Philanthropic Services Advisor

Department: Philanthropy and Gift Planning
Reports to: Director of Philanthropy
Hours and

Location:

This is a full-time, exempt position, in a hybrid environment, that requires working onsite (200 Frank H. Ogawa, Oakland) for at least 3 days a week. It may also include occasional local travel to and from partner organizations, businesses, and donors. Occasional evenings and weekends will be required for events and networking.
Starting Salary: $90,
Ideal

Start Date:

July 1

About the East Bay Community Foundation

Founded in 1928, EBCF is one of the nation’s first community foundations. Named the country’s “boldest” community foundation in 2019 by Inside Philanthropy, EBCF is committed to advancing an inclusive, fair, and just East Bay through four core program strategies:

• Arts and Culture for Social and Racial Justice: Storytelling, the arts, and cultural practices have always been important tools for survival, healing, and resistance. These creative expressions build community resilience and power and give voice, agency, and visibility to communities most harmed by oppression.
• Capacity Building with a Racial Equity Lens: EBCF is helping to strengthen organizations and the people who lead them, working to change systems in communities that have historically received little support. We want to ensure that organizations have the sustained investments and resources they need to eradicate systemic and institutional racism.
• Community Organizing, Power Building, and Movement Building: We believe that social movements led by communities most impacted by injustice are the most effective drivers of change. We resource BIPOC-led and serving power‑building organizations through long term trust‑based partnerships.
• Fostering Inclusive Economic Models: We address racial and economic inequities in our region through work in three areas– entrepreneurship & business ownership as pathways to wealth building; workers’ rights and protections; and impact investing.

With a geographic focus on Alameda and Contra Costa counties, EBCF works so that everyone has the economic freedom to dream, heal, and belong. We advance our work through leadership, grantmaking, impact investing, and building solidarity between donors and community. We commit to deploying all our resources in service of our mission and pushing beyond industry norms to offer uniquely impactful opportunities for our fund advisers to build A Just East Bay for all.

EBCF manages more than 500 funds, with total assets in excess of $600M. These funds include donor-advised scholarships, field of interest, supporting organizations, and agency endowments.

Joining EBCF means a commitment to advancing racial equity and transforming political, social, and economic realities. We will do this by creating spaces that center joy and opportunities for dreaming and reimagining a future for all who call the East Bay home to have the freedom to thrive for generations to come.

For more information on the East Bay Community Foundation, please visit ebcf.org .

Position Overview

The Philanthropic Services Advisor is responsible for supporting the department’s fundraising efforts by providing stellar stewardship and customer service, event management, gift processing and data management, fund management, tailored donor engagement, and campaign coordination.

Acting as a primary point of contact for our high net‑worth clients and donors, the position ensures exceptional service and fosters meaningful relationships with our extensive donor base of individual, family, and non‑profit clients.

The Team

We are a hardworking, dynamic, playful, and fast‑paced team of professionals who reflect the diversity of the East Bay, share a sense of humor, a positive attitude, and a low ego high output mindset. We support EBCF’s fundraising efforts for local social justice work and see huge potential for growing our impact in the region and beyond.

These are the areas of work assigned to the Philanthropic Services Advisor; we do not expect applicants to have experience in every area.

• Provide excellent customer service for technical and administrative needs, including prompt replies to queries and…