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Initiative Associate, Great Communities Collaborative (GCC)

The Semi-monthly (per pay period) compensation for this position in FY24 is:

$3,466.66 per pay period

Location: San Francisco, CA

Department: Community Impact

Type: Full-Time

Min. Experience: Intermediate

Organizational Result:

All people living in the San Francisco Bay Area are economically secure, rooted in vibrant communities and engaged in civic life.

We Value:

Anti-racism, Boldness, Equity, Racial Justice, and being Rooted in Community

The following sections are designed based on the Results Based Leadership for Racial Equity Framework that the Foundation uses to accomplish our work. As a learning organization we expect staff to incorporate learning into their core work in addition to the tasks related to the functional position. All staff should expect to devote time on learning activities related to our values and skillset development. People managers should expect to spend a significant amount of time coaching, developing, and managing people with the balance of the time for all staff spent on relationship building internally and externally and achievement of outcome goals of role and foundation.

Position Summary:

The Initiative Associate is key to supporting the coordination and convening of many partners, both internally and externally, especially across multiple convening groups. Additionally, the Initiative Associate will work with various staff across departments in the San Francisco Foundation (the Foundation) as it relates to work led by the Great Communities Collaborative (GCC). The Initiative Associate position requires excellent research, analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and writing skills as well as professional discretion, independent judgment, and diplomacy.

Boundaries

The Initiative Associate and the GCC team are part of a high-performing Policy and Innovation Division within the Community Impact Department at the Foundation. In brief, GCC aims to further goals in housing, transportation, land use, and climate resilience toward the outcome of a region that is made up of healthy, thriving neighborhoods that are affordable to low-income communities of color and well-connected to regional opportunities. The Initiative Associate will collaborate across diverse teams, including cross-departmental working groups, and work closely with the GCC Associate Initiative Officer and GCC Senior Initiative Officer & Director to administer various key elements of the GCC initiative. The Initiative Associate will lead administrative tasks and programs to help progress GCC's initiative plan focused on advocacy, regional collaboration, local innovation, and multi-sector collaborative projects across the Bay Area.

Authority

The Initiative Associate supports GCC's grantmaking and communications strategy and works in close collaboration with the Associate Initiative Officer and Senior Initiative Officer & Director to develop and execute on GCC's strategic goals. The Initiative Associate primarily provides backbone administrative support at the initiative level of GCC, including budget management, grants administration, meeting documentation, calendaring, and coordinating logistics for in-person and virtual convenings, to achieve GCC's strategic goals.

This is an individual contributor on a start-up team, and the ideal professional is organized, flexible, efficient, and detail oriented.

This position is term-limited for three years. This position reports to the GCC Senior Initiative Officer & Director.