Employment alert
Jul 23, 2010

American Philanthropic is a growing, comprehensive management, development, and communications consulting and services firm with personnel located in the Seattle, Phoenix, and Philadelphia areas. American Philanthropic works with charitable foundations and nonprofits to strengthen civil society—those nongovernmental, non-market-based associations and organizations which are vital to the health of our democracy. More information is available at www.americanphilanthropic.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As an American Philanthropic senior consultant, you will be responsible for overseeing and executing multiple ongoing client projects and for helping to manage client relations. And you will work with other members of the American Philanthropic staff and with contractors to ensure that the firm meets a high standard of excellence in serving its clients and fulfilling its obligations. The sort of work in which you may be engaged includes:

• helping to create strategic, development, marketing, and institutional-advancement plans;
• writing grant proposals, solicitation letters, and other documents;
• performing development-related research;
• editing and other communications-related tasks;
• representing the firm at client meetings, conferences, seminars, and other events;
• building relationships of trust with key members of the philanthropic community;
• assisting with the performance of various administrative tasks.
• consulting continuously with clients—both personally and via e-mail, conference calls, etc.—on a wide range of management, development, and communications projects and issues in order to help them meet their goals.

At least initially, you will work from your home office, which preferably would be located on the east coast between Boston and Washington, D.C., with the expectation of some travel. You will report directly to the firm’s partners.

QUALIFICATIONS:

You should possess a bachelor’s degree (or higher) and have at least three years of experience working in development, marketing, communications, publishing, or institutional advancement for a nonprofit organization. More importantly, you should have a portfolio that demonstrates keen intelligence, success in managing multiple projects simultaneously, a high degree of personal initiative and conscientiousness, and superb interpersonal skills. Specialized knowledge and skills pertaining to management, development, institutional advancement, communications, and/or publishing is preferable, but not required.

You must be an excellent writer, a fast learner, and a self-starter who accomplishes tasks and makes consistent progress on projects with minimal supervision. You must take personal ownership of projects and be passionate about helping clients succeed. Ideally, you will be a generalist who can adapt quickly to new situations and bring intellectual order out of ambiguous and opaque information environments.

In addition, you should be able to demonstrate considerable facility with contemporary American political, cultural, sociological, and economic discourse, especially as those realms of thinking impinge upon civil society. You must be able to demonstrate a strong commitment to the American Philanthropic mission of strengthening society’s “little platoons”—the independent mediating institutions and voluntary associations that constitute civil society and are vital to human flourishing. And you should be enthusiastic about the opportunity to help build a fast-growing consulting and services firm into a major force in American philanthropy.

COMPENSATION:

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Send cover letter and resume to:  info@americanphilanthropic.com