With more than $1.5 billion in assets, the San Francisco Foundation is one of the largest community foundations in the country. The foundation is committed to expanding opportunity and ensuring a more equitable future for all in the Bay Area. Together with its donors, the foundation distributed $154 million to nonprofit organizations last fiscal year. The San Francisco Foundation serves Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
Reports To: Vice President of Programs
Position Summary:
Pathway Director Anchoring Communities (Place)
The San Francisco Foundation believes that a focus on People, Place and Power provides the pathways to greater racial and economic equity in the Bay Area. Since the launch of its equity agenda in mid-2016, the Foundation’s Community Impact Department has also been organized around these three Equity Pathways. The three Pathway Senior Directors are members of the Department’s leadership team. Under the leadership of the Chief Impact Officer and the Vice President of Programs, they act as major contributors to the development and implementation of the Foundation’s equity agenda, determining the short and long-term program results and the associated strategies to achieve them---grantmaking, advocacy, and civic leadership---across a range of issues. Senior Directors also work to foster greater alignment and partnership with the Foundation’s extensive network of donors and partners from across the philanthropic, nonprofit, for-profit and public sectors.
The Place Pathway focuses on anchoring the region’s neighborhoods so that all residents, particularly low-income people of color, can live, work, thrive, and create. The portfolio supports grantee that are protecting, preserving and producing affordable housing, and those that are advancing equity through the arts. It also supports efforts to reduce the displacement of not-for-profit organizations (neighborhood anchors) which bind together the social fabric that creates a sense of belonging for people of color and low-income residents. The Place Pathway is a team of 11 professionals, including staff for the HopeSF multi-funder collaborative, and the Foundation staff which prepares the social impact analyses for the Foundation’s Program Related Investment loan program (the Bay Area Community Impact Fund), has fiscal oversight of the housing and workforce funds of the Bay View Hunters Point Community Benefits Agreement, and administers several cohorts of neighborhood organizations active in housing, arts, and youth technology programs.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Strategy development and implementation
- Determine and refine pathway results and strategies, including grantmaking, convenings, research, and partnerships,
- Engagement with grantees, community partners, other funders and civic leaders to build collaborative relationships and advance results
- Oversight of grantmaking strategies and processes, ensuring collaborative and responsive relationships with grantees and applicants
- Ensure a strategic focus on policy and systems change at scale.
- Participate in department leadership groups, and with other directors and leaders across the Foundation to make decisions on grantmaking and other investments, and to develop alignment and synergy across pathways to accelerate momentum towards results.
- Advise the Vice President of Programs on new partnerships and engagements on larger policy and system change efforts, and department- and foundation-wide efforts.
- Mentor, train, and provide professional and leadership opportunities for multicultural fellow.
Team Management and Oversight
- Supervise and mentor a team of ten staff members, with four direct reports.
- Nurture a culture of collaboration, with a focus on results.
- Accountable for team performance and budget management.
Interdepartmental Leadership
- Coordinate across pathways and organization, develop collaborative relationships with other directors and staff, participate in organization-wide directors team and other efforts, as assigned.
- Collaborate with SFF Philanthropic Advising and Planned Giving on donor and private sector aligned investment, including participating, delegating, and supervising regular engagement with individual donors and coordinated efforts.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Communications staff to advance pathway and overarching equity goals.
Evaluation, Impact, and Culture of Learning
- Work with Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation to develop and track metrics for pathway results and make needed adjustments to strategy development and implementation.
- Lead the team in capturing grant partner results and data in grantmaking (FLUXX) and CRM (Salesforce) systems.
- Seek opportunities to learn from and share new grantmaking and evaluation approaches.
- Participate in sharing successes and failures to inform our culture of learning and improvement.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Provide external leadership for advancing pathway results and for the overarching regional equity agenda.
- Participate in leadership and oversight of HOPE SF multi-funder collaborative.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with funder partners, particularly those connected to Fund for an Inclusive California, Non-Profit Anti-Displacement Working Group housed at Northern California Grantmakers, and core community and institutional partners.
- Develop multi-sector partnerships focused on Place pathway agenda.
- Create opportunities to collaborate and network among all Place Pathway grant partners
- Monitor, maintain knowledge of, and assess emerging equity issues, policies, and practices at the local, regional, state and national levels -- articularly those connected to the Place pathway agenda
- Identify themes and trends across the team’s grant portfolio and in the nonprofit sector to inform and refine PRI strategy and potential opportunities.
Qualifications:
Education
Master’s degree or a combination of education and experience required. Disciplines include (but are not limited to) affordable housing, community development, planning, narrative change, and public policy/systems change.
