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DIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIP SERVICES
THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE

Explore Company has been retained by the Synergos, a non-profit organization working to reduce poverty and promote equity and social justice for poor and marginalized communities around the world, seeks a motivated, creative and results-oriented leader to fill a newly created position, Director of Partnership Services.

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

Synergos is a non-profit organization working to reduce poverty and promote equity and social justice for poor and marginalized communities around the world. During its 20 year history, Synergos has worked collaboratively with leaders and leading organizations in civil society, philanthropy, government and business to expand the opportunities and fair treatment for people who do not have full access to human rights, services to meet their basic human needs or the requisite circumstances to participate in civic affairs. Synergos is a capacity building organization that builds networks of change makers and encourages their collaborative initiatives, convenes and supports multi-sector partnerships and conducts and disseminates knowledge about partnerships aimed at making the systems changes that are needed to enhance the living conditions for underdeveloped communities.

Synergos hosts the Global Philanthropists Circle, a peer learning network for eminent social investors and the Synergos Senior Fellows Network, a group of accomplished and innovative social activists. Throughout its history, Synergos has also helped establish, strengthened and partnered with an informal network of major development actors from all three sectors. Synergos engages directly in a limited number of multi-sector partnerships and provides advice and counsel to many others. Synergos is also in the process of establishing a Knowledge Resource Center to provide educational materials, training and conferences about multi-sector partnerships.

In all of its work, Synergos seeks to bridge divides, bringing together people and organizations to change the circumstances that adversely affect communities of poverty. We always seek to do this in a sustainable way by empowering those most adversely affected by poverty and discrimination and by strengthening the ability of these communities to do what’s needed to change their circumstances on an ongoing basis. Synergos is headquartered in New York and has offices on the U.S. – Mexican border, in Brazil, Southern Africa and India. Synergos’ board of directors and staff has experience working for NGO’s, government agencies, international organizations and businesses. The members of the staff are from more than a dozen countries and speak 16 languages.

For more information on Synergos, please review their website at www.synergos.org.

DIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIP SERVICES

The Director of Partnership Services will initiate, design, and lead a new initiative to provide fee and pro bono consulting services to corporations, governments, multi-lateral organizations, civil society groups or others wishing to engage in collaborative efforts to address poverty and social justice issues. The ideal candidate would combine a passion for international development with the energy, experience and risk-profile of an entrepreneurial business-builder. Such a candidate would creatively develop a new set of service offerings that build from and leverage Synergos’ 20 years of development experience, its extensive global relationship network, and its strongly-held set of organizational values.

The position reports to the Senior Director of Partnerships and will be based in New York City.

The broad responsibilities of this position are to:

• Develop the business plan for Synergos Partnership Services that identifies an appropriate market niche and crafts a compelling value proposition;

• Create a menu of consulting services, develop a service delivery plan, establish standards to price and value service offerings;

• Develop tools, methods, processes to undergird service delivery; create knowledge management system to organize and deliver knowledge products as needed;

• Mobilize, deploy and manage talent on the Synergos staff, Senior Fellows and external consultants to deliver services;

• Create and implement marketing strategy; generate new business opportunities, designing and delivering consulting engagements for clients;

• Oversee evaluation activities to assess the ultimate impact of this work on the alleviation of poverty and the promotion of equity and social justice.

The Director should ideally possess the following professional qualifications and personal attributes:

Professional Qualifications

• Experience with collaborative and participatory approaches to address issues of poverty;

• At least 10 years working experience that includes work across sectors; at least half of that time in a leadership position;

• Relevant business experience with management consulting, start-up ventures, or marketing; relevant non-profit experience in international development, philanthropy or poverty related work;

• Demonstrated skill in project management;

• Ability to work across cultures and to collaborate with others;

• At least two years direct experience in living and working in at least one country in Africa, Asia or Latin America;

• Direct experience in living/working in more than one country and working with diverse cultural groups;

• Excellent communications and marketing skills;

• Capacity to simultaneously work on multiple tasks and projects, and set priorities for a challenging workload;

• Ability and appetite to raise funds;

• Masters degree (MBA or degree in international relations, international development, economics, politics, etc.) strongly preferred.

Personal Attributes

• High energy, entrepreneurial and creative;

• Able to start new things and to take ideas from concept to implementation;

• Passionate about addressing issues of poverty and social justice;

• Able to work in congruence with Synergos values;

• High standards of personal integrity;

• Commitment to a collaborative leadership style;

• Fluency in English and a second language.

COMPENSATION

Compensation for the Director includes a competitive salary, employee and health benefits.

TO APPLY

Send resumes and cover letters in confidence to:

Daniel Sherman
President
Explore Company
resumes@explorecompany.com

The Synergos Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Visit www.synergos.org for more information about the organization.

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