Senior Program Officer, Restorative Economies Fund

About Kataly Foundation

Kataly Foundation, a family foundation based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is committed to supporting 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. We move 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.

The Opportunity

The Senior Program Officer (SPO) of the Restorative Economies Fund (REF) is a key programmatic leader and 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, alongside the REF team members the SPO is responsible for leading the team in the refined design and implementation of REF’s integrated capital approach with specific expertise in grantmaking. The SPO is the lead contact for the REF grant program, and will manage the Program Officer, REF (PO) as well as any consultants, and advisors. The SPO will oversee all aspects of the REF grantmaking program in consultation with the REF team, specifically the Program Officer. The SPO is responsible for procedures, methods, and workflow, assessing potential partners, engaging in issues exploration, participating in community events, and fostering community and grantee relations. The SPO supports Kataly’s capacity-building efforts in partnership with the Capacity Building team and contributes to communication strategies under the direction of the CEO, Managing Director of Programs (MDP), and Director of Communications.

The SPO deeply understands and is committed to Kataly's values and mission. The SPO has strong knowledge of the Foundation’s internal processes and is the grantee’s point of contact for communicating Kataly’s grantmaking cycles, processes, and how Kataly’s position as a spend-out foundation impacts our grantmaking. Reporting to the Managing Director (MDP) of Programs, the SPO has lived and movement-building experience within the just transition and solidarity economy movements in the United States and an understanding of philanthropic practices. The SPO supervises the PO, and the work of outside consultants supporting REF’s strategy and grantmaking.

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 for this role include:

In partnership with and with the support of the CEO, Managing Director of Programs, REF staff, advisors, and consultants, co-lead/create:

• Program development and strategic planning for REF

• With the support of the PO, research, assess, and recommend grantees for approval for funding three times a year in accordance with grant periods established by Grants Management

• Manage the development of the agenda and clarify processes for REF team meetings alongside the REF Integrated Capital Officer and Program Officer

• Strategies for sharing knowledge, both internally and externally

• Grantmaking planning, budgeting, and strategy, in collaboration with the Program Officer, REF

• Manage REF consulting contracts and relationships

• Create, manage, and facilitate procedures, methods, and workflow processes within the REF team

• Make recommendations to the REF team on how to respond to materially changing conditions at the grassroots level in response to urgent needs from our grantee partners

REF Grants Management:

• Maintain strong, mutually respectful relationships with grantee partners through every point of contact, including responding to inquiries, conducting site visits, evaluating and recommending grants, processing awards and payments, managing payment schedules, and closing out grants

• Conduct research and analysis related to the Restorative Economics Framework, provide regular updates on grantees' work and developments in the field, and lead organizational learning around key questions grantees are addressing

• Manage grantmaking planning, budgeting, and strategy for the REF team

• Alongside REF’s PO, manage REF’s rapid response budget

• Alongside REF’s PO, manage REF’s sponsorship budget

• Alongside the REF team, approve individual grants in alignment with the REF framework and budget allocations

• Conduct research, analysis, writing, and other forms for documentation and material preparation to support REF and Kataly's program needs

• Alongside the PO, serve as a connector for grantee partners—with and among each other—where it is supportive of their work. Connect grantee partners with opportunities to amplify their work with potential funders and donors and increase their access to philanthropic spaces

• Support the PO in gathering, analyzing, and monitoring data points that will inform impacts, gaps, and challenges in the program’s strategy

Supervision

• Provide supervision, mentorship, guidance, and direction to the PO, and leadership to the REF team for ongoing growth and development

Cross Department Collaboration & Coordination:

• Serve as the lead point of contact for the REF Grants Program to promote the maximum impact of projects and ensure grants are meeting strategy goals

• Provide support and direction in the use of the Foundation’s voice, actions or policies which align with the foundation’s approach to philanthropy

• Engage in ongoing communications with the MDP, keeping them informed about program needs, challenges and successes, strategic development, shared learning opportunities, grants, grantee accomplishments, etc.

Collaborate with Kataly’s Director of Communications:

• Produce qualitative and quantitative narrative reports on REF grantmaking and strategy

• Contribute to Kataly’s communications efforts as requested, including but not limited to writing blog posts, articles, public speaking at conferences and events, and providing REF information as needed for Kataly communications and other foundation objectives.

• In collaboration with the Director of Communications, develop a process and method for capturing and documenting grantee stories as narrative data to be shared through various communication channels

• Respond to communications and internal/external requests, and assist others as needed

Collaborate with Kataly’s Capacity Building Team:

• In collaboration with Kataly's Director of Capacity Building, work with grantee partners and the REF team to identify, prioritize, and address key capacity-building needs of grantee partners and across the ecosystem.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary for the role is anticipated to range from $165,000 to $175,000, commensurate with experience. Kataly offers a comprehensive benefits package.

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.

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