Membership Director

Membership Director

The Membership Director plays a key role in cultivating, engaging, and expanding EDGE's global network of philanthropic members. This position stewards relationships with existing members, leads recruitment of new ones, and ensures that the membership community remains vibrant, values-aligned, and strategically engaged in EDGE's collective work.

As part of EDGE's Leadership Team, the Membership Director contributes to organizational strategy, co-decision-making, and the continued shaping of EDGE's evolving structure. This role requires a balance of relational work, strategic thinking, and hands-on coordination : someone who enjoys connecting people, strengthening community, and turning member energy into collective action.

The Membership Director will :

• Lead efforts to recruit, retain, and engage members in alignment with EDGE's current strategy (set till 2030).
• Develop processes for tracking and surveying members that helps us observe trends and easily understand our network's make-up
• Drive EDGE's transnational expansion into new regions, cultivating partnerships and leading pathways that strengthen EDGE's global reach and diversity.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with philanthropic partners across regions, ensuring meaningful participation and feedback loops.
• Work closely with the Programs Director on program planning, learnings, and responding to membership priorities.
• Design and facilitate community-building activities for local meetings, online breakfasts, regional retreats and conferences.
• Collaborate with colleagues on communications, programs, and governance, ensuring that members' voices are at the center of EDGE's strategic direction and decisions.
• Represent EDGE externally, highlighting the network's distinct role in the philanthropic ecosystem and its commitment to systemic, justice-oriented change.

Joining EDGE at this moment means being part of a small, care-centered, and experimental team that is continuously reimagining what leadership and accountability look like in a transnational network without an executive director. The role calls for flexibility, initiative, and curiosity to co-create new ways of working while deepening community across a diverse global membership.

More Details on the Role :

Membership Recruitment

Membership Engagement & Community Building

Shared Governance & Strategy

Visibility and Positioning in the Sector

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

As part of a small, transnational, and values-driven team, we're looking for someone who combines strategic focus with relational sensitivity. We are seeking someone who understands the philanthropic sector and the importance of strong trusting relationships to achieve systems change and who feels energized by community building. This role is best suited for a person who is committed to collaboration, experimentation, and care-centered leadership, and who wants to contribute to shaping how philanthropy can be more just, connected, and life-affirming.

We recognize that no one person will embody all of these skills and experiences, and we welcome applications from candidates with diverse professional and personal pathways. What matters most is alignment with EDGE's values and a commitment to collective transformation in philanthropy.

We're looking for someone who :

Brings deep care for community, relationships, and collective processes, and understands that building trust is a form of strategy.

Has experience in membership engagement, community organizing, or network-building, ideally within a membership-based network and in transnational or cross-cultural settings, and brings their own network of philanthropic institutions or peers to engage with and strengthen EDGE's community.

Preferred experience :

Working Environment & Benefits

EDGE is a small, transnational, and fully remote team that values care, trust, and shared responsibility as the foundation of how we work. We are experimenting with non-hierarchical, self-steering structures, which means everyone contributes both strategically and operationally, helping to shape the organization's collective direction.

We work across multiple time zones and cultural contexts,