Job Description
Oakland, CA
$140,000 ‒ $170,000 Annually
Chief Impact Officer Oakland, CA
Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
Employment Full-Time, Exempt
Start Date Summer 2026 (flexible)
Compensation $140,000 - $170,000 commensurate with experience; full benefits, employer matched 401K and generous PTO
About Families In Action For Quality Education Founded in 2019, Families in Action for Quality Education (FIA) is a regional power-building organization rooted in the belief that Black and Brown families are the irreplaceable center of educational change. Over six years, FIA has grown from a local coalition into a Bay Area political force — cultivating family leadership that produces measurable academic outcomes, wins policy change, and is now sought by peer organizations and school districts across the region.
FIA’s three-part model — Grassroots Leadership, Impactful Campaigns, and Grasstops Partnership — has delivered a 221% increase in students’ A-G eligibility knowledge after a single workshop, an 88% family reading-gains rate across Lit for Literacy schools, and a unanimous OUSD resolution to double reading and math proficiency for Black and Brown students by 2034.
FIA now stands at an inflection point. With a board-approved 2030 growth strategy, new district partnerships, and a field increasingly looking to FIA for replication guidance, the organization is ready to grow with discipline — from a ~$1.8M operation today to ~$3.4M by FY29-30. The Chief Operating Officer is the organizational architecture that makes that growth possible.
The Role The Chief Impact Officer is a new and critical role at FIA. It is a strategic partner to the CEO — someone who holds the connective tissue of a growing organization: keeping strategy and execution aligned, translating vision into structured plans, managing the CEO’s highest-leverage priorities, and building the internal systems that allow FIA to grow without sacrificing quality or staff wellbeing.
The ideal candidate is someone who has worked in — or worked closely with — both the programmatic and operational sides of a mission-driven organization, understands the rhythms of philanthropic fundraising, and brings both analytical rigor and relational depth to the work of organizational leadership.
This role will be a thought partner on the 2030 growth strategy, own internal organizational design, lead cross-functional coordination, and support the CEO in FIA’s fundraising and external partnership efforts during a period of significant expansion.
Key Responsibilities
To apply, please submit a resume and a cover letter that speaks to: (1) your experience managing organizational complexity; (2) your relationship to the work of family and community power-building; and (3) why this role, at this moment, for FIA.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage early submissions.
$140,000 ‒ $170,000 Annually
Chief Impact Officer Oakland, CA
- Full-Time
- Senior Leadership
Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
Employment Full-Time, Exempt
Start Date Summer 2026 (flexible)
Compensation $140,000 - $170,000 commensurate with experience; full benefits, employer matched 401K and generous PTO
About Families In Action For Quality Education Founded in 2019, Families in Action for Quality Education (FIA) is a regional power-building organization rooted in the belief that Black and Brown families are the irreplaceable center of educational change. Over six years, FIA has grown from a local coalition into a Bay Area political force — cultivating family leadership that produces measurable academic outcomes, wins policy change, and is now sought by peer organizations and school districts across the region.
FIA’s three-part model — Grassroots Leadership, Impactful Campaigns, and Grasstops Partnership — has delivered a 221% increase in students’ A-G eligibility knowledge after a single workshop, an 88% family reading-gains rate across Lit for Literacy schools, and a unanimous OUSD resolution to double reading and math proficiency for Black and Brown students by 2034.
FIA now stands at an inflection point. With a board-approved 2030 growth strategy, new district partnerships, and a field increasingly looking to FIA for replication guidance, the organization is ready to grow with discipline — from a ~$1.8M operation today to ~$3.4M by FY29-30. The Chief Operating Officer is the organizational architecture that makes that growth possible.
The Role The Chief Impact Officer is a new and critical role at FIA. It is a strategic partner to the CEO — someone who holds the connective tissue of a growing organization: keeping strategy and execution aligned, translating vision into structured plans, managing the CEO’s highest-leverage priorities, and building the internal systems that allow FIA to grow without sacrificing quality or staff wellbeing.
The ideal candidate is someone who has worked in — or worked closely with — both the programmatic and operational sides of a mission-driven organization, understands the rhythms of philanthropic fundraising, and brings both analytical rigor and relational depth to the work of organizational leadership.
