Available Positions

Are you a rockstar? We are looking for a teammate who is passionate about engaging and growing our digital community, inspiring and mobilizing media entrepreneurs who produce critical news and information for underserved communities, and increasing our donor base.

You will be focused on executing our digital strategy including email marketing, social media, blog management, event support, and content generation. The perfect candidate for this position is highly collaborative, nimble, eager to learn, and loves to create innovative communication campaigns. The role is part of a six-person team and is a key position in upholding The Pivot Fund brand and is fully remote. 

You’ll be a great Communications Manager for The Pivot Fund if you:

• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Have experience creating and managing inspiring social media campaigns
• Are a clear and concise copywriter with a knack for boiling things down to important, digestible points
• Are familiar with WordPress and love working with a well-organized website that publishes compelling content regularly
• Are a self-starter who thrives when working with remote teams
• Love helping people, are interested in the business of journalism, fighting mis/disinformation, strengthening community journalism as well as the broader media ecosystem 

Responsibilities of this position include, but will not be limited to:

• Community engagement: You will be responsible for engaging audiences across social media channels while creating and curating relevant content that speaks to our community and to the hot topics of the moment. Tasks can include writing posts for social media and the blog, searching for images and videos, preparing and executing campaigns, monitoring social channels, and coordinating across teams to identify new topics and appropriate reactions.
• Digital Marketing: You will collaborate on a diverse range of communication projects and tasks, such as blog post creation and editorial support as well as general website content updates, email marketing, collateral design, and more.
• Events: You will ensure digital events are executed flawlessly by supporting event logistics and coordination. Tasks include uploading information on Eventbrite, promoting events on social media and via email, and general support.
• Design: You will be the gatekeeper of our editorial and visual design guidelines for social media and digital collateral. You will create digital content using Canva templates with an eye for detail. There is also room to propose and create innovative and modern new designs to keep up with trends and share inspiring content!

We are looking for someone who:

• Can demonstrate success in key responsibilities highlighted above.
• Has a minimum of one year of experience in a digital marketing role; experience in digital advocacy and/or fundraising is a plus.
• Has a sense of humor and creative spirit!
• Has experience with basic design principles and digital collateral production standards.
• Enjoys communicating proactively to keep everyone on time—driving deadlines, creating schedules, and managing projects with ease comes naturally while also being able to adapt and prioritize on the fly!
• Hunts typos and grammatical errors for fun.
• Enjoys team projects and brings an open and positive outlook to collaborative environments.

Bonus points if you also have:

• Design experience with software including Adobe Creative Cloud and Canva
• Experience and agility with video editing
• Experience and/or interest in SEO and Google Ads

Equal Employment Statement:

The Pivot Fund is focused on making positive change in the world and supports diversity. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, multi-lingual and -cultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. The Pivot Fund provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.

About The Pivot Fund

At The Pivot Fund, our purpose is what drives us.

The Pivot Fund disrupts and reimagines the journalism industry, ensuring equity for BIPOC-led community organizations and the BIPOC communities they serve. Since the journalism industry is far from BIPOC–led, a fund that is BIPOC-owned and led is crucial. The Pivot Fund helps fight disinformation that disproportionately affects people of color by investing in trusted, culturally competent news outlets. The organizations The Pivot Fund supports do not just write about BIPOC communities; they write for them.

When BIPOC-led community news organizations can reach their communities effectively, our society is more informed and more connected. 

*Job Type: Part-time (or Contract)

The Director of Development, a senior management position, is responsible for leading, planning, developing, and implementing comprehensive strategies to raise individual and institutional donations and investments that support The Pivot Fund’s programs.

The Director of Development has strategic oversight and day-to-day operational responsibilities for directing and managing all aspects of philanthropic giving including special events, annual funds, major gifts, planned giving, corporate giving, and foundation giving. The Director of Development owns the donor engagement cycle, including identification, outreach, cultivation, and stewardship.

The overall responsibility of the Director of Development is to effectively plan and execute strategies and tactics for organizational financial sustainability and growth. The position will lead The Pivot Fund’s fundraising team. 

Position Responsibilities:

• Manages all aspects of the fundraising program.
• Is intimately familiar with long-range development planning, implementation of fundraising campaigns, donor and volunteer relations, marketing, and communications of special events.
• Builds relationships with corporations, foundation, and philanthropists and maintain existing relationships with funders, major donors, and investors
• Manages current grant funders and donors and conducts prospect research and outreach to identify and engage with potential funders for community-driven media.
• Responsible for planning and meeting the department’s revenue and expense budgets.
• Creates/maintains partnerships that open The Pivot Fund to new areas of investment.
• Oversees the development and execution of current and new special events, including fundraising and stewardship events, and increases sponsorships at these events
• Develops income goals for individual solicitations, donor and capital campaigns, events, annual giving, and other campaigns, and engages directly with donors and donor prospects to achieve goals.
• Manages Development team to ensure the successful management, planning, and execution of effective event fundraisers, cultivation of corporate gifts/sponsorships, and timeliness of gift processing, external communications, and mailings.
• Expands fundraising activities, plans, and implements other fundraising initiatives as appropriate.
• Directs and manages all communications on fundraising/campaigns/grant writing proposals
• Ensures that the development database is up to date and appropriately utilized and that gift reporting is accurate.

In addition to these responsibilities, performs other activities as assigned and required.