Leadership Experience
- Minimum of ten years of increasingly responsible professional experience in the nonprofit philanthropic, private and/or public sectors.
- Experience and commitment to successfully developing, managing and mentoring a diverse team.
- Strong collaborator with experience with managing complex initiatives.
- Experience with philanthropy, grantmaking, and/or fundraising.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with diverse individuals, organizations, and communities.
- Team leader, skilled at building collaborative and results-driven teams with cultures of inclusion and mentorship
- Familiarity with policy and systems change, with particular emphasis on stabilizing communities at risk of displacement which have significant people of color and/or low-income residents.
- Experienced public speaker and institutional ambassador.
- Demonstrated personal integrity and commitment to equity and the ability to engender trust, credibility and confidence across racial, economic, ethnic, and geographic differences.
Content / Issue Area Knowledge
- Demonstrated deep commitment to and experience working with the principles and practices of racial and economic equity.
- The ideal candidate has knowledge and experience in affordable housing (particularly anti-displacement and residential protections, production and preservation of affordable housing), and the nexus of housing/jobs/nonprofit anchors with neighborhood stability in the Bay Area region.
Technical abilities and skills
- Ability to lead collaborative efforts internally and with a range of community partners.
- Excellent facilitation, listening, oral and written communications skills.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities, projects, and staff.
- Customer-service orientation to supporting grant partners and fellow staff in achieving goals and results.
- Self-starter with a results-and problem-solving orientation and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Computer literacy in Microsoft environments.
Compensation
Commensurate with background and experience in addition to a competitive benefits package.
The San Francisco Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.
PROGRAM ASSISTANT FOR FAITHS PROGRAM AND POWER TEAM
With more than $1.5 billion in assets, the San Francisco Foundation is one of the largest community foundations in the country. The foundation is committed to expanding opportunity and ensuring a more equitable future for all in the Bay Area. Together with its donors, the foundation distributed $154 million to nonprofit organizations last fiscal year. The San Francisco Foundation serves Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
The Administrative Assistant provides overall administrative, operational, and process support for the FAITHS Program and Power Team within the Foundation’s Community Impact Department. This is a fully skilled assistant level position.
Reports To: FAITHS Program Officer:
Description: This position provides administrative and project support to the FAITHS Program Officer & Power Senior Director. Excellent position for growth and professional development.
Responsibilities
General Administration and Project Management
- Heavy calendar/scheduling, travel arrangements, expense reimbursement, and other administrative support.
- Primary contact responding to intra-office and public inquiries and requests for information and redirecting inquiries and requests as appropriate. Drafts and disseminates minutes from meetings and convenings.
- Drafts and edits correspondence, newsletter, and transcribe recorded notes, information, and reports.
- Coordinates paperwork flow, including establishing and maintaining electronic filing systems, correspondence, mail, and inter-office communications.
- Processes consulting and vendor contracts and invoices.
- Trains new team members on administrative procedures.
- Provides back-up support to other Program Assistants, Front Desk Reception, and staff colleagues as appropriate.
- Provides administrative support and coordination of specific tasks as assigned by the FAITHS Program Officer for ongoing or time-limited projects.
Grantmaking Support
- Creates timelines for grant program(s) and has primary responsibility for managing timelines to ensure processes stay on track.
- Reviews and/or tracks grantee submissions to ensure completeness and timely submissions and acquires missing documentation as needed.
- Accurately completes coding and information updates in the Foundation’s grantmaking and CRM systems.
- Drafts requests for waivers and expedite memos for review by the FAITHS Program Officer.
- Creates standard and customized reports utilizing several different applications/databases.
- Trains new team members on grantmaking systems and processes.
Community Impact and Relationship Management
- Primary contact for grant seeker questions related to TSFF grantmaking systems, timelines, forms completion, and processes.
- Track community impact expansion efforts in across multiple counties in CRM system.
- Provide technical training to FLC as necessary.
- Schedule ongoing/regular contact for FAITHS Program Officer to connect with current grantees.
Data Management and Analysis
- Maintain data quantifying FAITHS community impact and donor activity.
- Coordinate with internal teams to create communications materials and reports.
- Integrate information into presentations and other forms of communications relevant to readership.
- Conducts grantee/org research in support of donor stewardship and cultivation.
- Creates standard reports reflecting community impact and donor activity data.
Marketing and Communications
- Update FAITHS website page on quarterly basis to ensure timeliness and information accuracy.
- Manage full process for creating weekly newsletter, timely email communications to FLC, and interoffice communications.
- Manage FAITHS social media presence through planning and calendaring information release to appropriate systems.
