Director of Programs

Who we are

Founded in 2012, digitalundivided is the leading non-profit leveraging our data, programs, and advocacy to catalyze economic growth for Latina and Black women entrepreneurs and innovators. Our goal is to create a greater world in which all women of color own their work and worth. Our mission moves the entrepreneurial ecosystem forward, to increase funding, access and opportunities for women of color in business and innovation. Our work and advocacy laid the groundwork to empower generations to speak in profound ways about the realities, experiences, and disparities of entrepreneurship while defining actions for change.

As an organization solving deeply rooted systemic issues, we take a multipronged approach. Our research outcomes sparked a global conversation to eliminate barriers in entrepreneurship. digitalundivided was the first to debut authoritative research on the state of Latina and Black women founders with the ProjectDiane Report. The legacy of ProjectDiane inspires our expanded research efforts, conducted by women of color and focused on women of color in entrepreneurship and the businesses they lead.

digitalundivided's programs -- START, BIG Pre-Accelerator, BREAKTHROUGH, Do You Fellowship and the New C-Suite -- mobilize community, best-in-class resources, advisory, and investment to support women of color founders at all stages of their entrepreneurial and funding journeys. digitalundivided's work is based in the United States, but our impact advancing inclusive innovation resonates globally. For more information, visit: www.digitalundivided.com and follow us on Twitter (@digundiv) and on Instagram and Facebook (@digitalundivided).

Our Values

1 - Team Centeredness

2 - Ownership

3 - Commitment to Cultural Competency & Curiosity

Role & Responsibilities

Black and Latina women entrepreneurs are the fastest growing population of entrepreneurs, yet face significant challenges in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Disparities in capital funding, racial inequities, and a lack of diversity are a few of the barriers that minority women must overcome to find the same success as their non-minority counterparts. digitalundivided leads the global culture shift toward inclusive innovation through powerful, impactful and unmatched thinking on topics ranging from accessing untapped reservoirs of innovation to creating a women centered workplace and entrepreneurship ecosystem. In the next 3 years, we aim to develop a strong pipeline of investor-ready founders, through use of our recently developed Investor Readiness Assessment. We also aim to build out 3 separate verticals for our programming: Launch, Growth, and Scale.

The Launch track will allow for pre-revenue founders to enter at the very start of their founder journey. The Growth track will provide go-to-market strategic programming for founders looking to develop strategies based on what they've learned about their target markets. Lastly, our Scale vertical targets our post-revenue founders who are well on their way to becoming "unicorns" and need support scaling their 6, 7, and 8-figure businesses. All founders have access to our founder resource library, mentorship, and quality programming to introduce them to crowdfunding, building relationships with banks to better access debt funding resources, and supplier diversity pipeline development. We're building a membership-based community platform that will provide tools and templates, including a proprietary investor readiness checklist, to prepare founders for investment.

digitalundivided is hiring for a Director of Programs who will lead one of the most critical verticals of the organization's work towards our mission. This person should have at least 5 years of experience in entrepreneurship and/or innovations in the start-up space. Whether professional or lived experience (we really value lived experiences and bringing yourself to work professionally at digitaldunvidied). This role requires agility and responsiveness both to our founders, funders and partners and mentors and facilitators and oversees a team of 4 people, and growing. We are a remote organization with a big vision and we hustler hard every day to create a world where women of color own their worth and worth. This role reports directly to the CEO and requires having good judgment, being very observant, being comfortable with a fairly transparent work environment, being able to take candid feedback from internal and external stakeholders, and having the ability to take initiative towards implementing solutions with our priorities and constantly evolving database in mind.

The ideal candidate is able to work with a collaborative enviroment and team,, and able to present and coach other people in public speaking. Presentation and facilitation skills are a must.

Remote role, but travel is required up to 30% of the time.

