We’re Hiring: Program Faculty (Multiple Positions)
Position Title: Program Faculty
Organization: Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP)
Program: Fellows for Southern Progress
Available Positions: 2-3
GSP Organizational Overview
Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) is a membership-based network of philanthropic leaders, practitioners, and individuals dedicated to leveraging resources for structural change in the South. Our mission is to transform philanthropic giving and practice in the South that prioritizes equity-focused structural change. As philanthropic giving and practices center equity this will facilitate the strengthening of the organizational infrastructure and the building of power within Southern communities to significantly increase racial, gender, and economic outcomes for people across the South.
GSP’s Fellows for Southern Progress program creates an intentional space to build authentic relationships, sharpen systemic analysis and technical skills, cultivate passions and interests, and inspire a common vision to help shape and organize institutional philanthropy into a committed and effective partner to the movement for structural change in the South in service of justice. The program is a strategic intervention designed to identify, develop, and support justice-minded, anti-racist leaders, in partnership with communities in pursuit of equity and justice. Together, the cohort will work to assert a new vision, values, and ways of working that are focused on repairing the harm that white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, sexism, homophobia, classism, and capitalism has done to Black, Indigenous, other people of color, as well as poor white people in the South.
Position Summary
Fellows for Southern Progress Program Faculty will foster psychologically safe learning environments for FSP cohort participants, while bringing in lessons from change movements to inform the relationship between philanthropy and the communities it serves. Faculty will work with the Program Manager and Director of Programs to co-design sessions they’ll lead for the three in-person convenings and six virtual meetings that reflect the program’s vision and provide immersive experiences for participant engagement. Based on experience, faculty may have coaching responsibilities for up to 3 participants. If selected to participate in the coaching process, faculty will receive a separate stipend for their coaching hours. All faculty, regardless of coaching status, will be required to collaborate with the hired coaching staff to ensure programmatic offerings are meeting the needs of cohort participants.
Important Details to Note:
- Faculty commitments are from approximately July 2025-January 2027. Cohort convenings will begin in early 2026 and end in early 2027
- Travel will be required for the faculty and coach retreat and for each cohort convening, all of which will take place in various locations across the South.
- A faculty and coach retreat will take place in summer 2025.
- Faculty are required to attend each cohort convening for the full duration of the convening. Dates and Locations will be discussed and provided with ample notice. Each cohort convening will last one week (Monday-Friday) for a total of three weeks across the program.
Stipend:
$25,000 total to be paid as follows:
- $2,500 at contract signing
- $7,500 after each of 3 cohort convenings.
Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest and their resume to Katie Sonnen-Lee (ksonnenlee@g4sp.org) by 5pm ET on May 16, 2025.