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Senior Program Officer, Career Pathways and Mobility Policy

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Washington, D.C., USA
Full-time

We are excited to announce this opportunity to serve as Senior Program Officer for policy related to career pathways and economic mobility with the North America Team. Specifically, maintain an existing portfolio of grants and/or contracts requiring high-level grant management skills, monitoring and evaluation on a range of education, workforce and economic issues. As a key advisor on strategy initiatives, contribute to the continued development of the team’s strategic vision, while partnering closely with team leadership on the North America team as well as the program teams, to set the overall strategy and goals for the work.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Knowledge of career pathways to include but not limited to, education pathways, workforce policy, and understanding of economic and labor market trends impacting current and future workforce needs.
  • Directly or indirectly lead and implement the strategies in the portfolio with an emphasis on career pathways, workforce policy and the understanding of economic and labor market trends impacting current and future workforce needs. 
  • Provide quantitative and/or policy analysis of economic issues in the portfolio or other related issues as needed.
  • Development and management of the portfolio of grants and/or contracts.
  • Monitor the performance of partners and grantees with an understanding of engagement and capacity building which lead to effective partner action and engagement in policy success.
  • As needed, take the lead on an issue to oversee related policy activities.
Educational Background: 
Advanced degree in education, public policy, economics or related field required.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Broad and deep knowledge of career pathways, to include but not limited to workforce policy at the federal and state level.
  • A preference for experience in quantitative analysis and understanding of economic and/or labor market trends and the impact on the current and future workforce needs. 
  • Deep understanding of how policies at the federal, as well as state level are formulated, enacted and implemented.
  • Ability to leverage partners to meet policy goals.
  • Ability to work across teams in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Shown ability to lead and influence others in a constructive manner and to build and sustain collaborative relationships internally and externally.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and build consensus.
  • Strong quantitative analytic skills.
  • 7+ years of relevant experience to include experience in US education, workforce policy national and/or state policy and advocacy with a preference for experience in quantitative analysis of economic and/or labor markets at the federal and/or state levels. 

Organization Info

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Overview
Headquarters: 
Seattle, WA, United States
Annual Budget : 
More than $500M
Founded: 
2007
About Us
Mission: 

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

We work with partner organizations worldwide to tackle critical problems in four program areas. Our Global Development Division works to help the world’s poorest people lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Our Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. Our United States Division works to improve U.S. high school and postsecondary education and support vulnerable children and families in Washington State. And our Global Policy & Advocacy Division seeks to build strategic relationships and promote policies that will help advance our work. Our approach to grantmaking in all four areas emphasizes collaboration, innovation, risk-taking, and, most importantly, results.

Programs: 
  1. Global Health
  2. Global Development
  3. United States
  4. Global Policy & Advocacy

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Oct 13 2019
Active Until: 
Nov 13 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry: 
Nonprofit