Job Description
Job Type
Full-time
Description THE FOUNDATION The Miami Foundation is building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. Since 1967, The Foundation has invested over $900M to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 partners and over 60,000 donors. By accelerating leadership, generosity, and a sense of belonging across Miami, we inspire people to become changemakers, and we create ways for donors, nonprofits, leaders, and locals to work together on solutions for our community. At The Miami Foundation, everyone has a role they can play in creating a thriving Greater Miami.
Position Description The Community Investments Team is responsible for ensuring that the Foundation’s grant programs, special initiatives, and grants management services are expertly managed and meet the needs of our donors, nonprofits, and the community. At our core, the team keeps a steady pulse on community needs, current and local events, and our wide network of partners and related activities. The team shapes the Foundation’s grantmaking strategy and capacity-building programs that are intended to invest intentionally in the operational, programmatic, and financial success of nonprofits across the Miami community.
The Community Engagement Assistant is an integral member of The Miami Foundation’s Community Investments team, serving as the backbone in overseeing administrative processes in place to facilitate nonprofit relationships with authenticity, care and connection. The Community Engagement Assistant is tech-savvy, detail-oriented, proactive, and a resourceful person deeply passionate about community impact in Miami. The Assistant will support the execution of the Community Grants program and year-round capacity-building efforts.
Department -Community Investments
FLSA Status - Non-Exempt
Pay Range - $22.50 - $25.00 per hour ($46,800 - $52,000 annual equivalent), based on experience and qualifications
Reports to - Director of Capacity Building
Duties And Responsibilities
Requirements Experience, Abilities & Skills Experience
Please reach out to talent@miamifoundation.org if you need any accommodation in applying.
The Miami Foundation is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. The Miami Foundation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
Salary Description
$22.50 - $25.00 per hour
Full-time
Description THE FOUNDATION The Miami Foundation is building a Greater Miami where everyone can thrive. Since 1967, The Foundation has invested over $900M to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 partners and over 60,000 donors. By accelerating leadership, generosity, and a sense of belonging across Miami, we inspire people to become changemakers, and we create ways for donors, nonprofits, leaders, and locals to work together on solutions for our community. At The Miami Foundation, everyone has a role they can play in creating a thriving Greater Miami.
Position Description The Community Investments Team is responsible for ensuring that the Foundation’s grant programs, special initiatives, and grants management services are expertly managed and meet the needs of our donors, nonprofits, and the community. At our core, the team keeps a steady pulse on community needs, current and local events, and our wide network of partners and related activities. The team shapes the Foundation’s grantmaking strategy and capacity-building programs that are intended to invest intentionally in the operational, programmatic, and financial success of nonprofits across the Miami community.
The Community Engagement Assistant is an integral member of The Miami Foundation’s Community Investments team, serving as the backbone in overseeing administrative processes in place to facilitate nonprofit relationships with authenticity, care and connection. The Community Engagement Assistant is tech-savvy, detail-oriented, proactive, and a resourceful person deeply passionate about community impact in Miami. The Assistant will support the execution of the Community Grants program and year-round capacity-building efforts.
Department -Community Investments
FLSA Status - Non-Exempt
Pay Range - $22.50 - $25.00 per hour ($46,800 - $52,000 annual equivalent), based on experience and qualifications
Reports to - Director of Capacity Building
Duties And Responsibilities
- Provide excellent customer by responding to inquiries, facilitating communication, providing materials, and scheduling meetings with key stakeholders, including nonprofit partners.
- Lead event and outreach logistics, including planning, communication, support, setup, and managing inventory of program materials.
- Support the creation and editing of program materials, presentations, and website content; maintenance of data systems to facilitate analysis and process improvement; and execution of grant agreements and reporting documentation.
- Process payments to vendors and nonprofits.
- Schedule meetings and coordinate logistics for the Community Engagement team.
- File and maintain electronic files across multiple platforms.
- Conduct searches and extract data within various software and resource tools.
- Assist in compiling data and reports needed for donors/funders.
- Take on ad-hoc assignments and special projects as needed to support the foundation's initiatives.
Requirements Experience, Abilities & Skills Experience
- 1-3 years of work experience in a professional office setting preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- Has worked in the nonprofit/foundation, public, or education sectors in Greater Miami.
- Knowledge of, and passion for, the Greater Miami community.
- Can research topics and gather information from multiple sources; multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment; and understand when to flag challenges and escalate appropriately.
- Highly motivated, self-starter with strong organizational skills and ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong affinity for The Foundation’s values – joy, asset-framed, brave, sustainable, unifying, equitable, intentional, leadership. Our values are not words in a document. They are how we approach everything we do at The Foundation.
- Commitment to diversity, accessibility, and inclusion.
- High level of integrity, professional maturity, and sound judgment.
- Forward-looking thinker who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions to achieve high-performance goals.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, email, project management platforms and/or other tech tools (graphic design, social media, among others) and internet research.
- Strong communication and problem-solving.
Please reach out to talent@miamifoundation.org if you need any accommodation in applying.
The Miami Foundation is committed to equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. The Miami Foundation will make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
Salary Description
$22.50 - $25.00 per hour