Are you a driven fundraising and partnership development professional who is passionate about building a more equitable society? If so, please join Pacific Community Ventures. Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) envisions a world where every entrepreneur and worker has the freedom and capacity to build intergenerational wealth through a good job. Over the past decade, our research projects and client engagements helped us define and build the field of impact investing; become a leading statewide community development financial institution (CDFI) in California; and begin scaling a nationwide mentorship platform for under-estimated small business owners. We seek innovation that leverages good jobs journeys to close the racial wealth gap in the U.S.

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Who We Are

PCV is a 25-year-old 501(c)(3) nonprofit community investor that envisions a world of thriving communities where everyone has a fair shake. Our mission is to invest in addressing racial and gender wealth gaps, and build community wealth by investing in small businesses, help them create good jobs for working people, and make markets work for the common good. We achieve our mission through a “Good Jobs, Good Business” model that combines affordable loans with pro-bono advising, small grants, and tools and incentives to create dignified good jobs. In 2021, 90% of PCV’s loan capital supported women and/or BIPOC-owned businesses, and 86% supported small businesses located in economically distressed areas.

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Why You’re Needed

PCV’s tech-enabled Business Advising Platform engages volunteers to provide pro-bono pre- and post-investment mentorship to entrepreneurs engaged with PCV for lending in California, and across the country.  We deeply invest in facilitating two-sided, culturally-relevant, mentor-mentee relationships. We seek to fund our operations, and recruit and train volunteer advisors, largely through corporate sponsors, and paid community partnerships. Our climate strategy, launched in Spring 2024 is heavily dependent on engaged and relevant partners, and this role is critical to execution.

You are relationship driven, and are as comfortable pitching the value of volunteering and grantmaking to corporate social impact executives, as you are partnering with diverse community organizations to build trust in under-estimated and historically excluded communities. You are a tech-savvy, data-driven leader modelling a culture of excellence and accountability to KPIs. You understand the importance of UX and can define crystal-clear requirements for vendors, staff and contractors. You possess an empathetic people-focused leadership style and coaching mindset to mentor a growing, and nationally distributed, team as we strive to grow our reach five-fold over the next few years.

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Specific Responsibilities‍

Partner Relations and Development

• Develop and lead a Small Business Support Circle fundraising strategy capable of raising sufficient funds to support the program’s $2.5 million budget, aligned with the CEO and PCV-wide fundraising goals and priorities.
• In consultation with the Chief Impact Officer, develop a network of partners focused on improving climate economy opportunity access for historically underestimated entrepreneurs.
• Build paid and sponsored relationships with corporate and community partners – particularly those serving largely BIPOC, immigrant, refugee and women-led entrepreneurial communities – and facilitate their connection to our mission.
• Create value streams for external partners including sharing success stories, budgeting engagement incentives and co-creating social media campaigns that tell our shared stories.
• Build and maintain an active volunteer advisor pool, with a focus on business leaders who understand climate projects – also representing key industries, mentoring capabilities and lived experience.
• Grow and maintain partnerships to facilitate a consistent pipeline of small business owner and business advisor referrals, consistent with PCVs commitment to reach 85% entrepreneurs of color, 75% LMI and create good jobs in low-income communities.
• Meet KPIs set forth in grant agreements and manage BA team grant relationships and budgets.
• Draft and manage partnership agreements and MOUs in alignment with Stakeholder KPIs; prioritizing key strategic and multi-year partnerships for PCV with partnership associates.

Team Management and Mentorship

• Manage a hybrid remote and nationally distributed team of BA Associates and contract Relationship Managers.
• In partnership with PCV’s Good Jobs Innovation Lab, ensure the team is deeply aligned with PCV’s Theory of Change and supporting feedback loops that drive product innovation and findings around good jobs outcomes for our entrepreneurs.
• Ensure BusinessAdvising.org hosts a cohesive user journey and maintains leading edge UX.
• Train and mentor BA Associates to lead program operations management, client and partner user experience, program development and support in partnership development.
• Ensure PCV lending clients receive excellent pre- and post-engagement support, and ensure target geographical areas are properly developed to meet programmatic obligations – particularly good jobs supports and climate economy access for wealth building outcomes.
• Set and maintain ambitious KPIs for partner engagement and client satisfaction – emphasizing engagement in 1:1 partnerships for 6 months.
• Communicate progress to goals with PCV’s Director Team and build strong cross-functional relationships to play a key role in driving successful organizational outcomes.

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Inclusion Policy

Evidence and our collective experience suggest that women and people of color often don’t apply for jobs if they don’t believe that they possess 100% of the qualifications listed in a job description. Accordingly, below are some of the most important attributes that successful candidates may possess. This list is neither exhaustive nor 100% required:

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Qualifications, Skills & Experience

We strive hard to be a diverse and inclusive place to work. We value new perspectives, original ideas, and different ways of working. You will bring a background of working with dynamic teams and projects, as well as excellent analytical and communications skills that you are eager to apply to complex social problems. You should demonstrate a deep commitment to creating social and environmental benefit, under-invested people and places. You should be enthusiastic, flexible, and excited to join a passionate team.

• 5+ years of relevant work experience, including at least 2 years in a fundraising role with a demonstrable track record.
• 2+ years experience managing staff members, contractors, [and volunteers, preferred].
• Successful experience in project/program design and management capacity [in a growth/startup environment, preferred].
• Familiarity with climate-related industries and policy sectors strongly preferred.
• Proven networking and relationship-building skills both internally and externally.
• Empathetic, collaborative, and values-driven people leader.
• Strategic and data-driven decision-maker who embraces a culture of excellence and high performance.
• Detail-oriented with uncompromising desire for accuracy in reporting
• Able to prioritize multiple requests with competing priorities and deadlines, and communicate pro-actively with internal stakeholders.
• Excellent cognitive and critical thinking ability.
• Ability to influence others in a diplomatic and professional manner.

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Compensation

$90,000-$100,000, commensurate with experience; with generous benefits

As an organization committed to creating good jobs, we walk the talk. We provide excellent benefits for full-time employees, including full health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement savings accounts with a generous match which is fully vested immediately, ample paid time off and holidays, as well as meaningful professional development opportunities. We offer a competitive salary based on experience, with bonus eligibility.

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Location/Travel

Oakland-based, largely remote. May occasionally require travel within the U.S.

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To Apply

Interested candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. They should send a résumé and cover letter via e-mail to cbell@pcvmail.org with the words “Corp and Comm Partnerships” in the subject line, by September 30. Start at earliest convenience. No phone calls, please.

PCV is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran, or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We live our values of openness, transparency, coming from a place of yes, collaboration, and more; and believe that justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion is fundamental to our success. We are especially interested in candidates who have direct experience with the communities we serve.

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