OUR IDEAL CANDIDATEWe are seeking an innovative, mission-driven and collaborative strategic leader who can help us grow our capacity, increase our visibility and expand our relationships — all in an effort to increase our impact on the Twin Cities’ nonprofit and philanthropic communities.

This will be a results-driven person who will unite and energize our stakeholders around a shared vision for the future and inspire us to think and act in new ways in order to achieve that vision.

They will be a natural connector with excellent listening, communication and relationship-building skills, able to aggregate talent and allies and build bridges between people from different communities, sectors and backgrounds. They will demonstrate a keen awareness of the needs and strengths of people, and the versatility to read and respond to a changing environment and diverse perspectives.

Finally, they will have an innate understanding of the connectedness between the nonprofit, for profit and public sectors and the ability to bring them together to create a more just community for our teens and young adults.

Location: Minneapolis, MNSalary: $80,000 – $100,000Application Deadline: October 5, 2020

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Job Opportunity Social Venture Partners Minnesota is seeking an experienced, impact- driven and collaborative executive director who will inspire and engage people to invest and work together to create permanent and equitable social change for teens and young adults in the Twin Cities.

THE POSITIONProvide strategic, collaborative leadership • Lead the development of strategy for SVP-MN and

galvanize others to achieve it.

• Routinely review our strategic direction and priorities; adapt to new information and changing community needs.

• Provide organizational leadership and support for staff, board, committees and investee-partner teams.

• Lead and inspire a network of diverse partners as engaged philanthropists.

Increase our capacity• Recruit, engage and retain partners

• Play a central role in identifying and recruiting new partners, engaging them in a way that inspires them to join and invest.

• Inspire and build relationships with our existing individual and corporate partners.

• In collaboration with our board, create and implement a strategy for identifying and recruit-ing new partners who reflect the diversity of our community in representation, perspective and lived experience.

• Build an SVP-MN alumni engagement model that creates continued engagement with our mission.

• Refresh and strengthen our revenue model

• In collaboration with our board, review and strengthen our partnership investment model.

• Develop and implement a fundraising and development strategy that results in a healthy mix of revenue streams and constituencies.

• Lead revenue development activities.

• Personally ask current and potential donors for financial and time contributions.

• Educate and engage our staff, board and partners as advocates and fundraisers.

Strengthen community engagement• Define and articulate our brand story

• Raise the visibility of SVP-MN in the community through strong messaging and storytelling in written materials, social media, personal conversations and events.

• Model and promote our priorities and values through our relationships within the philanthropic community.

• Listen carefully and learn from our investees and the community and strengthen our programming and practices with those experiences.

• Lift the voices and strengths of our investees through-out the Twin Cities.

Advance our equity work• Lead efforts to weave equity into the fabric of our

organization.

• Nurture existing practices and advance new ways to deepen relationships, shift and share power, build bridges and center marginalized voices.

Direct our programming• Create, promote, manage and evaluate our programs. 

• Ensure all programs advance our mission, vision and values.

• Collaborate with board members, partners and staff to deliver programs.

Lead our enterprise • Ensure consistent high standards in internal opera-

tions, including finance and administration, human resources, fund development, systems, grantmaking, programs, communications and events.

• Nurture strong and mutually respectful working relationships among our staff, board and partners.

• Actively engage a strong board of directors. 

• Hire, supervise and develop staff.  

• Advise and support committees and teams. Collabo-rate with board and partners to define, organize and structure work done in committees and project teams.

• Develop and manage our annual budget. Anticipate impacts to the budget and create scenarios to facilitate ongoing decision making.

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JOB QUALIFICATIONS• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in a

leadership role

• Leadership experience in the Twin Cities’ philanthropic, nonprofit or social justice communities; a blend of nonprofit and for profit experience is a plus

• Strong branding, marketing, public relations, advocacy and communications experience

• Proven inspirational leader, connector and capacity builder

• A strong understanding of equity at the individual, organizational and systemic levels.

• Able to balance big picture thinking with the “rolling up the sleeves” work required in a small organization

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• Experience leading, managing and growing a membership organization with a diverse constituency will be an advantage

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS This is a full-time exempt position based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota. The expected salary range is between $80,000 and $100,000, depending on experience and skills. There will also be an opportunity to earn a bonus for completion of mission-aligned initiatives that help grow the organization and build a sustainable future beyond minimum threshold requirements.

