Senior Manager, Project Discovery & Transitions

Multiplier•San Francisco, CA

12h•$131,000 - $132,000•Remote

About The Position

Multiplier’s mission is to accelerate impact for initiatives focused on protecting and fostering a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world. Growing threats to our planet and its people require holistic solutions, both locally and globally. The projects in our portfolio span a broad array of cross-sector strategies in land and ocean conservation, public health, education and leadership, economic development, clean energy, climate resilience, sustainable food systems, energy efficiency, social and environmental equity, and more. With $150 million in revenue and approximately 150 employees in 2025, Multiplier is a high-performance, rapidly growing organization. To support this growth, we are seeking a colleague to join our Impact Partnerships & Operations team in the position of Senior Manager, Project Discovery & Transitions and we are poised to hire immediately. This role leads the design, implementation, and continuous evolution of Multiplier’s project pipeline discovery, approval, post-approval/pre-arrival, and departure systems, ensuring they reflect the organization’s values, and position project teams for long-term success. The Senior Manager ensures that the right Core Team members are engaged at the right moments, creating a more coordinated, efficient, and insight-rich set of processes and engagement strategies that strengthen transparency and decision-making for prospective new project teams and Multiplier’s Core Team. As the first contact for Project Teams exploring a potential new home at Multiplier, the Senior Manager, Project Discovery and Transitions build trusted relationships with mission-driven leaders and teams, stewarding them through the inquiry and discovery period, while synthesizing strategic, operational and risk considerations into clear, decision-ready pathways. This role translates early-stage engagement into structured insight, enabling aligned, timely, and well-informed decisions across the organization. As new projects join Multiplier, the Senior Manager, Project Discovery and Transitions also stewards projects through the pre-arrival phase, orchestrating a high-touch, cross-functional landing process that ensures clarity, alignment, and readiness for success. Once projects land at Multiplier, the Senior Manager partners closely with Senior Impact Partners, Program Finance Officers, and other Core Team Members to incrementally expand ongoing relationship stewardship based on each project’s specific priority needs, ensuring continuity of trust and shared understanding. At the conclusion of a project’s lifecycle, the Senior Manager again steps into the lead for departure planning, guiding project teams through complex exits, including transitions to independent entities, and closures, with care, clarity, and attentive institutional stewardship. Operating as a primary external representative of Multiplier, this role shapes first and last impressions of the organization. The Senior Manager balances warmth and relationship-building with disciplined assessment, ensuring that each interaction strengthens trust while protecting organizational integrity. This role requires executive presence, systems thinking, and sound judgment. The Senior Manager operates at the intersection of strategy and stewardship, translating organizational priorities into clear processes that evolve alongside the ever-changing project pipeline.

