organizations.
• Manage and strengthen the partnership with Catchafire, serving as the primary contact for contract negotiations, monitoring utilization, and aligned marketing efforts.
  Providing Consultation and Coaching to Nonprofits and Foundation Team:
• Serve as a resource to nonprofit leaders by determining their needs for assistance and referring them to appropriate resources both within and outside of NSP.
• Serve as an internal consultant and thought partner to Greater Hartford Gives Foundation grantmaking peers and broader staff on issues related to nonprofit organizational capacity.

Requirements

Competencies and Attributes

• Deep commitment to the values of trust-based philanthropy, equity, diversity and inclusion, and the ability to embed those values in all aspects of work.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including consultation and coordination to internal and external staff, consultants, effective time, project, and budget management.
• Proven ability to translate abstract ideas into actionable results.
• Ability to synthesize listening and learning into persuasive, accessible written rationales for grant or programming recommendations.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communications skills for understanding, presenting, and adapting content for a range of audiences.
• Consultative and coaching-oriented mindset, with the ability to guide, advise, and build capacity among nonprofit partners and internal colleagues.
• Comfort with organizational change and working in an emergent strategy environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain relationships with grantee partners and other community stakeholders.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, empathy and openness to new ideas and perspectives on a wide range of topics.
• Solid track record of a collaborative and team-oriented approach to program design, implementation and/or grantmaking, convenings, and use of other tools to strengthen nonprofit capacity and promote strategic priorities.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of a program and/or strategy evaluation, using data to develop and refine programming, strategic planning, and nonprofit management.

Education and Experience

Degree requirement can be substituted with equivalent practical experience.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration, social sciences, public administration, nonprofit management, public policy, or other relevant areas, or equivalent relevant experience combined with educational training.
• Five or more years of experience in nonprofit leadership or a consulting practice role focused on financial management, strategy development, strategic use of technology or organizational assessment and priority setting.
• Understanding of the role of the nonprofit sector in Connecticut or other states.
• Capacity building, grantmaking experience and/or experience at a philanthropic institution.
• Experience in a role requiring critical and strategic thinking related to issues of equity and antiracism.

Preferred

• Knowledge of the Greater Hartford nonprofit landscape and its local communities.
• Experience contributing to collaborative, team-oriented programs and strategy development. 

Location

This is a hybrid position that includes remote work up to 2 days per week and in-office work in Hartford, CT