Executive Director, Social Justice Fund

Job Description:

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.

• Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.

• Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.

• Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title: Executive Director, Social Justice Fund

A little bit about our team:

The Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund (WMG/BFF SJF) seeks a highly experienced leader in philanthropy and/or social investment with a demonstrated commitment and passion for social and racial justice and equity. Our ideal candidate is an open-minded, agile, curious, strategic thinker with a demonstrated commitment to systems change, movement and power building, and ameliorating the impact of racism on marginalized communities. This role requires significant experience in managing a significant spend-down non-profit fund with high internal and external visibility. We want a proven leader eager to help grow the Fund’s impact and presence by leading the Fund with confidence, energy and a bold vision.

The WMG/BFF SJF invests in organizations around the globe that build more just and equitable communities and create real change in the lives of historically underserved and marginalized populations. We focus our investments on organizations that are led by and work to benefit affected populations, principally Black populations, in their intersectional dimensions, with a belief that work in these areas will aid in dismantling structural racism and advance equity and justice for all people. The  Fund is time-limited (initially 10 years) and will make investments in both the US and abroad, focused on three key strategic pillars: education, arts and culture, and criminal justice reform.

Your role:

As Executive Director, you will work closely with the Fund’s Advisory Board and should be comfortable interacting with senior executives regarding strategy development and program execution. The preferred location for this role is New York.

Here you’ll get to:

Project Development and Oversight

• Oversee the Fund’s long-range organizational planning, program development, monitoring, evaluation

and impact, and stay abreast of the evolving global landscape around racial equity and justice

• Ensure compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulation necessary to maintain the Project’s

good standing

• Cultivate a professional environment that upholds equity, dignity, respect, and diversity; emphasize

shared leadership and decision-making and embed collaborative and inclusive practices across the

Project and operations

Grants Management

• Produce at least two grant dockets annually of the Core Grants Fund for approval by the Fund’s

Advisory Board

• Ensure adherence to legal due diligence and best practices in both domestic and international

grantmaking

• Carry out program work including evaluating and investigating grants and grantees, conducting site

visits to current and prospective grant