Community Impact Officer (CIO)

 

For nearly 100 years, generous individuals and families have
trusted the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to help them make
a lasting, positive impact in their community and in their own and
future generations. Under its strategic commitment, the
Hartford Foundation is poised to move to a greater level of impact
and growth that will enhance our ability to support nonprofits and
other partners to identify and serve community needs. We also seek
to enhance our role as a trusted steward, collaborator, and
innovator.

 

Summary

Under the guidance and supervision of the Senior Community
Impact Officer (SCIO), the Community Impact Officer (CIO) works
collaboratively with internal colleagues, and external community
partners to ensure the Foundation’s grantmaking resources are
effectively invested and monitored to produce positive, sustainable
programming in the Greater Hartford Region.

 

Essential Duties
& Responsibilities

• Contribute to the work of one or more of the
  Foundation’s grantmaking/learning teams;
• Review and analyze grant proposals to assess alignment with
  team strategy negotiate outcomes and provide written
  recommendations to management.
• Monitor assigned grants, track outcomes and partner with
  nonprofits as they implement grant-funded projects or
  programs.
• Participate in team meetings and other activities,
  collaborating on grants and shared activities of the team.
• Contribute to annual planning, budgeting, and monitoring
  activities for various plans and teams.
• Coordinate with community partners and internal colleagues to
  integrate a learning partnership and capacity building agenda into
  the work of Community Impact teams and to provide grantmaking
  support and information about grantmaking activities.

• Maintain broad and in-depth knowledge and understanding of
  needs, concerns, issues, trends, best practices, innovations, and
  values of the community, and the nonprofit, government, business
  and other sectors.
• Review and analyze grant requests in current and emerging areas
  of work, in response to emergency needs or new opportunities, as
  needed.

 

Competencies and Attributes

• Deep commitment to the values of trust-based philanthropy,
  equity, diversity and inclusion and the ability to embed those
  values in all aspects of work.
• Ability to synthesize listening and learning into persuasive
  written rationales for grant recommendations.
• Natural capacity and preference to take organized, structured
  and time-conscious approaches to tasks and work planning.
• Demonstrated communications skills for writing, speaking,
  listening for understanding, presenting and adapting content for a
  range of audiences, and persuading, and influencing.
• Demonstrated project management skills – including coordinating
  internal and external staff, consultant teams, and budgets.
• Knowledge of Greater Hartford, especially Hartford, and the
  disparities in opportunity faced by its residents or of residents
  in a similar metropolitan area.
• Comfort with organizational change and working in an emergent
  strategy environment.
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with grantee
  partners and other community stakeholders.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, empathy and openness to new
  ideas and perspectives on a wide range of topics.
• Proven ability to translate abstract ideas into actionable
  results.
• Solid track record of a collaborative and team-oriented
  approach to project design, implementation and/or grantmaking,
  convenings, and use of other tools to promote strategic
  outcomes.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of program and/or strategy
  evaluation, public policy development and analysis, strategic
  planning and nonprofit management.

 

Education and Experience

Degree requirement can be substituted with equivalent practical
experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in social sciences, public administration,
  public policy or other relevant area or equivalent relevant
  experience combined with educational training.
• Five or more years of experience in nonprofit or public sector,
  in project management or implementation.
• Experience in a role requiring programmatic activities and/or
  critical and strategic thinking related to issues of equity and
  antiracism.

 

 Preferred

• Grantmaking and/or grant writing experience
• Experience managing high volume grant applications through RFP
  and RFQ processes within compressed timelines.
• Knowledge of the Greater Hartford nonprofit community and
  neighborhoods.
• Experience contributing to collaborative, team-oriented
  programs and strategy development.
• Knowledge of outcome-oriented budgetary planning and
  understanding of nonprofit budgeting
• Understanding of the role of the public sector and public
  policy in Connecticut or at the state level in another state.

 

Location and office information:

Hartford, CT; Hybrid schedule that includes in-office work,
remote work and site visits to

community partners throughout the Greater Hartford Region.

 

For more information about the Hartford Foundation for Public
Giving visit:

https://www.hfpg.org/

 

HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER RELYING ON A DIVERSE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR
RESPECTIVE TALENTS TO ACHIEVE OUR MISSION 

 

Any and all offers to applicants are contingent on the
candidate’s completion of a comprehensive background and
reference check to the satisfaction of the Hartford Foundation for
Public Giving.