Manager of Operations
Open Horizon
District of Columbia
$65,000-$80,000
Office/Support Staff
Full Time
Position Title: Manager of Operations
Reports to: Executive Director
Timeframe: Application open August 20 through September 3, 2025
- Selection and interview process: September 15-30, 2025
- Anticipated start date: October 1-15, 2025
Location: Remote, preference for candidates based in DMV Area, expected travel for conferences and events
Salary: $80,000
Summary: This position has a key role in developing, evolving, maintaining, and formalizing systems around foundation granting and finances; implementing and coordinating program logistics, communications, and information technology (including personnel systems management); and other operational functions. These systems are essential for Open Horizon to deliver on its mission.
About the Organization
Founded in December 2019, Open Horizon is a family foundation based in Alexandria, VA. Open Horizon collaborates with nonprofit partners to uplift leaders and to co-create opportunities advancing racial and social justice. The organization seeks to build authentic and caring relationships with its partners by centering their well-being, dignity, and needs so that we can intentionally support them in ways that they have identified.
The Open Horizon founders are both influenced by their European Jewish heritage. Their forebears immigrated to the United States to escape the horrors of persecution and war. This has influenced their commitment to support education, to create a stronger civil society, and to promote economic equity. Current foundation priorities include projects in the DMV (DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia region), the US South, and expanding intentionally to indigenous communities. Open Horizon organizes partnerships around education justice, economic justice, and health justice (healing justice), and transformational justice.
The foundation is at an inflection point, not only as Open Horizon matures in its sixth year of operation and expands to add new leadership for its initiatives, but also in the context of a society that is fighting to uphold democracy while many try to defend the dignity and worth of targeted individuals, identities, and communities. The foundation recognizes histories of intentional harm against Black and Brown people, LGBTQI+ identities, and the ways that legacies of brutality and separation cause continued systemic inequities.
About the opportunity: The Manager of Operations will play a critical role in evolving and continuing to formalize structure, including: creatively supporting evolving program logistics; facilitating funding grant commitments, and managing budgeting documentation; examining trends in operations across the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, recommending and implementing innovative systems; participating in research aligned with emerging shifts in evolving programs and strategy; supporting key aspects of communications in collaboration with Director of Programs.
Initially Open Horizon was focused solely on granting to aligned nonprofit partners. In 2022, the foundation began designing its own signature programs, including Ignite the South (facilitated by implementing partners), the OH Leaders Retreat, and a myriad of capacity building and experiential learning opportunities including a North Stars program for Fellows and Interns, a Leaders Network learning series and ten facilitated one-on-one leadership and wellness coaching sessions for grantee partner leaders. These signature programs continue to evolve, and this role will support the operations that complement each program’s emerging needs. In expanding the staff team, Open Horizon continues to work with nonprofit partners to fund their valuable work, while also creating unique programs that serve to expand opportunity and increase equity for intentionally marginalized and under-resourced individuals and communities.
Vision Alignment and Motivation
The Manager of Operations role is ideal for a value-driven, equity-focused, collaborative leader with a growth mindset who is interested in joining a growing organization. Open Horizon’s Values include: Equity, Community, Innovation, Integrity. Our ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with a commitment to operational excellence who is a skilled connector, and anticipatory planner, able to develop and co-create solutions for individual and organizational challenges, and motivated to build upon piloted systems and nurture relationships. The candidate should be well-versed in issues of inclusion and belonging, intersectionality, and racial and social justice.
How we do our work: We Fund, We Convene, We Amplify, We Build Capacity
Areas of Leadership & Impact:
What you will do:
- Event Coordination and Logistics
- Organizational Representation: Meeting and event attendance, relationship development, some facilitation as needed
- Communications: Manage technology for public engagement
- Consolidate and synthesize financial reports for grant recipient evaluation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Financial and Budget System Management
- State and federal tax compliance
- Personnel System Management (internal HR system)
- Build Knowledge Management System (technical) to support programs
- Manage consultant vetting and engagements
- Inventory procurement and management
- Vendor selection in alignment with organizational policies
What you will bring:
- Alignment to mission and organizational values
- Higher education degree in aligned subject area; master's degree preferred and/or experience (2+ years) is considerable
- Experience in philanthropy in the DMV region, location preferred but not required; or transferable experience leading or establishing an operations position
- Commitment to life-long learning
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Strong communication skills: both written and verbal
- Technical event coordination, including conference logistics, virtual event platforms, and vendor and site vetting and coordination
- Partnership development and maintenance (Relationship building)
- Experience managing nonprofit accounts and/or foundational finances, including facilitating documentation for taxes and banking
- Nonprofit board and/or community service volunteering experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly technology stipend
- 5% employee contribution matching for retirement plan
- Flexible leave
- 4-day work week to center wellness
- 2 full weeks of office closure to center rest (in mid-year and end of year)
- Annual professional development investment to develop your skills and center your passions to pursue goals
- Opportunity to participate in an employee granting program annually
Interested applicants should email a resume and cover letter to OpenHorizonFoundation2019@gmail.com by 5PM EDT on September 3, 2025; we welcome including two professional references (name, email, phone, and relationship) in submitted resumes. Please include any needed reasonable accommodation requests in the email with your application materials.
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