Program Manager - Jakarta

Long-term contract
Localisation Jakarta, Indonesia
No remote
No experience required
Posted on 01-25-2025

Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people.

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Key Responsibilities

As Program Manager, Open Society Network Grants, you will:

  • Implement portions of the strategy for Open Society Network Grants, under the guidance of the Managing Director and Associate Director and in close collaboration with members of the Open Society Network Grants team.
  • Conduct research and systems analysis and utilize trends to understand movements and organizing, current and potential actors, and leverage points for new forms of activism, and translate these into impactful future areas of work.
  • Identify new and transformative networks and partnerships that foster future-thinking and future-facing actions and actively seek out partners featuring emerging voices and novel ideas that will frame desired futures anchored in open societies ideals.
  • Work closely with internal programmatic and operations teams to select, engage, and sunset Network Grants partners, and to pursue areas of alignment and collaboration.
  • Help create and advance a culture of learning within the Open Society Network Grants that enables the assessment of organizations and refinement of criteria guiding their inclusion in the Open Society Network grants portfolio, over time.
  • Represent the organization in philanthropic and other public fora.
  • Guide and inform the organizations approach to grant making.
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Key external relationships

Grantee Partners; Peer Philanthropies

The ideal candidate

  • Educated to a degree-level (or equivalent)
  • Significantly demonstrated relevant experience and expertise working with civil society groups, including social movements, and with the private sector in more than one area of focus and geography to advance rights-based strategies and campaigns. Lived and professional experience within government, international, private, or non-governmental organizations, in more than one focus area and geography, is an asset.
  • Proven experience working to develop strategies and budgets, improve grant making processes, and learn from program implementation as well as proven experience incorporating advocacy, communications, strategic litigation and other tools into grant making processes.
  • Proven experience working collaboratively in one or two regions in Asia as a skilled and respected strategist advancing activism and organizing, including through addressing systemic challenges as well as demonstrable evidence of promoting systems solutions by bringing together seemingly incompatible fields or areas of work.
  • Demonstrable evidence of having supported civil society coalition building through leading partnerships of seemingly disparate actors, including germinating, and seeding new ones.
  • Experience of managing a portfolio of stakeholder relationships, including core partnerships, balanced across a range of attributes
  • An excellent knowledge of English.
  • Knowledge of other languages, appropriate to the locations and focus of the work of Network Grants, would be an asset.
  • Ideally candidates should have the right to work in the specific location/s; however, strong candidates who do not meet this requirement may also be considered.

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