Director, Global Climate Initiative

About The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Founded in 1964 by David and Lucile Packard, the Packard Foundation is a family philanthropy dedicated to supporting leaders and organizations around the world working to invest in children and families, protect and restore the natural world, and create just and inclusive societies.

For more than six decades, the Foundation has advanced scientific innovation, championed reproductive health and rights, conserved and restored our natural world, and invested in the well-being of children and families. To achieve lasting change, we also strive to address root causes of longstanding problems, including building a thriving, resilient U.S. democracy; advancing racial justice in the United States and gender equity globally; and supporting a strong civil society around the globe.

Inclusive collaboration is the heart of our approach. We believe that actively listening to and learning from people with a wide range of views is the best way to create solutions that match the scale and urgency of the challenges we face. We are dedicated to supporting community-based solutions shaped by the knowledge and experience of the people whose lives are most affected and informed by data. We recognize that meaningful solutions require patience, urgency, and supporting the conditions for transformational change. We are committed to addressing complex issues over the long term while making tangible progress today.

OUR VISION : A just and equitable world where both people and nature flourish.

OUR MISSION : We work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.

OUR VALUES : Equity, Integrity, Belief in Individual Leadership, Thinking Big, Respect, and Effectiveness.

Department Overview

The Environment and Science (E&S) team supports work to achieve the Foundation’s three goals, with a particular focus on the goal of protecting and restoring our natural world. To do this, we champion bold climate solutions, an ocean that sustains us, and scientific innovation and discovery to secure the health and future of people and our planet. Across our globe, the fate of both people and our natural world are inextricably linked, and all solutions must account for both.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Vice President for Environment and Science, the Global Climate Initiative Director will lead the refinement and execution of the GCI strategy and an integrated, multidisciplinary team of 9 working across multiple geographies (Congo Basin, Indonesia, and Brazilian Amazon). The Director will provide strategic oversight and thought leadership to ensure impact against the Foundation’s vision and that its grantmaking activity is aligned to the Foundation’s core values.

Additionally, the Initiative Director will partner with the Grants Officer to oversee Program Associates’ grantmaking via a dotted line reporting relationship. GOs will provide expert guidance and oversight on grantmaking processes and quality of work; they are responsible for ensuring that Program Associates are informed, supported, and completing grants in line with our policies and practices.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Develop and Oversee Initiative

• Evaluate the changing landscape, trends, and developments to ensure that the Foundation is selecting objectives and deploying resources as effectively as possible to achieve the GCI goals
• Refine current grantmaking by incorporating input from the President, Trustees, and Foundation colleagues, as well as lessons from key funder and grantee partners

Ensure that the strategy and portfolio align with the Foundation’s vision, mission, values, and theory of change

Grantmaking & Grantee Partnership Management

grantee partners, and provide support through proposal development process as needed

In cooperation with the evaluation and learning officer, assess progress of collective GCI grantee partner impact to evaluation and learning goals

Field Leadership

People Management & Team Leadership and Management

performance management and compensation decisions, ensuring that each direct report understands

their learning and career trajectory at the Foundation

and create a space to share management best practices

grantmaking policies, procedures, processes, and timelines.

relationship between Program Associates and Grants Officers.

Qualifications

Education

Experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Compensation and Benefits

The position is full-time. The salary range for this position is $232,000 – $302,000 annually. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on various factors, including without limitation individual education, experience, tenure, certification, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation offers excellent benefits for eligible employees. Current benefits include medical (HMO and HDHPs), dental and vision coverage; 15% employer contribution to employee retirement plan; life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and sick leave; an adoption benefit; fertility benefit; a financial wellness program; health advocacy services, paid time off to volunteer for nonprofit organizations; matching grants for employee contributions to tax exempt organizations; commute assistance; and tuition assistance.

To Apply

Please submit a CV and cover letter, detailing how you fulfill the role description and personal specification to Perrett Laver , quoting reference 7832. All inquiries, applications and references should be through Perrett Laver.

Hybrid Work Policy

The Packard Foundation’s current Hybrid Work Policy is that staff are expected to be in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays each week.

The Foundation is an equal employment opportunity employer, which means we recruit, hire, assign, train, promote, compensate, provide benefits, discipline, and discharge (and all the other terms and conditions of employment) based on merit, qualifications, job requirements, and other legitimate business factors.

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