Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Multiplier is a high-performance organization focused on fostering a sustainable and equitable world. The Senior Manager, Project Discovery & Transitions will lead the design and implementation of project discovery and transition processes, ensuring that new project teams are effectively integrated into the organization while maintaining strong relationships and transparency.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary guide for prospective Project Teams, creating a transparent, trust-centered discovery experience that reflects Multiplier’s values
- Communicate Multiplier’s model, services, expectations, and decision criteria with clarity and consistency, supporting informed and equitable participation in the discovery process
- Design and lead discovery engagements that surface key considerations related to mission alignment, feasibility, organizational readiness, and risk
- Facilitate or co-facilitate conversations using structured guides while navigating nuance and building trust
- Identify and surface key considerations related to mission alignment, feasibility, leadership readiness, and risk and determine when and how to engage Core Team member expertise
- Synthesize insights from discovery into clear, decision-ready summaries that reflect strategic, operational, equity, and risk considerations
- Lead internal alignment conversations to surface tradeoffs, clarify perspectives, and support well-informed, timely decisions
- Communicate decisions with clarity and care, maintaining transparency throughout the full inquiry process
- Lead qualification and due diligence processes, establishing clear expectations, timelines, and information flows for both Project Teams and Core Team members
- Guide the collection and synthesis of key information, including leadership, funding, project structure, staffing, and operational complexity
- Identify structural complexities early (e.g. international operations, staffing models, compliance considerations), assessing implications in partnership with relevant Core Team functional leads
- Apply consistent, bias-aware criteria to support evaluation of project readiness and alignment
- Ensure documentation is complete, accurate and structured to support organization record-keeping and transparent decision-making. Decisions are separately owned by Core Team leadership
- Provide relevant context-driven information to engaged stakeholders, ensuring clarity, relevance and framing of risks and opportunities
- Lead the post-approval/pre-arrival phase for new Project Teams, establishing clear pathways from acceptance through full arrival into Multiplier
- Design and manage post-approval/pre-arrival approaches that reflect project complexity, risk profile, and team needs, ensuring a tailored yet consistent experience
- Align Core Team members around roles, responsibilities, and sequencing, enabling coordinated and efficient post-approval/pre-arrival phase support
- Ensure the timely and efficient coordination of transition components including funding transfers, staffing, contracts, technology, and asset transfers. Monitor milestones and escalate delays or concerns as needed
- Identify and address friction points, facilitating solutions that balance project needs with organizational requirements
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Project Teams during the post-approval/pre-arrival phase, maintaining alignment between expectations and operational realities
- Once projects land at Multiplier, the Senior Manager partners closely with Senior Impact Partners, Program Finance Officers, and other Core Team Members to incrementally expand ongoing relationship stewardship based on each project’s specific priority needs, preserving continuity of trust and shared understanding
- Identify and assess operational, financial, compliance, and reputational risks
- Support risk-informed decision-making by surfacing key considerations, tradeoffs, and areas of uncertainty in a clear and actionable way
- Determine when to elevate risks, particularly in complex or ambiguous situations, and when to resolve through cross-functional alignment
- Ensure key decisions, agreements, risk considerations, and mitigation approaches are documented to support transparency, accountability, and learning
- Lead structured departure processes, including transitions to independent 501(c)(3) status, and closures
- Guide Project Teams through transitions with care and clarity, maintaining transparency throughout the process
- Align Project Teams and Core Team members around expectations, responsibilities, and timelines for transition
- Ensure all compliance, financial, legal, and operational requirements are met and clearly documented. Approach transitions with an organizational lens, preserving relationships while protecting Multiplier’s integrity and reputation
- Identify and document patterns across inquiries and project experiences to inform improvements to the pipeline strategy and discovery processes
- Continually improve systems for tracking discovery, partnership finalization, and transition. Ensure that improvements include increasing transparency, reinforcing consistency, and improving usability across Project Teams and Multiplier’s Core Team
- Identify points of friction, bias, or misalignment and implement changes that improve clarity, access, and efficiency
- Maintain cross-functional visibility into pipeline trends and transition outcomes, contributing insights that inform organizational strategy, resource allocation, and process refinement
- Partner with internal teams to strengthen early-stage clarity through shared tools and practices
- Partner across the Core Team to refine shared tools, practices, and expectations that support a coherent, trust-centered approach across all areas of responsibility
Skills
- Executive presence, systems thinking, and sound judgment
- Ability to translate organizational priorities into clear processes that evolve alongside the ever-changing project pipeline
- Ability to build trusted relationships with mission-driven leaders and teams
- Ability to synthesize strategic, operational and risk considerations into clear, decision-ready pathways
- Ability to lead qualification and due diligence processes
- Ability to guide the collection and synthesis of key information, including leadership, funding, project structure, staffing, and operational complexity
- Ability to apply consistent, bias-aware criteria to support evaluation of project readiness and alignment
- Ability to ensure documentation is complete, accurate and structured to support organization record-keeping and transparent decision-making
- Ability to lead the post-approval/pre-arrival phase for new Project Teams
- Ability to identify and assess operational, financial, compliance, and reputational risks
- Ability to lead structured departure processes, including transitions to independent 501(c)(3) status, and closures
- Ability to identify and document patterns across inquiries and project experiences to inform improvements to the pipeline strategy and discovery processes
- Demonstrated ability to build trust with external leaders and organizations at early stages of engagement
- Skilled in guiding conversations around alignment, readiness, and fit, while representing organizational values with clarity and credibility
- Ability to engage confidently with senior leaders, facilitate nuanced and sometimes sensitive conversations, and navigate complexity with care
- Ability to synthesize inputs from multiple stakeholders, surface key considerations, risks and tradeoffs, and guide clear, timely decisions
- Demonstrated ability to design, interpret, and evolve systems that connect strategy, operations, and stakeholder experience
- Working knowledge of 501(c)(3) nonprofit structures, rules and regulations
- Demonstrated ability to design and apply processes that reduce bias, expand access, and support equitable participation in decision-making
- Experience leading multi-step, multi-stakeholder processes such as organizational transitions, or similarly complex workflows requiring coordination, judgment, and adaptability
- Skilled in guiding discussion, synthesizing perspectives, and communication clearly across audiences, including in high-stakes or sensitive situations
- Strong organizational and documentation skills across multiple priorities
Benefits
- Excellent medical and dental benefits
- Retirement savings
- Generous vacation and sick leave policy
Company Overview
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