Overview
Program Director, Pisces Foundation Jobs in San Francisco, California, USA at ABFE
The Pisces Foundation works to advance a world where nature and communities thrive. With a focus on fostering collective action to address complex social challenges, the foundation supports the field building, movement infrastructure, and collaborations necessary for significant and sustainable change. The foundation is headquartered in San Francisco, California with grantee partners across the globe. More information on the Pisces Foundation’s updated strategy can be found here.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Pisces Foundation seeks an experienced senior leader to serve in the newly created role of Program Director. This is aunique opportunityto help drive and implement the Foundation’s updated strategic approach in its continuing commitment to funding impact-oriented collective action.
Reporting to the President and leading a high-caliber staff of four, the Director will serve as a team and organizational leader implementing the Foundation’s updated and cutting-edge social impact approach in the Foundation’s two main programmatic areas:
1) an integrated approach to its work in the Environment; and
2) a new initiative directing investments that contribute to a more thriving, vibrant San Francisco. The Director will also serve as a principal advisor and trusted thought partner to the President and board, lead organization-wide program communications, oversee learning and evaluation, and design and support effective board meetings. This is a largely internal role, driving the effectiveness of the program as a whole to achieve program goals and impact.
Candidates must have
1) at least 15 years of experience in the nonprofit, private, philanthropic, or public sector, including significant experience directly managing others;
2) expertise in collective impact andcollaborationfor impact;
3) a deep understanding of social movements and the capacity to iteratively improve program implementation by thinking critically about theories of change;
4) domain expertise in areas of focus for the Foundation:
Environment (water, climate and energy, environmentaleducation) and/or San Francisco. Excellentstrategic planning,project management,communicationand writing skills are essential.
Candidates must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. To promotecollaborationand adynamicwork experience, Pisces uses a hybrid remote and in-office format from their San Francisco office. A fullyremote work optionwill not be considered for this role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Pisces Foundation is creating an integrated program team that is capable ofcollaborationacross its two focus areas of environmental and local (San Francisco) grantmaking. In the context of a multi-focal strategy, the Program Director will:
Strategy Development and Implementation
● Have responsibility for the excellence and effectiveness of the program, including the implementation and impact of a Foundation strategy to achieve systems change and stronger, sustainable field-level infrastructure, collective impact, andleadership development.
● To achieve these aims, oversee and implement a single coherent program with shared strategy, team, and efforts across the Foundation’s two focus areas of Environment (water management, climate and energy, environmentaleducation) and local (San Francisco) grantmaking.
● Design a rational rhythm for strategic reviews in coordination with the budget approvals.
● Lead the program team to maximize impact by an integrated approach to grantmaking, convenings,communi…
Title: Program Director, Pisces Foundation
Company: ABFE
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Category: Management, Non-Profit & Social Impact
