Bay Area Director - South Bay
Company: GreenLight Fund
Location: San Francisco, CA
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:
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/.
The Opportunity
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.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Selection Cycle Management
Portfolio Management
Culture and More
Candidate Profile
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:
Compensation and Benefits
The salary for this position is $135,000. The compensation package includes:
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.
Greenlight Fund is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBT applicants.
Contact
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.
Koya Partners is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals living with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual living with a disability and need assistance expressing interest online, please email NonprofitSearchOps@divsearch.com. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.
About DSG | KoyaDSG | Koya, a DSG Global company, is the nation's premier search firm dedicated to mission-driven leadership. Since its founding in 2004, DSG | Koya has had an exclusive focus on mission-driven clients and was founded on the belief that the right leader can transform an organization and have a deep and measurable impact on our world. DSG | Koya works with nonprofits & NGOs, responsible businesses, and social enterprises in local communities and around the world.DSG Global is consistently recognized by Forbes on its top 10 list of "America's Best Executive Recruiting Firms" and is an industry leader in recruiting transformational leaders for a changing world. The firm is deliberately different in its approach, with best-in-class teams who have decades of experience in cultivating inclusive leaders, understanding the dimensions of diversity, and building equitable teams. Learn more about DSG | Koya via the firm's website.
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Bay Area Director - South Bay
Company: GreenLight Fund
Location: San Francisco, CA
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:
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…
The compensation package includes:
The compensation package includes: