Program Director

Department: Community Investment and Partnerships
Reports to: Vice President of Community Investment and Partnerships
Hours and

Location:

Hybrid – The CIP team works from our downtown Oakland office 3 days per week.
Starting Salary: $150,000 – $165,000 annual

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 supporting the 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.
• 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.

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 seeks a dynamic and mission‑driven Program Director with philanthropic expertise and a keen and generative problem‑solving ability. Collaborative engagement and understanding of economic development, racial equity, movement building, and social justice are pivotal to our work. Also central to success in this position is the ability to orchestrate connection across previously more discrete areas of grantmaking within the EBCF portfolio.

This requires strategic leadership to guide emergent growth, building an impact frame while remaining flexible to critical external inputs such as community voice. The Program Director will have insight into the East Bay non‑profit landscape, systems change strategies, and a comprehensive economic justice lens. This role entails partnering to manage and harmonize the Foundation’s programmatic strategy.

The Program Director is a senior leader within the Community Investment and Partnerships (CIP) department responsible for shaping, implementing, and evaluating key grantmaking strategies aligned to the Foundation’s mission. This role supports the VP in providing strategic direction for major portfolio areas, manages internal initiatives, and builds critical relationships with community partners, donors, and other stakeholders. The Program Director also plays a central role in inter‑ and cross‑departmental leadership, communication, and collaboration efforts.

Partner to lead strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation across multiple thematic areas within the CIP department.

Advance department direction of deep community engagement in alignment with EBCF’s broader economic freedom agenda.

Help enhance and evaluate department success through operational planning and execution.

Maintain a…