Careers

Capital Region Education Council

Thank you for your interest in career opportunities at the Barr Foundation.

We are currently hiring for two senior leadership roles.

Vice President, Programs

The Vice President role is an outstanding opportunity to shape Barr’s future impact. The ideal candidate
brings deep experience of strategic philanthropy, with a track record of developing, implementing, and
refreshing innovative and aligned program strategies. With an organization-wide strategic lens, they will
lead and support colleagues through change, both as the philanthropic space reinvents itself and as Barr
continues its evolution from a family foundation to a legacy foundation. With exceptional communication, collaboration, entrepreneurial and team leadership skills, they are committed to engaging authentically within Barr, and with our community and partners.

General Counsel

The General Counsel is Barr’s first in-house legal leader, responsible for providing strategic and practical legal guidance across the foundation’s grantmaking, governance, regulatory compliance, organizational and legal risk, and external engagement.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer for organizational alignment and operational integration, the General Counsel serves as a strategic legal advisor and is a member of the executive leadership team.

This is a generalist legal role that combines:

Legal advisory across programmatic and operational activities
Governance and Board of Trustees support
Risk identification and mitigation
Legal infrastructure development (templates, policies, tools)

If there are no openings that are a match for your particular skills and interests—please explore our curated list of resources for social sector job-seekers.

“Culture is not stagnant. Culture is something that everybody in the organization helps to shape and contributes to.”

Jim Canales, Barr Foundation, Chair of the Board

Diversity at Barr

Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Barr Board and Staff

We value and benefit from the diverse perspectives, vantage points, and lived experiences of colleagues who work at Barr.

Barr is an equal opportunity employer, with a commitment to building and fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates who would both contribute to and value working in such an environment.

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Asian or Asian American
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latinx

Multi-racial or Multi-ethnic
White
Middle Eastern or North African

Boston Women's Workforce Council

Barr is a Compact Signer for the 100% Talent Compact, which is administered by the Boston Women’s Workforce Council, a unique public-private partnership between the Boston Mayor’s Office and Greater Boston employers dedicated to eliminating the gender and racial wage gap.

We are proud to be part of this first-in-the-nation approach to reaching pay equity for women and people of color across our region.

Barr is a signatory of the City of Boston's Women's Workforce Council

Workplace Culture

A set of core values guides our hiring process and the workplace culture that we shape together. Barr is committed to strive for impact, act with humility, invest in leaders, take the long view, center racial equity, embrace risk, and demonstrate curiosity.

We aim to make Barr an inclusive workplace where all team members can bring their full and authentic selves and be supported to learn and grow.

Barr Staff participate in a cooking class at GreenRoots.

Work Environment

We embrace a hybrid workplace that seeks to balance time in the office with colleagues, time in the community, and remote work.

Located along the waterfront in Boston’s North End, Barr’s offices are in the historic Pilot House and adjacent Two Atlantic Avenue. Our walls feature the work of contemporary artists, and the office space is designed to provide bright, open, flexible spaces for collaboration and independent work, and to host meetings and events.

Benefits

Barr offers generous benefits including health, dental, vision, and life insurance; a strong retirement savings program; 15 vacation days to start; and noteworthy parental and health leave policies.

Policies

We aim to be open and transparent about our work and to contribute to broader efforts that promote and advance the field of philanthropy. View all of our policies here.