Culture Fund Manager; TWFC

The Women’s Foundation of California has a 40-year track record of supporting community-based organizations working to advance gender, racial, and economic justice. As a public community foundation focused on intersectional feminist funding, we have raised and granted $40M in movement-building grants since 1979. Our core strategies are: investing in community organizations, training community leaders, and convening community partners in order to mobilize significant financial resources to advance the health, safety, and economic security of people impacted by gender-based oppression and violence.

We support movements led by cisgender and transgender women, especially women of color, non-binary, gender nonconforming, gender expansive and gender queer people.

Launched in 2019, The Culture Change Fund (CCF) is a funder collaborative with a goal to create a broad public support for a new way of thinking the centers gender, racial, economic, and reproductive justice at the heart of the solution to any systemic problems.

The Culture Change Fund focuses on three key areas:
1. Data-driven narrative research project called Story at Scale; 2. Creating a community of learning to advance collective understanding about narrative and culture change strategies, as well as share best practices; 3. Grantmaking to partner organizations and from the most impacted communities who are engaging in cultural organizing to advance their gender justice efforts, or are interested in utilizing these strategies.

The Culture Change Fund Manager (Manager) works closely with the Director of Community Investment and the Chief Strategist for Programs, Foundation staff and CCF Funding Partners to shape and implement the strategic vision for the Culture Change Fund ensuring that the Culture Change Fund programs are innovative and strategic and aligned with our core belief that those who directly experience injustice are best suited to develop solutions that ultimately benefit all.

The Manager will manage implementation efforts of the CCF including grantmaking focused on the intersection between culture and power building strategies through multi-issue grantmaking. In addition, The Culture Change Manager conceptualizes, plans and executes the Culture Change Fund community of learning. The Manager represents the Foundation in public settings, provides thought leadership in multiple social movements, and offers timely opinion and analysis to and for Culture Change Fund Partners and to Foundation management, constituents and board members on issues impacting gender, racial, economic, and reproductive justice.

This position requires frequent overnight travel.

Program Management

• Provide thought leadership and management for the Culture Change Fund’s grantmaking and community of learning, including supporting the development of program design and evaluation, and achieving the goals and objectives of the project(s) within the budget assigned.
• Cultivate new relationships and networks to broaden the awareness and deepen the impact of the Culture Change Fund’s programmatic work.
• Work with Culture Change Fund Co-Chairs to support the design, plan and implementation of community of learning program.
• Ensure alignment and coordination around community of learning programs, grantmaking practices, special initiatives and other Culture Change Fund program activities.
• Analyze the progress of grant partners and community of learning program and proactively interpret and assess partner needs to determine areas of strengthening and serve as a resource as requested.
• Coordinate review of proposals submitted for consideration within the Culture Change Fund; plan and make site visits, as appropriate; prepare written summaries and analysis documents of grant applications to aid staff, funder collaborative members and WFC board members in evaluating and making awards.
• Ensure an accurate, timely, efficient and transparent process for the entire Culture Change Fund grant life cycle, from proposal to close (e.g., pre-award management, tracking payments, reviewing and producing relevant reports, monitoring and post-award management).
• Collaborate with…