Director, Programs (Widening Pathways to Work)
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About The Position
The SHRM Foundation is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm of the world's largest HR professional society, SHRM. The SHRM Foundation mobilizes and equips HR professionals to lead positive social change so that all talent and workplaces can prosper and thrive. The Foundation’s work is organized in three main pools: Widening pathways to work for all, including particularly those without a degree and untapped pools of talent such as people with disabilities, justice-impacted individuals, and military connected people; strengthening and diversifying the HR field, including through scholarships, grants, awards, mentorship, fellowship, and mental health support; and helping employers understand and create the conditions that comprehensively support their workforce by creating mentally healthy environments, ensuring job quality, and addressing wrap-around social barriers that make it harder for employers and employees to thrive together. The Director, Programs is a dynamic and proven senior leader with expertise in workforce development and the future of work who, working from the Foundation’s overarching mission, vision, purpose, strategic plan, and theory of change, develop and execute the Widening Pathways to Work programmatic portfolio through innovation, collaboration, and project impact. The Director, Programs, is responsible for managing a team of staff members and multiple-dedicated independent contractors executing work that centers on the Foundation’s Widening Pathways to Work portfolio, driving skills-first talent strategies that ensure all workers are embraced for their full set of skills, competencies, and aptitudes, regardless of where or how they accumulated them. The Widening Pathways to Work portfolio, currently a $3-5m portfolio annually, centers on mobilizing and equipping HR professionals to embrace untapped pools of talent and activate a skills-first mindset for recruitment and retention to widen pathways to work so that all talent and workplaces prosper and thrive. The PD will articulate and present a comprehensive vision, component parts, and fundable concepts and narratives to achieve a multi-year programmatic impact of impacting 500,000 U.S. employers, and transforming the hiring practices of 100,000 U.S. employers, by 2034. The Director, Programs will be responsible for programmatic leadership within the portfolio, strategy development and articulation, planning and design, metrics and program efficacy, funding narrative development, and relationship and partnership building both inside and outside of SHRM.
