Priority Initiative Leader, Uniting Americans Around Our Founding Principles
Stand Together · Arlington, Virginia, United States · onsite
USD 200,000 to 250,000 a year
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.
As the Priority Initiative Leader for Uniting Americans Around Our Founding Principles (UAFP), you will serve as the key strategic leader accountable for developing and refining the strategy and theory of change for how Stand Together and its network of partners build a shared American identity grounded in the country’s founding principles, replacing a narrative of division with one of shared purpose and bottom-up contribution.
This role sits at the intersection of narrative and movement strategy, high-profile coalition leadership, and civics-market building. You'll bring together a distinctive set of stakeholders - professional sports leagues and franchises, musicians and entertainment partners, philanthropic partners across the ideological spectrum, civics education organizations, and community leaders - around a shared campaign to make founding-principles-based citizenship culturally resonant at national scale. You'll integrate the full breadth of Stand Together’s capabilities, from national brand campaigns and content production to fundraising and partner development, so the movement’s narrative, action, and civics pillars compound rather than run independently.
We are looking for someone who operates as the chief executive of a portfolio: reading a fast-moving cultural landscape quickly, prioritizing the opportunities that will drive the most impact, making the trade-offs that follow, and building the leaders who'll implement the strategies.
The ideal candidate has shaped national-scale brand, cultural, or narrative campaigns, and has a track record of building coalitions with high-profile partners across business, entertainment, sports, and philanthropy. Done well, this role makes founding-principles-based citizenship a living part of American culture rather than a civics-class abstraction.
Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect.