The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The foundation’s U.S. Program (USP) works to ensure that people navigating US education systems and job markets can develop the knowledge, skills, and agency needed to thrive in their communities such that race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status are no longer predictors of educational attainment and economic mobility and security.

Our mission is to work with partners to:
1. Generate insights by using data, research, and evidence to illuminate inequities in education, workforce, and social systems and evaluate potential solutions;
2. Accelerate innovation of digitally enabled solutions and high-impact practices and supports that help educators and community leaders eliminate disparities;
3. Strengthen capacity of institutions, intermediaries, and leaders to implement these solutions, practices, and supports in their contexts to further test and prove their effectiveness and impact;
4. Improve enabling conditions including data infrastructure, policy, and funding, so that proven solutions, practices, and supports can scale to ensure equitable outcomes; and
5. Engage partners to ensure that community voices, student voices, and other key stakeholder voices are included, heard, and incorporated into our work.
Our mission reflects our belief in the power of evidence, data, technology, and innovation as essential and high potential inputs to support educators and system leaders to deliver equitable impact for students and communities.

USP works on five goals:
1. increased kindergarten readiness and school and life success;
2. increased academic and socio-emotional outcomes for K-12 students, with a focus on mathematics, to ensure they are on-track for high-school graduation and college preparedness;
3. increased successful transitions for K-12 students between high school and postsecondary systems;
4. increased completions of quality, affordable postsecondary credentials that offer value through economic mobility and security; and
5. increased outcomes for adults experiencing poverty with regards to economic success, power and autonomy, and being valued in their communities.

Application Deadline: Monday, March 18, 2024

Your Role

You direct and implement learning, people and programmatic initiatives for the OOP and US Program division, champion division-wide culture, and serve on the OOP leadership team. In partnership with HR and DEI colleagues, you design and implement structures and processes to support high-quality recruitment, onboarding, performance management, training and development, recognition, and employee engagement. You are responsible for division approaches to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and outcomes.

As directed, you may shape the strategy for a programmatic portfolio, guide team members in the management of foundation investments, and work with external partners to drive progress.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, lead, and monitor progress for USP and OOP people, learning and programmatic initiatives, including development of deliverables that effectively communicate progress and status to key audiences.

• Partner with Director, DDSPM, strategy officers, project leads, and business partners to implement division programs that are synchronized within division-wide rhythms of the business.

• Drive alignment of team's work to strategy and implementation plans.

• Design and facilitate retreats and cross-organizational collaborations.

• Monitor and manage succession planning, team performance, recognition, and development.

• Champion continuous improvement and support change management across all strategies and initiatives.

• Hire, manage, and develop the talent needed to achieve goals and impact. Foster enabling conditions for talent to thrive and cultivate inclusive team culture.

• Model and support equitable decision-making, inclusive behaviors & actions; address raised issues in a timely fashion.

• Promote strategies and implement projects focused on continuous learning within a positive, engaged, and productive employee experience and to maximize division impact.

• Collaborate strongly with peer deputies to ensure program, learning, and culture objectives are met within the team and division.

• Provide strategic guidance in managing grants and contracts that may require complex research or rigorous measurement.

Your Experience

• An advanced degree or equivalent demonstrated experience

• Comprehensive experience leading complex talent and organization development initiatives with budget responsibility at the institutional or organizational levels.

• Experience in developing and managing strong partnerships and relationships inside and outside the organization, managing conflicts, and building consensus and alignment.

• Mastery of structured problem solving and strategic business planning with the ability to easily identify and communicate frameworks to analyze issues.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to identify and communicate external and internal dynamics, as well as articulate implications for strategy, priorities, and team evolution.

• Demonstrated track record of developing big picture vision and translating that vision to a strategic plan, implemented with excellence and inclusion, with key partner alignment along the way.

• Mastery ability in portfolio design and management to create an optimal investment mix to drive to a set of outcomes.

• Ability to identify, attract, mentor, develop, and retain top talent and become a leader of leaders.

• Change management and continuous improvement expertise to drive a high-performance culture.

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

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The salary range for this role is $229,100 to $355,200 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences where our offices are located, in Seattle, Washington D.C., and Boston (Cambridge). The range for this role in these locations is $249,600 to $386,900 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission and new hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations

If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request here.

Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.