Director of Community Strategies in Rural Oregon

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The Director of Community Strategies provides strategic leadership for the Foundation’s efforts to support community-driven system change through community engagement, leadership development, and rural capacity-building efforts. This role helps shape how the Foundation listens to, learns from, and partners with rural communities to strengthen local leadership, increase community influence, and support systems-level change. Working across the Foundation and throughout rural Oregon and Siskiyou County, the Director integrates community voice, field intelligence, and emerging opportunities into strategies that strengthen community capacity, inform organizational priorities, and advance long-term outcomes for rural children, families, and communities.

The Director leads a team of Community Strategists while serving as a key partner in aligning community-centered approaches with the Foundation’s broader strategic priorities. The role offers a unique opportunity to help strengthen rural communities’ ability to influence decisions, systems, and conditions that shape their future.

This is an exempt position, and the annual salary is $172,000-$181,800 depending on experience. Our excellent benefit packageincludes paid time off and holidays, health and dental insurance, health savings account, generous retirement plan, matching gifts program, access to an employee assistance program, professional development opportunities, rejuvenation leave and more. Performance and compensation are reviewed at least annually.

This field-based position must be currently based in a rural Oregon community. Rural Oregon includes the small towns and unincorporated places outside the state’s major urban centers of Portland, Salem, Corvallis-Albany, Eugene-Springfield, Bend, and Medford. Frequent travel (approximately 40-60%) throughout Oregon and Siskiyou County is required to support community engagement, partner relationships, Foundation events, and regional collaboration. Periodic travel to the Foundation’s Roseburg office and other Foundation locations is expected. When not engaged in community-based activities, the position offers flexibility to work remotely in alignment with Foundation expectations

Deadline to submit applications, along with a thoughtful and engaging letter of interest, is Friday, September 25th, 2026 @ 5:00 PM PDT. Please note that the application deadline is subject to change. The position may close sooner than the deadline listed based on the number of applicants.