Position: #ShiftThePower, Part-Time Platform Coordinator

Background

The 2016 Global Summit on Community Philanthropy was organized with the intention of shifting the fields of development and philanthropy towards a new paradigm of “people based development,” giving primacy to building local assets, capacities and trust. The Summit’s rallying cry, #ShiftThePower, ultimately reached a social media audience of more than 37 million users, and has since been widely used to describe, and advocate for, a long-overdue change in focus towards community-led, durable development.

The Summit was just one particularly energetic moment in a conversation that has been happening for some time now, made up of multiple voices and actors, which includes but isn’t limited to the growing global community philanthropy field. The GFCF wants to keep that conversation progressing and open with others, and in the coming months will be looking to work with partners around the #ShiftThePower agenda in various different spaces – virtual and otherwise. The GFCF is working on plans for an exciting new post-Summit initiative that will keep a spotlight on this conversation, and draw in voices and ideas from a broader cross-section of the “community-led” development space. 

Position Description

The GFCF seeks a creative, digitally savvy #ShiftThePower Platform Coordinator. This person will assist the GFCF in co-creating spaces – virtual and otherwise – and opportunities for various actors (philanthropic, development, civil society, etc.) to work together around this agenda. An additional objective will be to encourage other actors to better understand and embrace the tenets of people based development. 

Read the full position description. The closing date for applications is 30 April 2017. Any queries should be directed to Wendy Richardson at the GFCF.