Author: Maya Remisio

Senior Consultant for Fundraising | Fairmount Ventures, Inc.

About Fairmount

Fairmount Ventures is a women-owned consulting business that catalyzes social impact by building the capacity of the nonprofit, education, and public sectors, towards a more equitable and just society. Our multi-disciplinary team and collaborative approach provide clients with insightful guidance and deep connection to resources as they work to advance the well-being and life prospects of their constituents. A thought partner to 500+ organizations since 1992, Fairmount leverages our unparalleled knowledge of the nonprofit, public, and philanthropic landscape to benefit every client. Based in Philadelphia, we serve organizations throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond.

Fairmount’s Values

Teamwork ● Thought Partnership ● Excellence & Effort ● Empathy ● Balance ● Integrity ● Inclusion

Job Summary

Senior Consultants contribute to the success of Fairmount Ventures by leading client engagements, managing project teams, ensuring the quality of the team’s work, and contributing to the project deliverables as needed. Reporting to the Vice President, the Senior Consultant plays different roles on project teams and support business development activities for the organization.

This Senior Consultant role requires specific expertise in major gifts or capital campaigns. It’s a full-time position with the Fairmount team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Manage all aspects of the project work, delegating tasks to project teams, facilitating meetings, and translating client feedback into actionable items.
  • Manage all aspects of the client relationship when assigned as the account manager, including team time tracking, invoicing, contract budget management and resource coordination. Manage contract renewals, expansions, and extensions.
  • Ensure that all product deliverables meet Fairmount’s quality standards and the client’s expectations.
  • Lead strategy on the client/project and provide strategic advice in the moment.
  • Lead as facilitator and/or presenter for meetings with clients, their boards, and other stakeholders. Show agility and flexibility as a presenter and be able to improvise strategic advice and respond to on-the-spot questions.
  • Manage and oversee all team members assigned to client/projects.
  • Generate leads and support new business development activities.

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Director of International Engagement | Greater Philadelphia Growth Partnership

About the Organization

The Greater Philadelphia Growth Partnership is a business-led, cross-sector effort to grow quality jobs and strengthen economic competitiveness and opportunity across Southeastern Pennsylvania. Launched in May 2026, the Partnership unites economic and workforce development leaders from Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties around a shared, data-driven regional growth strategy to coordinate priorities, investments, and action.

Position Summary

The primary purpose of this position is to provide strategic direction and operational leadership for the Greater Philadelphia Growth Partnership’s efforts focused on attracting, expanding, and retaining international businesses in the Greater Philadelphia region. The Director of International Engagement will report directly to the Vice President of Business Attraction & Expansion.

The Director of International Engagement will play a critical role in creating new jobs, increasing capital investment, and supporting the Partnership’s mission.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the international business development strategy for the Partnership, aligned with the region’s opportunity industries, including biomedical engineering and production, precision manufacturing in industrial technologies, and enterprise digital solutions.
  • Identify and actively recruit international companies to relocate or establish a presence in the region and coordinate with state and local partners on international prospects.
  • Oversee and execute the international project portfolio from initial lead generation and RFI responses to site tours and location decisions.
  • Build and manage high-level partnerships with corporate decision-makers, government leaders, consular corps, trade offices, international Chambers, international incubators and accelerators, and other cross-border individuals and entities.
  • Identify high-priority international partners to establish formalized partnerships with, in the form of MOU’s and soft-landing programs, that lead to reoccurring international engagements.
  • Actively market the region at international business attraction missions, conferences and trade shows.
  • Identify and partner with existing local foreign-owned companies to support their local expansion and retention needs.
  • Leverage the Partnership’s member and investor network for international business attraction, expansion and retention efforts that are mutually beneficial to both our network and international prospects.
  • Provide guidance to the Research and Marketing teams to drive the Partnership’s international business attraction, expansion and retention efforts and for sector specific initiatives.
  • Serve as a public representative of the Partnership at government and community events.
  • Manage internal and external groups of staff and stakeholders to support the above with a focus on resource identification and development, integration of efforts, and engagement to achieve defined outcomes.

