Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
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.
Key internal relationships
Staff in programmatic teams, including Program Managers, Directors, and Managing Directors; staff in Operations Departments, including Grants Management and Office of General Counsel.
Key external relationships
Grantee Partners; Peer Philanthropies
