Principal

As a Principal at Mind Share Partners, you will have the opportunity to be part of the growing movement to create mentally healthy workplaces. You’ll build relationships with a wide range of corporate and non-profit clients - including forward thinking leaders in HR, DEI and executive management - across industries and with groups of all sizes. You’ll facilitate and design interactive training for employees, managers, and executives that blend management and mental health best practices. You’ll lead impact-focused advising projects from end-to-end, such as strategic initiatives, communications campaigns, and company-wide diagnostics. You’ll never get bored, switching from workshop facilitation, to strategic advising, to project management, to creating content, to team bonding. You’ll be part of a team that is entrepreneurial and creative, working in a small, nimble, growing nonprofit startup that moves quickly. 

Responsibilities - 

• Client projects: Our clients are from a range of industries--such as hospitality, retail, and professional services--and sizes, ranging from 100 to 300,000 employees. (Learn more about our clients here. Learn more about our client services here.

  • Manage and support a portfolio of client projects focused on improving mental health in the workplace. Serve as a partner to company representatives from HR, Diversity & Inclusion, Learning & Development, and executive teams. 

  • Understand clients’ goals and culture while working with other team members to create a customized, engaging, and meaningful experience for the client and participants. 

  • Advise clients on strategy, communication, and special initiatives (such as employee resource groups) for creating a mentally healthy workplace.

  • Facilitate and customize a suite of training designed to increase awareness and practice specific behavioral tools for mentally healthy workplaces. 

• Business development:

  • Once onboarded, build relationships with inbound sales prospects; craft proposals and steward prospects towards becoming clients. (Principals usually begin doing this work after 6-12 months.)

  • Steward short and long-term client relationships to increase impact and sell additional work, as appropriate.

  • Outbound sales is not a responsibility for Principals, but we do encourage Principals to maintain and expand their professional networks and identify partnership opportunities if they arise.

• Function management:

  • Keep organized by maintaining and improving internal systems related to project work, including our CRM.

  • Pitch in across the organization on various projects and initiatives (such as movement-building, marketing, etc.) to support the growth of Mind Share Partners’ impact.

Logistics - 

• This role is a Full-Time, Exempt role that can be based anywhere in the United States; we have a nationally distributed team. 

• All of Mind Share’s current work is done remotely. Occasional travel (between 10-25%)  is required.

• Most people at Mind Share Partners work business hours in their local time zone, with some flexibility. Due to the global nature of our client work, Principals do sometimes have client meetings or training sessions outside of those times. 

• This role will report to the Managing Director & COO, Jen Porter. The role will work with all members of the Mind Share Partners team.

• Experienced: 

• • Minimum experience required is 5+ years of professional experience, including experience leading consulting or large cross-functional projects, facilitation, and managing direct reports. 

  • Most applicants will have between 5-15 years of experience overall. 

  • Illustrative list of roles often held by Principals prior to Mind Share Partners: Strategy or Management Consultant, Learning & Development Director, HR Business Partner, Chief of Staff. 

• Skilled Training Facilitator: Dynamic presenter that engages groups of 10-100+; excellent at explaining complicated or new ideas, thinks well on your feet, comfortable having difficult conversations.

• Strategic Consultant: Experienced at advising leaders or organizations on strategy or change management. This experience can come from traditional external consulting or the equivalent, such as internal change management. 

• Expert Project Manager: Responsive, organized project manager with at least 2 years of experience leading client work or large cross-functional  projects Relationship Manager: Skilled at developing long-term partnerships, ideally with human resources or diversity and inclusion teams. Ability to speak clearly and convincingly. Enjoys working with people, sky-high EQ, and strong rapport to advise senior leadership teams.

• Entrepreneurial: Self-starter, proactive problem-solver, very flexible, comfortable with ambiguity and complexity, contributes creative ideas, and thrives in a growing environment.

• Learning-Minded: Willing to test, ask questions, and test again to improve services and results across all areas continually. Welcomes feedback to learn and continuously grow..

• Team Player: Willing to pitch in at all levels of the organization, community-minded, unafraid to dig into the nitty-gritty work.

• Passionate: Passionate about mental health and wellbeing, committed to Mind Share Partners’ mission.

Mind Share Partners offers competitive pay, commensurate with your skills and experience. The annual compensation for this role is $115,000.

We seek to live our vision of a mentally healthy and inclusive workplace. We have always been a remote, nationally distributed team; we provide our employees with flexible work practices. We connect often and convene in person twice a year. We are a group of kind humans who strive for excellence with balance--recognizing the whole person at work.

Our benefits package includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a health flexible spending account (FSA)

• Life insurance and a 401k retirement plan with a 3% guaranteed contribution

• Professional development funds and a stipend to set up a home office 

• 20 days of PTO for vacation, life events, and personal reasons. 

• Flexible sick time for preventative care and sickness for employees and when they act as caregivers 

• 14 holidays and an office closure the last week of the year

• We encourage people to completely sign off from work at the end of their workday and when they are on PTO.

To apply, please visit our website’s careers page: www.mindsharepartners.org/careers.   Submit your resume and answer the listed application questions. While we will accept applications on a rolling basis until the role is filled, however, we strongly encourage those interested to apply before September 23, 2024.

Our Commitments to You

• We will be transparent about our process: Our hiring process is thorough. We do this because we know that building a high-performing, inclusive team is important. Every stage and question in our process is included for a reason--we’ll be transparent about why we are asking, especially when it’s going to take some of your time. And if you aren’t the right fit for this role at any stage, we’ll let you know.

• We look at the whole picture: We recognize that neither job descriptions nor people are perfect. If you think you can be successful in this role but don’t meet every listed qualification, we encourage you to apply--we’d love to get to know you and see what you have to offer. We look for “culture adds” not “culture fits.” We want people who push our thinking and who bring a unique perspective to our work.

• We seek to build a diverse and inclusive team: Mental health is interrelated with diversity, equity, and inclusion; it’s an intersectional issue that affects groups differently. At Mind Share Partners we are committed to practicing diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice principles. 

We are an Equal-Opportunity Employer deeply committed to building an inclusive team with diverse perspectives and experiences from a range of backgrounds and cultures. We actively seek out identities that we don’t have represented on our team and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented communities in the workplace mental health space to apply.