Director, TechSoup Global Network (Regular, Full Time, Exempt)
Are you passionate about using technology for social change? Want to make a difference in the world? Have great leadership skills, but not afraid to roll up your sleeves to make it real? Been thinking about starting your own nonprofit? If so, we may have the job of a lifetime!
Who We Are:
TechSoup Global is a nonprofit organization that provides technology resources and knowledge to NGOs around the world.
Since 2006, we’ve been expanding our reach globally through a network of partner NGOs that share our mission and values. We have developed a social franchise model where we provide the platform, access to programs, training and support, while our partners provide localization and direct community engagement. Since 2006, we have expanded to 35 countries and we continue to grow. Starting with a rich set of TechSoup resources, we work with our in-country partners to meet the technology needs of the local NGO community.
We offer a competitive nonprofit compensation package that includes full benefits.
Position Summary:
As Director of the TechSoup Global Network (TSGN), you will have primary responsibility for managing and growing our evolving partner network. You will manage a team in San Francisco, while working closely with TechSoup Global offices in Warsaw and London. You will engage regularly with our global partners (http://www.techsoupglobal.org/countries), as well as donors and other TechSoup Global staff. This position reports into the Senior Director of the TechSoup Global Network, but the Director will also work broadly across the TechSoup Global organization.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collaborate on design and development of new strategies to scale the program and grow our impact
- Ensure effective communications and coordination with distributed team members in Europe and Asia
- Maintain ongoing engagement with TechSoup Global program and enterprise teams
- Contribute to grant proposals and manage grant deliverables to goals
- Manage team to overall performance targets, including impact, income and expense objectives
- Ensure effective project management and execution
- Coach and develop team members
- Guide our partner network program to build capacity, demonstrate and share impact, source and engage new partners
- Identify opportunities to build capacity within partner organizations and across the network
- Help develop a reporting framework that showcases partner initiatives and successes
- Manage the integration of new partners into the network
- Oversee the direction and use of our partner portal
- Encourage contributions and collaboration across the network
Qualifications:
Education and Experience
- Any combination of education and experience providing the required skill and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred - Strong academic background
- Demonstrated excellence in nonprofit and/or for profit leadership roles
- Experience working with strategic partners in collaborative, transparent manner
- Track record of transforming business through technology
- Travel / working abroad / multi-language skills
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge:
- Strong sense of social purpose and demonstrated commitment to community; non-profit, social networking, technology, and/or community building preferred.
- Understand transformative capability of technology
Skills:
- Program design skills as well as operational discipline
- Excellent analytic and problem solving skills
- Excellent people manager
- Solid business / professional skills built through leadership experience
- Diplomacy, teamwork and team building.
Abilities:
- Intellectual curiosity combined with attention to detail
- Culturally aware and adaptable, while remaining focused on results
- Communicate and present effectively, both orally and in writing
- Interact in a persuasive and professional manner with a wide variety of people
- Ability to work well with distributed team members
- Willingness to travel
Application Procedure:
To apply, go here: http://techsoup.theresumator.com/apply/b6H7Gu/Director-TechSoup-Global-Network-Regular-Full-Time-Exempt.html
No phone calls, please.
TechSoup Global is dedicated to creating and supporting an environment of openness, trust, and fun where people's differences are valued and respected and where people of diverse backgrounds participate fully in the organization. We believe that the diverse cultures and perspectives of our staff will help us better serve our clients. TechSoup Global is an equal opportunity organization and will not allow discrimination based upon race, color, creed, religion, sex, marital status, domestic partner status, ancestry, national origin, weight, height, physical or mental handicap, pregnancy, medical condition, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, veteran status, AIDS/HIV status, age, or socioeconomic background.
About TechSoup Global:
TechSoup Global is working towards the day when every nonprofit and social benefit organization on the planet has the technology resources and knowledge it needs to operate at its full potential.
TechSoup Global, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, was founded in 1987 on the belief that technology is a powerful enabler for social change. Since that day, we've assembled a worldwide network of individuals and organizations that share this conviction. This network includes foundations and corporations, governments and NGOs, social entrepreneurs and volunteers. Together, these unlikely allies have developed sustainable, community—driven technology solutions to meet today's most urgent social challenges.
A guiding principle in our work is that NGOs are agents of change, not beneficiaries of aid. Our efforts are focused on creating sustainable communities, in which all participants are contributors, not on the redistribution of resources from the haves to the have‐nots. We believe that all participants have resources that, brought to bear on a problem, can result in real solutions. This currency of contribution underwrites all of our work.
Today, TechSoup Global has 200 employees, an annual operating budget of $27 million, and operates programs in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe through a network of independent, capacity-building NGOs. With support of leading technology companies, including Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, and Symantec, TechSoup Global and its network have reached more than 152,000 organizations, distributed 7.9 million software and hardware product donations, and enabled recipients to save more than US$2.6 billion in IT expenses.
Our other programs include NetSquared, an ambitious global experiment that empowers individuals at the local level to build and share innovative solutions to social problems. Today, the NetSquared community has tremendous reach, with more than 30,000 members and local events in 87 cities around the world.
TechSoup Global combined operations with GuideStar International, a U.K.-registered charity that promotes transparency and civil society organization (CSO) reporting.
In November 2008, the Council on Foundations selected TechSoup Global to design and host an equivalency determination information repository, now known as NGOsource. TechSoup Global was chosen in part because of its extensive international network and proven ability to offer eligibility verification services. In partnership with the Council, we are currently developing this new web-based service.
For more information about TechSoup Global, please visit www.techsoupglobal.org
