What are the responsibilities and job description for the Multicultural Fellowship, Power position at San Francisco Foundation?
Multicultural Fellow for the Power Pathway
Location: San Francisco, CA Department: (Community Impact) Type: Full-time, Limited-Term Min. Experience: Intermediate
Year 1: Non-Exempt-Focus on learning as a cohort and for the role.
Year 2: Exempt: Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment. Majority of the Fellow's time is spent on tasks that require independent judgment and advanced knowledge, with limited routine tasks.
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, Rooted in Community
Position Summary
The mission of the Multicultural Fellowship Program is to equip emerging leaders with the experience, knowledge, and network to create an equitable Bay Area. For over 30 years, the Multicultural Fellowship has been a career accelerator to more than 100 alumni who are motivated and creative agents of change.
Successful candidates are early-career professionals who are new to philanthropy and of diverse cultural backgrounds who show promise and passion to create significant social change in the Bay Area. The Fellowship offers an unparalleled opportunity to work within the San Francisco Foundation and explore the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors in the Bay Area through a racial equity and economic inclusion framework. Each Fellow will embark on this journey with three other Fellows, Foundation staff, and an alumni community of support.
Boundaries
The Fellowship consists of four Fellows. Each Fellow works specifically within one of the Foundation’s teams: the People Pathway, Power Pathway, Place Pathway or Strategic Learning and Evaluation. Fellows can expect an individually nuanced, on-the-job learning experience while also being part of a cohort learning community.
Authority
Multicultural Fellows work within their one program team to increase team capacity, provide a fresh perspective, and contribute to the efficacy of the team’s work towards advancing racial and economic equity in the five Bay Area counties that the Foundation serves.
Role of the Power Pathway Fellow
The Power Pathway builds the political voice and agency of low-income residents and people of color in the Bay Area to win governing power to advance racial justice and economic inclusion. The Power Pathway work centers on a power-building approach defined as the strategic act of shifting power away from historically oppressive systems and towards a new center of gravity that advances authentic democracy, redistribution, and reparation.
The funding priorities are:
Tasks
With the direction and guidance of their supervisor, the Power Fellow will do the following:
SFF and Power Pathway Development:
Education:
Compensation: The San Francisco Foundation offers a very competitive total compensation package including base compensation in alignment with our organizational budget size and rich medical and fringe benefits offerings.
In their first year, Fellows will focus on learning and development and be paid hourly as non-exempt staff. In year two, the role takes on independent work and responsibilities and is moved to an exempt level role. The FY26 compensation budget for SFF has not been approved at this time. For reference, year one of a Fellow’s tenure in FY25 would pay, $44.27 per hour or $86,320 annually.
Fellows will also benefit from a robust professional development package for the duration of their Fellowship.
You may read more about our compensation philosophy and benefits on the Career page.
Remote Work Policy: The Foundation has adopted a long-term hybrid in-person and remote work policy. Dedicated to its employee health and safety, The Foundation will continue to make decisions in accordance with San Francisco County and California mandates. Employees must reside or plan to relocate to California if hired.
Requesting Accommodations: The Foundation is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, The Foundation will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].
PROGRAM DATES: July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2027
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59 pm PST on March 7, 2025
TO APPLY: Applicants must submit a resume and cover letter for their primary program choice via our Careers Webpage. Your cover letter should communicate your commitment to equity, your approach to leadership, your interest in working with the primary program team, and dedication to personal and professional development through specific and demonstrable examples.
At the discretion of the program team, applicants may be considered for other program areas.
Applicants selected to continue to the next steps of the process will be contacted in late March or early April. For information on the MCF Program, please email [email protected]. For information on the recruitment process, please email [email protected].
The San Francisco Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.
PM21
Location: San Francisco, CA Department: (Community Impact) Type: Full-time, Limited-Term Min. Experience: Intermediate
Year 1: Non-Exempt-Focus on learning as a cohort and for the role.
Year 2: Exempt: Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment. Majority of the Fellow's time is spent on tasks that require independent judgment and advanced knowledge, with limited routine tasks.
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, Rooted in Community
Position Summary
The mission of the Multicultural Fellowship Program is to equip emerging leaders with the experience, knowledge, and network to create an equitable Bay Area. For over 30 years, the Multicultural Fellowship has been a career accelerator to more than 100 alumni who are motivated and creative agents of change.
Successful candidates are early-career professionals who are new to philanthropy and of diverse cultural backgrounds who show promise and passion to create significant social change in the Bay Area. The Fellowship offers an unparalleled opportunity to work within the San Francisco Foundation and explore the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors in the Bay Area through a racial equity and economic inclusion framework. Each Fellow will embark on this journey with three other Fellows, Foundation staff, and an alumni community of support.
Boundaries
The Fellowship consists of four Fellows. Each Fellow works specifically within one of the Foundation’s teams: the People Pathway, Power Pathway, Place Pathway or Strategic Learning and Evaluation. Fellows can expect an individually nuanced, on-the-job learning experience while also being part of a cohort learning community.
Authority
Multicultural Fellows work within their one program team to increase team capacity, provide a fresh perspective, and contribute to the efficacy of the team’s work towards advancing racial and economic equity in the five Bay Area counties that the Foundation serves.
