Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Role Title : Program Manager, Programs
Reporting To: Director, Programs
Team Name : Intersection of Finance, Climate and Equity
About
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people. To achieve this mission, we provide thousands of grants every year to groups and individuals across the globe that work on the issues we focus on—promoting tolerance, transparency, and open debate. We also engage in strategic human rights litigation and impact investing, while incubating new ideas and engaging directly with governments and policymakers through advocacy to advance positive change
Opportunity Description
This work will explore the intersection of several interrelated goals to ensure that Global South countries can shape important decisions around climate change, finance, and the global fiscal landscape. Areas of exploration will include loss and damage, climate finance, equitable debt reform, and global tax reform.
Role Purpose
The aim of opportunities is to dynamically organize staff, strategies, and budgets around the demands of each opportunity. It balances the need for sustained attention to complex problems and demands rigorous planning and evaluation, while also providing leaders with the autonomy to pursue radical ideas and approaches.
The Program Manager will be responsible for day-to-day liaison and coordination with grantee and partner organizations. The Program Manager will play a critical role with implementing the opportunity, which may use a variety of OSF’s strategic capabilities, including advocacy, impact investing, strategic litigation, in addition to grant making. The expectation is that the Program Manager is a subject matter expert in the specific opportunity.
Key Responsibilities
As Program Manager, you will:
- Support the Director of Programs to deliver on the opportunity’s outcomes with professionalism
- Deliver on day-to-day liaison with grantees to ensure the opportunity is designed, launched, implemented, and exited according to the outcomes defined
- Work collaboratively with other members within the opportunity team and with colleagues across OSF to ensure the opportunity is effectively leveraging OSF’s capabilities to reach the agreed outcome
- Effectively manage the grant-making process by communicating with grantees for proposal submission, assisting in grant record preparation, grants processing, payments, reporting, and other related processes
- Build a strong understanding of the field and partnerships, in developing and designing the grant selection processes
- Manage relationships with partners, in close coordination with Geographic Policy Groups as relevant, and work with them to achieve OSF’s strategic objective through the opportunity
- Work collaboratively in developing, assessing, and revising program strategies
- Work with leadership to maintain grant-making practice aligned with OSF's approach to grant-making and in compliance with organizational and external standards and regulations
- Assist in the construction, maintenance, and assessment of grant making portfolio(s), sharing responsibility for strategy design with manager
- Contribute to larger opportunity strategy
- Process and oversee progress of consultant contracts
- Monitor progress implementation, project risks, and other relevant status updates and communicate to Director of Programs regularly
People Responsibilities (Total Team/DRs)
No
Key internal relationships
Director, Programs; Managing Director Programs; Core Partners, Special Advisors, Grants Management, Operations
Key external relationships
External Partners
