What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Families & Communities position at packard?
About The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Founded in 1964 by David and Lucile Packard, the Packard Foundation is a family philanthropy dedicated to supporting leaders and organizations around the world working to invest in children and families, protect and restore the natural world, and create just and inclusive societies.
For more than six decades, the Foundation has advanced scientific innovation, championed reproductive health and rights, conserved and restored our natural world, and invested in the well-being of children and families. To achieve lasting change, we also strive to address root causes of longstanding problems, including building a thriving, resilient U.S. democracy; advancing racial justice in the United States and gender equity globally; and supporting a strong civil society around the globe.
Inclusive collaboration is the heart of our approach. We believe that actively listening to and learning from people with a wide range of views is the best way to create solutions that match the scale and urgency of the challenges we face. We are dedicated to supporting community-based solutions shaped by the knowledge and experience of the people whose lives are most affected and informed by data. We recognize that meaningful solutions require patience, urgency, and supporting the conditions for transformational change. We are committed to addressing complex issues over the long term while making tangible progress today.
Our Vision: A just and equitable world where both people and nature flourish.
Our Mission: We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Our Values: Equity, Integrity, Belief in Individual Leadership, Thinking Big, Respect, and Effectiveness
For more information, including our definitions of key concepts, please visit our website.
Purpose of the Position
The Vice President, Families and Communities (F&C) leads a Goal area comprised of investments at community, systems and policy levels, aimed at enduring solutions so that communities are strong, resilient places where everyone can thrive, and families have agency and power to shape their lives. The California Communities and Children & Families Initiatives are in the second year of implementing 10-year strategies approved by the Board of Trustees. The Vice President will oversee and manage an estimated grantmaking budget of $65M and a team of 17. Their five direct reports include three Directors -- California Communities; Children and Families; and National Policy – as well as the Evaluation and Learning Officer, F&C; and the Goal area Operations Manager.
Reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Vice President, F&C will work closely with the Vice Presidents of the Foundation’s two other Goals: Just Societies and Environment and Science. Together, with the CEO and other members of the Executive Team, the Vice President, F&C will ensure a collaborative and effective approach to grantmaking with attention to impact across the Foundation.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The Vice President is responsible and accountable for:
Organizational Leadership & Team Management
Serve as a member of the Foundation's Executive Team, responsible for developing and upholding institutional policies, providing input into a broad range of cross-Foundation decision making and practices and representing F&C strategies and impact to Trustees.
Collaborate with senior leaders to execute on the Foundation’s strategic direction with an eye
to its mission, vision, and values. Specifically, partner closely with fellow Vice Presidents of Just Societies and Environment and Science to drive collaboration, generate new ideas, and support the strategic direction of the Foundation.
Attract, develop, coach, retain, inspire and empower high-performing, deeply knowledgeable team members.
Cultivate a climate of diversity, equity, inclusion, innovation, and collaboration within the F&C team and across the Foundation.
Grantmaking Strategy, Evaluation, and Learning
Oversee strategy evolution and development, and grantmaking for F&C, including review of grantmaking decisions made by Goal initiatives and approval of grants per the Foundation’s guidelines.
Provide ongoing support and strategic thought partnership to Initiative Directors, to guide strategy implementation and assess progress towards intended impact.
In collaboration with initiative colleagues and F&C’s Evaluation and Learning Officer:
Set learning and evaluation goals, oversee data collection, and uphold culture and practice of learning and reflection to inform grantmaking decision making.
Develop a knowledge management approach that ensures maximum sharing of information and learning.
Field Leadership
Effectively represent the Foundation and F&C to all external audiences including nonprofit, governmental and private sector leaders, elected officials, academics, collaboratives and journalists.
Help to achieve the initiative goals through outreach and direct engagement with individuals and organizations to promote change, collaborate, create strategic partnerships.
Provide external leadership in the field through writing/publications, events and convenings, collaboration, and thought leadership.
