Director, Economic Inclusion, North America

POSITION SUMMARY:

HIAS seeks a Director, Financial Inclusion, North America to offer strategic management in our Financial Inclusion packages within the North America Area, together with employment and profession pathways, monetary wellness curricula and helps by means of a bundled service mannequin, asset constructing, journey loans administration and the connection upkeep to help continued schooling, in addition to thought management on the entrepreneurship actions and the build-out of its Group Growth Monetary Establishment mannequin to that finish. HIAS’ EI work serves refugees and asylees, in addition to asylum seekers when funding permits.

The Director, Financial Inclusion, North America co-creates and executes the technique for the EI staff and administered packages. The place actively helps the staff and ensures high quality supply in our 29-site resettlement community, figuring out alternatives for program development and new efficient fashions of supply. The place builds off the mapping of the strengths and weaknesses of EI programming throughout the affiliate companion map, together with the technique and constructed out for assembly extra want, and for positioning refugees for optimum earnings potential and for the power to climate setbacks after they do happen.

As the pinnacle of this unit, the place offers supervision and thought partnership to program leads specializing in facets of EI programming. Additionally they collaborate with the opposite unit leads, the Administrators of Preliminary Resettlement (targeted on the primary 90 days of arrival) and Social Inclusion (the staff serving extra susceptible shoppers) each managing a portfolio of packages with a distinct program focus than EI, however usually supporting the identical shoppers. The Director, Financial Inclusion, North America seems for alternatives throughout your complete Resettlement & Integration unit for cross-collaboration so as to higher serve refugees.

Be aware, this place is predicated at our headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland or our workplace in New York, New York, and we’ll think about a distant choice for candidates who dwell exterior of commuting distance to both of our places of work and are based mostly in different states during which we’re registered (Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Supplies mastery in some or the entire subjects within the portfolio, together with workforce improvement, entrepreneurship and abilities coaching, each vocational and normal life abilities like English in addition to digital and monetary literacy.
• Identifies and approaches funders, writes idea notes, and tracks grants for program outcomes and monetary efficiency.
• Works with HIAS’ Institutional Growth staff to construct a neighborhood of funders from personal philanthropy, particular person donors, and companies—with respective HIAS groups—to construct out the programming on the companion websites.
• Speaks knowledgably and comfortable with a wide range of audiences to construct the HIAS model in EI work and the significance of this work for long run integration.
• Collaborates with the Financial Inclusion & Livelihoods employees in HIAS’ world Technical Staff that helps programming throughout all 23 HIAS nation workplace places for thought technology, synergies and coordinated communications throughout company companions and different shared audiences.
• Works with the MEAL Specialist, North America Packages to construct evidence-based methods and monitor packages for end result achievement.
• Designs packages for newcomers with abilities gaps and builds the technique round provision of holistic programming, together with bundled providers, for higher end result achievement.
• Supervises 4 program leads and their direct reviews, and builds a collaborative staff atmosphere.
• Collaborates with supervisor (Vice President, Resettlement & Integration) in constructing programming and the staff, and in publicizing the targets and virtues of this service space for refugees.
• Performs different duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Undergraduate diploma required; graduate diploma most popular.
• Minimal of 6-8 years {of professional} expertise.
• Minimal of 4 years of supervision expertise.
• Observe report of elevating cash in years or awards; sturdy expertise in fundraising.
• Expertise working with newcomers; bonus if expertise is in native resettlement company.
• Expertise working with federal businesses in some capability required (i.e. program supply, grant writing, or federal reporting).
• Good information {and professional} expertise required of managing an EI program demonstrating expertise in EI infrastructure, together with service supply system and funder neighborhood.
• Expertise scaling packages most popular.
• Strategic imaginative and prescient for rising high quality packages, exhibiting a collaborative type and with the help of a well-managed staff is a requirement.
• Robust public talking abilities required to encourage employees, federal funders and the broader donor neighborhood by advocating for the wants of refugees successfully.
• Glorious interpersonal abilities, together with the power to repeatedly talk with a wide range of audiences and advocate for why EI programming is important to attaining financial self-sufficiency and monetary well-being.
• Journey within the U.S. every now and then required.
• Journey, to incorporate journey to insecure working environments, could also be required.

