Senior Director, Grantmaking and Capacity Building, Liberty Hill Foundation

Position Title: Senior Director, Grantmaking and Capacity Building

Reports to: Chief Program Officer (CPO)

Position: Full-time, Exempt

Location: Hybrid-Onsite;
Los Angeles, California

Salary: $141,900 - $177,400

For 50 years, Liberty Hill Foundation has been at the center of Los Angeles’ fight for justice and equity. We are a laboratory for social change—where bold ideas are tested, refined, and scaled to strengthen movements and improve lives across Los Angeles County.

Our North Star is to build power in communities most impacted by systemic oppression to achieve justice and equity. We pursue this through strategic grantmaking, leadership development, and alliance building that support organizers, advocates, and community leaders working to advance racial, economic, environmental, and social justice.

At Liberty Hill, we hire skilled, results-oriented staff who bring both expertise and heart to this work. We hold ourselves to high standards of collaboration, accountability, feedback, and learning, recognizing that reflection and adaptability strengthen both our organization and the movements we serve.

We live our values of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) every day—shaping how we work with one another, how we partner with communities, and how we make decisions. As we mark 50 years of powering movements, we are laying the groundwork for the next 50: a more just, inclusive, and equitable Los Angeles for all.

The Senior Director, Grantmaking and Capacity Building (SDGCB) provides senior-level leadership for Liberty Hill Foundation’s external grantmaking and capacity-building strategies, including expertise on best practices for capacity building in movement organizations and for social justice organizers. Reporting to the Chief Program Officer, this role is responsible for shaping, aligning, and advancing how Liberty Hill resources movements through grantmaking and capacity-building work that reflects community needs, organizational priorities, and best practices in progressive philanthropy.

In parallel, the SDGCB holds primary responsibility for staff leadership and supervision within Liberty Hill’s capacity-building portfolio, directly managing Program Directors and ensuring alignment, performance, and impact across program areas. This role anchors quality, coherence, and strategic execution, while partnering closely with Liberty Hill Foundation’s senior leadership to advance organizational priorities.

The SDGCB serves as the organization’s senior grantmaking strategist, overseeing participatory grantmaking programs such as the Community Funding Board, core funds including the Fund for Change, Liberty Vote!, Rapid Response grantmaking, and donor-advised fund and giving circle grantmaking on the grantee side. The role owns the external grantmaking lifecycle from strategy and program design through execution, systems, staffing, and continuous improvement.

Supervision, Leadership, and Organizational Influence

• Serve as a senior leader providing clear leadership, supervision, and coaching to develop Program and grantmaking staff, and other staff, with direct responsibility for performance, alignment, and results across grantmaking and capacity building functions, including current programs such as Ready to Rise, Department of Youth Development Incubation Academy. Environmental Leadership Initiative (ELI) and EJ Ready
• Supervise and provide clear leadership and decision-making for Program Directors overseeing Ready to Rise, Department of Youth Development, ELI, and EJ Ready, ensuring consistent, high-quality, and equitable practice while respecting program-level implementation ownership.
• Build leadership capacity and internal bench strength, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Advancement, Finance, Operations, and senior leadership to support board, donor, and funder engagement related to grantmaking and capacity building, and integrate insights from these portfolios into broader organizational strategy and learning.

Grantmaking Strategy and Implementation

• Lead the conception…