Senior Director of National Policy and Coalitions, National Roundtable on Ending Poverty

Strategic Leadership:

• Collaboratively lead the National Roundtable on Ending Poverty: co-develop and execute Goodnation's comprehensive national community-integrated policy strategy to reduce poverty.
• Economic Security Measurement: Lead efforts to develop and implement the American Economic Security Index (AESI)—a national and local affordability measure quantifying the percentage of Americans whose incomes meet essential living costs, adjusted for geography.
• Organize Community Funders: Coordinate a growing network of community funders engaged in federal policy, organizing both the overall coalition and policy-specific Working Groups.
• Aligned Giving: Collaborate with leaders in national community-based power building and federal policy advocacy to create an integrated set of grantmaking options for each policy priority identified by the Working Groups.
• Coordinated Advocacy Efforts: Harness the local power of community foundations to advance high-impact federal policies that expand economic opportunity, strengthen the social safety net, and support families.

Coalition Growth & Engagement:

• Coalition Expansion: Build the coalition to more than 1,000 community foundation members nationwide.
• Member Engagement: Develop and implement strategies to sustain momentum, encourage participation, and foster unity among a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Consensus Building: Facilitate constructive dialogue, identify shared goals, and align priorities across the coalition to drive coordinated action.

Partnership Development:

• Funders: Build and sustain strategic relationships with leading community funders to drive new resources to policy development and adoption.
• Voice: Serve as a visible and credible public voice within the coalition and broader philanthropic space for evidence-based, collaborative anti-poverty initiatives.

Convening:

• National Roundtables: Coordinate with Goodnation staff and the Planning Team to host semi-annual virtual national roundtable convenings.
• Regional and Virtual Engagements: Support year-round programming through webinars, virtual discussions, and regional meetups to strengthen network connections.

Communications:

• Stakeholder Communication: Maintain transparent and frequent communication with coalition members, partners, and funders through newsletters, briefings, and social media.

This role creates positive change by leading a national coalition to develop and implement federal policies that expand economic opportunity, strengthen the social safety net, and support families, with the goal of ending poverty in America through coordinated advocacy and aligned philanthropic giving.

• 5–10 minimum years of experience in philanthropy or the foundation space
• Experience leading or working within funder coalitions at the local, state, or national levels
• Experience in the policy and advocacy spaces, federal, state and/or local
• An entrepreneur who wants to drive scaled social change
• A bridge-builder who thrives in diverse coalition environments
• A communicator who can inspire community funders into action
• Deeply committed to sustainable, equitable, systemic change
• Strong attention to detail in a small team environment

No specific compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the job description.

Goodnation directs philanthropic resources toward projects that can transform communities and address root causes of societal challenges by empowering changemakers and driving meaningful social impact as a trusted fiscal sponsor and innovator, with over $85M deployed to help reform systems, protect the vulnerable, and solve tough challenges through vetted nonprofit organizations and unique initiatives.