Over Greenbelt Alliance’s 65-year history, we have stewarded this region’s beautiful natural landscapes while promoting the growth needed for thriving communities for generations to come. As a result, today, almost 3.3 million acres of the Bay Area’s nine counties are protected open spaces. Now, the Bay Area’s people, cities, and lands need critical help as our climate dramatically changes.
Joining our team means working with a bright and collaborative team who are dedicated to realizing a climate-resilient region—while having fun and enjoying great perks and benefits.
Open Opportunities:
Greenbelt Alliance is hiring a People Operations Manager to champion our values and ensure efficient operations. This role will be focused on maintaining our positive organizational culture, managing human resources, and overseeing day-to-day operations support to support the organization.
We are looking for someone who is eager to support the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding/offboarding and professional development, as well as office management, administration, and organization-wide communications. Applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis; however, priority consideration will be given to applications submitted by January 23, 2026. Please allow several weeks for a response, as we are reviewing applications.
Learn more and submit your application!
Annual Salary: $80,000 – $85,000
Projected Position Start Date: February 2025
Location: Hybrid-based in Oakland, California: 2 days in office.
Institutional Giving Manager
Greenbelt Alliance is seeking a highly organized critical thinker to join our team as Institutional Giving Manager. This role will be instrumental in ensuring effective management of institutional grants and contracts across our growing portfolio of government and philanthropic grants, as well as fee-for-service contracts.
We are looking for someone who is extremely attentive to detail, and can organize multiple complex project components, and is excited to collaborate with colleagues, grant officers, and consultants to ensure Greenbelt Alliance’s institutional fundraising operations are accurate and effective. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives on fast-paced proposal scoping and grant writing, facilitating internal meetings and decision-making on grant proposals, and managing grant progress reporting.
Annual Salary: $90,000 – $95,000
Projected Position Start Date: February 2025
Location: Hybrid-based in Oakland, California: 2 days in office.
OUR VALUES
Just as Greenbelt Alliance works to create a better Bay Area, we also strive to better ourselves as an organization. To guide that continued improvement, our staff and Board of Directors have identified and adopted the following values. They reflect who we are as an organization, what we foster in our team members, and the internal standard we use to measure our work.
GROW TOGETHER
BE BOLD
COMMUNICATE WITH DEPTH & POSITIVITY
PRACTICE COMPASSION
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
MAINTAIN TRANSPARENCY
ADVANCE JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
HAVE FUN
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