The Program Officer for Place-based Delivery (PBD), Performance Management is a cross-functional role responsible for designing and driving the team’s internal learning agenda. In addition, you will provide critical staff counsel, coaching and support across the PBD team as it seeks to learn from its investments and codify networks for school improvement models (NSIs). The NSI portfolio includes grants to organizations who support groups of middle and high schools working together to identify and solve common problems - using approaches that best fit their needs and striving for continuous improvement to learn what works as they refine those approaches.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Design, execute and manage the PBD and NSI grant and portfolio level performance management system, routines and protocols designed to help the team quickly assimilate learnings from the field and from its investments.
- Plan, manage and execute a wide range of activities in support of PBD strategic planning, PBD team learning, and NSI implementation.
- Serve as the critical link between the PBD team and the Strategy/Management, Knowledge Management (KM), and Measurement, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) teams for purposes of ensuring that the performance management system, outputs and learning seamlessly integrates with foundation reporting requirements and, supports programmatic synergy and collaboration where appropriate. Make and manage grants and contracts in support of the NSI strategy.
- Consult with grantees to achieve desired impact of grants; conduct site visits, provide technical guidance, convene meetings, and apply and evaluate milestone-based performance objectives in accordance with MLE measures approved by US Program leadership.
- Prepare and codify specific content knowledge from the NSI portfolio in conjunction with our internal KM partners to allow for learning across the place-based delivery team as well as K-12 division.
- Provide written analysis of key topics for foundation management. This role is responsible for high quality interactions and clear and consistent communications with grantees and partners in the field.
Educational Background:
Master’s Degree (preferred) with 10+ years of experience or equivalent. Experience in any of the following fields: K-12 Education, Higher Education, Non-Profit Education Work
Skills/Experience:
- Experience with strategy development, planning, tools-development, and implementation with a specific acumen around performance management design and execution.
- Expertise and experience designing and leading adult learning that is grounded in dynamic, engaging pedagogy.
- Expertise and experience making use of Continuous Improvement processes to improve internal efficacy of an organization.
- Strong knowledge across relevant educational areas/expertise such as: middle/high schools, school-level leadership team development, continuous improvement processes, high performing faculty, strong instructional systems, student-centered learning environments and family-community-school relations, data, and the middle school, high school and post-secondary outcomes and indicators of the NSI portfolio.
- Effective as a collaborator in complex internal and external organizations with particular skills around negotiation and “deal-making.”
- Extensive project contribution and project management experience with a problem-solving mindset that makes connections across various strands of work.
- Experience as a grant maker across a portfolio preferred.
- Strong belief and knowledge of diversity, equity and inclusion principles, and the importance of their intertwining into our work.
- Strong analytical, writing and verbal skills for communicating with a broad and diverse audience, including stakeholders across the practice, policy, community and political sectors.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Aug 16 2019
Active Until:
Sep 16 2019
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit