JOB ALERT | Senior Fellow, Community Safety & Harm Reduction
Staff at the Greater Washington Community Foundation first and foremost are community builders. With this value we are signaling the foundation’s fundamental belief: Relationships and networks matter. In fact, building and activating cross-racial, across socio-economic levels, and across jurisdictional relationships and networks stands as a unique ‘superpower’ and the fertile ground from which we create racially equitable and sustainable change. Community Investment team members at the Greater Washington Community Foundation plays a unique role in this effort, working with their colleagues and community partners to organize and deploy the broad spectrum of the foundation’s social, intellectual, financial, reputational, and moral capital in pursuit of the highest ambitions of our region’s people.
The Senior Fellow will provide leadership for funders in the region and other partners intent on working in concert to create an aligned approach to violence prevention and community safety in the District of Columbia. This will include working with identified funders to organize and support the development of a community safety agenda that will align efforts and drive investments across the continuum – from prevention, to interruption, to safety and justice reform, and related factors that impact community. The role will work to build partnerships across philanthropy and with government such that we can address community safety, and root causes. The aim is strategic alignment for impact. This might be accomplished through grantmaking, collaboration, co-investment, and communications. The Senior Fellow will be responsible for program management and coordination, outreach, and public engagement, convening, reporting, drafting and shepherding a strategic plan for harm reduction and community safety. The candidate will bring subject matter expertise and offer a voice of experience in leading and advancing the cause for community improvement and for justice. The candidate should be familiar with data and a range of perspectives on the issues of community safety and have a commitment to advancing action that reflects a data-informed, human-centered approach. The role will work in partnership with other funders.
In addition to the duties described in this position description, every role at The Community Foundation is expected to contribute to the organization’s overall success and its goals. Any additional tasks will be determined by the manager of this role in coordination with the leadership team. We expect any additional tasks will be 10% or less of the overall role. This role is a 3 year term, eligible for renewal.