Manager, Strategic Partnerships

About Humanity United

Humanity United (HU) is a philanthropic organization focused on advancing the dignity and voice of those most affected by violent conflict, exploitation, and injustice. HU was established in 2008 to cultivate conditions for enduring peace and freedom. HU focuses on systemic change across three bodies of work:
Peace building, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, and Racial Justice and Equity, with a strong emphasis on Public Engagement. Humanity United is part of The Omidyar Group, a diverse collection of companies, organizations, and initiatives united by a desire to improve the lives of people and societies.

Humanity United is seeking a Manager, Strategic Partnerships to advance our strategy and operational plan to facilitate the transformation of systems we work within, ensuring they’re adaptive to emerging changes. This role will collaborate closely with the Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships to engage philanthropic peers as HU weaves together relationships, resources, knowledge, and networks. In addition to the Senior Director, the Manager will work within the broader Public Engagement portfolio team, as well as with colleagues across the organization.

This role will require strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to operate effectively in complex environments. The successful candidate will ideally have experience leveraging informal networks, as well as delivering project management in dynamic contexts, and working across cultures, languages, and perspectives.

Key responsibilities include cultivating and maintaining relationships with internal Programs and Operations colleagues; facilitating agreements among multicultural teams; and managing an array of internal and external facing operational requirements (grantmaking, contract and budget management, inbound/outbound reporting). The Manager will bring a deeply collaborative mindset supporting alignment with the Finance, Grants Management, and Legal teams. The Manager will build and align operational practices with programmatic needs and support the buildout of a new CRM platform to ensure alignment, visibility, and coherence in HU’s efforts to influence philanthropic peers.

The ideal candidate will bring an understanding of how Programs and Operations can work seamlessly together to advance the organization’s mission. The ideal candidate will also have experience working with human rights issues, familiarity with engaging philanthropic partners, data visualization, constituent management systems, reporting, grant writing, and budgeting/accounting. As this is a newly created position, other duties may evolve.

Candidates should be able and willing to travel internationally & domestically up to 10% of their time. HU’s hybrid work approach provides ongoing flexibility for regular US-based remote work for this position, combined with periodic in-person gatherings.

• Contribute to strategy, design, and coordination of an internal cross-cutting team.
• Track and share learning from engagements and processes, to help inform internal management of HU and its associated entities.
• Support the Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships in managing and facilitating cross-functional learning opportunities on emergent approaches to partnerships.
• Manage and track team budgets, including deliverables for internal and external reporting processes and hold day-to-day expenditure tracking.
• Serve as a thought partner to Program teams to ensure alignment between strategy and operational execution.
• In partnership with the Senior Director, hold key relationships with internal stakeholders and help facilitate decision making, as necessary.
• In collaboration with the Strategy, Learning, and Impact (SLI) team, develop and maintain data visualizations and dashboards to track progress, measure impact, and communicate insights on Humanity United’s influence in philanthropy, ensuring alignment and clarity for internal teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Operations colleagues to align operational practices with programmatic needs.
• When tasked, manage operational requirements…