Qualifications and Skills

• Seven (7) or more years of professional experience with a background in fundraising for nonprofits $8m+
• High level of integrity and commitment to The Pivot Fund’s mission, vision, and core values
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop strong individual donor relationships; high integrity; ability to work independently and with flexibility; ability to make direct solicitations of donors
• Experience with all aspects of donor development, including cultivating and maintaining relationships with individual donors
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills and ability to organize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Success in organizing fundraising events, including the procurement of corporate sponsorship
• Ability to work strategically, set priorities, define goals and outcomes, detail tactics, and achieve results
• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent; Master’s degree preferred
• Knowledge of the media and its use in gaining exposure for all Pivot Fund programs and events
• Experience with successful grant writing and soliciting major gifts
• Ability to artfully build consensus and bring people together
• Excellent writing and public speaking skills
• Computer skills and technology usage
• Organization skills and attention to detail
• Valid state driver’s license with an acceptable driving record and auto insurance showing as an insured driver on the policy
• Open to travel for the role up to four times a year

*Job Type: Part-time (or Contract)

The Pivot Fund is seeking a Managing Director to lead the strategy and execution of our investments in independent news organizations serving Black, Indigenous and other communities of color. Reporting to the CEO, this senior leader will oversee the Fund’s finance, administration and communications, ensuring the operational excellence required to advance the Fund’s vital mission.

This is an opportunity to join a young, high-impact venture philanthropy organization dedicated to investing in independent, BIPOC-led community news outlets that play a critical role in building community engagement and multicultural democracy, yet often fly below the radar of traditional journalism funders. We invest at the intersection of identities, including BIPOCTM, disabled, women, gender non-conforming, sexual orientation, immigrant, refugee, and low-income communities.

Our Values

The Pivot Fund’s values are crucial to guiding every step of our process

• We center equity in our work
• We value collaboration and learning opportunities
• We believe in building relationships on the foundation of trust
• We are flexible and nimble to meet newsrooms’ ever-changing needs
• We use creative approaches to fight disinformation and polarization 

Responsibilities 

Lead strategy and execution of our investments in our portfolio news organizations

• Manage the due diligence that identifies outstanding organizations and maps out a three-year growth plan and investment
• Design and implement a program that drives results in the form of news organizations that grow, diversify their revenue streams, and attract outstanding talent, and build resiliency
• Support our full portfolio to develop the capabilities of our grantees’ leadership teams in areas such as:
  • Strategic planning
  • Attracting outstanding and diverse business talent into the community news sector
  • Financial management and revenue planning
  • Building world-class fundraising operations and revenue teams capable of fueling growth
  • Help identify key learnings, insights, and best practices that can be communicated externally or codified into tools and disseminated across the portfolio and to the field 
  • Provide vision and strategy for our portfolio learning community and cohort learning
• Inform The Pivot Fund’s strategy and programming through learnings and data drawn from our portfolio 

Coach leaders both internally and externally

• Provide close support to grantees and serve as their advisor and main liaison to The Pivot Fund
• Elicit and share best practices across teams 

Oversee the Pivot Fund’s business operations to successfully advance its mission

● Develop and execute business strategies to achieve short and long-term goals for the organization and its grantee partners

• Liaise with funders and other key stakeholders, including community members 

● Report to the CEO/and Board of Directors, providing market insights and strategic advice. 

● Develop and implement business plans to improve cost efficiency 

● Maintain positive and trust-based relations with business partners and other stakeholders, including grantee and funder partners 

● Oversee the company's business operations, financial performance, investments, and ventures 

● Supervise, guide, and delegate executives/consultants in their duties 

● Ensure company policies and legal guidelines are clearly communicated 

● Assess, manage, and resolve problematic developments and situations 

● Build and enhance the company's public profile at events, speaking engagements, etc. 

● Assist in fundraising and developing other revenues necessary to support Pivot Fund’s mission 

General Responsibilities

• Responsible for fiscal management that generally anticipates operating within the approved budget, ensures maximum resource utilization, and maintenance of the organization in a positive financial position 
• Responsible for implementing Pivot Fund’s programs that carry out the organization’s mission
• Responsible for strategic planning to ensure that Pivot Fund can successfully fulfill its mission
• Responsible for enhancing Pivot Fund’s image by being active and visible in the community and working closely with other professional, civic and private organizations 
• Responsible for participating in the hiring and retention of competent, qualified staff
• Responsible for the effective administration of Pivot Fund’s operations
• Support CEO with strategic planning and implementation
• Supervise and collaborate with organization staff 
• Support CEO in planning and operation of the annual budget
• Engage in fundraising and developing other revenues sources 
• Serve as Pivot spokesperson to the organization’s constituents, the media and the general public
• Review and approve contracts for services
• Establish and maintain relationships with various organizations and utilize those relationships to strategically enhance Pivot’s mission 

● Support CEO in establishing employment and administrative policies and procedures for all functions and for the day-to-day operations of the Pivot Fund

● Support CEO in overseeing marketing and other communications efforts

● Degree in business, marketing, or a related field 

● Master's degree preferred

● Experience as a managing director or in a similar role, preferably in the news industry

● Experience in developing and implementing strategic and business plans 

● Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills

● Experience working with multicultural teams

● Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills 

● Able to excel in high-pressure situations 

● Excellent organizational and leadership skills 

● Proficient in Microsoft Office