- Updating, editing FAITHS PowerPoint to ensure information accuracy and relevancy based on readership.
Convenings/Events Management
- Has primary responsibility for managing all logistical aspects of regular meetings and special events hosted by FAITHS.
- Tasks include but are not limited to vendor negotiation, ongoing communication with speakers and attendees, coordination with Marketing and Communications staff on collateral, tracking RSVPs, day-of-event management, monitoring expenditures, and final payment of invoices.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 2-3 years of solid administrative experience providing support and working on a team.
- Ability to balance competing priorities while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Highly organized with a strong understanding and expertise in both computer and office systems.
- Works well under minimal supervision by critical thinking, problem resolution, anticipating needs, taking initiative, ensuring successful project completion, and tasks tracking for timely delivery.
- Ease in producing quality work in a high-production environment.
- Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing, highly skilled with great attention to detail.
- Creates positive, long-term working relationships and elevates the by demonstrating a commitment to customer service, tact, dependability, diplomacy, and flexibility.
- Knowledge of basic finance and accounting practices.
- Experience working in non-profit and/or philanthropy a plus.
- Undergraduate degree or combination of work experience and education preferred.
Skills
- Requires strong computer skills specifically in Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) and database applications.
- Familiarity with using SalesForce and/or Fluxx a plus.
Compensation
- Commensurate with background and experience in addition to a competitive benefits package.
The San Francisco Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.
With more than $1.5 billion in assets, the San Francisco Foundation is one of the largest community foundations in the country. The foundation is committed to expanding opportunity and ensuring a more equitable future for all in the Bay Area. Together with its donors, the foundation distributed $154 million to nonprofit organizations last fiscal year. The San Francisco Foundation serves Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.
The San Francisco Foundation is uniquely positioned to address the Bay Area’s most pressing needs, particularly in the areas of affordable housing in the region. The Foundation aims for greater community impact and moving toward population-level results for low-income families and communities of color left out of the region’s robust economy. Five years into the San Francisco Foundation’s implementation of the racial equity and economic inclusion agenda, the organization is at an exciting juncture and next crossroads – poised to further leverage its impact across the Bay Area through deepened strategies for policy and systems change at the local, regional, and state levels, as well as innovative, proactive, and strategically aligned approaches.
Reports To: Vice President of Policy and Innovation
Position Overview:
At the San Francisco Foundation, we have a bold vision that all people living in the San Francisco Bay Area are economically secure, living in vibrant communities, and engaged in civic life. As such, we have been building an exciting new Policy & Innovation Division within the Community Impact Department, to focus on ways philanthropy can invest in and work with multi-sector partners to ensure equitable and inclusive policy and systems change that benefit low-income families and communities of color across our nine-county region.
Under the direction of the Vice President of Policy and Innovation (VPPI), the Senior Program Officer will contribute subject-matter expertise that advances affordable housing policy and systems change efforts for tenant protections, affordable housing preservation, and production. Our region has been experiencing a housing crisis over the past decade, and we can use our diverse roles as policy advocate, grantmaker, convenor, capacity builder, data provider, investor, and systems engineers to ensure that there is an equitable recovery for all throughout our region. The Senior Program Officer aligns with these roles and manages a grantmaking portfolio that develops and maintains meaningful grantee-centered relationships with community partners.
This position is part of a small, high-performing 11-person Division within the Community Impact Department and will be required to collaborate across diverse teams, including cross-departmental working groups. This is an individual contributor role on a start-up team, and the ideal professional is open, flexible, and comfortable contributing content-expertise and knowledge as a thought partner on strategy and managing a grantee portfolio, while also managing the details of our internal grantmaking process, and his/her own schedule and administration. This position is term-limited for the next two years and may be extended to four years pending grant support from a large institutional funder.
Results in Role
Under the direction of the Vice President of Policy and Innovation, the Senior Program Officer is responsible for strategy development and planning, portfolio management, and grantmaking. Determined by the cross-departmental Housing Work Group for the Foundation’s local, regional, and state-level housing work, the Foundation envisions a 20-year line of sight where our Bay Area communities have:
- Significant increase in affordable housing production in alignment with various income spectrum (120% and below of Area Medium Income);
- A policy environment that stabilizes the housing situation for tenants at the lower end of the economic ladder;
- An ongoing housing and transportation system that maintains a balance between job growth and housing supported by regulatory oversight, implementation, and watchdog advocacy, dedicated, reliable funding stream, and stronger, more sophisticated political voice; and
- Communities that welcome affordable housing creation in their neighborhoods, and low-income families, so that progress can be made at the jurisdictional level.
