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Bay Area Director - South Bay

GreenLight Fund San Francisco Bay Area, CA

GreenLight Bay Area is currently seeking a dynamic, passionate, and strategic Director in the South Bay to work in collaboration with and serve as a thought partner to the Bay Area Executive Director. The Director will manage the programmatic operations alongside the San Francisco/Oakland Director, ensuring on-track progress on the site’s ambitious plans towards programmatic impact. This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the intersection of social entrepreneurship and community need and to build and support a portfolio of high-performing nonprofits to confront the community’s most pressing challenges.    The Director – South Bay will be an experienced, innovative, and collaborative director with exceptional project management, communication and relationship-building skills. While no one candidate will possess every quality outlined for this position, the successful candidate will bring many of the following professional qualifications and personal attributes: 

• Authentic passion for GreenLight’s mission and commitment to the Bay Area community, with specific connection to or experience in the South Bay area • Proven commitment to bringing a racial equity lens to their work and deep understanding of how systems of oppression have affected communities experiencing poverty  • 10+ years of experience with a successful track record in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments holding positions of increasing responsibility  • Experience building relationships in Bay Area’s philanthropic, nonprofit and/or business sectors, as well as knowledge of the critical social issues affecting low-income residents in the area  • Creative, collaborative, entrepreneurial, and action-oriented with an eagerness to roll up one’s sleeves and work hands-on to manage towards site goals and success  • Passion for and a demonstrated commitment to social entrepreneurship and social change  • Demonstrated experience developing effective working relationships with people from a wide array of backgrounds and leading groups with a collegial and team-building approach • Experience executing competing priorities with excellence • Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to represent GreenLight Bay Area in an engaging and dynamic manner  • Experience in writing and submitting grant proposals and reports is a plus   The salary for this position is $135,000. Candidates must be based in the Bay Area, with preference to those based in the South Bay. This position offers flexibility to work from home or hybrid with the expectation of in-person engagements, including meetings, events, and travel.

Koya Partners l Diversified Search Group has been exclusively retained for this engagement, which is being led by Cassie Scarano and Ariella Pasackow. To apply, please submit a compelling cover letter and resume by filling out our Talent Profile no later than August 22, 2025. All inquiries are strictly confidential.

To apply, visit: https://apptrkr.com/6398229

About GreenLight Fund

Founded in Boston in 2004, GreenLight Fund addresses barriers to economic mobility for children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to:

• Identify critical needs and barriers for people experiencing poverty.

• Import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact.

• Galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the city.

In addition to funding, GreenLight Fund provides ongoing support to the organizations it brings to a city (portfolio organizations) through access to a national network of partners and city-specific relationships and knowledge, as well as expertise developed through GreenLight Fund’s experience in other cities, which helps ensure their success and impact.

Currently, in addition to the founding site in Boston, GreenLight Fund has sites in Atlanta, the Bay Area, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Newark, Philadelphia, Miami and the Twin Cities. Since our founding, GreenLight has launched and supported 62 innovative organizations across these sites that reached 748,525 children and families last year.

Since its inception in 2012, GreenLight Fund Bay Area has directly invested $5.5 million to bring 7 nonprofit organizations to the Bay Area. These organizations are currently serving over 500,000 people annually, making measurable changes in food insecurity, digital equity, college persistence, math skill development, summer learning loss, early childhood education and college affordability.

In 2025, GreenLight Fund is poised for continued growth, with a focus on deepening community impact, growing to new cities, building our learning capacity, building strategic partnerships, and centering equity in all that we do. To learn more about GreenLight Fund’s work, please visit http://greenlightfund.org/.