Climate Program Analyst; DLPF

Position: Climate Program Analyst (DLPF)
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About The Packard Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a family foundation, guided by the enduring business philosophy and personal values of Lucile and David, who helped found one of the world’s leading technology companies. The Foundation invests in effective organizations and leaders, collaborates with them to identify strategic solutions, and supports them over time to reach common goals. Our Foundation’s goals and how we carry out our work reflects our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

We aim to create a workplace culture and pursue policies and practices that demonstrate how we value diversity, equity and inclusion.

About the Climate Program

Climate change is an urgent threat that has the potential to undermine everything we care about as a foundation. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is essential to stabilize our climate. It is a problem that can be solved in ways that provide economic and social benefits for all. Together, we can have a collective impact and measurable progress is already being made.

You will be joining a Climate Team made up of two Climate Program Officers, two Administrative staff, two Mission Investment staff, and Foundation leadership in our work to solve the climate change crisis. With our $50M annual budget for climate grantmaking, we work in partnership with ‘re-granting organizations’ such as the Climate Works Foundation, Energy Foundation, Energy Foundation-China, and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation in India.

And, we carry out direct grantmaking in the area of Climate and Land Use, including work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by the expansion of commodity agriculture (such as palm oil), reduce emissions associated with bioenergy, and enhance the ability of natural ecosystems to remove CO 2 from the atmosphere through reforestation and practices that enhance soil carbon. Finally, we also support the Climate Breakthrough Project , which identifies and supports proven strategic leaders from around the world pursuing breakthrough climate mitigation strategies.

More information on our climate program is available here:

About the Fellowship

The UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business (through the Center for Social Sector Leadership) offers this unique two-year fellowship in philanthropy at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to provide next generation leaders the opportunity to engage with philanthropic and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) leaders and work with a grantmaking team serving diverse issues and populations in the Conservation & Science – Climate program.

The vision for this partnership is to strengthen the future of philanthropy and civil society by providing recent graduates from diverse disciplines and backgrounds a professional-level introduction to philanthropy and the non-profit sector. The goals of the fellowship are to
1) introduce recent graduates to philanthropy and the role of NGOs to strengthen their impact in a future career and
2) introduce the Foundation to fresh ideas, new skills, and diverse perspectives.

The position will support the Foundation’s grantmaking, strategic planning, research, and monitoring, evaluation and learning for the Climate Subprogram. This position will take day-to-day direction from one of the Foundation’s Climate Program Officers.

While placed at the Packard Foundation and receiving…