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Director of Talent Strategies | The Greater Philadelphia Growth Partnership

About the Organization

The Greater Philadelphia Growth Partnership is a business-led, cross-sector effort to grow quality jobs and strengthen economic competitiveness and opportunity across Southeastern Pennsylvania. Launched in May 2026, the Partnership unites economic and workforce development leaders from Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties around a shared, data-driven regional growth strategy to coordinate priorities, investments, and action.

Position Summary

The Director, Talent Strategies will serve as a senior externally facing leader responsible for helping establish and advance the Greater Philadelphia Growth Partnership’s talent agenda across priority growth industries. Working closely with employers, workforce organizations, economic development partners, educational institutions, and regional stakeholders, the Director will develop a deep understanding of employer demand, workforce challenges, and sector needs and help translate those insights into coordinated action, practical initiatives, and measurable progress.

The Director will lead employer engagement and sector activation efforts across the Partnership’s priority industries, helping identify opportunities, advance initiatives, and coordinate partners around shared talent priorities. Working across Partnership and Chamber teams (including research, business attraction and expansion, and employer engagement staff), the Director will help move initiatives from concept to implementation while strengthening regional coordination around talent and workforce challenges. Over time, the Director will help shape and grow the Partnership’s talent function, including supporting talent-focused staff and refining approaches to employer engagement, sector activation, and cross-sector collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

Advance sector talent priorities 

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with employers, industry associations, workforce organizations, educational institutions, and regional partners; serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for employers participating in Partnership talent and sector initiatives.
  • Draw on employer engagement, Partnership research, sector analysis, and regional data sources to understand employer demand signals and identify workforce challenges, talent bottlenecks, and sector opportunities; translate those insights into practical recommendations, partnership opportunities, and actionable priorities.
  • Help design and advance sector partnerships, “quick win” and longer-term pilot efforts, and other initiatives that address priority workforce needs and shape long-term employer practice change (e.g., on topics like workforce partnerships, hiring practices, skills-based hiring, talent retention, and sector collaboration); support planning, prioritization, and execution of sector initiatives across the region, helping move ideas and partnerships into action.
  • Facilitate employer-led conversations, sector alliances, working groups, and collaborative efforts; coordinate across workforce boards, county partners, funders, consultants, and other ecosystem stakeholders; and represent the Partnership in employer convenings, regional meetings, and sector discussions related to workforce, economic mobility, and economic competitiveness.
  • Help identify and mobilize the partners, resources, and structures needed to advance sector initiatives and address talent bottlenecks.

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Youth Programs Director | Norris Square Neighborhood Project

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Youth Program Director provides strategic and creative leadership for the design, implementation, and evaluation of our after-school and summer programs, Semillas del Futuro and Raíces de Cambio. This position leads and supports the youth program team, manages program partnerships and budgets, and works closely with the Youth & Family Services Manager to ensure successful program operations, strengthen youth and family engagement and compliance with funding requirements.

This is an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and hands-on leader to shape meaningful programs that help young people develop their voices, creativity, skills and connection to their community.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Program Design, Implementation, and Oversight

