Porticus - Director of Effective Philanthropy

Director of Effective Philanthropy April 2022

About Porticus Named to represent an open gateway to a brighter future, Porticus coordinates the philanthropic endeavours of the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, continuing a tradition of social engagement stretching back as far as 1841 when Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer founded C&A, starting a tradition of doing good while doing business.

Since our founding in 1995, the professionalisation of both the organisation and the charitable sector has picked up speed. Porticus has grown to over 180 philanthropy professionals today, working on the challenges of our times and seeking to improve the lives of those in need just like Clemens and August intended to do.

It’s impossible for one organisation to solve all the world’s challenges, so we focus on areas we understand best: education, society, faith and earth. With focus and cooperation, we work to advance human dignity around the world. These focus areas are represented by our four thematic sectors: Building Future Generations, Strengthening our Societies, Fostering Vital Faith Communities, and Caring for the Earth.

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About the Effective Philanthropy Group The Effective Philanthropy Group (EPG) plays a key role in optimising Porticus’ effort to be the best organisation it can be, and together with its partners the EPG works towards maximizing its contribution to system change. The EPG focusses on organisation-wide strategic issues, and implementing effective philanthropy ingredients, such as meaningful participation of people with lived experience, building effective partnerships, building evidence and purposeful learning.

The EPG embraces the Porticus vision and contributes to the implementation of the strategy by: • Contributing to progress regarding meaningful participation and partnerships • Striving for and learning from impact

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Contributing to improved structures and processes Ongoing support to the organisation for the development, implementation and evaluation of portfolios, programmes and grants

The EPG is committed to providing evidence based guidance to the wider Porticus community on the social problems we address, and how we can optimize our strategic responses. We seek to combine our commitment to societal change with our ability to adapt as a result of experience and changes in context.

Strengthening our Societies

Building Future Generations

For the Empowerment of All

For the Whole Child

A stronger society means fostering human rights and dignity at all levels: by challenging powerful institutions; tackling prejudice and exclusion; supporting movements that shift the balance of power; and thinking long-term about the obstacles to progress.

Criminal Justice

Exposure to adversity makes it even more important that children receive an allencompassing range of support to build resilience and instil hope. We advocate Whole Child Development across national and global childcare systems.

People on the Move

For the Whole Child

Our Sectors

Caring for the Earth

Fostering Vital Faith Communities

For the Planet.

And its People.

For the Global family

A sustainable planet needs fair societies, green economies, smart cities and prosperous communities. To achieve that, we need to bring together the best of government, business, not-for-profits, philanthropy, and community activism.

We strive for a Church that promotes human dignity, stands for a just society, fights poverty, climate change and exclusion, and represents the dispossessed. Guided by the values of our founding family, we support the larger family of the Catholic Church.

Purposeful Business

Vital Catholic Thought

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Clean Energy

Fair Transition

Living Forests

Child Protection

Building a Vital Church

The Role The Role:

Director of Effective Philanthropy

Location:

Amsterdam, London or New York

Reports to:

CEO

Salary:

Available on request

Working across strategic initiatives, social and environmental challenges of philanthropic programmes and regional offices, The Director EP further builds a best in class learning organisation to make effective use of learning and with evidence towards system change, to achieve the highest impact in social change possible.​ The Effective Philanthropy team plays a key role in optimising Porticus’ effort as a strategic philanthropy to be the best organisation we can be, together with our partners maximizing our contribution to system change.

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Shaping and developing the Effective Philanthropy function, including leading and developing the team that is responsible for this.

Setting EP direction to provide a range of timely and high quality inputs, advice and review on strategy, programme development, learning, monitoring and evaluation so that we be more effective in our philanthropy.

Leading the learning function across the organisation: • building organisational learning and a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing; • discerning and sharing lessons learned to improve programming and increase impact; • building (programming) capabilities and a knowledge management system to enhance collaboration within the organisation.

Bringing thought leadership to the organization, building strong links to the global philanthropic sector and the family philanthropic network around learning and evaluation.

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Key result areas and responsibilities Shaping and developing an effective and collaborative learning and evaluation function to support the delivery of strategic impact • •

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Leads the EP team in assessing progress toward impact goals and defining which strategies are most effective.

Sets EP direction to provide timely and high quality inputs, advice and review on strategy, programme development, learning and evaluation in support of the portfolios and regions achieving their mission.

Assesses Porticus’ contribution to systemic change across programmes within social and environmental challenges and regions.

Leads the evaluation of programmatic progress – often in collaboration with external evaluators and academics towards systemic change.

Leading the learning organisation, improving and innovating: •

Intensively collaborates with other Porticus departments, such as Operations within our

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Philanthropy Services, to streamline EP related processes with the rest of the organisation.

Collaboratively builds the institution and develops people; builds engagement across and among regions and portfolios, supports capacity building of Porticus staff around learning and evaluation.

Leads the EP team in discerning learnings and proactively sharing these across the organisation to improve future programming e.g., via a knowledge management system.

Supports Porticus’ staff in developing goals and objectives, theories of change, outcomes and indicators, and monitoring and evaluation plans.

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Follows developments in the fields of learning and evaluation and strategic philanthropy to identify emerging trends, needs, gaps and opportunities, discerns knowledge and scientific evidence for strategy development and programme design.

Builds collaborative partnerships and networks at a global and regional level, internally and externally, further consolidating his/her thought leadership in the philanthropic field.

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A recognized authority and thought leader in the field of strategic philanthropy.

A track record in successfully setting up and developing a Learning and Evaluation department in an international grant making environment.

Senior professional with at least 15 years of relevant experience in an international philanthropic environment, including: • Designing and implementing programmes and/or funding strategies (including the practical challenges of grant/ programme implementation).

• Developing tools, guidelines and processes, quantitative and qualitative research methods.

• Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) experience in the development and social justice sectors, incorporating quantitative and qualitative methodologies; delivering M&E and programme-focused strategic advice to non-experts.

Team management experience and strong people leadership skills; demonstrated ability to work constructively as part of an international team, with a high level of effective interpersonal and influencing skills.

Comfort working in a multilingual and multicultural environment and/or family business.

PhD in development economics, social sciences or related field, or a Master’s degree with equivalent experience.

Fluency in English language (minimum level C1).

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How to Apply All correspondence, at this stage, should be via Oxford HR. To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button on the job advert page, complete our online application form, and submit your CV and cover letter as two different documents, which should be prepared before applying as they will be considered in the application process.

Selection process

The cover letter should be no more than two pages long and explain why you are interested in this post and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.

We stand for equal opportunities and are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse team in an equitable and inclusive environment. We strongly encourage applications from people with lived experience and welcome candidates from any minority or underrepresented group.

The documents should be saved in MS Word in the following format: Your First Name-Your Last Name-Document Name-Date (mmyy) e.g., Pat-Mabaso-CV-042022-Porticus or Pat-MabasoCoverLetter-042022-Porticus.

Timeline Closing date:

6th June 2022

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Queries If you have any queries on any aspect of the appointment process, need additional information, or would like to have an informal discussion, please email at porticus-director-epg@oxfordhr.co.uk in the first instance.

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