Senior Impact Partner
Department: Multiplier CORE Team
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Remote
Reporting To: Head of Operations & Project Experience
Compensation: $135,000 - $140,000 / year
Description
About the Organization:Multiplier’s mission is to accelerate impact for initiatives focused on protecting and fostering a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world. Growing threats to our planet and its people require holistic solutions, both locally and globally. The projects in our portfolio span a broad array of cross-sector strategies in land and ocean conservation, public health, education and leadership, economic development, clean energy, climate resilience, sustainable food systems, energy efficiency, social and environmental equity, and more. We partner with our portfolio of nearly 50 project teams to provide strategic, operational, and advisory support, helping our projects build capacity, remove barriers, and accelerate their progress towards meaningful environmental and social impact. Position Summary:As a Senior Impact Partner you will hold a crucial position aimed at increasing impact across our diverse and innovative project teams. You bring subject matter expertise in areas such as climate, ocean and land conservation, sustainable food systems, environmental education, and clean energy, and embody a deep commitment to shared learning, partnership, and collective success. Central to Multiplier’s mission, this role requires strategic leadership and an integrated approach to working alongside projects and our central Multiplier CORE team throughout each project’s lifecycle at Multiplier. You will serve as a success coach and partner to project team members, building trust, offering guidance, and supporting their organizational strategy, program development, and growth. You’ll work as part of a team of skilled advisors to provide tailored, coordinated support based on each project’s unique goals and needs. You are a connector and bridge communication between project and CORE team members, sharing updates, surfacing risks, aligning strategies, and ensuring responsive, cross-functional support. Through strong, collaborative relationships, you’ll connect project teams with in-house expertise and resources, create high-quality project experiences, and serve as an expediter to move through challenges and remove barriers to impact. By staying attuned to project news, events, partnerships, you’ll be a vital ally and ambassador for the projects in your portfolio and the missions they serve.Primary Responsibilities
Project Lifecycle Support- Cultivate and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with project teams, facilitating open and effective communication channels to ensure alignment of objectives, timely updates, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Become knowledgeable and stay current on the ongoing programmatic work of project teams, understanding their planned paths to impact and their unique value propositions. Actively seek and find avenues to help drive their success.
- Lead the benchmarking of foundational project needs via Multiplier’s Impact Readiness Survey and connect project teams to Multiplier’s accelerator services. Provide, obtain, and/or recommend skill development and extended support to enhance project outcomes.
- Provide strategic leadership in Multiplier’s organizational approach to project discovery, application, and onboarding processes, contributing to a broader cross-team effort to ensure these experiences are inclusive, mission-aligned, and tailored to meet the unique needs of each project.
- Deliver a personalized onboarding experience for each new project in your portfolio by understanding their unique needs and managing the many moving pieces in collaboration with internal teams to ensure a smooth, well-coordinated, and supportive landing at Multiplier.
- Serve as key support for the successful offboarding of projects from Multiplier.
- Build relationships within Multiplier and the broader startup and nonprofit ecosystems to help project teams access funding, expertise, and networks that can move their mission forward. Promote the project’s impact, growth and success within these ecosystems.
- Promote a culture of inclusivity, innovation and high performance within and between project teams.
- Lead collaboration efforts with cross-functional teams to brainstorm, strategize, and problem solve.
- Foster a culture of feedback and open dialogue by maintaining and iterating feedback mechanisms that support continuous improvement and accelerate project impact.
- Develop and use dashboards and metrics to surface trends across project teams, identify opportunities to strengthen impact, and streamline internal operations for more effective and efficient support.
- Champion a risk-aware culture by proactively identifying project-level and organizational risks and strategically partnering with Multiplier’s Risk Management Committee to ensure timely visibility and coordination.
- Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, proposing and implementing robust solutions to best support project teams in delivering impact.
The Ideal Candidate
You have a growth mindset, experience in startup cultures, and the desire and experience in serving as a copilot alongside high-performing teams on their current startup journeys. You have first-hand knowledge of what it takes to launch, grow and scale impact-driven initiatives, and you have learned from your own successes and failures. You are a natural partner and collaborator and can quickly and easily earn the respect of those around you. You are courageous, committed, empathetic and positive, and lead with integrity, honesty, and resilience. You are highly collaborative and compassionate, and have a consultative approach focused on building trust and relationships. You are comfortable with ambiguity and navigating through uncharted waters and changing tides. You see and bring out the best in everyone, meeting them where they are on their own journeys, and lifting them up to support their own growth and development. You are self-reflective, open, curious, proactive, motivated, and productive. You care deeply about our planet and its people.Qualifications
We know no single person will bring every qualification, and we encourage candidates from a range of backgrounds and experiences to apply.
Consulting & Coaching
- Relevant work experience as a consultant, change leader and/or as a leader, preferably within a client services organization.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, and championing teams during all phases of their startup journey.
- Proven experience in entrepreneurship or nonprofit start-up environments.
- Acute empathy for and understanding of the startup leader journey, ideally with a mission-driven focus.
- Content-area expertise in one or more area of Multiplier’s project portfolio, such as climate, ocean and land conservation, sustainable food systems, environmental education, and clean energy.
- Skill in fostering cross-team communications, engaging effectively with diverse teams, and acting as a bridge between different team cultures and work styles, both within teams and across teams.
- Experience in conflict prevention, facilitation, mediation and negotiation, with a focus on finding common ground.
- Sense of humor and a willingness to be humble and self-reflective.
- Knowledge of change management principles.
- Curiosity and a desire to be professionally challenged with new adventures as part of your daily slate of work.
- Ability to motivate and guide teams through transitions while cultivating inclusive, responsive and supportive cross-team partnerships.
- A finely tuned ability to spot and reduce inefficiencies and remove obstacles before they become barriers.
Workplace, Compensation & Application
Workplace: All employees work from home offices with occasional travel for all-team in-person meetings.Compensation: Multiplier provides a comprehensive compensation package, including competitive salary ($135-140k annual salary), excellent medical and dental benefits, retirement savings, and generous vacation and sick leave policy. How to Apply: To apply, please visit our Applicant Portal. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Priority will be given to applications received on or before Monday, May 26. Please include:
- your resume
- a cover letter in your application materials describing your relevant experience and qualifications.
United States
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