Program Officer, Capacity Building

About Kataly Foundation

Kataly Foundation, a family foundation based in the San Francisco Bay Area, supports restorative economics, environmental justice, mindfulness and healing justice, and racial justice. Founded in 2018 with the intention of spending out a $445 million endowment over a ten-year time horizon, this growing organization intends to support movements around these issues and serve as a progressive leader in philanthropy.

Kataly’s mission is to support and provide resources to communities and social movements that are exploring new solutions to persistent, systemic problems. Kataly does this while embracing its role and responsibility in changing systems that led to wealth extraction from these communities in the first place. Kataly moves resources to support the economic, political, and cultural power of Black and Indigenous communities and all communities of color. By transforming its own relationship to capital, the planet, and each other, the Kataly Foundation will redistribute and redefine wealth in a way that leads to transformation, abundance, and regeneration.

One important distinction of the Kataly Foundation is that its approach is meant to be inclusive of the communities it seeks to fund. Pursuing a “practitioner-funder” philosophy, the Foundation actively engages leaders in the fields it supports to help make grantmaking decisions. Kataly aims to center solutions where the problems are. In addition, the Foundation is committed to solidarity philanthropy practices: general operating support, creative use of capital, and a commitment to capacity building and network weaving.

Kataly’s Program Areas include: 

Restorative Economies Fund: The Restorative Economies Fund (REF) invests resources into community-owned and governed projects led by people of color that create shared prosperity, self-determination, and build collective power. REF is an integrated capital fund, which means the Fund combines grants with non-extractive investments (loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit, etc.) and non-financial support including technical assistance or strategic advice.

Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective: The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC) is a group of nine women of color movement leaders who are resourcing work that builds power in communities of color, and grows movements for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice. The Collective funds work led by and for the communities most impacted by environmental racism, climate change, and unjust systems.

Mindfulness and Healing Justice: The Mindfulness and Healing Justice (MHJ) program supports community-based mindfulness programs, teacher training, leadership development, and healing justice practices for Black and Indigenous communities, and all people of color. MHJ centers mindfulness and healing in the service of racial justice, power-building, and collective liberation.

Kataly is working toward a world in which Black and brown people have the resources, power, and agency to execute their own visions for justice, well-being, and shared prosperity within their communities.

Kataly believes our fates are intertwined and ensuring self-determination for communities of color is in service of our collective liberation.

Learn more about Kataly Foundation at www.katalyfoundation.org.

The Opportunity

The Program Officer (PO), Capacity Building is a thoughtful and engaged contributor to the Kataly team, focused on the Foundation’s mission to promote social justice and racial equity in communities most impacted by injustice. In summary, the PO works closely with the Director of Capacity Building, other Kataly team members, and external stakeholders and partners to support Capacity Building administration, planning, implementation, assessment, documentation, and programming and grantmaking processes. The PO advances Foundation and Capacity Building Program goals by being responsive to and supportive of Kataly’s grantee partners across the Foundation’s three core grantmaking programs (Mindfulness and Healing Justice; the Environmental Justice Resourcing Collaborative; and the Restorative Economies Fund), nurturing relationships with the Capacity Building Program’s programming partners and grantees, and maintaining a breadth of knowledge about current trends, emerging issues, policy and cultural interventions, and innovations in the field.

The PO deeply understands and is committed to Kataly's values and mission. The PO has strong knowledge of the Foundation’s three core grantmaking programs, internal processes, and serves as the point of contact for any grantee across the three core grantmaking programs seeking to learn about and access Capacity Building programming and resources. Reporting to the Director of Capacity Building, the PO has lived and movement-building experience within social justice movements in the United States and an understanding of organizational and leadership development work within the social sector. 

The Foundation is constantly searching for innovative, progressive, and improved operating methods to adapt to the evolving needs of our staff, grantees, and community partners. Every employee must adapt quickly to pivots and be open and flexible about taking on and learning new and different duties, some of which may not traditionally be part of the job you otherwise perform.

