Director, Raising Child Care Fund

TSNE • Remote,

61d • $170,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF), a philanthropic fund hosted by the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC), was launched in 2019 to channel philanthropic resources to grassroots organizations that work alongside families, early educators, caregivers, and providers to build power and advance a more equitable child care system. RCCF's Theory of Change centers the voices of those who most rely on and work in child care, especially people who have historically been disenfranchised and excluded from decisions that affect them. RCCF invests in their leadership and organizing, grounded in the belief that those closest to the challenges facing child care must help lead the movement for change. Alongside its grantmaking, RCCF engages funders in learning about grassroots organizing as an essential, historically underfunded strategy for social change and connects organizers with additional funding, resources, and relationships. RCCF has raised nearly $30 million from private foundations. Today, 16 foundations support its work in 19 states and Washington, DC. More than 75% of RCCF's grantee partners are led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The Fund provides unrestricted support, giving grassroots organizations the flexibility to pursue child care-focused organizing and power-building strategies responsive to their communities. ECFC is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE (tsne.org).

Requirements

• Significant leadership experience navigating complex organizations, partnerships, or movements.
• Deep understanding of grassroots organizing, power building, advocacy, and public policy, gained through work in child care or a related field or movement.
• Demonstrated success cultivating philanthropic relationships and securing significant private funding for advocacy, organizing, policy, or movement-building work, with the ability to make a compelling investment case and to build relationships with funders across issue areas and priorities.
• Strong coalition leadership and relational skills, with experience building trust and collaborating with funders, organizers, advocates, community leaders, and other partners.
• Experience with grantmaking, pooled funds, philanthropic collaboratives, and/or collaborative governance, including an understanding of equitable approaches to resourcing state and community organizations that emphasize trust, flexibility, and appropriate reporting expectations.
• Strategic leadership in complex, evolving environments, with the ability to navigate uncertainty, make sound decisions, guide stakeholders through change, and translate strategy into action.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to synthesize learning across partners, communicate with diverse audiences, and articulate the relationship among grassroots organizing, policy change, and meaningful outcomes for children, families, and communities.
• Commitment to ECFC and RCCF's mission and values, including racial equity, shared power, transparency, learning, and respect for the expertise of those closest to the issues RCCF seeks to address.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in child care is valued, but candidates with relevant experience in adjacent areas such as economic justice, worker organizing, immigrant justice, racial or gender justice, the care economy, democracy, or other movements are encouraged to apply.
• Experience creating opportunities for smaller, emerging, or historically underfunded organizations is especially valued.
• The Director will bring imagination to RCCF's next chapter while respecting the relationships and practices that have made the Fund effective.

Responsibilities

• Lead RCCF's grantmaking strategy, including priorities related to geography, organizing capacity, and equitable investment in organizations led by and serving communities most affected by inequities in child care.
• Cultivate trusted relationships with grantee partners and collaborate with RCCF staff and national, state, and local partners to identify opportunities to strengthen grassroots organizing and power building.
• Ensure grantee perspectives meaningfully inform RCCF's strategy and grantmaking, and continue to evolve practices that center transparency, trust, accountability, and the expertise of organizers and community leaders.
• Develop and execute a robust fundraising strategy that sustains RCCF's existing philanthropic partnerships, strengthens its long-term financial sustainability, and expands the Fund's constituency across new funders and sectors.
• Cultivate and steward relationships with current and prospective funders; develop funding opportunities and proposals; and oversee reporting and other funder commitments.
• Lead funder engagement and education to deepen understanding of grassroots organizing and power building as essential strategies for advancing change in child care, of equitable approaches to grantmaking, and of the connections between child care and adjacent movements and issues.
• Steward RCCF's budget and financial resources in partnership with the ECFC Executive Director, TSNE fiscal staff, and RCCF's evolving governance structure, including grant levels and durations, contracts, and the effective deployment of incoming and outgoing funds.
• Work with ECFC leadership, RCCF partners, and the Fund's evolving governance structure to translate strategic priorities into funding and grantmaking decisions and support effective decision-making through periods of change.
• Provide leadership for RCCF staff and consultants by setting clear priorities, assessing capacity needs, and shaping the team and resources needed to support the Fund's strategy.
• Serve as a bridge between philanthropy and grassroots movements, helping funders, organizers, advocates, and other partners understand one another's perspectives and creating opportunities for learning, collaboration, and aligned action.
• Shape RCCF's communications and storytelling to elevate grantee partners' work, demonstrate the impact of sustained investment in organizing, and make a compelling case for philanthropic support.
• Build partnerships with local, state, and national movement and advocacy organizations, and identify opportunities for collaboration across adjacent fields and constituencies.
• Contribute RCCF's experience and perspective to ECFC's broader work through member learning, consultation, convenings, and representation at philanthropic and field gatherings.

Benefits

• Generous Paid-Time-Off (PTO): twelve paid holidays, three weeks of vacation, one week of personal holiday, and ability to accrue up to 487.5 hours of health leave time for benefited staff.
• 80% Employer-paid, offering some $0 deductible Health Insurance through Harvard Pilgrim along with several low-deductible plans
• Low-cost Harvard Pilgrim/Point32Health Dental and Vision.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Health and Dependent Care.
• Employer-paid Life, Long- and Short-Term Disability Insurance.
• Employer-paid Pension and Employee-paid 403b plan through TIAA.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed