Lending​/Loan Operations

Company: Pacific Community Ventures (PCV)

Locations: Hybrid;
Oakland, CA

Job Function: Lending/Loan Operations

Posted on: June 15, 2026

At Pacific Community Ventures, we believe in the power of people helping people. Our work centers small business owners who strengthen their neighborhoods, create good quality jobs, and fuel local economies. When you join PCV, you become part of a team that invests in the success of others while continuing to learn and grow together.

We value individuals who care deeply abouteconomic mobility, opportunity, and community. We welcome those who bringpersonal experiences, creativity, and compassion to their work. Whether you’resupporting entrepreneurs, advising business owners, or developing new programs, your contribution helps build a more resilient and sustainable future for small businesses across the country.

Are you a driven individual who is passionate about building a more equitable society through the power of affordable capital? If so, please join Pacific Community Ventures, a non-profit community investor that unlocks economic opportunity and climate resilience for small business owners and workers, as our new Chief Lending Officer! Through access to affordable capital, pro bono business advising, ethical technology and AI, we partner with entrepreneurs to grow, hire, and prosper.

We work side-by-side with small business leaders through our unique integrated model: combining impact-first Restorative Capital and Pro Bono Business Advising with our Good Jobs Innovation Lab that propels thriving communities with good quality and green jobs, and uplifts and amplifies their voices and needs through research and policy advocacy. In 2024, 87% of PCV’s $12M loan capital deployed supported low-moderate income entrepreneurs, and 80% supported small businesses located in economically distressed areas.

In 2025, PCV announced our new 2030 Restorative Capital strategy, and our first acquisition – the launch of PCV’s Radiant Data and AI Hub to advance ethical technology and AI across our operations, and design our products and programs towards economic mobility and climate resilience for small businesses and workers, powered by AI.

We are seeking a Chief Lending Officer position to lead small business lending operations, portfolio management, and fund innovations, including place-based and climate fund. Over the past decade, our research projects and client engagements have helped define and build the field of impact investing; we have become a leading statewide community development financial institution (CDFI) in California specializing in micro and small-business restorative lending;

and scaled a nationwide mentorship platform for underestimated small business owners. The CLO will also oversee our national Business Advising mentorship platform for underestimated entrepreneurs. Our audiences and clients include small business owners across the United States, volunteer business experts; leading foundations and impact investors; other CDFIs; and policymakers at all levels.

Why You’re Needed

PCV has doubled its revenue, and tripled our loan portfolio in the last five years, to meet the needs of entrepreneurs who have been underserved across California – the 4 th largest economy in the world – whether urban or rural, coastal or tribal; and to support them across the U.S. Changing market conditions have made the roles of social impact investors and partners even more critical to allow us to keep capital affordable for our clients, provide high quality and culturally competent mentorship, build in translation services, and deeply partner with community partners closest to their entrepreneurs.

We have launched 3 place-based funds in California, and an…