Title: Director of Programs & Evaluation

Reports To: president & CEO

Marguerite Casey Foundation seeks to strengthen the voices of low-income families across the United States by engaging parents in efforts to improve their lives and their communities. The Foundation enhances the effectiveness and collective capacity of community-based organizations advocating for social change, and it is committed to connecting these organizations and their diverse constituencies within and across regions and disciplines for movement building.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the Foundation was created by Casey Family Programs in 2001 to help expand its outreach and further develop its 40-year record of leadership in family well-being. .

Overview
The Director of Programs & Evaluation oversees the Foundation’s programs, evaluation and organizational learning activities, including the implementation of the Foundation’s grantmaking strategies. As a member of the Leadership Team, the Director of Programs & Evaluation reports directly to the President & CEO, and together with the Director of Finance & Administration and Human Resources Manager, she/he nurtures the Foundation as a learning organization, guides the staff, and positions the Foundation as a nimble grantmaker accountable to the communities that it serves.

Nature and Scope of Position

• This is a full-time, exempt position, requiring workweeks in excess of 40 hours and frequent travel.
• The Director of Programs & Evaluation is responsible for directing and overseeing the work and priorities of the Programs & Evaluation Team, including staff development and measuring grants impact and outcomes.
• The Director of Programs & Evaluation collaborates closely with other members of the Leadership Team, and cultivates the integration of work within and across other work groups. She/he also works cooperatively with external consultants.
• The Director of Programs & Evaluation helps to shape and support the programmatic direction set by the President & CEO and ensures alignment and accountability within his/her work group with Foundation protocols.
• The Director of Programs & Evaluation represents the Foundation and upholds the highest ethical standards of integrity, fairness, and confidentiality as a colleague and grantmaker.
  

Principal Responsibilities
 
1. Assist the President & CEO in formulating and reviewing grantmaking goals, strategies, and protocols. Specifically, she/he is expected to:

• Ensure that the Foundation’s grants program is in compliance with all Board-approved policies and guidelines.
• Oversee, with the President & CEO, the fiscal management of the grants and administrative processes, as well as payment of the grants in compliance with federal and state tax regulations and Foundation requirements.
• Translate into action, with the President & CEO, the vision, mission and grantmaking goals set by the Board of Directors.
  

2. Develop and oversee administration of grant evaluation processes. Specifically, she/he is expected to:

• Manage internal procedures to assess and measure grant outcomes and outputs.
• Advise the President & CEO and staff on methods of program evaluation that is accountable to community.

3. Collaborate with the President & CEO to share lessons learned by the Foundation with the rest of the organization. Specifically, she/he is expected to:

• Coordinate site visits and other engagement opportunities for the Board and staff to learn from the work of the Foundation's grantees and key leaders in the field.
• Increase the Foundation's internal expertise through the staff's active participation in philanthropic circles and other collegial learning opportunities.

4. Assist the president & CEO in developing a knowledge management strategy and the cultivation of a learning organization. Specifically, she/he is expected to:

• Maintain positive, respectful, and transparent relationships with grantees, Board members, staff, and other constituencies.
• Provide regular written communication to the Board of Directors, through the president & CEO, keeping all Directors updated on the strategies and lessons learned from the work of the Foundation.
• Make presentations at public meetings and Foundation-sponsored events, and pen articles for publication about the work of the Foundation and its grantees, as appropriate.
  

Required Qualifications

• Highly developed community service orientation, non-profit engagement, and awareness of race, class and poverty analysis.
• Familiarity with effective small and large scale advocacy, public policy and community mobilization efforts.
• Proven execution of best practices in philanthropy, especially in the areas of ethical and accountable protocols.
• Minimum of eight (8) years senior management roles and direct experience managing and monitoring a budget.
• Proven ability to lead and guide a multicultural workforce, including sensitivity and competency in working with individuals and groups of diverse cultural, socioeconomic, spiritual, and lifestyle backgrounds.
• Proven ability to create and foster teamwork in a diverse environment.
  Ability to work under pressure and stressful circumstances with grace and a positive, proactive, can-do attitude.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external audiences.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying and collaboratively resolving complex and sensitive situations in a fast-paced, rapid growth, and changing environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including public speaking.
• Demonstrated experience making presentations to diverse audiences, large and small.
• Graduate degree in Public Health, Education, Political Science, Public Administration, Nonprofit Management, or a relevant discipline, with 10+ years experience in advocacy, program and policy development.
  

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to speak or understand another language/s in addition to English.
• Experience developing curriculum for programs in a variety of environments.

Interested and qualified persons are encouraged to send a resume and cover letter by February 15, 2007 to Mike Wagner, HR consultant for Marguerite Casey Foundation, at mj_wagner@comcast.net. Marguerite Casey Foundation is an EOE moving toward a culturally competent and diverse workplace.

Open until filled.