  • Ensure youth programs align with NSNP’s three pillars of youth leadership development, land stewardship, and cultural preservation.
  • Develop lesson plans and implement cycles of project-based learning activities that support academic enrichment and 21st-century skills development, consistent with OST and C2L-PHL goals/ objectives, through a creative approach integrating technology, arts and culture, and urban agriculture..
  • Engage in professional learning to ensure programs include up-to-date pedagogical best practices.
  • Builds positive relationships and works closely with community elders and garden team members to ensure programming includes regular engagement with NSNP’s urban gardens, where youth learn about Afro-Puerto Rican foodways and cultural traditions, agriculture, sustainable living, and holistic community health.
  • Support  Semillas Instructors in the development, organization, and scheduling of daily activities, field trips, guest teachers/artists, and workshops, as well as three student showcases per year.
  • Collaborate with the Executive Director, Garden Educator, and Semillas Instructors on developing entrepreneurship, apprenticeship, service learning, and community civic engagement opportunities with youth and for youth.
  • Recruit, supervise, and support instructors and teaching artists with project-based learning and lesson planning; teach classes as needed.
  • Provide leadership, guidance and supervision to NSNP instructors/ educators through weekly check-ins and annual evaluations.
  • Facilitate regular team meetings to discuss classroom activities, planning, successes, and challenges. Provide resources, support, and coaching as needed.
  • Monitor and evaluate youth program effectiveness, using a logic model and other evaluation tools to measure program outcomes, conduct needs assessments, identify gaps, strengthen programming and ensure goals are met.
  • Build and maintain relationships with community partners, volunteers, stakeholders and organizations to foster a program that offers youth education and empowerment opportunities to enhance program effectiveness and community engagement.
  • Manage program-related budgets & track expenses; maintain financial and operational records as appropriate.

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Youth & Family Services Manager | Norris Square Neighborhood Project

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Youth & Family Services Manager is responsible for the administrative oversight of youth enrollment, attendance, and related data entry for NSNP’s Out of School Time/ After School & Summer Programs, as well as youth, parent, and family relations. Responsibilities include providing social-emotional support to NSNP youth, engaging families in NSNP related activities, and ensuring the proper flow of information to parents of those youth enrolled in NSNP  programs.  The Youth & Family Services Manager works closely with the Youth Program Director to support school-year after school and summer programming, and build ongoing relationships with parents and families.

This position is funded by the Office of Children & Families (OCF) and Public Health Management Corp (PHMC) Out-of-School Time (OST) contract. As such, this position must be on-site during program operation and 100% of their time is devoted to OST-funded services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

OST/After School & Summer Programs (30%)

  • Serve as Site Director for the Office of Children & Families OST (Out-of-School Time) contract. Attend mandatory OST Site Director and other training sessions for CitySpan, OST/OCF and act as liaison between OCF/PHMC and NSNP.
  • Promote and provide information on youth programs to interested youth and parents.
  • Conduct outreach through tabling events and school visits, in collaboration with program staff and community partners.
  • Observe youth groups in order to monitor group dynamics, behavioral issues, classroom management, and physical space.
  • Support in-house restorative practices, youth disciplinary issues, and proceedings.
  • Identify common issues and determine if group training or discussion may be helpful.
  • Plan and facilitate  parent orientation: 1) via phone and emails for OST/OCF youth and 2) via in-person meeting for summer program .
  • Plan and manage logistics of field trip preparations (e.g., reservations, transportation, food, etc.)
  • Create and oversee youth recruitment and engagement plans.
  • Build and maintain communication with internal and external partners.

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Executive Director | Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project

About YASP

Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) is a Philadelphia-based organization rooted in abolition, healing justice, and the power of young people to transform the systems that harm them. We work alongside youth who have been directly impacted by the carceral system, providing restorative justice diversion programming, creative arts programming, a youth-led hub for participatory defense, and other legal education. We believe that the people most harmed by unjust systems are the ones best positioned to dismantle them.

YASP is fiscally sponsored and operates across several interconnected programs: Healing Futures, the Youth Participatory Defense Hub, and Creative Arts workshops. This is a moment of growth and deepening for the organization, and we are looking for a leader who can hold both the day-to-day and the long horizon.

This Moment at YASP

This is not a standard Executive Director role. YASP is at an inflection point, building organizational infrastructure while holding deep commitments to youth leadership, abolitionist values, and tight-knit staff community. The next ED will need to be someone who understands that this work is more urgent than ever. In a moment when organizations are losing funding, facing political targeting, and navigating the realities of rising fascism, YASP needs a leader with deep conviction, someone whose commitment doesn’t waver when conditions get hard. The next phase of YASP’s work is about stability, deepening, and continuity, connecting what we’ve built to where we’re going, and making sure we’re here for the next 20 years.