Key responsibilities of the Program Officer, Capacity Building will include:

Capacity Building Program Support

• Support active grantees across Kataly’s three core grantmaking programs in learning about and accessing offerings and resources that are available to them through Kataly’s Capacity Building Program.

• In collaboration with Kataly's Director of Capacity Building, work with Kataly program teams to identify, prioritize, and address key capacity building needs of grantee partners and across the movement ecosystems we touch through our programs.
• Participate in Capacity Building planning, budgeting, and strategy processes.
• Facilitate opportunities for collaboration across Kataly program areas: coordinate with the Foundation’s other program areas as needed and identify and develop funding opportunities where programs intersect.
• Collaborate with Kataly's Knowledge and Grants team to
  • Process grants in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner.
  • Organize and maintain programming partner and grantee data and present it regularly in relevant formats as needed.
• Partner with Kataly's Director of Communications to amplify availability of new Capacity Building offerings and resources to Kataly grantees, to update and continually improve Kataly’s Capacity Building Resources web page, and to contribute to content for a range of communications opportunities and needs.
• Support the team in the annual evaluation of Capacity Building programming, grantmaking, and spend-out planning.
• Participate in meetings with staff on grantmaking, planning, and strategy across the Foundation.

Systems Development and Project Management

• Develop and implement systems, processes, and templates to support strong, mutually respectful and communicative relationships with Capacity Building programming partners and grantees through every point of contact, including responding to inquiries, conducting meetings, assessing and recommending partnerships, processing grant awards and contracts, tracking progress, and evaluation.
• Schedule, coordinate, and provide logistical and operational support for online and offline Capacity Building meetings, trainings, workshops, coaching sessions, conferences, and convenings. Facilitate and lead meetings and events as needed.

Program Analysis & Evaluation

• Conduct research and analysis related to capacity building and movement infrastructure, surfacing and vetting timely, relevant resources to support Kataly grantees' work and the movement spaces we touch across our grantmaking programs.
• Conduct research, analysis, writing, and other forms for documentation and material preparation to support Capacity Building and Kataly's program needs. Produce qualitative and quantitative narrative reports on Capacity Building programming, grantmaking, and strategy.
• Support Director of Capacity Building in gathering, analyzing, and monitoring data points that will inform impacts, gaps, and challenges in the program’s strategy.

Relationship Building & Partner Engagement

• Develop collaborative relationships with current and prospective grantees, outside advisors, experts in the field, public sector partners, and funder colleagues to extend the impact of Kataly’s Capacity Building Program.
• Engage and collaborate with other funders across a range of issue areas to introduce them to the work and strategies of Kataly’s grantee partners, Capacity Building, and Kataly's vision and goals.
• Where invited/appropriate, represent Capacity Building and Kataly in philanthropic and movement/grantee partner spaces in service to our grantee partners, their work, and Kataly’s philanthropic advocacy goals.

Candidate Profile

While no one candidate will possess every quality outlined for this position, a successful candidate will bring many of the following professional competencies and personal attributes:

Capacity Building and Program Expertise in a Philanthropic Context

• Understanding of Social Change Nonprofit and Philanthropic Landscape. The ideal candidate will have familiarity with the nonprofit sector and philanthropic practices, including grantmaking processes, nonprofit governance, and financial management. This leader brings an understanding of policy development, advocacy strategies, and the role of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector in influencing public policy.

• Program Awareness. The ideal candidate commands comprehensive knowledge of the relevant issues related to capacity building in the movement and organizing landscape, including historical context, current landscape, key challenges, and strategies for change. This includes a deep understanding and knowledge of the relevant partners, modes of funding, technical challenges, and politics.

Passion for the Mission

• Justice Champion. This leader operates with a strong racial, economic, and social justice analysis, an understanding of movement-building strategy, and a solid conception of the organizing landscape related to Kataly’s programmatic focus areas. The ideal candidate possesses personal or lived experience with and/or genuine empathy with the issues confronting the communities Kataly works with.

