Training & Community Director

Job Description

The Roddenberry Foundation is seeking a Training & Community Director to cultivate, shape, and grow the Roddenberry network as a dynamic space for social change leaders to connect, learn, and collaborate.

The Roddenberry Foundation makes catalytic, timely investments in original ideas and extraordinary people who can change the world. Through four core programs, the Foundation casts a wide net to uncover and support impactful, often untested ideas and the individuals and teams whose vision and leadership have the potential to bring them to fruition.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Roddenberry Foundation seeks its first Training & Community Director, a relationship-driven innovator who will seed and strengthen connections and collaboration among the entrepreneurs, organizers, researchers, partners, and advisors in the Roddenberry community. We’re looking for someone who has experience training, facilitating, and/or coaching and who understands and finds joy in building communities; who loves connecting people; and who can mobilize community members to learn, share, and engage.

The ideal candidate will have experience building and nurturing networks, coalitions, or communities of practice. And through this experience, they’ll have used feedback loops and community insight to inform decision-making. To do all of this, we’re looking for someone with great interpersonal skills who is empathic, intellectually curious, and genuine. This person is animated by the potential of community.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Training and learning

• Lead the development and implementation of in-person and remote peer-support and learning opportunities
• Map relationships and networks within the Foundation’s community to identify opportunities for connection and coordination across projects and strategies
• Design and conduct training evaluations and outcome assessments
• Create systems for regular check-ins with and updates from folks in the Foundation community to stay up to date on their work, needs, and well-being

Network cultivation

• Regularly connect with individual grantees, Fellowship alumni, advisors and other partners to foster and deepen relationships and unearth new connections and synergies
• Identify, launch, and coordinate network-wide activities, including developing and managing virtual and in-person (when appropriate) gathering spaces
• Help craft materials for partner outreach/engagement, learning opportunities, and network activities/virtual convenings

Network impact

• Identify and test metrics that measure impact from the community – for individual members, specific programs, and the ecosystem as a whole
• Plan a robust structure for both informal and formal feedback from Roddenberry Foundation stakeholders. Share out this feedback to staff and help develop strategies for addressing feedback.
• Work closely with the team, grantees, and partners to share insights from the range of impact evaluation and learning projects

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERTISE

• Experience building and nurturing networks, coalitions, or communities that encompass a range of perspectives, cultures, and backgrounds – global experience is a plus
• Experience designing learning opportunities – in-person gatherings, peer-to-peer, and virtual experiences
• Experience using data systems and feedback loops to inform and guide the work
• Comfort with the messiness of community, as well as the detail-oriented, multi-faceted nature of community management
• Comfort working in ambiguous settings, building buy-in to test and iterate new ideas
• Comfort working autonomously, in a largely remote environment
• Strong organizational, planning and logistics skills
• Working knowledge of explicit and implicit bias, and strong self-awareness of their own
• A well-honed instinct to proactively advance projects and solve problems
• A strong sense of generosity, lively sense of humor, and instinct towards kindness

DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY

• Hours: this is a full-time, salaried role with health benefits
• Location: remote (even in non-pandemic times)
• Compensation commensurate with qualifications and experience

Qualified applicants should email jobs@roddenberryfoundation.org with with “Training & Community Director” in the subject line.a cover letter that speaks to the power and potential of this role and why you are uniquely suited to fill it, along with your resume, outlining experience with community cultivation and management. People of color, immigrants, queer, women, transgender, non-binary folks are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications will be reviewed as they are submitted.

About the Organization

Named as one of the Most Innovative Nonprofits in 2018 by Fast Company, the Roddenberry Foundation takes a fiercely experimental and optimistic approach to ensure philanthropic solutions match the complexity and urgency of today’s global challenges. The Foundation supports great ideas and the people behind them through its Catalyst Fund, a small grants program for early-stage ideas, the +1 Global Fund, a network-based approach to mitigate the impact of Covid, the annual Roddenberry Fellowship, and the Roddenberry Prize, a biennial competition to crowd-source innovative solutions to global challenges.

We’re a small team that cares deeply about social change. We work hard and try not to take ourselves too seriously – we enjoy each other and the work. The Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and deeply values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Moreover, the Foundation is committed to creating a team that reflects the diversity of our fellows and grantees.