Senior Program Coordinator, USP Data (18 month LTE)

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 vision of the foundation’s U.S. Program (USP) is to ensure that everyone in the US has access to life-changing opportunities so that race, ethnicity, and income are no longer predictors of educational and economic outcomes. In education, our primary focus is ensuring that all students – especially Black, Latinx, and low-income students – have an opportunity to earn a degree or credential that prepares them for a successful career and life. We also support efforts to increase the number of actors working together to understand and advance economic mobility. The U.S. Program works on five key drivers toward our goal:
- Ensure early childhood learning systems provide high-quality learning experiences for young children.
- Support schools in the K-12 system to improve student outcomes.
- Transform colleges and universities to increase student success and eliminate attainment gaps.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure more people have the information and resources to take on barriers to opportunity and to develop economic mobility strategies.
- In our home state of Washington, improve the tools and practices of teachers, parents, and providers to ensure that all students have fair and equitable opportunities to reach their potential.
The goal of the USP Data Strategy is to ensure education-to-workforce data systems illuminate the progress and outcomes of all learners and workers over time, so that decision-makers have the feedback and insights they need to understand the impact of policies and practices, and take action to help advance equitable outcomes, ensuring all learners and workers succeed.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with investment makers by supporting the development, management, and maintenance of a portfolio of investments. Able to independently handle sophisticated investments and partnerships in service of shaping and optimizing successful investments, as well as ensure alignment with strategies and intended outcomes.
• Perform initial investment due diligence, including the collection of portfolio data, identification of trends, and management timelines. Advise on sophisticated investments, budgets, and financial analysis to increase impact, identify risks, and propose mitigation plans.
• Act as a subject matter expert on investment tools, systems, and templates and provide training and coaching to program team and external partners when needed. Ensure data quality for investments in foundation databases and provide support for team’s financial decision-making.
• Build, develop and maintain relationships with key internal and external partners to facilitate the investment lifecycle, including engagement with and management of external grantee and partner relationships. Overall ability to steward highly sophisticated partnerships.
• Partner with SPM team and investment makers to develop, shape, and operationalize key business processes, including annual planning, forecasting, regular portfolio reviews, financial planning, and budget.
• Lead implementation and change efforts for the team, which may include developing new processes, sharing best practices, analyzing workloads, and providing business updates.
• Maintain file organization, team sites, data and records, and a system for tracking, monitoring, and prioritizing tasks, and projects.
• Champion diverse, equitable and inclusive practices to create a work environment where everyone can do their best work in contributing towards our impact. Seek input from and values the uniqueness of people of different groups and cultures. Challenge practices or policies that may be exclusionary.

Core Capabilities

• Able to work with flexibility, efficiency, and diplomacy in a fast-paced, complex environment. Open to rapid change and able to learn new things quickly. Able to distill what is needed next, even without expertise in programmatic content.
• Able to work independently and as part of an integrated, diverse team and be comfortable with varied settings, tight deadlines, and different work and learning styles. Builds trust, influences individuals and teams without explicit authority, and cultivate collaboration and conflict resolution across colleagues, with partners and among stakeholders.
• Demonstrated skills and/or experience in project and process management and facility with data input. Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple demands and establish priorities.
• Has experience with and has a strong understanding of investment rules, guidance, and policies, and can advise when they are applicable. Is an authority in investment-making processes and practices and can generate reports, engage partners and decision-makers, as needed.
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of, and ability to work across multiple investment-making systems, based in Salesforce, Excel, SharePoint, and other web-based software applications. Basic SharePoint site administration skills, including metadata tagging, document view creation, archiving, and creating and maintaining confidential files a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to interact optimally with internal and external partners.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience. Previous experience as a Program Coordinator (PC) at the foundation is strongly preferred.
• Experience in project management, portfolio management, financial reporting, non-profit or related industry.
• Project/process management or related experience required.
• Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

The salary range for this role is $44.70 to $67.02 USD per hour. 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 range between the minimum and the midpoint salary range. 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

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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.