This role will be a thought partner on the 2030 growth strategy, own internal organizational design, lead cross-functional coordination, and support the CEO in FIA’s fundraising and external partnership efforts during a period of significant expansion.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership & CEO Partnership
- Serve as the CEO’s primary thought partner on strategy, organizational priorities, and stakeholder relationships
- Manage the CEO’s time and attention — ensuring capacity is directed to the highest-impact work, and that commitments are followed through reliably
- Prepare the CEO for board meetings, major donor conversations, district partnerships, and field-facing engagements
- Track the organization’s annual and multi-year goals; provide regular synthesis of progress, risks, and decisions needed
- Supervise, mentor, and coach the leadership team to ensure alignment with organizational goals, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous development while building a strong, cohesive team environment where collaboration, professional growth, and effective decision-making thrive across all functions.
- Oversee leadership team step backs, and cross-team planning processes
- The 2030 Growth Campaign (Expansion Execution)
- Own the operational backbone of FIA’s four-year Power to Lead campaign including the expansion of Oakland Enrolls, coordinating across program, development, finance, and communications
- Manage the launch of Lit for Literacy expansion with partner districts
- Develop and maintain work plans, milestones, and accountability structures for each phase of the growth strategy
- Identify risks to expansion timelines and proactively surface them to the CEO with proposed mitigations
- Support the development of district-level partnership frameworks
- Fundraising & Development Support
- Serve as a core member of FIA’s development capacity in conjunction with development consultant and CEO during the Power to Lead campaign, which seeks multi-year philanthropic support through FY30
- Manage the development calendar and pipeline in coordination with the development consultant and CEO: tracking prospects, deadlines, reporting requirements, and relationship-cultivation touchpoints
- Manage development consultant who drafts and edits grant proposals, donor reports, and funder communications — ensuring FIA’s story is told with precision and power
- Coordinate the preparation of financial narratives, program data packages, and impact documentation for major funders
- Support field partnership development — consulting and train-the-trainer arrangements that represent FIA’s emerging earned-revenue strategy
- Internal Reorganization & Organizational Design
- Lead the design and implementation at FIA as the organization scales from ~$2.4M to ~$3.4M
- Staff sustainability: Address documented overallocation of program leadership (currently operating at 113–123% FTE on core programs alone) through role redesign, workload redistribution, and operational support structures
- Hiring: Develop and refine job descriptions, hiring and onboarding processes, and performance management systems for new roles added in each year of the growth plan
- Systems: Build or optimize internal infrastructure — project management, knowledge management, staff communication, data collection, analysis and reporting processes — commensurate with the organization’s growing complexity
- Partner with the CEO and board on compensation philosophy, staff performance systems, and organizational culture as FIA grows
- Ensure that overhead investments are deployed strategically: protecting program staff from administrative burden while maintaining the financial discipline of FIA’s true-cost accounting model
- Board Relations & Governance
- Manage board relationships in partnership with the CEO
- Work with the Operations Team to prepare materials for the board
- Deep alignment with FIA’s theory of change: that Black and Brown families, when properly equipped and organized, are the most powerful force for educational equity
- 7+ years of experience in the nonprofit, education, or public sector, with demonstrated leadership responsibility
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with clarity and follow-through
- Experience working directly with or for executive leadership in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
- Strong written communication skills — you write with clarity, intentionality, and FIA’s voice in mind
- Analytical ability to synthesize financial data, program metrics, and strategic information for diverse audiences (funders, board, staff, district partners)
- Experience in K-12 education reform, family engagement, or community organizing
- Experience in development or fundraising — particularly with institutional philanthropic funders
- Familiarity with district-school partnership models and/or the Bay Area education landscape
- Experience managing organizational growth, restructuring, or multi-year strategic planning
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus
- The opportunity to shape the internal architecture of a proven, growing organization at a pivotal moment in its evolution
- A CEO who is deeply invested in the Chief Operating Officer’s development and will prioritize this as a senior leadership relationship
- A healthy, mission-driven staff culture rooted in joy, purpose, and a shared commitment to growth and impact
- Competitive nonprofit compensation, commensurate with experience, including full medical/dental/vision benefits, retirement, up to 5% performance bonus and generous PTO
- Flexible hybrid work environment based in Oakland, CA, with some travel to Peninsula partner districts and funder meetings
To apply, please submit a resume and a cover letter that speaks to: (1) your experience managing organizational complexity; (2) your relationship to the work of family and community power-building; and (3) why this role, at this moment, for FIA.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage early submissions.