Deputy Director

Meantime, a non-profit 501c(3) based in Philadelphia, is focused on activating vacant storefronts with creative retail and cultural residencies focused on building entrepreneurship capacity in communities and enlivening urban corridors. Meantime is experiencing strong growth and funding prospects and is looking to capitalize on this moment of expansion with a key strategic hire in the Deputy Director position. This position is well timed to give the successful candidate an unusual opportunity to build on our recent momentum and help vision and shape the future of the organization. The Deputy Director will help lead, organize and grow the initiative into its next phase of impact and operations in direct collaboration with the Founder/Executive Director. Meantime is co-located with ISA, a design and urbanism practice that launched the initiative as a separate entity two-years ago. The Deputy Director should bring strong non-profit understanding and organizational experience to complement the design and urbanism context already built-in to its founding story. Activities of the position include overseeing day-to-day operations, cross coordination among internal and external stakeholders, and program delivery. The Deputy Director will serve as the organizational nerve-center, ensuring Meantime's ideas become real projects on the ground while managing the administrative requirements of contracts, insurance, agreements, grant applications, ec. The Deputy Director will also help look to the future. This will involve expanding Meantime's geography out of Center City Philadelphia and into a wider variety of neighborhoods as well as potentially other cities. Further, Meantime will be looking to strengthen its connectivity between activators and supportive educational and financial resources of the City of Philadelphia, other non-profits and educational institutions. Key Responsibilities Manage internal operations across programs, staff, and workflows Oversee pipeline of projects from concept to activation to closeout Develop and collect quantitative and qualitative data relative to programmer experiences Coordinate between design, field operations, and partnerships Help grow the Board from its initial small group to a broader, supportive infrastructure. Lead legal, contracts, insurance, budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation Collaborate with Director on fundraising and reporting (write grants, impact metrics) Coordinate annual fundraising event Step in as organizational lead when Executive Director is unavailable Candidate Requirements Experience in nonprofit operation and project management is essential. Other desirable experience may include urban planning, real estate development, cultural curation, graphic design or retail merchandizing. Strong communication, writing, strategic thinking, and organizational skills are key. Ability to manage both high-level strategy and detailed execution Enthusiasm for start-up mode where all the answers aren't always at hand. Experience working between multiple, complex layers of stakeholders including city government, property owners, entrepreneurs, designers, creative producers and legal counsel. The most competitive candidates likely possess a college or university degree. Details Full-time is preferred, but substantial PT commitments will be considered depending on strength of candidate Salary and benefits commensurate with qualifications and experience Location is in Philadelphia and would be hybrid (weekly in-person touchpoints) Opportunity to help build a timely, meaningful and impactful non-profit organization during its early stages.