The Role
Lead strategy and implementation of Pride Foundation's multi-year Community Grants program: design and evaluate grantmaking strategy, manage outreach and application review, administer awards, build and maintain grantee relationships, gather regional LGBTQ+ data to inform programs, support other grant initiatives, and integrate racial justice and trust-based philanthropy. Requires occasional travel and regional residence.
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TO APPLY
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 to the right. 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 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 and professional experiences speak to the skills and experience needed for this role?
Priority will be given to candidates who submit their applications by September 1, 2026. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, though applications submitted after the deadline will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The position will be filled as soon as the appropriate candidate is found, as the position is available immediately.
LOCATION & 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: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington. 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.
LOCATION & 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: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington. 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.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This Senior Program Officer will be focused on Community Grants. It is a key position within the Programs team and reports to the Associate Director of Programs, while working in close collaboration with the Director of Programs and Senior Program Officers.
The Senior Program Officer – CG will be the primary person responsible for the strategy and implementation of the multi-year community grants program while supporting other grantmaking programs. The SPO-CG will work closely with the Associate Director of Programs and the Grants Team to review community grants applications, award grants, and maintain and evaluate the program. The SPO-CG will be entrusted to build relationships and be in communication with community grantees and distill communications and data in order to inform the programmatic strategies.
The SPO is expected to bring a wealth of knowledge in transformative philanthropy and be able to apply it to funding decisions; utilize relational and observational analyses of organizations and programming to inform decision making; be anchored in racial justice and anti-oppressive principles that center community trust and be an expert in relationship and community building. The SPO will be expected to conduct all aspects of their position in alignment to Pride Foundation’s values.
This is a full-time, exempt position. Flexibility to work some evenings, weekends, and occasional travel is required. Travel is estimated to be approximately 10 to 20 percent of work time across the five-state region.
Primary Responsibilities
The SPO-CG 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.
Grantmaking Strategy & Outreach (35%)
- In close collaboration with the Associate Director of Programs, lead the Community Grants program, including strategy and process development and evaluation.
- Support the Associate Director of Programs in building a comprehensive strategy for responsive funding and special initiative grant programs.
- Develop region-wide outreach strategies in collaboration with the Grants team.
- Identify and build relationships with new and emerging organizations and groups that are in line with Pride Foundation’s priority communities, in partnership with the Grants team.
- Gather information and data, and distill learnings and trends in LGBTQ+ communities across the region to inform our grants strategies.
Grantmaking Implementation (35%)
- Lead the implementation of all aspects of Pride Foundation’s Community Grants program, including outreach, grant application review, administrative processes, reporting, and due diligence.
- Lead the implementation of the grantmaking process of any responsive funding or special initiative programs.
- Build and maintain relationships with grantee organizations, regularly check in and keep up-to-date with organizational developments.
- Implement trust-based philanthropic principles throughout.
- Collaborate with the Programs Operations Manager on grants administration.
Programmatic Support (20%)
- Provide support to other grant programs (Capacity Beyond the Check and Movement Leadership Development initiatives) as needed, such as event attendance.
- Collaborate with the Grants Team and the Senior Communications Manager to ensure messaging on programs is consistent and aligned with Pride Foundation values, strategies, and priorities.
- Collaborate with Grants Team and the Senior Communications Manager to share grants program stories internally and externally.
Organizational Culture and Racial Justice (10%)
- Understand and integrate racial justice into individual and team workplans and broader strategic efforts.
- Commit to ongoing learning and growth related to racial justice and equity
- Actively participate in organizational culture building, including caucus spaces and learning opportunities.
- Work to identify and address structural inequities within program implementation and engagement.
- Contribute to a mission-driven, inclusive, and community-centered organizational culture.
Qualifications: Skills and Experience
The ideal candidate will bring a combination of the following skills, experiences, and competencies gained through both paid and unpaid experiences:
- Demonstrated experience with, understanding of, and commitment to Pride Foundation’s mission and values, and to advancing intersectional racial equity and justice.
- Commitment to power-sharing and shifting to communities most impacted by inequities.
- Experience working with/in communities impacted by systemic injustice, particularly within LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex and/or gender diverse communities.
- Strong relationship building skills with demonstrated ability to work across diverse communities and geographies.
- Exceptional project management experience.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and coordination skills.
- Enthusiastic participant in feedback and evaluation.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and goals, and work collaboratively in team settings.
- Able to use and navigate apps and software such as Microsoft Office, databases, online application systems, and project management tools like Asana.
While not required, these are additional skills and experiences we are looking for in candidates:
- Experience working across rural, small-town, and urban communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
- Experience in community engagement, organizing, grantmaking, or program implementation, and/or other sectors that focused on providing programmatic and/or financial support to communities who have been systemically harmed by injustice.
- Experience working with Pride Foundation grantee organizations.
Benefits
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 $89,000-94,000 annually, 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.
About
Pride Foundation fuels transformational movements to advance equity and justice for LGBTQ+ people in all communities across the Northwest. We envision a world in which all LGBTQ+ people live safely and openly as our whole selves in the communities we call home. Pride Foundation is the only community foundation by and for LGBTQ+ people and communities serving the Northwest region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Founded in 1985 during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Pride Foundation is the result of generations of leaders who brought simple but revolutionary values to our movement: the courage to truly see one another, the compassion to recognize our shared humanity, and the conviction to show up every day to protect one another. Pride Foundation has an operating budget of more than $6 million with 16 full time employees working from across the region we serve. Pride Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors with 17 members from across the five-state region with diverse professional and lived experiences. As an organization and as individuals, we are committed to anti-racism, and strive to center racial equity and justice throughout our organization and all aspects of our programmatic work. Together, we are intentionally and actively building an internal culture that reflects this commitment, and an organization where our team members can thrive. All team members are a part of this work and are active participants in building our culture. Read more about the work culture we are building here and our 4 day work weeks here.
Skills Required
- Demonstrated experience with, understanding of, and commitment to Pride Foundation's mission and advancing intersectional racial equity and justice
- Commitment to power-sharing and shifting decision-making to communities most impacted by inequities
- Experience working with/in communities impacted by systemic injustice, particularly LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex and/or gender diverse communities
- Strong relationship building skills with demonstrated ability to work across diverse communities and geographies
- Exceptional project management experience
- Excellent communication, organizational, and coordination skills
- Enthusiastic participant in feedback and evaluation
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and goals, and work collaboratively in team settings
- Able to use and navigate apps and software such as Microsoft Office, databases, online application systems, and project management tools like Asana
- Residency in or willingness to relocate to Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington
- Flexibility to work some evenings, weekends, and occasional travel (approximately 10-20% travel)
- Experience working across rural, small-town, and urban communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington
- Experience in community engagement, organizing, grantmaking, or program implementation focused on communities harmed by injustice
- Experience working with Pride Foundation grantee organizations
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