We’re looking for someone who:

  • Loves young people, full stop. Someone who is genuinely committed to their liberation, growth, and development, and brings that love into every decision they make as a leader.
  • Leads from within, not from above. Someone who is present, participatory, and builds power alongside staff and youth rather than directing from a distance.
  • Is culturally rooted and community-connected. YASP is deeply embedded in Philadelphia’s culture and communities. We’re looking for someone who understands what it means to organize through culture, and who can build real relationships grounded in warmth, authenticity, and shared values.
  • Can hold the long view. Someone who thinks in decades, not just program cycles, and who sees organizational development as movement infrastructure, not administrative maintenance.
  • Embodies YASP’s values in how they show up. Not just someone who can articulate abolitionist principles, but someone who lives them in their relationships, their leadership style, and their presence in this work.

Core Responsibilities

The estimates below reflect our honest assessment of where this role lives and where we need the ED to be the most present.

Organizational Vision, Mission & Culture (~25% of time)

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Director of Advocacy and Policy | American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania

The Position

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) seeks a mission-driven, visionary policy and advocacy professional and operations manager to serve as the next Director of Advocacy and Policy (Director). The Director will join the ACLU-PA at a time of increasing threats to liberty and civil rights and will build upon a century of work and success to advance the organization’s mission to drive progress toward a more genuine multiracial, multicultural, and just democracy.

The incoming Director will join a team of experts that works diligently to defend the civil liberties of all Pennsylvanians. The breadth of expertise at the ACLU-PA allows the organization to integrate litigation, legislative and policy advocacy, organizing, and communications. The ACLU-PA’s staff and volunteers work both independently and in coalition with those most affected by the issues they address, including voting rights, First Amendment rights, privacy and security, racial justice, reproductive freedom, student and youth rights, immigrants’ rights, criminal legal reform, and Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual+ Equality. The work for the ACLU-PA has never been more important, and over the past year, ACLU-PA membership has grown, and fundraising has leaped.

The Director will join at a time of momentum for the organization and set a strategy and vision that support the ACLU-PA’s policy and advocacy team in enhancing the scale, coordination, and impact of advocacy and policy efforts across the organization. By fostering productive and trusted relationships throughout the ACLU-PA and partnering with peers on the senior leadership team, the Director will advance a more collaborative, transparent, and integrated organizational culture to empower, support, and develop a talented, mission-oriented staff. This leader will lead by example to nurture, strengthen, and expand partnerships across the Commonwealth to increase visibility of the ACLU-PA’s important work and its impact.

Compensation for this position will be $175,000 annually. Benefits include health, dental, disability, life insurance, retirement plan, paid vacation, holidays, sabbatical, and sick leave.

APPLICATIONS, INQUIRIES, AND NOMINATIONS

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Campaign Director | Penn Policy Center

About Pennsylvania Policy Center

Pennsylvania Policy Center (PPC) is a statewide, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) research, policy, and public education organization working to build a Pennsylvania where everyone has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead. We advance evidence-based solutions that strengthen economic opportunity, promote tax fairness, protect democracy, expand access to quality public services, and create pathways to shared prosperity for all Pennsylvanians. We believe lasting change requires more than good policy. It requires informed communities, strong coalitions, effective communications, meaningful civic engagement, and strategic advocacy rooted in research and lived experience.

Our work combines policy analysis, public education, coalition building, communications, and advocacy to advance policies that improve the lives of Pennsylvanians across race, geography, income, and background.

Our Vision and Core Principles

At Pennsylvania Policy Center, we are building an organization that values both results and relationships.

We believe strong organizations are built on trust, accountability, transparency, continuous learning, and a shared commitment to excellence. We strive to create a workplace where people can do meaningful work, grow professionally, and contribute to building long-term institutional capacity.

