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Senior Program Officer, Evidence for Systems Improvement (11-month LTE)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington, USA
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
USD 190100-324100 / year
Discovered 1 weeks ago

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Your Experience

  • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
  • Significant experience leading complex initiatives with budget responsibility at the institutional or organizational level.
  • Significant experience working in or closely with a higher education institution, school district, state education agency, charter management organization, or other education-related organization.
  • Demonstrated experience in research and development of relevant education-related interventions that impact conditions for student success.
  • Experience leading significant research initiatives or design projects in education.
  • Significant experience in development and distribution of education products or services; venture capital or private equity investing; venture philanthropy or impact investing; management consulting; education entrepreneurship; education program management; education research.
  • Experience with grant design/development and management with an investor’s approach.
  • Strong working knowledge of the education sector at multiples levels (school, district, state, and federal).
  • Mastery level understanding of education research funding mechanisms, evaluation, and synthesis processes and methodologies.
  • Ability to build a strong network of relationships with key influencers across the research to commercialization continuum.
  • Knowledge of inclusive user centered design processes, research and evidence building methodologies, and study design.
  • Strong knowledge of state and institutional policy relevant to the design, adoption, and implementation of education solutions.
  • Ability to conduct pattern and trend recognition, cost analysis, and product-market fit analysis.
  • Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located. The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (eg: H-1B, O-1, L-1, E, OPT, STEM-OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).
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  • The salary range for this role is $190,100 to $294,700 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $209,100 to $324,100 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
  • Hiring Requirements
  • As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
  • Candidate Accommodations
  • We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview process—such as an ASL interpreter, alternative interview format, or physical accessibility support—we’re happy to help. Please contact [email protected] with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.
  • Inclusion Statement
  • We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
  • All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.

Responsibilities

  • You develop and manage a portfolio of investments (grants and contracts) to advance a solution specific goal. You collaborate with colleagues and the broader field to develop and implement an investment strategy that catalyzes the development and validation of interventions and innovations that improve student outcomes.
  • This is an 11-month limited-term opportunity with Foundation benefits. Please note that relocation assistance is not available for this position.
  • Negotiate and manage a complex portfolio of program-related grants and contracts that advance solutions from early-stage development, validation, commercialization, and implementation at scale.
  • Support the development and validation of new models, tools, platforms, and solutions that advance student outcomes and meet key criteria of affordability, usability, and other dimensions of quality.
  • Design investments to improve availability and transparency of market information around digital content and tools that ensure that key partners have access to up-to-date information on product quality, pricing, and use cases.
  • Identify gaps in current digital product availability and quality, develop and manage investment mechanisms to catalyze product development and improvement.
  • Cultivate an active ecosystem of entrepreneurial product developers, ensure strong feedback loops between innovative practitioners, researchers, and the developer community.
  • Evaluate and support the development of business models for organizations and companies that design and deliver solutions that serve the needs of the field in a scalable and sustainable manner.
  • Foster a user-centered design approaches to help understand incentives for and needs of end users, institutional decision makers, practitioners, developers, distributors, funders, and policy makers in ways that improve the impact of the priority solutions.
  • Help catalyze additional sources of capital, including philanthropic, public, and private funding that contribute to the scaling of innovation and the growth and the sustainability of proven solutions.
  • Manage collaborative and trusting partner relationships in ways that ensure productive feedback loops between partners and the foundation around shared goals.
  • Provide technical guidance and insights to colleagues cross the U.S. program on research and development related topics in education.
  • Review letters of inquiry and grant proposals and provide clear, concise, and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding.
  • Consult with grantees and other partners to improve impact of projects and ensure grants are meeting strategy goals.
  • Manage and implement a program that aligns with foundation strategy and is operationally integrated with other foundation programs.
  • Contribute to the design of new strategies, collaborations, and implementation plans to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.
  • Represent the foundation to key program-related external constituencies, as appropriate, on committees related to area of expertise and responsibilities of the position.
  • Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; raise issues in a timely fashion to appropriate colleagues.

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