Project Management and Systems Thinker

• Analytical Thinker, Project Manager. This leader thrives upon organizing information and developing and implementing systems in service of ease, utility, and efficiency. A skilled systems-level thinker, the ideal candidate readily anticipates needs and has a strong intuition around what types of systems, processes, and templates pair best with the information management and tracking needs of any given project, as well as the desired outcomes.

Relationship Building and Collaboration

• Service to Others. With a strong community orientation, the ideal candidate will anticipate and meet the needs of internal and external partners and grantees. As part of a self-reflective team, this leader is committed to continuous improvement and brings demonstrated ability to remain composed when dealing with challenging situations.

In addition, strong candidates will offer:

• Exposure, experience, or personal commitment to supporting racial and economic justice-oriented grantmaking.
• A bachelor’s degree and at least four years of experience as a practitioner, administrator, evaluator, or grant maker in social sector capacity building, organizational development, and/or leadership development is preferred; relevant experience can be substituted for formal education.

The Kataly Foundation is deeply committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. We seek to have a diverse and inclusive workforce to promote effective work in partnership with all communities and population groups. The Foundation seeks a professional with a commitment to the power of philanthropy, social justice, and the common good; a passion for Kataly's program areas and organizational values; a collegial work style; a sense of humor; and the dedication to work hard toward fulfilling the Foundation's mission of truly empowering communities and moving the needle on critical issues facing our nation. 

Even though this is currently a remote position, the successful candidate must live in the San Francisco Bay Area. The remote nature of the job may be changed at any time, in Kataly’s sole discretion, requiring the employee in the role to attend a Kataly-sponsored work location one or more days per workweek. Kataly may also increase the number of in-person meetings and events even if the job remains remote. A candidate’s location, therefore, is a meaningful consideration for Kataly. (Kataly does not provide paid relocation.)

All job applicants and employees must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer on a full-time basis without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Positions at Kataly are not eligible for employer visa sponsorship, and Kataly will not sponsor applicants or employees for work-related visa status.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The salary range for this role is $135,000 - $145,000. Kataly offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Group Insurance Benefits: Fully paid premiums for group health, dental, vision insurance, long-term disability, life insurance, and a supplemental health insurance plan intended to cover a substantial portion of out-of-pocket costs from the primary health, dental, and vision plans.

Kataly 401k Contribution: An employer 401k contribution of 15% of salary (up to the legal maximum), regardless of whether an employee makes their own contributions to the plan.

Paid Time Off (PTO): A generous PTO program that can be used for any purpose.

Paid Sick Time (PST): PST accruals for time off separate from and in addition to PTO.

Other Time Off: At least 11 paid holidays, a two-week operations shut-down during the last and first week of the year, full days off to vote or work at the polls, and two floating holidays.

Reflection Week: A week where employees are free from their usual meetings and deadlines to engage in deep reflection around a topic related to their work at Kataly.

Paid Leaves of Absence (LOA): Up to four months paid LOA for pregnancy disability (from day one of employment); up to four months paid LOA for family and medical leave (after one year of employment), and up to eight weeks of unpaid personal leave.

Employee Discretionary Grants Program: A discretionary grants program for employees to direct grants to organizations of their choosing.

Professional Development Budget: An annual allocation for employees to attend job-relevant conferences, meetings, seminars, and other educational events or to engage an executive coach to work on a work-related topic.

Home Work Space Budget: A generous budget when an employee first joins Kataly to create a comfortable, safe, and efficient home workspace.

Work From Home Monthly Allowance: A monthly allowance for employees to pay a reasonable percentage of business-related expenses incurred from working from home (e.g., wireless plan, internet plan, utilities, etc.)

Cell phone: Money towards a new cell phone (owned by the employee) every three years. 

Contact

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All job applicants and employees must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer on a full-time basis without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future. Positions at Kataly are not eligible for employer visa sponsorship, and Kataly will not sponsor applicants or employees for work-related visa status.

Kataly Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of any race, creed, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, income class, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or marital status, as well as applicants who have been previously incarcerated. We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion throughout the organization and believe strongly in the increased effectiveness that comes from a diverse workforce, and strongly encourage those from historically under-served, underrepresented or marginalized communities to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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