Pride Foundation is seeking a Senior Grants Program Officer to join our team! The Senior Grants Program Officer (Sr. GPO) will be entrusted to manage Pride Foundation’s grantmaking and is expected to bring a wealth of knowledge in transformative philanthropy and be able to apply it to funding decisions.
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Application deadline is March 11th, 2025.
The Sr. GPO is expected to be thoughtful, creative, and a relationship-builder who can develop, lead, and implement Pride Foundation’s grantmaking strategies in line with our values and best practices in Trust-Based Philanthropy.
Grants management (40%)
Grant Making Strategies (25%)
Capacity Building Strategy (25%)
Organizational Culture and Racial Justice (10%)
The ideal candidate will bring a mix of the below skills, experiences, and competencies. Pride Foundation believes that skills are gained from a variety of avenues, including through lived experience, paid work, volunteer, or unpaid experiences, and both traditional and non-traditional education and work.
- Meaningful commitment to Pride Foundation’s mission and to building a racially just, equitable, and inclusive environment through all levels of the organization.
- Strong understanding and experience working on issues related to racial, LGTBQ+, gender, geographic disparities, economic, and reproductive justice, and experience working in communities comprised of diverse people.
- Experience working within the nonprofit, philanthropic, or other sectors that focused on providing programmatic and/or financial support to communities who have been systemically harmed by injustice through
- Ability to manage long-term goals of projects, be flexible and adaptive to time-sensitive opportunities, and maintain accountability for deliverables.
- Exceptional project management experience and ability to scope, plan, and implement projects and deliverables in a timely way, with attention to detail, and amidst multiple deadlines and identified priorities.
- Familiarity with managing database and online application systems, and project management tools like Asana.
- Strong experience in community organizing and/or outreach, particularly within BIPOC, Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex and/or gender diverse communities.
- Strong experience building deep, trusting, and lasting community relationships, and the ability to collaborate and work as part of a team.
- Experience in recruiting and vetting subcontractors as necessary for programmatic purposes.
- Ability to share ideas around strategy, with both excitement and constructive critique.
- Commitment to power-sharing and shifting to communities most impacted by inequities.
- Ability to engage in clear and transparent communication within the organization and with community partners.
- Experience with relationship building, program implementation and management as well as providing technical assistance in a virtual setting
- Experience in community building in and/or across rural, small town, and urban areas
- Experience working with diverse staff and teams toward achieving strategic goals and developing organizational culture.
- Ability to hold uncertainty with a deep feeling of investment in continuous improvement that mitigates for stagnancy.
- Experience working with LGBTQ+ communities and/or communities disproportionately impacted by injustice, including communities of color, trans and non-binary communities, indigenous communities and tribal nations, immigrant communities, rural communities, etc.
- Understanding and experience working on issues related to intersectional social justice (including racial, LGTBQ+, gender, disability, economic, and/or reproductive justice).
While not required, these are additional skills and experiences we are looking for in candidates:
- Experience working with communities in the geographical region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
Location and Position Details
This is a full-time, exempt position. This position is remote, though candidates should live in or be willing to relocate to one of the five Northwest states Pride Foundation serves. Pride Foundation is place-based and our residence in the region we serve is a critical part of how we lean into our values. Staff members in the greater Puget Sound region have the option to work out of our headquarters office in Seattle. Pride Foundation has a 4-day, 32-hour work week. Flexibility to work some evenings, weekends, and occasionally travel are necessary. Travel includes to staff/board retreats, conferences, and for outreach and site visits.
Pride Foundation utilizes an equitable and competitive compensation program and salary structure that includes regular Cost of Living Adjustments and raises. For this position, the salary range is $75,000-$80,000, depending on experience. This salary is non-negotiable beyond this range to counter pay inequality and uphold internal parity for salaries.
Excellent employer-paid benefits including: medical (includes coverage of gender-confirming health services and procedures), dental, and vision coverage, plus disability insurance, employer retirement account contribution, and option to invest in an individual retirement account. Additionally, we offer 4 weeks paid vacation, 16 wellness/sick days, 3 personal days/floating holidays, 11 paid holidays, and paid family and medical leave.
Application deadline: March 11th, 2025.
Pride Foundation is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive work environment and to building a team that reflects the rich diversity of our community. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, people with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual orientations, gender expressions and identities who are underrepresented in the field of philanthropy are encouraged to apply.
Submit a letter of interest and resume via the Apply button at this link: https://pridefoundation.org/about-us/work-with-us/were-hiring-senior-gra...
If you have access needs around applying, please reach out to us so that we can accommodate them.
In your letter of interest, please make it a point to address the skills and experiences you bring to this role, as outlined in the primary responsibilities and qualifications sections above. We also ask you to specifically address:
- What inspires you to work at Pride Foundation?
- Why are you interested in this role in particular?
- How do your lived, academic and professional experiences speak to the skills and experience needed for this role?
We rely on these responses in our screening process and not including them will negatively impact your application during the screening process.
Priority will be given to candidates who submit their applications by March 11th, 2025. We are expecting a high volume of applications for this position, and therefore due to capacity and the position’s immediate availability, any applications received after March 11, 2025 will not be reviewed.
Note: If you recently applied to our Scholarships Program Officer position, and would now like to apply to the Senior Grants Program Officer position, please email us a note explaining why to [email protected], and we will rollover your previous application materials to the Senior Grants Program Officer candidate pool.