Program Officer

Department: Community Investment and Partnerships
Reports to: Program Director, CIP
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Location:

We are currently working in a hybrid model. The CIP team works from our downtown Oakland office 3 days per week. This policy is subject to change.
Starting Salary: $95,000 – $115,000

Founded in 1928, EBCF is one of the nation’s first community foundations. 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 deploy our resources in service of our mission, pushing beyond industry norms to offer uniquely impactful opportunities for our fund advisers and the communities of the East Bay.

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.

EBCF is committed to supporting the East Bay through four increasingly more connected 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.
• Capacity Building with a Racial Equity Lens: EBCF helps to strengthen organizations and their leaders, working to change systems and provide sustained investments to help them eradicate systemic and institutional racism.
• Community Organizing, Power Building, and Movement Building:
  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
• 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.

About the Opportunity

EBCF seeks a mission‑driven, collaborative, community‑oriented Program Officer. This individual will serve as lead for grant‑making and programmatic strategies focused on community organizing, power building, and movement building. Using insight into the East Bay organizing and power‑building landscape, this role will also orchestrate the participation of other CIP team members in these bodies of work. Finally, they will actively participate in other CIP team strategy areas, guided by leads in the other three areas named above.

Strong candidates will have experience in community organizing and civic engagement strategies and networks, particularly those led by and rooted in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, and SSWANA communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

Core Responsibilities

• Continually scan and update an analysis of the private, public, and nonprofit sectors in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, sharing key findings and lessons among colleagues.
• Manage, monitor, and coordinate a grants portfolio, including: grant planning, identifying and working with prospective grantees, conducting an application process, undertaking periodic review of progress with grantees
• Participate in, inform, and advise grantee coalitions and pooled funds as appropriate
• Represent EBCF related to policy, advocacy, power‑building with various constituencies, including in conferences, round tables, and other public venues.
• Support and carry out direct and grassroots lobbying, particularly related to community‑driven policy and electoral campaigns
• Aggregate, communicate, and amplify stories of community organizing and social movements
• Systematize collaboration for greater connection to and visibility of CIP work across the department and EBCF
• Serve as a leader within the Foundation advancing team and organizational culture.
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