Grants And Data Associate

Department: Grants Management
Reports to: Managing Director of Donor Services and Grants Management
Hours and Location: This full-time position, currently in a hybrid environment, will require working onsite (200 Frank H. Ogawa, Oakland) for a minimum of one day per week, depending on job duties and agency requirements. This schedule may change at any time. It may also include occasional local travel to and from partner organizations, businesses, and donors. Depending on the events schedule, it may occasionally require working evenings or weekends.
Starting Salary: $76,000-$82,000

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.
• 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.

The EBCF Grants and Data Associate works in a team to support all aspects of the grant making process. Key responsibilities include data entry, grants processing, ensuring grant compliance throughout the life of a grant, maintaining the grants database, creating and processing various grant letters and agreements. Additionally, responsible for supporting grantees, creating and analyzing reports, providing expertise to a variety of stakeholders, and contributing to ongoing process improvement.

The Grants and Data Associate also plays a central role in administering and promoting scholarships. Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with IRS guidelines and implementing best practices throughout the scholarship process, managing the scholarship database and online platform, supporting applicants and school-based personnel, facilitating all aspects of the selection/award process, and processing award payments and letters.

• Support the grantmaking lifecycle from recommendation through grant award, this includes grants of…