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Join the transformative team at TED's Audacious Project and champion groundbreaking social impact initiatives
Overview
Salary £175000 - £195000
Location New York, NY, USA - Remote
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Expires Expires at anytime
At the heart of innovation and thought leadership, TED is a revered non-profit organization known for sharing ideas that spark change across the globe. TED's Audacious Project, a pioneering collaborative funding effort, aims to catalyze significant social change by empowering social entrepreneurs with the support they need to expand their vision and impact. This is a chance to work at the intersection of inspiration and action, and contribute to a mission that reaches into the realms of Breakthrough Science and Climate Change.
- Directly manage a portfolio of funded organizations, driving their success from proposal to sustainability.
- Collaborate with inspiring social entrepreneurs, guiding them through the Audacious journey.
- Work remotely with the flexibility to be based anywhere, aligning with US time zones for collaboration.
- Engage with diverse issue areas, with a focus on Breakthrough Science and Climate initiatives.
- Experience in managing complex projects and building relationships with stakeholders.
- Strong familiarity with MS Office, Mac programs, Google Suite, Salesforce, and relevant databases.
- Ability to travel both domestically and internationally, at least quarterly, to meet team and portfolio needs.
- Open to candidates worldwide, but US work authorization is not provided.
TED is a non-profit that believes powerful ideas, powerfully presented, move us: to feel something, to think differently, to take action. At TED, we seek to bridge, include, diversify because we truly believe ideas are for everyone. It is important to us to attract individuals from diverse backgrounds who are curious about the world and interested in helping us spread ideas far and wide.
The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding initiative that is unlocking social impact on a grand scale. The Audacious Project seeks a Director for the Portfolio Impact team. This position will help to create and deliver a best-in-class capacity to help funded organizations thrive on the Audacious platform. Our work is in service of Audacious social entrepreneurs and the incredible impact they are making in the world.
The Director of Portfolio Impact will manage relationships with a subset of funded organizations in our portfolio, guiding social entrepreneurs through the Audacious journey – from supporting proposal development and goals setting through grant development, project launch and implementation, and planning for exit and long-term sustainability.
This position will specifically support our Breakthrough Science and Climate organizations, but will oversee a diverse portfolio of organizations across all of our issue areas. While TED’s headquarters are in New York City, this position is fully remote. The candidate can be based anywhere in the world, but this person must be willing to have some daily working hours overlap with US time zones.
Candidates based outside the US will be considered but work authorization in the US cannot be provided. Computer programs to include MS Office, Mac programs, Google Suite, Salesforce, functional related databases. Travel: US and international travel will be required based upon team and portfolio needs and opportunities, at least once per quarter but potentially more frequently.
