Managing director Jobs in Fremont, CA

Responsibilities

Strategic leadership and planning

• Lead the execution of Namati’s current multi-year fundraising strategy, ensuring consistent progress on goals and data-informed decision-making.
• In close collaboration with leadership and the RM team, drive the long-term evolution of the fundraising strategy by analyzing internal data, monitoring external trends, and incorporating team learning from across the organization.
• Partner closely with Namati’s finance team to set clear revenue targets, forecast future resource needs and revenue scenarios, and help ensure that Namati is positioned for long-term financial health.
• While maintaining primary focus on Namati’s core fundraising strategy, contribute to long-term sustainability efforts through strategic experimentation. This might include expanding our grassroots donor base through digital fundraising, and serving as the internal counterpart to Namati’s earned revenue consultant.
• Contribute to overall organizational strategy and planning as a member of the senior leadership team.

Team management

Donor cultivation and stewardship

Thought leadership and external representation

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Location and Travel

We’re looking for a successful candidate to be based in the Washington, D.C. metro area. We will also consider applicants from CT, MA, MD, NJ, NY, or VA. Please note that candidates must already be legally eligible to work in the United States to be considered for the role; Namati cannot sponsor visas.

If the successful candidate is based in / near Washington D.C., they will follow Namati’s hybrid office policy, which calls for staff to report to the office two days per week between Tuesday and Thursday.

The role typically requires 15-20% travel, including internationally. Travel requirements may change over time based on evolving priorities. The successful candidate will be expected to work non-standard hours occasionally to accommodate the various time zones of Namati’s teams.

Compensation and Benefits

We base our compensation on the markets where our staff operate and the responsibility, scope, and complexity of the role. Namati’s staff position bands range from 1 (entry level / assistant) to 9 (Managing Director). This position will either be at band 8 (Director) or at band 9 (Managing Director), based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

We base our compensation on the markets where our staff operate. The offer range for this position is likely to fall between $115,000 – $147,500 based on the final job level determined by the responsibility, scope, and complexity of the position; most offers are made in the first half of the offer range. We will discuss salary requirements and potential job banding with candidates early on in the hiring process to ensure alignment in the initial stages.

Namati offers a broad range of benefits, including :

Health insurance :   we pay 80% of the base plan premium for individuals, and 50% for dependents.

Paid time off :  new staff have 12 sick days and 3 personal days, and accrue 15 days of paid vacation (increasing to 20 after two years). Namati closes its offices organization-wide for “winter break” from December 25 to January 1. Additionally, we provide six weeks of paid parental leave.

401(k) retirement planning :  Namati contributes 5% of your salary plus matches your contribution up to an additional 5%.

Professional development :  we value – and set aside a professional development fund toward – staff having access to external professional development opportunities.

How to Apply

Please apply by completing our online application form. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, and the position will be open until filled.

No phone calls, please. Namati is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Namati

Since 2011, Namati has worked to build a movement of grassroots justice advocates worldwide. We’ve grown tremendously, from a small founding group of big-hearted change-makers to a global staff of 180+ people across 12 time zones in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The Grassroots Justice Network, which we co-founded and still convene to this day, has grown from 30 people in one room to the world’s largest community of justice advocates, with membership from 4,200 organizations across 175 countries.

Since our founding, we have supported local communities to take on thousands of justice issues, directly improving the lives of over 5 million people, protecting over 3 million acres of forests and grasslands, and strengthening rights for over 155 million people. Together with communities, partners, and Network members, we’ve envisioned – and won- transformative changes, like the Customary Land Rights and National Land Commission Acts of Sierra Leone, and the world’s first Legal Empowerment Fund.

About Resource Mobilization

Alongside the growth in our ambition and impact, Namati’s budget has increased, on average, by 18% per year — from $5M to more than $15M in ten years. Our donor base has grown from 3 founding partners to over 40 bilateral and philanthropic funding partners. Major recent investments include an unrestricted award from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, and an 8-year, $20M award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation through the Racial Equity 2030 competition. Many of our funding partners remain with us for the long haul. We are particularly proud that two longtime supporters, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation, went on to support the Legal Empowerment Fund, with an aim to mobilize $100M to support grassroots justice.

At the heart of our fundraising track record is our commitment to bold, inspired action as fundraisers : fundraising is organizing. Namati’s Resource Mobilization team does not take a transactional approach to fundraising; instead, we form relationships with funding partners committed not only to our organization, but to the entire legal empowerment movement. We strive to build and steward expansive, long-term, and high-level funding partnerships that match the ambitious scale of our vision.

This kind of fundraising requires a team of aligned, courageous, and strategic connectors who understand where Namati is uniquely placed to make a difference, who can learn continually from our work – and the work of our network and collaborators – to identify promising opportunities, and to create new ones.