HIRING PROCESS:

We’re dedicated to a good and respectful hiring course of, and we do our best possible to reply to each applicant. We prioritize communication and transparency with all candidates, even those that should not transferring ahead. Right here’s a snapshot of our hiring course of:

Step 1: Submit your software!

Step 2: Telephone display with a HIAS recruiter.

Step 3: Video interview with the hiring supervisor.

Step 4: Video interview with a panel of HIAS workers.

Step 5: On-line reference examine with SkillSurvey.

Step 6: Supply and background examine with Defend Screening or HireRight.

Step 7: Begin your skilled journey with HIAS!

Be aware: A few of our hiring processes could differ, and never all candidates will advance to every step.

ABOUT US:

Over 100 years in the past, the Jewish neighborhood based HIAS (initially the Hebrew Immigrant Assist Society) in New York Metropolis, the immigrant gateway to America. Supporting Jews fleeing persecution and poverty in Japanese Europe, our founders had been guided by the traditions, texts and historical past of the Jewish folks—a historical past of oppression, displacement and diaspora. HIAS has since helped generations of Jews going through violence due to who they had been, and HIAS stays dedicated to serving to Jewish refugees anyplace on the planet. At the moment, our shoppers at HIAS come from numerous faiths, ethnicities and backgrounds, as do our employees. We deliver our expertise, historical past and values to our work throughout 5 continents, making certain that refugees right this moment obtain the important providers and alternatives they should thrive.

HIAS is a studying neighborhood, dedicated to variety and inclusion. We do our work with integrity, accountability, transparency and a dedication to the very best moral requirements. We search workers from numerous backgrounds and life experiences to hitch our groups situated in the USA and throughout the globe. Individuals who determine as BIPOC, folks with disabilities, folks from the LGBTQ+ neighborhood and folks with lived experiences of pressured displacement or immigration are all inspired to use. We’re dedicated to constructing a various workforce that displays our imaginative and prescient, mission and values.

VISION:

HIAS stands for a world during which refugees discover welcome, security and alternative.

MISSION:

Drawing on our Jewish values and historical past, HIAS offers important providers to refugees and asylum seekers all over the world and advocates for his or her basic rights to allow them to rebuild their lives.

VALUES:

Welcome • Acogimiento • Hospitalité • Hachnasat Orchim

We Welcome the Stranger

Justice • Justicia • Justice • Tzedek

We Pursue Justice

Empathy • Empatía • Empathie • Chesed

We Method our Purchasers with Empathy

Partnership • Compañerismo • Coopération • Chevruta

We Imagine in Altering the World by means of Partnership

Braveness • Coraje • Braveness • Ometz

We Act with Braveness to Construct a Higher World

Resilience • Resiliencia • Résilience • Ruach

We Adapt and Thrive, Repeatedly Demonstrating our Resilience

DIVERSITY:

HIAS is dedicated to a various and inclusive office. As an equal alternative employer, all certified candidates will likely be thought of for employment with out regard to race, colour, nationwide origin, ethnic background, ancestry, citizenship standing, spiritual creed, age, intercourse, gender, sexual orientation, bodily incapacity, psychological incapacity, medical situation, genetic data, marital standing, registered home companion or civil union standing, familial standing, being pregnant, childbirth, army standing, protected veteran standing, political orientation or different legally protected standing.

Research have proven that ladies and folks of colour are much less more likely to apply for jobs until they meet each single qualification. We strongly encourage candidates of numerous identities, backgrounds, experiences, and views to use even when you don’t meet all required {qualifications} however produce other {qualifications} related to the function that may make you an excellent match for this function with HIAS!

SAFEGUARDING:

HIAS is dedicated to the safety of youngsters, susceptible adults and another particular person from any hurt triggered immediately or not directly on account of their coming into contact with HIAS. We won’t tolerate sexual exploitation, abuse or any type of little one abuse or neglect by our employees or related personnel. Any candidate provided a job with HIAS will likely be anticipated to signal and cling to HIAS’ Code of Conduct and Safeguarding insurance policies. All affords of employment will likely be topic to passable references and acceptable screening checks, which may embody legal information. HIAS additionally participates within the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. Consistent with this Scheme, we’ll request data from job candidates’ earlier employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment throughout employment, or incidents beneath investigation when the applicant left employment. Likewise, HIAS will share this data when different organizations inquire about present and former HIAS employees as a part of their recruitment course of. By submitting an software, the job applicant confirms their understanding of those recruitment procedures.