About Waverley Street Foundation

Waverley Street Foundation (WSF) builds and supports solutions seeded in communities, where enduring change grows from the ground up. The Foundation is especially eager to partner with communities that are already enduring severe impacts of climate change and that deserve a central place in solutions. WSF prioritizes representation, diversity, equity, and inclusion in all facets of its work.

Unlike most philanthropies, WSF will spend down its assets—approximately $3 billion—over the next nine years, a decision that empowers it to support not only sensible and pragmatic solutions but also daring bets and breakthroughs that can alter the trajectory of the climate crisis and unlock a new and better future for humanity. WSF is working toward a fifty percent reduction in carbon pollution by 2035 through supporting community natural farming and renewable energy solutions that benefit people.

The Opportunity

Director of Learning and Evaluation, Global will leverage best practices to build the learning and evaluation frameworks that will ultimately help shape the global strategy with a blend of lessons learned, impact evaluation, and insightful consultations with grantees and networks. The Director will also work to help strengthen learning for WSF’s grantees and the field more generally, developing appropriate metrics and approaches for understanding and measuring global and community change.

The Director of Learning and Evaluation, Global reports to the Managing Director and will collaborate closely with the Head of Global Programs, as well as the Head of U.S. Programs and the Learning & Evaluation Director, U.S. This new position relies on strong strategy, collaborative co-creation, and leadership skills as well as an expert understanding of how to build an organizational learning culture that supports learning for the field, ongoing improvement of emergent program strategies, and impact.

Ideal Candidate

WSF seeks a seasoned learning and evaluation professional who brings at least ten years of experience designing strategic learning frameworks and informing strategy through effective measurement & evaluation processes. The ideal candidate brings specific expertise in measurement and evaluation with a preference for work in global climate and/or environmental programs.

The Director must be comfortable working in a busy, start-up environment and enjoy building from the ground up. With WSF’s focus on grantee, community, and field building, ideal candidates need excellent relationship, communications, and listening skills with deep curiosity about programs and partners.

This position offers a salary range of $200,000 – $300,000. This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with an expectation of working in-office three days per week.