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. Established in 2008 to cultivate conditions for enduring peace and freedom, HU today focuses on systemic change across three bodies of work: Peacebuilding, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, and Racial Justice and Equity, with a strong focus on leveraging Public Engagement across these issues. 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.

Position Summary:
Humanity United is seeking a process-oriented, collaborative and high energy Portfolio Manager (PM) to join the Forced Labor & Human Trafficking (FLHT) team! The PM is crucial to team management, communication, program strategy, and external relations. The PM works closely with the FLHT Team’s Senior Portfolio Director and directors. This role will help cultivate a deeply collaborative team structure so that the FLHT team and its partners can live into their core values and mission.

The PM ensures that the FLHT team operates in a clear, coordinated, and effective way, across a wide variety of programs and in service of a multidimensional portfolio strategy. This role also leads the creation of key organizing processes for the team to implement the portfolio strategy as well as plays a critical role in evolving the portfolio’s programmatic strategy. The PM serves as a key liaison within the organization to maintain relationships with internal stakeholders. The PM supports the FLHT team in articulating best practices and learning as HU engages more deeply in the trust-based philanthropy movement and critically reflects on its own role in shifting power toward local actors in the global system.

The successful candidate will be an engaging teammate who can move efficiently between teams to build effective processes, help develop a collaborative and transparent team culture, orchestrate the co-creation of decision-making processes, and solve complex problems. Ideally, the candidate will have outstanding attention to detail and be a self-confident, creative and independent self-starter.

This is a full-time, exempt role, reporting to the Senior Portfolio Director, FLHT. Our hybrid work approach provides ongoing flexibility for regular remote work for this position, combined with periodic in-person gatherings. This role can be based anywhere in the United States.

Core Job Responsibilities:
Forced Labor & Human Trafficking Team Management

• Manage annual and multi-year budget tools and practices to support learning, exploratory programmatic areas, emergent decision-making practices, and operational action. Lead team members through ongoing participatory budget processes.
• Facilitate daily operations including team rhythms, meetings, retreats, arc of team conversations, and communicate across the team on a variety of issues. When needed, design and evolve team processes that make these activities possible.
• Create communication channels for use by the team to engage other HU departments, to allow for maximum alignment on goals, policies, team processes, and learning.
• Develop and handle core FLHT Portfolio contracts for strategy and learning and collaborate closely with HU Operations team.
• Support effective team structure and decision-making practices, by working with Senior Portfolio Director to set policies, practices, and creating space for adaption.
• Support the Senior Portfolio Director in problem solving, prioritization, and team culture.
• Coordinate Portfolio DEIJ-related learning, accountability, and consciousness-raising efforts.

Strategy Design and Management

• Project management of the development and implementation of the portfolio-level strategy process.
• Support the Senior Portfolio Director in engaging the portfolio in participatory practices to design, create, and refresh strategy as HU evolves into being a systems catalyst.
• Lead the development of deliverables and documents to support the strategy process.
• Ensure effective internal and external communications regarding portfolio strategy.

Cross HU and External Leadership

• Support critical grantee and partner relationships. Work with grantees (holding strategic relationships and at other times supporting other FLHT team members), to support them through complex challenges, such as security challenges or budget cuts or operational shifts.
• Act as liaison with the peer departments to ensure that collaboration, learning, and budget information on the operational side of the work are communicated with the right partners within HU.
• Lead intricate departmental/portfolio-wide projects and schedules of vital meetings, coordinating the planning and execution of portfolio-wide events.
• Hold external relationships with key peer philanthropies, funders, and networks to support building an effective funder eco-system that supports transparency and collaboration.
• Support portfolio influence goals by attending meetings, events, and conferences to represent portfolio and organizational goals.

Communication and Learning

• Compose board documents, presentations, and agendas for the FLHT team sections of board meetings and other internal HU meetings; ensure the team is ahead of the curve in all internal processes required by HU and team deliverables.
• Help curate and communicate information from program teams as part of “holding the whole” across the entire portfolio.
• Partner with the Communications Team to create external communications products, update the website, and share social media content.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Must-have requirements:

• Dedication to HU’s mission and core values (including Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice)
• “Roll up the sleeves” approach, deep sense of curiosity, and a willingness to listen and learn
• High tolerance for ambiguity and balancing multiple changing priorities, strategic frameworks and definitions of success across a dynamic portfolio
• Experience facilitating conversations around complex issues to help drive them toward a decision
• Experience managing programs for large, varied projects or initiatives in complex environments
• Experience with preparing budgets and communicating financial information
• Ability to communicate with a range of partners inside and outside HU, both verbally and in writing
• Demonstrated ability to create appropriate meeting rhythms for sophisticated teams (including board conversations), and to capture most important elements of team meetings in writing
• Strong experience with financial, legal, and grantmaking (or similar) systems, and the ability to learn these systems
• An approach to problem-solving that is proactive and capable of adapting and building consensus
• The right to work in the United States

It’s a bonus if you bring:

• Direct lived experience of the issues we work on and/or if you are from the Global Majority
• Experience working on issues of labor rights, migration-related issues, and/or corporate accountability connected with FLHT’s priorities
• Experience working with a remote and distributed team
• Prior work in a non-profit or philanthropic environment
• Language fluency: Arabic, Bahasa, French, Hindi, Mandarin (Taiwanese), Spanish, or Thai
• We encourage qualified candidates lacking formal or direct experience to describe how their background has served as preparation for this role.

We encourage qualified candidates with informal or indirect experience to describe how their background has served as preparation for this role.

Salary:
The salary range for this position will vary by geographic location to account for local job market & cost of living. Starting salaries within the range are based on job-related skills, experience and background. At HU, salary progression is based on performance and proficiency in a role over time.
 
Example starting salary ranges are provided below, with other locations available on request. We will share more about the starting and full salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

• San Francisco - $126,109 - $140,121
• New York - $119,803 - $133,115
• Washington DC/Boston/Seattle/LA - $113,498 - $126,109
• Chicago, Denver/Boulder, Philadelphia - $107,193 - $119,103
• Cincinnati, Raleigh, Dallas, Milwaukee, Miami - $100,887 - $112,097

Humanity United believes that diversity, equity and inclusion make us more successful in our work, and we are able to grow and learn better together when our team is diverse and representative of the communities we serve. We are actively engaged in a formal DEIJ journey as an organization, and expect that prospective employees are enthusiastic about advancing these goals.

We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and staff. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, class, religion, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status and any other characteristics protected by law. We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse identities or who are members of marginalized communities.

HU is proud to offer all staff an inclusive and comprehensive benefits package to accommodate a diversity of needs and life circumstances and to accommodate staff at all life stages with flexible and supportive benefits. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, flexible spending account, 401(k) plan, paid vacation and sick time with generous holiday closures, paid parental leave, charitable gift matching, employee assistance program and mental health support via our partnerships with Modern Health, Calm and Headspace, commuter benefit, wellbeing benefit, phone and home internet benefit, hybrid work flexibility and half-day Fridays.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to fully access our benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation or describe your needs in your application.

Humanity United’s Values:
We encourage all candidates to learn more about our organizational values at https://humanityunited.org/about/