VC Director @ DSG Koya in San Francisco, CA

The Opportunity

Green Light Bay Area is currently seeking a dynamic, passionate, and strategic Director in the South Bay to work in collaboration with and serve as a thought partner to the Bay Area Executive Director. The Director will manage the programmatic operations alongside the San Francisco/Oakland Director, ensuring on‑track progress on the site’s ambitious plans towards programmatic impact.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the intersection of social entrepreneurship and community need and to build and support a portfolio of high‑performing nonprofits to confront the community’s most pressing challenges.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• With direction from the Executive Director, lead annual selection cycle process beginning with designing and implementing an initial discovery process to assess unmet community needs.
• Establish and grow local relationships with stakeholders across the South Bay to understand potential focus areas.
• Identify and manage relationships with community‑wide Selection Advisory Council members to advise on identifying high‑priority community needs around the South Bay and the vet selecting portfolio organizations that can powerfully address them.
• Recommend focus areas for consideration for selection cycles and support facilitation of Selection Advisory Council meetings.
• Conduct thorough due diligence on potential portfolio organizations, leading site visits alongside the Green Light Bay Area team.
• Support community engagement plan execution across the selection cycle to engage community members with lived experience navigating poverty in determining priority needs and solutions.

• Coordinate with the Executive Director to deliver ongoing support to a portfolio of organizations including monthly coaching meetings and ongoing relationship management of local donors and partners to support portfolio organizations.
• Ensure that all portfolio management deliverables are executed including annual reviews, data collection, and reporting.

• Participate actively in the Green Light’s network of local and national staff to share best practices, knowledge of promising social innovation, and strategies to build the network and collaborate to find and support Green Light organizations.
• Align site’s operations with organizational Strategic Plan over the next three years to deepen community impact, grow to new cities, build out our learning capacity, build strategic partnerships and center equity in all that we do.
• Travel to Green Light national meetings (hosted by a Green Light site) and approximately three site visits per year (meetings and site visit locations will vary).
• Bring joy, curiosity and positivity to your work and the team, along with a passion for investing in change in the Bay Area.

The Director – South Bay will be an experienced, innovative, and collaborative director with exceptional project management, communication and relationship‑building skills. While no one candidate will possess every quality outlined for this position, the successful candidate will bring many of the following professional qualifications and personal attributes:

• Authentic passion for Green Light’s mission and commitment to the Bay Area community, with specific connection to or experience in the South Bay area
• Proven commitment to bringing a racial equity lens to their work and deep understanding of how systems of oppression have affected communities experiencing poverty
• 10+ years of experience with a successful track record in fast‑paced, entrepreneurial environments holding positions of increasing responsibility
• Experience building relationships in Bay Area’s philanthropic,…