Requirements

Stakeholder Stewardship & Early-Stage Partnership Development: Demonstrated ability to build trust with external leaders and organizations at early stages of engagement. Skilled in guiding conversations around alignment, readiness, and fit, while representing organizational values with clarity and credibility.
Presence & Relationship-Building: Ability to engage confidently with senior leaders, facilitate nuanced and sometimes sensitive conversations, and navigate complexity with care. Approach values-driven conversations with steadiness, even when faced with ambiguity.
Sound Judgment & Decision-Making: Ability to synthesize inputs from multiple stakeholders, surface key considerations, risks and tradeoffs, and guide clear, timely decisions.
Organizational & Systems Thinking: Demonstrated ability to design, interpret, and evolve systems that connect strategy, operations, and stakeholder experience.
Nonprofit & Compliance Knowledge: Working knowledge of 501(c)(3) nonprofit structures, rules and regulations.
Equity & Bias-Awareness: Demonstrated ability to design and apply processes that reduce bias, expand access, and support equitable participation in decision-making.
Complex Process & Transition Management: Experience leading multi-step, multi-stakeholder processes such as organizational transitions, or similarly complex workflows requiring coordination, judgment, and adaptability.
Facilitation & Collaboration: Skilled in guiding discussion, synthesizing perspectives, and communication clearly across audiences, including in high-stakes or sensitive situations.
Project Management & Organization: Strong organizational and documentation skills across multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary guide for prospective Project Teams, creating a transparent, trust-centered discovery experience that reflects Multiplier’s values.
Communicate Multiplier’s model, services, expectations, and decision criteria with clarity and consistency, supporting informed and equitable participation in the discovery process.
Design and lead discovery engagements that surface key considerations related to mission alignment, feasibility, organizational readiness, and risk.
Facilitate or co-facilitate conversations using structured guides while navigating nuance and building trust.
Identify and surface key considerations related to mission alignment, feasibility, leadership readiness, and risk and determine when and how to engage Core Team member expertise.
Synthesize insights from discovery into clear, decision-ready summaries that reflect strategic, operational, equity, and risk considerations.
Lead internal alignment conversations to surface tradeoffs, clarify perspectives, and support well-informed, timely decisions.
Communicate decisions with clarity and care, maintaining transparency throughout the full inquiry process.
Lead qualification and due diligence processes, establishing clear expectations, timelines, and information flows for both Project Teams and Core Team members.
Guide the collection and synthesis of key information, including leadership, funding, project structure, staffing, and operational complexity.
Identify structural complexities early (e.g. international operations, staffing models, compliance considerations), assessing implications in partnership with relevant Core Team functional leads.
Apply consistent, bias-aware criteria to support evaluation of project readiness and alignment.
Ensure documentation is complete, accurate and structured to support organization record-keeping and transparent decision-making. Decisions are separately owned by Core Team leadership.
Provide relevant context-driven information to engaged stakeholders, ensuring clarity, relevance and framing of risks and opportunities.
Lead the post-approval/pre-arrival phase for new Project Teams, establishing clear pathways from acceptance through full arrival into Multiplier.
Design and manage post-approval/pre-arrival approaches that reflect project complexity, risk profile, and team needs, ensuring a tailored yet consistent experience.
Align Core Team members around roles, responsibilities, and sequencing, enabling coordinated and efficient post-approval/pre-arrival phase support.
Ensure the timely and efficient coordination of transition components including funding transfers, staffing, contracts, technology, and asset transfers. Monitor milestones and escalate delays or concerns as needed.
Identify and address friction points, facilitating solutions that balance project needs with organizational requirements.
Serve as the primary point of contact for Project Teams during the post-approval/pre-arrival phase, maintaining alignment between expectations and operational realities.
Once projects land at Multiplier, the Senior Manager partners closely with Senior Impact Partners, Program Finance Officers, and other Core Team Members to incrementally expand ongoing relationship stewardship based on each project’s specific priority needs, preserving continuity of trust and shared understanding.
Identify and assess operational, financial, compliance, and reputational risks.
Support risk-informed decision-making by surfacing key considerations, tradeoffs, and areas of uncertainty in a clear and actionable way.
Determine when to elevate risks, particularly in complex or ambiguous situations, and when to resolve through cross-functional alignment.
Ensure key decisions, agreements, risk considerations, and mitigation approaches are documented to support transparency, accountability, and learning.
Lead structured departure processes, including transitions to independent 501(c)(3) status, and closures.
Guide Project Teams through transitions with care and clarity, maintaining transparency throughout the process.
Align Project Teams and Core Team members around expectations, responsibilities, and timelines for transition.
Ensure all compliance, financial, legal, and operational requirements are met and clearly documented. Approach transitions with an organizational lens, preserving relationships while protecting Multiplier’s integrity and reputation.
Identify and document patterns across inquiries and project experiences to inform improvements to the pipeline strategy and discovery processes.
Continually improve systems for tracking discovery, partnership finalization, and transition. Ensure that improvements include increasing transparency, reinforcing consistency, and improving usability across Project Teams and Multiplier’s Core Team.
Identify points of friction, bias, or misalignment and implement changes that improve clarity, access, and efficiency.
Maintain cross-functional visibility into pipeline trends and transition outcomes, contributing insights that inform organizational strategy, resource allocation, and process refinement.
Partner with internal teams to strengthen early-stage clarity through shared tools and practices.
Partner across the Core Team to refine shared tools, practices, and expectations that support a coherent, trust-centered approach across all areas of responsibility.