Founded in 1964 by David and Lucile Packard, the Packard Foundation is a family philanthropy dedicated to supporting leaders and organizations around the world working to invest in children and families, protect and restore the natural world, and create just and inclusive societies.
For more than six decades, the Foundation has advanced scientific innovation, championed reproductive health and rights, conserved and restored our natural world, and invested in the well-being of children and families. To achieve lasting change, we also strive to address root causes of longstanding problems, including building a thriving, resilient U.S. democracy; advancing racial justice in the United States and gender equity globally; and supporting a strong civil society around the globe.
Inclusive collaboration is the heart of our approach. We believe that actively listening to and learning from people with a wide range of views is the best way to create solutions that match the scale and urgency of the challenges we face. We are dedicated to supporting community-based solutions shaped by the knowledge and experience of the people whose lives are most affected and informed by data. We recognize that meaningful solutions require patience, urgency, and supporting the conditions for transformational change. We are committed to addressing complex issues over the long term while making tangible progress today.
Our Vision: A just and equitable world where both people and nature flourish.
Our Mission: We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Our Values: Equity, Integrity, Belief in Individual Leadership, Thinking Big, Respect, and Effectiveness
For more information, including our definitions of key concepts, please visit our website.
Purpose of the Position
The Vice President, Families and Communities (F&C) leads a Goal area comprised of investments at community, systems and policy levels, aimed at enduring solutions so that communities are strong, resilient places where everyone can thrive, and families have agency and power to shape their lives. The California Communities and Children & Families Initiatives are in the second year of implementing 10-year strategies approved by the Board of Trustees. The Vice President will oversee and manage an estimated grantmaking budget of $65M and a team of 17. Their five direct reports include three Directors -- California Communities; Children and Families; and National Policy – as well as the Evaluation and Learning Officer, F&C; and the Goal area Operations Manager.
Reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Vice President, F&C will work closely with the Vice Presidents of the Foundation’s two other Goals: Just Societies and Environment and Science. Together, with the CEO and other members of the Executive Team, the Vice President, F&C will ensure a collaborative and effective approach to grantmaking with attention to impact across the Foundation.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The Vice President is responsible and accountable for:
Organizational Leadership & Team Management
Serve as a member of the Foundation's Executive Team, responsible for developing and upholding institutional policies, providing input into a broad range of cross-Foundation decision making and practices and representing F&C strategies and impact to Trustees.
Collaborate with senior leaders to execute on the Foundation’s strategic direction with an eye
to its mission, vision, and values. Specifically, partner closely with fellow Vice Presidents of Just Societies and Environment and Science to drive collaboration, generate new ideas, and support the strategic direction of the Foundation.
Attract, develop, coach, retain, inspire and empower high-performing, deeply knowledgeable team members.
Cultivate a climate of diversity, equity, inclusion, innovation, and collaboration within the F&C team and across the Foundation.
Grantmaking Strategy, Evaluation, and Learning
Oversee strategy evolution and development, and grantmaking for F&C, including review of grantmaking decisions made by Goal initiatives and approval of grants per the Foundation’s guidelines.
Provide ongoing support and strategic thought partnership to Initiative Directors, to guide strategy implementation and assess progress towards intended impact.
In collaboration with initiative colleagues and F&C’s Evaluation and Learning Officer:
Set learning and evaluation goals, oversee data collection, and uphold culture and practice of learning and reflection to inform grantmaking decision making.
Develop a knowledge management approach that ensures maximum sharing of information and learning.
Field Leadership
Effectively represent the Foundation and F&C to all external audiences including nonprofit, governmental and private sector leaders, elected officials, academics, collaboratives and journalists.
Help to achieve the initiative goals through outreach and direct engagement with individuals and organizations to promote change, collaborate, create strategic partnerships.
Provide external leadership in the field through writing/publications, events and convenings, collaboration, and thought leadership.