Program Officer, Environmental Justice Resource Collective

The Kataly Foundation seeks a Program Officer for its Environmental Justice Resource Collective, focused on grantmaking strategies to support Black and Indigenous communities. The role involves managing relationships with over 100 grantees, coordinating meetings, and advocating for social justice. The foundation promotes an inclusive, practitioner-funder approach to philanthropy, aiming to transform economic and social systems for marginalized communities.
Program Officer, Environmental Justice Resource Collective

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 .

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.

The Opportunity

The Program Officer will help implement the grantmaking strategy of Kataly’s Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC)-- which is led by a group of nine movement leaders who are decision-makers of both the grantmaking strategy and grantee award decisions-- in directing $75M in support of projects and organizations led by Black and Indigenous people and communities of .

The Program Officer (PO) of the Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC) program 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 EJRC’s Senior Program Officer, EJRC Leaders, consultants, and other Kataly team members to help implement, evaluate, and advocate to advance the EJRC grantmaking strategies and approach to movement-led grantmaking.

Key Responsibilities for this Role Include:

Relationship Management

Manage communication with EJRC cohort of over 100 grantees including scheduling annual check-ins, responding promptly to grantee requests, working with other Kataly staff to coordinate shared grantee communication.

Identify opportunities to connect grantees with each other, other Kataly staff, partners, and funders.

Schedule, coordinate, and provide logistical and operational support for online and offline EJRC meetings, conferences, and grantee convenings.

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, closing out grants, and throughout the relationship with Kataly.

Programmatic Support

Work closely with SPO EJRC, Kataly staff, EJRC Leaders and consultants to conduct planning, grantmaking, budgeting, evaluation, and strategy.

Conduct research, analysis, writing, and other forms of documentation and material preparation to support EJRC and Kataly's program needs.

Collaborate with Kataly's Grants Management team to process grants in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner.

Field/Movement Building & Advocacy

Develop collaborative relationships with grantees, outside advisors, experts in the field, public sector partners, and funder colleagues to extend the impact of Kataly’s grantmaking.

Work with SPO EJRC to carry out philanthropic advocacy strategies.

Operational Support

Participate in meetings with staff on grantmaking, planning, and strategy across the Foundation.

Engage in effective, ongoing, timely communications with supervisor, Foundation leadership, team members, grantees, community partners, vendors, and consultants.

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:

Passion for the Mission

The Kataly Foundation is deeply committed to justice, equity, , and accessibility.

A successful candidate will demonstrate their dedication to work with integrity and commitment towards fulfilling the Foundation’s mission.

Movement-Centered Environmental Justice Expertise

5-7 years of grassroots, environmental justice, climate justice movement-based work or grantmaking.

Lived and work experience directly relevant to environmental justice in the US.

A Relationship Builder and Mindful Collaborator

Strong emotional intelligence and maturity, demonstrated humility and an towards listening.

Ability to inspire trust and build authentic relationships with a wide range of people.

The Kataly Foundation is deeply committed to justice, equity, , and . We seek to have a diverse and inclusive workforce to promote effective work in partnership with all communities and population groups.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary for the role is anticipated to range from $140,000 to $155,000, commensurate with experience. Kataly offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Contact

Koya Partners l Diversified Search Group has been exclusively retained for this engagement, which is being led by Michelle Bonoan and Marisa Chock. Submit a compelling cover letter and resume.

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