Senior Program Officer

Department: Community Investment and Partnerships
Reports to: Managing Director, Community Investment and Partnerships
Location: Hybrid work environment, including in-office work or site visits. Must live in the Bay Area and be able to easily travel to Oakland, CA.
Status:Full Time/Exempt
Starting Salary
: $105,000 – $120,000

About East Bay Community Foundation

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, strategic partnerships, 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 assetsin excess of $500M.

Joining EBCF means a commitment to advancing racial equity and transforming political, social, and economic realities. We 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.

About the Position

EBCF seeks a thoughtful, collaborative, community-oriented
Senior Program Officer
to lead the Foundation’s grant-making and programmatic strategies focused on economic power building to advance our north star, “An East Bay where everyone has the economic freedom to dream, heal, and belong.” This entails transitioning ownership of labor, capital, and land from corporations to communities and creating a transformed economy that builds and sustains community wealth. It also requires shifting power from a concentrated few to an expansive majority, ensuring that working‑class people have the self‑determination, voice, and authority to make decisions about the issues that shape their lives and future.

EBCF strategically invests in organizations working at the intersection of building a regenerative economy, moving from access to ownership, building communities’ capacity to govern,equitable economic development, and building the people power needed to bring forth atransformational economic agenda. Our economic power building grant making and programmatic strategies include:

• Community Ownership & Stewardship, including community land trusts, worker-owned cooperatives, and community governed funds.
• Power-Building & Governing Power, including base-building, coalitions and alliances, collective governance models, and policy & advocacy.
• Small Business Resiliency, including small business grants and coordinated technical assistance network.

The Senior Program Officer will partner closely with a Program Officer to co-steward the economic power building work and collaborate with and support colleagues across other program areas, including capacity building and arts and culture for social and racial justice.

Strong candidates will have experience in community organizing and civic engagement strategies and networks, community ownership models, and small business support, particularly efforts led by and rooted in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, and SSWANA communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Candidates will be familiar with and committed to Trust-Based philanthropy values and practices. Candidates will have a deep understanding of racial, economic, and gender justice, and their intersections and applications.

We seek a leader who will:

• Build trust and work collaboratively with team members to implement and refine program and grant-making strategies towards EBCF’s north star of economic freedom to dream, heal, and belong
• Partner with a…