The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) Community Partnerships and Investments (CPI) Senior Specialist provides subject matter expertise for the metrics strategy, the processes, and the framework of the WWP philanthropy portfolio to ensure the most impactful investments and outcomes are reached in furtherance of the WWP mission. Together with CPI leadership and teammates, establish and maintain long-term partnerships with collaborative organizations, building-out impactful investments that align responsibly with community needs and with WWP’s strategic plan, investments strategy, and the mission to honor and empower warriors.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Serve as the key liaison to WWP’s Metrics team to collect and analyze partner and grantee data and assist in storytelling and reporting. Lead the CPI team’s technical efforts to gather, analyze, and interpret complex data.
- Work closely with Metrics and Programs teammates to support organizational priorities related to impact and outcome measurement, i.e., key performance indicators (KPIs) for WWP’s philanthropy arm of grantees.
- Collaborate with the Metrics team and other stakeholders to follow and incorporate best practices in data collection, storage, analysis, and governance.
- Collaborate with WWP Metrics team and develop measures, analyze data, and assess and evaluate the impact of partnerships on the military service organization (MSO) space and on veteran and family empowerment.
- Track proper investment administration, including outcome-based metrics, and prepare reports to leadership.
- Assist leadership to ensure grantees are accountable to high return-on-investment standards in program outcomes and metrics and to promote a long-lasting partnership and impact investment strategy.
- Lead the CPI efforts to proactively research organizations to partner with and obtain funding for and fill in gaps in WWP programming or complement WWP’s direct services. Support WWP’s leadership to create enduring partnerships across participating agencies that are transformative and build the field to positively impact warrior wellness.
- Support the application of capital and corporate philanthropy strategies and tools by assisting the CPI team to source, structure, underwrite, and negotiate social investments.
- Review, analyze, and evaluate proposals through social and mission due diligence. Assist grantees with proposal development and provide investment recommendations to senior leadership.
- Track, analyze, and report on emerging and vanguard efforts, trends, and opportunities in the corporate philanthropy and corporate responsibility sectors. Apply lessons learned to help achieve maximum impact and presence as the premier charitable investment leader in the wounded warrior community.
- Collaborate with WWP Legal team to design grant agreements. Collaborate with WWP Finance and Accounting team to assess the financial health of potential grantees and partners.
- Maintain regular, high-touch communication with external partners on behalf of leadership. Oversee stewardship of individual relationships in public and private sector organizations to positively impact warrior wellness.
- Develop community support for WWP. Present WWP vision and values to the community, effectively communicating WWP’s history, mission, and vision, and the benefits of WWP programs and services, and inspire them to become involved with and support WWP.
- Establish working relationships with WWP teammates to advance CPI’s mission, strategy and goals.
- Maintain broad, in-depth knowledge and understanding of military service organization (MSO) and veteran service organization (VSO) community needs, concerns, issues, trends, “best practices,” and innovations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in non-profit management, business, public administration, information technology, data science, economics, finance, accounting, or other relevant field of study.
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrated understanding of investment and philanthropic giving experience, and how investments are leveraged and scaled. Demonstrated commitment to community service and philanthropy and understanding of successful grant acquisitions supporting non-profit organizations.
- Strong business acumen with demonstrated ability to monitor, compile, and analyze data to guide decision-making and capitalize on investment opportunities.
- Demonstrated understanding of Salesforce platform and products, and business processes implemented in Salesforce, with the ability to implement established and new business processes within the platform. Demonstrated ability to build and generate reports or dashboards in Salesforce, and pulling, cleaning, and analyzing data from Salesforce. Demonstrated ability to build, manage, and query databases.
- Demonstrated strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Skilled in creating data visualizations to communicate programmatic and organizational impact.
- Demonstrated understanding of program and project management, e.g., assessing outcomes and impact. Demonstrated ability to manage programs and projects from strategy through execution.
- Demonstrated ability to identify problems, analyze information, evaluate results, and solve issues using the most effective solutions.
- Strong technical writing skills with a proven ability to connect the dots, possessing a strong critical thinking and analytical skillset.
- Strong presentation skills. Confident communicator, with demonstrated ability to present information effectively to large audiences, small groups, and individuals, to facilitate group discussion, and serve as a representative of the organization.
- Strong organizational and time management skills. Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated understanding of relationship management and partnering. Exceptional interpersonal skills. Ability to interact effectively with diverse individuals and build effective working relationships. Demonstrated emotional intelligence. Ability to respond to sensitive matters with diplomacy and empathy.
- Demonstrated ability to establish credibility, be decisive, influence others, and influence change.
- High energy level. Self-starter; willing to take initiative.
- Demonstrated understanding of Wounded Warrior Project and its mission, values, programs, and services, and the impact of these programs and services on wounded warriors and their families. Demonstrated broad, in-depth knowledge and understanding of military service organization (MSO) and veteran service organization (VSO) community needs, concerns, and issues.
- Unequivocal commitment to the highest standards of personal and business ethics and conduct.
- Mission-driven, guided by core values, and a pleasure to work with.
- Five years of experience in grant-making, strategy consulting, impact investing, financing, program metrics, non-profit management, or philanthropic capital and grants.
- Five years of experience using Excel for data analyses, cleaning and analyzing data, generating reports and dashboards, and using data visualization.
Preferences
- Master’s degree in nonprofit management, business, accounting, economics, finance, or data analytics.
- Five years of military experience or working with veteran’s organizations.
- Five years of experience working with a non-profit organization.
- Three years of experience working with Salesforce, or similar customer relationship management (CRM) system, building and generating reports and dashboards.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Oct 18 2019
Active Until:
Nov 18 2019
Hiring Organization:
Wounded Warrior Project, Inc.
industry:
Nonprofit