Role of the Power Pathway Fellow
The Power Pathway builds the political voice and agency of low-income residents and people of color in the Bay Area to win governing power to advance racial justice and economic inclusion. The Power Pathway work centers on a power-building approach defined as the strategic act of shifting power away from historically oppressive systems and towards a new center of gravity that advances authentic democracy, redistribution, and reparation.
The funding priorities are:
- Developing Transformational Leadership
- Partnering with and supporting the development of community members, organizers, and organizations to build the skills, capacities, and networks needed to win governing power.
- Advancing Multiracial Democracy
- Supporting long-term integrated civic engagement, intergenerational base building, and narrative change to advance community power.
- Supporting organizations working to build and implement models of authentic democracy.
- Supporting Power-Building Infrastructure
- Supporting strategic coalitions, alliances, and diverse constituencies that aim to share power analysis, power-building practices, and governing agendas while building up each other’s capacity and influence.
Tasks
With the direction and guidance of their supervisor, the Power Fellow will do the following:
SFF and Power Pathway Development:
- Depending on bandwidth and interest, the Fellow can take on roles to further develop the Power Pathway or SFF. This may include playing leadership roles in internal working groups, leading workshops, and team building.
- Keep teams abreast of emerging and aligned efforts in the specific funding priority areas to provide shared learning and help inform strategy development.
- With community partnership, plan and host stakeholder convenings, including grantee mixers, funders briefings, coalition meetings, and/or other strategic events to build trust and transparency between the Power Pathway and current or prospective grantees.
- Support projects that leverage SFF’s leadership related to Power Pathway issue areas.
- Conduct research and data analysis, produce blogs and grantee stories, and generate written briefs.
- Partner with Strategic Learning and Evaluation team to develop evaluation metrics, methodology and tools.
- Complete a capstone project that leverages the fellowship experience to address a strategic challenge faced by SFF or its grantee partners.
- Meet with prospective applicants and grantees; build authentic relationships with grantee and non-grantee organizations; practice trust-based philanthropy.
- Provide technical assistance to grantees and consultants.
- Evaluate grant proposals, conduct due diligence, participate in site visits, review research, and present grant recommendations to the program team.
- Make grants, conduct progress report meetings, and provide trouble shooting or navigation for grantees
- Manage the Rapid Response Fund for Movement Building grantmaking program
- Facilitate weekly grant review sessions and train committee members in Rapid Response grantmaking.
- Work across departments to produce content such as donor updates, grantee reports and stories, and website updates for Rapid Response Fund for Movement Building.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in one or more of the Foundation’s programmatic areas of focus or a related discipline is preferred
- Additional work experience, educational degrees and certificates will be considered
- Minimum of two years and maximum of four years of relevant experience. Relevant experience can include progressively responsible work experience in the public or non-profit sectors, as well as lived and volunteer experience
- Demonstrated experience in project management, strategy development, and implementation
- Experience in applying a racial or economic equity frame in work environments is required
- Proven record of successfully working independently and collaboratively in teams is required
- Understanding of Bay Area nonprofit and philanthropic communities is preferred
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice and equityDisplays active listening, oral and written communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously,
- Desire for continued growth and development,
- Learns quickly in new environments
- Ability to engage with diverse staff and external stakeholders
- Ability to provide and receive constructive feedback
- Ability to commit to a two-year Fellowship program
- Intermediate to advanced computer/software skills, including Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, & Teams) and Zoom.
- Ability to learn, navigate and manage online platforms, including Fluxx, Qliksense, Smartsheet, Salesforce, Blackbaud, and Power Plan
Compensation: The San Francisco Foundation offers a very competitive total compensation package including base compensation in alignment with our organizational budget size and rich medical and fringe benefits offerings.
In their first year, Fellows will focus on learning and development and be paid hourly as non-exempt staff. In year two, the role takes on independent work and responsibilities and is moved to an exempt level role. The FY26 compensation budget for SFF has not been approved at this time. For reference, year one of a Fellow’s tenure in FY25 would pay, $44.27 per hour or $86,320 annually.
Fellows will also benefit from a robust professional development package for the duration of their Fellowship.
You may read more about our compensation philosophy and benefits on the Career page.
Remote Work Policy: The Foundation has adopted a long-term hybrid in-person and remote work policy. Dedicated to its employee health and safety, The Foundation will continue to make decisions in accordance with San Francisco County and California mandates. Employees must reside or plan to relocate to California if hired.
Requesting Accommodations: The Foundation is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, The Foundation will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].
PROGRAM DATES: July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2027
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11:59 pm PST on March 7, 2025
TO APPLY: Applicants must submit a resume and cover letter for their primary program choice via our Careers Webpage. Your cover letter should communicate your commitment to equity, your approach to leadership, your interest in working with the primary program team, and dedication to personal and professional development through specific and demonstrable examples.
At the discretion of the program team, applicants may be considered for other program areas.
Applicants selected to continue to the next steps of the process will be contacted in late March or early April. For information on the MCF Program, please email [email protected]. For information on the recruitment process, please email [email protected].
The San Francisco Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.
PM21
Salary : $86,320