Requirements

Your approach:

• Program Leadership and Management: This individual will have taken a hands-on approach in leading a program (incubator/accelerator, etc) focused on entrepreneurial and startup development. The ideal candidate will have a track record of effectively leading a performance-based and outcome-based program and staff. They would have developed and operationalized strategies that have taken a program or organization to the next stage of growth.
• Team Building and Development: The successful candidate will have recruited, managed, and developed a strong team of staff. This individual will serve as a "player/coach" to motivate and mentor his or her team and is comfortable with leading during periods of change.
• Exceptional Cross-Cultural Communication and Influencing Skills: As a voice/advocate for digitalundivided, the Director will have strong written and verbal cross-cultural communication skills. They will be a persuasive, credible, and polished communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills. This individual must work collaboratively with internal as well as external partners and other organizations.
• Excited by Innovation: Extremely detail-oriented and tech-savvy (experienced using project and communication management software like HubSpot, MentorDeck. Mighty Networks and Slack). Knowledge of funding vehicles for startups and small businesses is considered a plus.

What You Will Do (including, but not limited to):

• Develop new learning and cohort-based opportunities for diverse founders addressing barriers specific to Latina and Black women entrepreneurs
• Manage and build a solid foundation for a growing team under the Programs department
• Provide regular reporting of program metrics and progress to the leadership team
• Recruit, schedule, and vet speakers, workshop leaders, cohort, mentors, and entrepreneur in residence (EIRs)

• Coordinate program materials including drafting briefs, worksheets, and other collateral materials
• Conduct pre- and post-program evaluation and follow-up in coordination with the Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, monitoring data collection, and summarizing key insights from program evaluation to partners and team
• Manage data and CRM systems to provide comprehensive and up to date entrepreneur information including tracking of notes, documents, milestones, and other important information

• Coordinate with the Partnership and Events team around logistics including booking venues, catering, A/V, photography/videography, speakers, decor and additional vendors
• Promote digitalundivided programs and events throughout the ecosystem

• Track programming development via HubSpot
• Collect stories of impact from entrepreneurs for use on the web, social, and e-newsletter

• Develop and maintain relationships with partners, founders, mentors, and facilitators throughout the ecosystem
• Develop and provide strategy to achieve organization mission

• Coordinate the year-round logistics, operations, administration, scheduling, calendar management and event planning for all programs/workshops
• Develops and supports a high-quality and impactful experience for founders to ensure project goals are achieved and measured
• Performs oversight of the project management life cycle administration including planning and implementation for task/project completion
• Communicates and collaborates with stakeholders to ensure programs meet established objectives. Solicits and analyzes feedback to identify and implement lessons learned
• Regularly monitors and analyzes processes for effectiveness and opportunities of efficiency
• Manages program budgets and recommends or makes budgetary recommendations
• Maintain project documentation, cohort information, directories, and course folders
• Suggest and develop proposals for program enhancements to improve founder experience
• Liaise with the Marketing team to ensure proper advertisement and positioning of programs
• Launch each cohort, lead program team, and monitor and report on founder progress

• Represent digitalundivided at conferences and meetings
• Working effectively with other colleagues to further the development of the work of digitalundivided including developing new programs that support startup companies
• Other special projects as assigned

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong ethics, high energy, and passion for digitalundivided's mission, with a focus on driving impact
• 8-10 years of professional experience, with demonstrated success leading communications and marketing for startups, nonprofits and other social impact organizations. Prior experience with entrepreneur programs is a plus.
• Deep familiarity with Lean Startup methodologies, growth hacking, product development, agile methodologies, and/or the startup functions needed to build a viable late early-stage company
• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and executing successful curriculum-based programming amongst competing priorities
• Experience at mission-driven brand-building and shaping stories for diverse audiences
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write for diverse audiences and needs.
• Experience managing a diverse team, with a flexible and adaptable style (using project and communication management software like Asana, Monday.com, and Slack)
• Ability to work both independently without close oversight, but also a team player who will productively engage with others at varying levels of seniority within and outside digitalundivided.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor's degree in a related field required

Benefits

Please note

• Position Type: Full-time (some weekends and evenings might be required).
• Compensation and benefits: Annual compensation commensurate with experience, and a generous benefits package with health, dental, vision, FSA, and up to 2% 403b employee match. Plus generous vacation and flex time.
• DE&I: digitalundivided provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination, bullying and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.
• Office budget: We want to ensure that our team has a comfortable and productive tool, so we offer a tech budget to guarantee the best space to work.
• The successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results on that. 3 references will also be required.
• This is a remote position that requires up to 30% of travel time.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.