This work is grounded in a tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and production framework; and addresses five big levers: 1) increased capital and financial resources for affordable housing; 2) legislative victories for tenant protections; 3) equitable regional governance; 4) increased public will to support local, regional, and state civic action; and 5) increased political will for policy change. As part of the internal Housing Work Group, the Senior Program Officer will ensure strategic coordination, integration, and alignment across grantmaking portfolios, particularly between the Policy and Innovation Division, Programs Division, and Philanthropy and Gift Planning Department.
External Focus
- Meaningful Contributions. Deepen the equitable housing strategies to achieve population-level results, including the management of key components of strategy development and implementation. Use qualitative and quantitative data, community engagement, and research to inform strategy development.
- Demonstrated civic leadership. Develop and implement a plan to advance critical elements of the Foundation’s equity agenda in affordable housing through our civic leadership role, building and maintaining grant partner relationships, connections to the staff at similar foundations, and participation in relevant affinity groups.
- Partnership Design, Development, and Implementation. Lead proactive efforts for change, including partnership development efforts with other funders, private and public sector leaders, and grantees. Partner with the Officer of Corporate and Institutional Partnerships to fundraise from other foundations in order to leverage additional grantmaking resources for community impact.
- High-Impact Convenings and Events. Identify, facilitate, and manage opportunities to bring various stakeholders together to further the equitable housing agenda. Working with the SFF Marketing and Communications Department so that convenings position SFF as a resource for those interested in addressing critical issues affecting individuals and communities, gather input on a specific strategy or body of work, garner support for a cause or activity, and/or educate and learn.
- SFF Ambassador. Represent SFF on related panels, key speaking engagements, articles, blogs, media interviews, and other social media opportunities.
- Capacity-building in the Sector. Provide resource, referral advice, and technical assistance to grantee partners, agencies and/or collaboratives.
Internal Focus
- Housing Expertise. Deepen in-house equitable housing knowledge, skill, and expertise at SFF through your subject-matter expertise, research, network, and thought leadership.
- Strategic Grantmaking. Conduct strategic grantmaking related to housing impacts, and investment in policy change and systems change efforts at the local, regional, and state levels. Manage a robust grantmaking portfolio, including developing a grantmaking strategy in collaboration with internal colleagues and external partners. Evaluate merits of written grant proposals, conduct due diligence, lead site visits, review research, and present grant recommendations to the Board of Trustees, as appropriate.
- Learning and Evaluation. Meaningful contributions to strategic learning and evaluation. Determine benchmarks, indicators of success, and methodology to track and assess the progress toward outcomes associated with the Policy and Innovation Division strategies, as well as the effectiveness of grants and progress reports. Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform recommendations and decision-making
- Leveraging Impact. In partnership with the Philanthropy and Gift Planning Department, the Senior Program Officer meets with donors and prospective donors as assigned, providing them with information about Policy and Innovation efforts or other specific issues, and best practices and grantmaking opportunities in the Bay Area. Provide background information for direct funding requests to donors.
Additional job duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor’s degree, in one or more of the Foundation’s programmatic areas or related discipline required. A master’s degree in housing and community development, city and regional planning, capital finance, law, public policy, or public administration strongly preferred.
Experience:
A minimum of 8-10 years of increasingly responsible experience in a leadership role in the public, non-profit, or philanthropic sector. In-depth professional background in housing policy, policy advocacy, and/or systems change efforts. Has successfully managed projects to achieve specified results and performance measures. Ideally, the Senior Program Officer has multi-sector knowledge and/or experience coupled with a good understanding of Bay Area nonprofit, public, and philanthropic communities. This person must deeply value racial equity and economic inclusion. Proven record of successfully working collaboratively and in dynamic, fast-paced teams.
Knowledge, Skills, & Competencies
- Ability to lead collaboratives of multiple funders and leaders, provide cross-sector learning opportunities for funders and grantees, and serve as staff lead for special projects or committees.
- Has maintained successful relationships with community leaders and organizations and engage people from diverse backgrounds in a variety of settings.
- Facilitates effective meetings, synthesizes ideas, and provide constructive feedback.
- Grantmaking or grant seeking knowledge and experience, with strong understanding of organizational development and operations of small and large nonprofits to manage portfolio of grant partners.
- Finance and budget management experience to understand financial due diligence in grantmaking and what makes strong sustainable nonprofits.
- Strong active listening, oral, and written communication skills.
- Demonstrable computer and technology literacy in MS Office Suite (word processing, email, spreadsheets), constituency relationship management (Salesforce), and knowledge management applications.
Compensation
Commensurate with background and experience in addition to a competitive benefits package.
The San Francisco Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.