What We Expect from Every Team Member

Every member of the PPC team is expected to:

  • Demonstrate a commitment to our mission, vision, and values.
  • Take ownership of their work and follow through on commitments.
  • Build trust through reliability, accountability, and transparency.
  • Communicate openly, respectfully, and constructively.
  • Approach challenges with curiosity, creativity, and a solutions-oriented mindset.
  • Balance urgency with sustainability and high standards with grace.
  • Work collaboratively across teams, partners, and stakeholders.
  • Contribute to building strong organizational systems and processes.
  • Seek opportunities for continuous learning and improvement.
  • Help strengthen PPC as a growing institution, not simply complete assigned tasks.
  • Foster a culture of shared responsibility, mutual respect, and collective success.

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Organizing Director | Lift Every Voice Philly

About Lift Every Voice Philly

Lift Every Voice Philly (LEV) is Philadelphia’s only base-building organization solely focused on systems change in the School District of Philadelphia. We are a Black parent-led, multiracial organization seeking our next Organizing Director.

After four years of organizing and winning campaigns that secured daily recess, citywide student wellness protections, and major progress on the school nurse vacancy crisis, we are ready for our next chapter.

The Organizing Director will lead four core areas of work: supervising and developing our organizing team, driving campaign strategy and execution, codifying and strengthening our member leadership development program, and building the external relationships and political positioning that expand LEV’s power. They will serve as a full member of the leadership team with broad authority to build our base and lead winning campaigns.

The work is grounded in LEV’s theory of change and the three strategies that have always driven our organization: growing parent leadership, unity, and voice.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced organizer with a proven track record of building a base, developing leaders, and winning campaigns. You’re equally comfortable setting strategy and executing the day-to-day work that makes campaigns successful. You know how to coach organizers, earn trust with members, and build relationships that expand an organization’s power. You thrive in fast-moving environments, hold yourself and others to a high standard, and believe that Black and Brown parents have the power to transform public education when they are organized, united, and equipped to lead.

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Executive Director of Development – Schools, Colleges, & Centers | Temple University

Position Summary 

At Temple University Institutional Advancement, we believe philanthropy is a powerful force for expanding opportunity, advancing discovery, and transforming lives. We are committed to fostering a workplace that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, recognizing that a broad range of perspectives strengthens our ability to engage alumni, donors, and community partners in meaningful ways.

As Temple embarks on a historic $1.5 billion comprehensive campaign in support of the University’s Forward with Purpose strategic plan, we seek talented professionals who are passionate about higher education, relationship-building, and advancing a culture of philanthropy. We welcome candidates who will contribute to an inclusive, collaborative, and mission-driven environment where all employees are empowered to thrive and make a lasting impact on the future of Temple University.

Reporting to the Assistant Vice President for Schools, Colleges, and Centers, the Executive Director of Development is a senior frontline fundraiser responsible for securing major and principal gifts in support of assigned academic units and institutional priorities. The Executive Director manages a selective portfolio of high-capacity prospects and executes comprehensive fundraising strategies aligned with campaign goals. Working closely with Deans, Assistant Deans of Development, faculty, and university leadership, the incumbent translates funding priorities into compelling philanthropic opportunities and advances meaningful donor engagement. The role plays a critical part in pipeline development, campaign execution, and strengthening Temple’s culture of philanthropy.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Salary Range: $85,100 – $130,000

  • A hybrid work schedule
  • Full medical, dental, vision coverage
  • Paid time off
  • 12 Paid Holidays
  • Tuition remission – eligible employees and their dependents can obtain a degree TUITION FREE
  • A generous retirement plan and so much more!

Required Education and Experience 

  • Bachelor’s Degree.
  • At least seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in major gift fundraising, preferably within higher education or a complex nonprofit environment.
  • Demonstrated success in securing six- and seven-figure gifts is required.
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

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