Overview
Communications Officer Jobs in Menlo Park, California, USA at Funders for LGBTQ Issues
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, based in Menlo Park, CA, has partnered with the search firm Chaloner on the search for a Communications Officer.
About the Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation invests in creative thinkers and problem solvers working to ensure that people, communities, and the planet can flourish. Together with our partners, we are harnessing society’s collective capacity to solve our toughest problems — from the existential threat of climate change, to persistent and pervasive inequities, to attacks on democracy itself. A nonpartisan philanthropy, the Hewlett Foundation has made grants in the U.S. and globally for nearly six decades based on an approach that emphasizes long-term support,collaboration, and trust.
Globally, we make grants to address both longstanding and emerging challenges like our efforts to reduce the growing threat of climate change, advance gender equity and governance, and reimagine the economy and society. Our U.S. efforts prioritize strengthening democracy, advancingeducationfor all, and supporting community-led conservation. In the San Francisco Bay Area we call home, we make grants to support meaningful artistic experiences in local communities and support regional foundations working on critical issues such as housing.
All of our grantmaking also invests in advancing racial justice and in strengthening the effectiveness of our grantees, and of philanthropy itself.
The Hewlett Foundation’s assets are approximately $12.8 billion with annual awards of grants totaling almost $600 million. More information about the Hewlett Foundation is available at:www.hewlett.org
The foundation has approximately 130 employees, in programmatic, operational, and investment roles, and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Across the organization, our employees are challenged withmeaningful work, have the resources for ongoingprofessional developmentand learning, and contribute to a collegial andengaging environmentwhere they can thrive. We are committed to fostering a culture ofinclusionas part of our guiding principles and encourage individuals withdiversebackgrounds and experiences to apply.
About
the Communications Department
Our ten-person communications team ensures that the foundation and our grantees use effective communications strategies to realize the foundation’s charitable goals and to advance the fields in which we work. In our institutional communications, we aim to successfully position the Hewlett Foundation ascollaborative, knowledgeable,forward-thinking,impactful, and a facilitator of dialogue across differences, so that we build trust with internal and external audiences and have greater credibility and influence over the issues we care about.
In communications grantmaking, we partner with and advise program staff so that they are able to make grants that leverage the full power of strategic communications, narrative and culture, and healthy media ecosystems to advance program goals. This includes supportingstrategic planning, implementation and measurement of communications approaches. Internally, members of our team also support organizational learning to increase cross-programcommunicationand knowledge-sharing.
Among the team’s operating values are openness, authenticity, andempathy, as hallmarks of trustworthycommunication; partnership andcollaboration, critical for working with our peer funders, nonprofit grantee partners and internal colleagues; a…
Title: Communications Officer
Company: Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Location: Menlo Park, California, USA
Category: Non-Profit & Social Impact, Marketing / Advertising / PR
