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About the Role

The Strategic Initiatives Director will build Tipping Point's newest funding strategies from the ground up, recommending what to fund, fostering collaboration among external partners, and reporting on outcomes. This high-level individual contributor role drives strategy and external partnerships through influence, leading to the success of each investment area.

Responsibilities

Translate investment area theories into executable plans with timelines, milestones, budgets, and decision rights, adapting plans based on incoming evidence.
Build systems and drive day-to-day execution for investment areas, managing budgets, consultants, and research partners in collaboration with Program Operations, Senior Program Officers, and the Policy Director.
Identify aligned projects and organizations, conduct due diligence, and propose new investments to the Board in collaboration with Senior Program Officers and the Policy Director.
Assess potential new investment areas and develop initial plans for approved concepts, outlining early partners, key learning questions, and necessary evidence.
Serve as project lead for The Critical Decade and Sector-Focused Pathways investment areas, building alignment and driving workstreams, dependencies, and decision points across internal teams.
Convene and lead working groups for each investment area, setting agendas, surfacing decisions, and ensuring follow-through.
Prepare analysis and materials for Chief Program Officer review, program committee engagement, and Board approval, maintaining accessible documentation.
Serve as the primary internal and external point person for each investment area, using problem-solving and consensus-building to align partners with differing incentives.
Build and sustain external relationships with public systems and employers/industry associations.
Manage relationships with peers and co-funders, identifying opportunities for aligned investment.
Collaborate with the Research + Innovation Director to ensure grantmaking produces answers and outcomes.
Maintain processes that use early-stage indicators to inform investment decisions.
Commission field assessments and analysis, converting findings into technical assistance and investment decisions.
Communicate strategy, progress, and impact to leadership, the Board, supporters, and external audiences.
Serve as the program team's point person for funder relationships connected to new investment areas.
Structure investments to leverage public and employer funding and pursue long-term sustainability.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Significant relevant work experience and a proven track record of building initiatives from concept through execution.
Experience designing new approaches when existing models do not fit and testing them before scaling.
Knowledge of or experience in Bay Area nonprofits, public systems, and systems change; preference for knowledge of or experience in Santa Clara County.
Expertise in workforce development, education, or housing; experience at the intersection of two or more is strongly preferred.
Exceptional project management skills, including experience driving complex, multi-workstream strategies with many contributors and external partners.
Ability to self-direct and prioritize among competing goals.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional or cross-organizational strategies by building trust and alignment.
Experience building and managing employer or industry partnerships, or ability to establish credibility with private-sector partners.
Comfort with ambiguity paired with strong analytical skills.
Ability to act on incomplete evidence, absorb new domains quickly, work fluently with labor market and outcomes data, and adjust course as new information emerges.
Strategic communication skills, with the ability to translate complex work for varied audiences and build alignment.
Commitment to Tipping Point's mission and values.
Ability to operate with the highest degree of integrity in representing the organization.
Regular travel within the Bay Area, with a concentration in Santa Clara County.
Occasional travel to Sacramento and national convenings.

Skills

Flexibility
Exceptional communication skills
Ability to work well on a team
Ability to continuously problem solve
Influence
Strategy development
External partnership building
Project management
Cross-functional leadership
Consensus building
Analytical skills
Strategic communication
Problem solving
Teamwork

Location

Bay Area
Santa Clara County

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Individual contributor
Significant relevant work experience

Salary/Compensations

$193,000

About the Company

Tipping Point finds, funds, and strengthens the most promising poverty-fighting solutions so one day everyone in the Bay Area can prosper.
Since 2005, Tipping Point has invested $510 million in the community to support organizations, advance policies, and develop new ideas to increase economic opportunity.
Last year, our investments funded life-changing services in housing, early childhood, education, and employment for more than 100,000 of our neighbors across the Bay Area.
Tipping Point’s core values are community, gratitude, accountability, and relentless pursuit of equity.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company.
We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Tipping Point will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Tipping Point accepts applications on a rolling basis; if the position is still posted on our website, we are still accepting and giving equal consideration to applications.