Search jobs > San Francisco, CA > Senior program director

Senior Director of Programs

Community Living Campaign
San Francisco, California, United States
$90K a year
Full-time
Quick Apply

The Senior Director of Programs position is new for CLC. It will provide a broad range of high-level support to the Co-Executive Directors, Board of Directors, and Senior Leadership team of the Community Living Campaign.

This leadership position will work directly with the Co-Executive Directors to help drive effective programs, support and develop the growing staff, engage with community members and strategic partners, and nourish relationships with funders and donors.

The Senior Director will be collaborative and independent, able to move with patience and clarity from strategy to implementation.

The Senior Director can manage teams and take various assignments from concept through delivery with a high degree of self-direction, consistent follow-through, and exacting detail in all work products and relationships.

A high degree of tact and diplomacy are critical in this role, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong facilitation and project leadership skills, and a can do, flexible style.

Essential Responsibilities :

Strategic Planning, Analysis, and Organizational Projects :

  • Serves as a thought partner and facilitator for strategic planning activities with the Senior Leadership Team, Board, and Directors.
  • Performs research across a variety of subject matter areas and then synthesizes information and ideas for leadership and the board.
  • Seeks out and actively recommends enhancements to quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in both programmatic and administrative operations.
  • Works with the Senior Leadership Team to identify, prioritize, and drive improvement initiatives, including requirements analysis, design, and implementation.

Partners with leaders to lead key cross-departmental initiatives, including complex and sensitive projects and events that have an agency-wide impact.

Program Management & Advocacy :

  • Organizes and manages select CLC programs. Takes on the day-to-day management of CLC’s current programs, including tech and home-delivered grocery.
  • Modifies and manages budgets for specific CLC programs, as agreed upon in partnership with the Co-Executive Directors.
  • Works together with the Executive Directors, CLC staff, and neighborhood leaders to carry forward CLC’s mission, advocating and building coalitions that advance the needs of seniors and people with disabilities.

Contract Management and Reporting :

  • Manages the RFP application process with the City of San Francisco, including organizing team meetings and timelines, maintaining central documents, and coordinating the process of drafting RFP language, editing, and submitting RFP proposals.
  • Manages and coordinates site visits from the Department of Aging Services and potentially other major contract holders or funders.
  • Manages contracts (MOUS and supporting documentation). Supports compliance and reporting activities, such as reporting for funding site visits and generating required reports.

This includes ensuring that programmatic data is collected and accurately entered into appropriate systems.

Donor Development and Fundraising :

  • With the Executive Directors, creates and maintains key relationships with potential and current agency funders, including acknowledgment letters to donors.
  • Partners with Executive Directors to develop and pursue grant opportunities, including grant writing and other donor development activities.
  • Manages the grant reporting process, working directly with all directors and program leads.
  • Periodically reviews contracts as needed to provide recommendations to executive leadership, who retain responsibility for signing contracts.

Board Relations Support :

  • Serves as liaison to the Board of Directors to provide, review, and follow up on all Board materials, including calendars, agendas, minutes, and correspondence.
  • Facilitates effective communication with the Board’s leadership team and with individual Board members.

Qualifications :

Candidates must offer :

  • Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a commitment to and passion for CLC’s mission.
  • Exceptional organizational skills, including people, time and project management, and filing / archival systems for information storage and retrieval.
  • Excellent business writing and editorial skills, including generating original materials across various business functions, including correspondence, marketing materials, meeting minutes, and staff communications.
  • Exceptional verbal communication and facilitation skills - warm, direct, engaging, and effective in all interactions. Able to strongly and effectively represent the agency with a broad host of constituencies - from participants to funders.
  • Ability to see the gifts and talents of individuals and help them grow to best meet their potential.
  • Demonstrated experience listening first and promoting others’ ideas in addition to one’s own, and being inclusive, respectful, and supportive of others’ ideas and potential.
  • Willingness to step in at all levels to ensure the agency's overall job gets done.
  • High proficiency in MS Excel, Word, Canva, and Constant Contact and strong working knowledge of collaborative tools like Dropbox and Google Workspace.

Education and Experience :

  • Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree in business administration, nonprofit management, law, or related field preferred.
  • Minimum of 12 years of work experience is required, ideally in nonprofit leadership or a similar field.
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience managing a team.

Additional experience preferred but not required :

  • Familiarity with human services and nonprofit management is strongly preferred.
  • Professional experience working with diverse communities and staff regarding race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

Experience with older adults and people with disabilities is a plus.

Location :

The Senior Director must be able to work in San Francisco, where CLC is based. This is a hybrid position that includes approximately 50% work-from-home and 50% in-person.

The Senior Director will be expected to meet with others at the CLC Office and in the field as needed. The candidate should live in San Francisco, California, or be within a one-hour commute to San Francisco.

Compensation and Benefits :

  • An annual salary of $90,000 for a full-time, salaried position. CLC offers a competitive benefits package, including a 403(b);
  • health and dental plans; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave;

and a 3% end-of-the-year bonus.

5 days ago
Related jobs
Promoted
VirtualVocations
Oakland, California

A company is looking for a Senior Director, Global Consulting Services. ...

Promoted
University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Reporting to the Senior Director of Development, the Associate Director of Development will work closely with physicians, administrators, and researchers to further all aspects of the fundraising programs for areas to include the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Department of Otolaryngology - ...

Promoted
VirtualVocations
Oakland, California

Director of Retail Sales to lead its growth in retail markets. ...

Promoted
University of California - Riverside
Oakland, California

Under the leadership of the Senior Executive Director, Constituency Programs, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Education, School of Public Policy, School of Education, Library, Athletics, Regional and Pipeline Development, and in close collaboration with the Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs, the S...

Promoted
VirtualVocations
Oakland, California

A company is looking for a Senior Director, Communications Agency. ...

Promoted
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

The Director of Private Sector Programs ('Director') serves as the team lead for the Career Development Office's ('CDO') private sector team, which currently consists of three private sector career counselors (including the Director) and a private sector program coordinator. The law school has produ...

Promoted
Cisco Systems, Inc.
San Francisco, California

You will take Meraki Dashboard to the next level of simplicity and scale as we innovate around opportunities in AI and security to meet the needs of administrators of some of the largest networks in the world. Senior Director of Engineering, Meraki Cloud. That’s a lot of different areas of responsib...

Guidewire
San Mateo, California

Passionate about the potential of working with multiple teams across the company all working toward a common goal - using your previous expertise in managing and updating partner programs to transform our Alliances business. An idea generator and executor with the best of detailed skills. Able to wo...

Discovery Senior Living
San Francisco, California

Director of Corporate Sales, the RSD works closely with community Executive Directors, Regional Director of Operations, and corporate team members to focus on the appropriate priorities to ensure the appropriate objectives and goals are achieved within the community sales team (Senior Lifestyle Coun...

Industrial Light & Magic
San Francisco, California

The Senior Creature Technical Director is able to wrangle rigging and creature pipeline issues proficiently under the direction and support of their supervisors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, fi...