Director, AI Opportunity

Responsibilities

Strategy Momentum and Progress

• Oversee the design and development of grantmaking strategies.
• Understand the impact, progress, interactions and relationships of individual grants.
• Monitor and evaluate progress of work to ensure grantmaking, team, and Foundation goals are met and modify strategies to ensure achievement of goals.
• Identify and develop strategic initiatives that respond in a timely way to special opportunities or critical challenges that emerge.
• Connect the dots, translate ideas into action, and guide long-term strategy with humility and clarity.
• Coordinate with Humanity AI and TPI to ensure alignment of intent and coherence of execution.

Field Leadership

• Make prepared remarks and participate on panels and media interviews as well as publish papers, articles, and/or opinion pieces.
• Participate in task forces and working groups and collaborate with other funders on shared interests and challenges.
• Align with leaders of Humanity AI and TPI on coordinated thought leadership, messaging, and engagement.

Staff Management and Motivation

• Design and build a team fit to purpose while fostering a positive culture and environment of collaboration, learning, and progress towards shared goals.
• Hold space as a manager and embrace the support of team members’ personal and professional growth as a shared responsibility across the organization.
• Instill a sense of leadership and accountability among team members by carefully monitoring individual and team performance standards.
• Co-create opportunities for the team in alignment with the Foundation’s values and in relationship with the communities we seek to walk alongside while adhering to performance standards and Foundation values.

Program Leadership

• Seek and manage external partnerships to enhance impact, and internal cross-area and inter-program synergies.
• Find opportunities for continuous program and process improvement.
• Identify and develop collaborative relationships with public and private partners and build local, regional, and national relationships.

Internal Collaboration

• Participate in multiple internal collaborative relationships; join Team Leader meetings, develop learning questions and an evaluation framework together with our Evaluation colleagues, and collaborate with Communications.

Process Management

• Oversee active grants, prepare and submit process management tools and documents ensuring to adhere to deadlines.
• Write grant briefs as well as review and edit grant briefs written by the team, maintaining objectivity, demand rigor in thinking, ensuring that strategy documents are well written and comply with Foundation standards.
• Maintain effective and transparent communication with grantees regarding progress and challenges in executing their work.

Skillset

• Apply your fluency in AI to fund work that shapes how these technologies might expand access to good jobs and economic mobility, particularly in the Foundation’s home city of Chicago.