Racial Justice Program Officer Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
- Date Posted March 23, 2019
- Location New York, NY
- Category Nonprofit
- Job type Full-Time
ABOUT WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund is a private grantmaking foundation dedicated to advancing the realization of human rights and social and economic justice for all people. Wellspring has offices in New York, NY, and Washington, DC.
Wellspring’s work is rooted in respect for the dignity and worth of every human being and is informed by the following beliefs:
- Social institutions and structures should promote the full realization of human rights and human potential, and should be accountable to these ends.
- The rights of all people are advanced when the rights of the most marginalized and vulnerable peoples are protected.
- Social justice movements should employ means that are consistent with their ideals, and should give agency to the people whose interests they seek to advance.
- As responsible stewards, we must strive to maximize the impact of our charitable investments.
As a private foundation, Wellspring’s key functions are to conduct research and education tailored to our mission; manage a grantmaking portfolio of various programs; administer grants and monitor grantee performance; and work to promote the effectiveness of programs that receive donor funding.
Job description
JOB SUMMARY
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF) seeks a Program Officer to join its Racial Justice Program. Launched in 2016, WPF’s Racial Justice Program envisions a day when Black people and other people of color in all corners of the U.S. thrive and experience full participation in the U.S. democracy. In service of this vision, the program provides grants and field support that build power within Black communities and communities of color creating a more just and equitable society by challenging anti-Black racism and White supremacy that perpetuate structural racism and a racialized criminalization system.
WPF seeks to hire a Racial Justice Program Officer with deep knowledge of the U.S. criminalization system who shares our core institutional and program values, including:
- Humility: openness to listening to and learning from groups and leaders working on the ground, from colleagues in philanthropy and across WPF, and to elevating the work of our grantees, not ourselves,
- Respect: for WPF grantees and colleagues, their perspectives, pressures, and contributions,
- Teamwork: a desire to work collaboratively and supportively with grantees and WPF colleagues, and
- Courage: to support work that is bold, strategic, and informed by those most impacted by criminalization and injustice.