President & CEO
- Employer
- Independence Foundation
- Location
- Philadelphia
- Salary
- $
- Posted Date
- Oct 10, 2024
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- Executive
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President & CEO
About The Independence Foundation
Envisioning an equitable, healthy, and vibrant Philadelphia region
The Independence Foundation is a private, not-for-profit philanthropic organization serving Philadelphia and its surrounding Pennsylvania counties. The Foundation's funding initiatives focus on
- Arts and Culture
- Healthcare
- Human Services
- Public Interest Law and Legal Aid
- Reentry, Recidivism, and Restorative Justice
Mission
The mission of Independence Foundation is to build leadership, provide services, and encourage systems and cultural change through the support of organizations in the fields of healthcare, human services, public interest law and legal aid, and the arts. The Foundation invests in people and programs that protect, improve, and enrich the life experiences of residents of Philadelphia and its surrounding Pennsylvania counties, with a focus on the vulnerable and excluded. Its work is based on the belief that a region that promotes physical well-being, provides equal access to justice and services, and appreciates the value of the arts will thrive for generations to come.
Values
- Diversity, Equity, and Humanity
- Trust and Mutual Respect
- Intellectual Humility
- Leadership Beyond Grantmaking
Independence Foundation has a long and rich history of making multi-year, unrestricted grants, and enhancing its grantmaking with creative initiatives to support grantees that go well beyond the distribution of funds. Designed with grantees' expressed interests in mind, the foundation provides learning opportunities for staff and Boards of grantee organizations that are intentionally confidential and separate from grantmaking.
Learn more about The Independence Foundation at https://independencefoundation.org/
The Opportunity
In this exciting moment of evolution for the Independence Foundation, the Board seeks a new leader who will build on the organization's powerful legacy to chart a course for its next era of philanthropic impact.
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the President & CEO will work with a small, highly skilled and long-tenured team as well as a diverse network of grantees, community partners, and civic leaders who share the Foundation's vision.
The President and CEO's responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Vision and Strategy
- In close collaboration with the Board and staff, design and articulate a clear vision and strategy for the Foundation's ongoing impact and fulfillment of its mission.
- Track the changing philanthropy landscape nationally, striving for innovation and evolution in how the Independence Foundation does its work.
- Ensure that the Foundation works toward a clearly articulated methodology for measuring the impact of its investments, while understanding that not all the Foundation's work can be easily measured.
Internal leadership
- Review staff structure, evaluate roles, and build a highly professional team. Due to retirements there may be the opportunity to make key hires early in the new leader's tenure.
- Provide supervision and management to team of 4-6 staff across program and administrative functions, ensuring a positive, inclusive work culture and environment where team members are set up for success, feel supported, and are deeply engaged.
- Lead with a highly attuned lens for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access, ensuring this value is reflected in all activities and interactions.
- Strengthen a culture of transparency, metrics for success, and accountability that empowers the team and cultivates an ethos of respect and collaboration.
Community Presence and Leadership
- Represent the Foundation with highly engaged grantees, partners, and local leaders in a wide range of spaces and settings.
- Continue to build strong, trust-based relationships with grantees and community leaders, striving to learn, provide value, innovate, and support.
- Support the Foundation's commitment to convening key constituents with a strategic vision for connection, amplification, and community growth and change.
Board Relations
- Create and maintain a close, productive partnership with the Board.
- Provide ongoing updates and key information, help to plan and participate in productive Board meetings, identify helpful training and learning opportunities, and help to recruit new Board members.
- Support and ensure effective governance structures and processes.
Financial and Operational Management
- Aligning with the strategic vision, oversee effective and efficient management of the Foundation's budget and operations, in order to direct IF's resources toward greatest impact and organizational health.
- Oversee program and grantmaking work, including ensuring a data-informed approach to driving solutions.
Candidate Profile
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a proven leader with strategic vision, and an exceptional ability to connect people and ideas, excellent communications and relationship building skills, a commitment to transparency and inclusion, and a genuine desire to play a key role in helping to build an equitable, healthy, and vibrant Philadelphia region.
The ideal candidate will offer demonstrated expertise in the following competencies:
Passion for the Independence Foundation's Mission and Work
Strategic and Collaborative Leader
Exceptional Communicator and Ambassador
Organization and Team Builder
Compensation & Benefits
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The salary range for this role is $225,000 - $260,000 with a generous benefits package, including PTO and holidays; robust medical and dental coverage; life, ADD, and disability insurance; and 401K participation with annual contributions from the Independence Foundation.
Contact
Koya Partners has been exclusively retained for this engagement, which is being led by Molly Brennan and Tenley Bank. Express interest in this role by filling out our Talent Profile or emailing the search team directly at independencefoundationCEO@koyapartners.com. All inquiries and discussions are strictly confidential.
Koya Partners l Diversified Search Group is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals living with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual living with a disability and need assistance expressing interest online, please email NonprofitSearchOps@divsearch.com. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.
The Independence Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ applicants.
About Koya Partners Diversified Search Group
Koya Partners, a Diversified Search Group company, is the nation's premier search firm dedicated to mission-driven leadership. Since its founding in 2004, Koya has had an exclusive focus on mission-driven clients and was founded on the belief that the right leader can transform an organization and have a deep and measurable impact on our world. Koya works with nonprofits & NGOs, responsible businesses, and social enterprises in local communities and around the world.
Diversified Search Group is consistently recognized by Forbes on its top 10 list of "America's Best Executive Recruiting Firms" and is an industry leader in recruiting transformational leaders for a changing world. The firm is deliberately different in its approach, with best-in-class teams who have decades of experience in cultivating inclusive leaders, understanding the dimensions of diversity, and building equitable teams.
Learn more about Koya Partners l Diversified Search Group via the firm's website.
To apply, visit: https://talent-profile.diversifiedsearchgroup.com/search/v2/21425
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