The Associate Program Officer will contribute to the Postsecondary Success team by helping to assemble high quality solution adoption supports and create efficient processes for our partners as they seek to support higher education institutions’ transformation to improve outcomes.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Effectively project manage the research, identification and preliminary screening of a variety of shared service (professional and technical assistance) providers.
- Establish an effective mechanism for housing and sharing recommended shared service providers within an external-facing knowledge management platform.
- Support the creation of a framework for structural integration of Solution adoption tools (assets), appropriate to address each stage in an institution’s adoption lifecycle.
- Help design and operationalize processes and systems which will assist partners as they seek to provide targeted, customized Solution adoption supports to their institutional constituencies.
- Assist in the creation of audience appropriate Solution assets. Involve the relevant partners and grantees in the design, creation, structuring, promotion, dissemination and general support of these assets.
- Assist with the management of a portfolio of grants and contracts including: draft proposal documents; interface with and support grantees through managing monitoring and evaluation components; manage internal processes, portfolio progress, documentation, budget information and reporting.
- Draft key findings, documents, reports, and presentations for a variety of purposes and audiences, summarizing developments and recommendations for program areas and external partners.
- Provide support for preparation of materials and slide presentations on team initiatives or specific projects or topics as needed, including externally facing materials for relevant stakeholders, presentations to support knowledge sharing and deliverables for relevant internal and external presentations.
- Interact and communicate clearly and consistently with grantees and partners in the field as well as internally with Postsecondary Success team members.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s or other advanced degree with 3+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
Experience in higher education
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrated ability to work diplomatically in a cross-functional, collaborative team environment.
- Creative problem solver with a rigorous approach and an aptitude for quantitative analysis.
- Thorough analytical, writing and verbal skills for communicating with a broad and diverse audience.
- Demonstrated initiative to resolve unstructured problems with little oversight, high energy, and a positive attitude.
- Creativity, broad knowledge, and out of the box thinking.
- Highly organized and efficient; able to prioritize work based on minimal direction and multiple competing priorities.
- Knowledge and experience within the information technology products and providers that serve higher education institutions.
Additional Information:
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Nov 26 2017
Active Until:
Dec 26 2017
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit