Senior Manager, Project Discovery & Transitions

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary guide for prospective Project Teams creating a transparent trust-centered discovery experience that reflects Multipliers values.
• Communicate Multipliers 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 projects 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 Multipliers 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 Multipliers 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.

The Ideal Candidate

• Stakeholder Stewardship & Early-Stage Partnership Development: 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.
• Presence & Relationship-Building: Ability to engage confidently with senior leaders facilitate nuanced and sometimes sensitive conversations and navigate complexity with care. Approach values-driven conversations with steadiness even when faced with ambiguity.
• Sound Judgment & Decision-Making: Ability to synthesize inputs from multiple stakeholders surface key considerations risks and tradeoffs and guide clear timely decisions.
• Organizational & Systems Thinking: Demonstrated ability to design interpret and evolve systems that connect strategy operations and stakeholder experience.
• Nonprofit & Compliance Knowledge: Working knowledge of 501(c)(3) nonprofit structures rules and regulations.
• Equity & Bias-Awareness: Demonstrated ability to design and apply processes that reduce bias expand access and support equitable participation in decision-making.
• Complex Process & Transition Management: Experience leading multi-step multi-stakeholder processes such as organizational transitions or similarly complex workflows requiring coordination judgment and adaptability.
• Facilitation & Collaboration: Skilled in guiding discussion synthesizing perspectives and communication clearly across audiences including in high-stakes or sensitive situations.
• Project Management & Organization: Strong organizational and documentation skills across multiple priorities.
  
  

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