Benefits include:

• Generous holidays and paid personal time off

• Negotiable health benefits

• Opportunity to do broad and impactful work

• Opportunity to build relationships with individual philanthropists, as well as business, nonprofit, and foundation leaders

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APPLICATION PROCESS To apply for the position, please submit a resume and cover letter to edsearch@svpmn.org.

Email applications only; please send no paper submissions. We are asking you to submit two documents: a resume and a cover letter. In your cover letter, please describe as specifically as you can how your experience and skills are a fit with SVP-MN’s goals and mission.

Applications received by Monday, October 5 at 5:00 p.m. (CST) will be given full consideration; early applications are strongly encouraged! All applications will be acknowledged via an email receipt. Consider-ation will be given to applications as they are received. Interviewing via video conference (Zoom) will begin in late September, with an offer of hire expected in the first half of November.

COMMITMENT TO EQUITYSVP-MN having a board, staff and partner base with diverse personal and professional lived experiences enhances our ability to achieve our mission.

We are an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or domestic partner status, veteran status, medical condition, mental or physical disability which would not prevent the performance of essential job duties without reasonable accommodation.

We strongly encourage applications from people of color, immigrants, women, people with disabilities, members of the LGBT community and other historically underrepresented or marginalized groups.

ABOUT USSocial Venture Partners Minnesota is part of a global network of engaged philanthropists with over 3,500 partners in forty cities and eight countries across the globe. SVP partners share their financial resources and volunteer their professional expertise to help great nonprofit leaders build strong, high-performing, impact-driving enterprises. We are capacity builders.

Locally, SVP-MN has nearly a hundred partners — experienced leaders from many sectors. We work side-by-side with our investees to solve social prob-lems affecting teens and young adults.

Central to our work:

• Recruiting and engaging our partners’ diverse expertise and experiences to collaborate with nonprofit teams to achieve social justice and impact

• Awarding one-year and multi-year unrestricted grants to nonprofits who serve teens and young adults between the ages of 13 and 24

• Convening collaborations that inspire partners as philanthropists to advance the impact of the Twin Cities’ nonprofit and philanthropic sectors

• Executing education and relationship-building events that connect and lift nonprofit strengths and voices, and create shared learning among our partners, investees and community stakeholders

IMPACTSince 2002, we have collaborated with more than 60 innovative nonprofits and awarded over $2.1 million in grants. We’ve helped bring life-changing opportu-nities to thousands of teens and young adults, while learning from our investees and each other.

In 2019 alone,our partners contributed over $800,000 worth of skill-based volunteering in areas ranging from finance to marketing to governance.

In addition, our partners continually work to become more informed and engaged philanthropists by participating in SVP-MN’s educational programs. The work of our current and past partners reverberates throughout the Twin Cities.

MISSIONCatalyze equitable social change by expanding the capacity of youth-serving nonprofits and cultivating effective, engaged philanthropists.*

VISIONA socially just Twin Cities where all teens and young adults have an equal opportunity to thrive.*

VALUESIMPACT: foster positive change in our community

INNOVATION: pursue the greatest potential — not the easiest path

COMMUNITY: make a greater impact together

EQUITY: all people should have an opportunity to succeed

*In development

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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE2020 has been an incredible year for our world. For for our organization, it has been a year of change, reflection, vision and impatience for the future.

The pandemic and the global outrage that followed the unjust death of George Floyd here in Minneapolis shined bright lights on long-standing inequity in our community. In this context, we are midway through the development of a new strategic plan. We know it will call on us to grow our partnership and our impact, diversify our funding support, build more and stronger bridges into our community and redouble our efforts to center marginalized voices and co-create change in partnership with our investees.

To sustain our organization and lead the strategy collaboration, our board engaged our talented associate director and operations director to step into interim roles. Our new executive director will join us in the completion of our plan for the future and lead its translation into action and greater impact for our community.

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OUR NUMBERS TODAY

1 Associate Director1 Operations Director

18-year History60+ Investees

100 Partners1,938 Youth Served*

$370,000 Budget

24% revenue from corporate partners66% revenue from individual partners

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*through 2019