Key Responsibilities

Ensure provision of administrative support for grant making activities and/or other opportunities by effectively managing resources and identifying administrative needs of various programs Oversee and manage the update of grants system with relevant grants / grantee information 
Allocate Grant Associates to Opportunities as required 
Accountable for reporting and other... documents for compliance, accuracy, and readability 
Accountable for the review of data to assure that it is accurate and complete in accordance with appropriate protocols 
Oversee the enforcements of global GM policy, procedure and compliance across OSF and within Opportunities 
Ensure cohesive working with program officers, grantees, and legal to help accelerate grant from ‘idea to out the door’ 
Ensure that the team remains fit for purpose and appropriately resourced, leading on performance management on an ongoing basis 
Creating structure and generating clear goals to enable the team to accomplish its objectives and helping the team analyse their effectiveness 
Routinely generate Foundation Connect/GrantSmith reports and utilize grantmaking data to monitor progress on priority work, monitor and ensure timely processing of grants and grant payments, identify gaps in information, and to manage workload distributions. 

People Responsibilities (Total Team/DRs) 
 Yes (8 individual contributors) 
Key metrics 

Effective resource management, data accuracy and compliance
Facilitate, structure and coordinate early engagement
Oversee and effectively manage advisory function of Grants Associates during pre-compliance
Issue spot challenges and escalate accordingly
Provide on-going learning and encourage adequate opportunity for growth/professional development.

Key internal relationships 
Director, Opportunity Grants Management; Associate Director, Policy, Knowledge & Training; Associate Director, Grants Data and Analytics; Associate Directors, Global Grants Management
Qualifications 
Essential: 


University degree – BA or BSc 


Experience  
Essential: 

Substantial management experience providing high impact leadership and effective resourcing across teams 
Extensive prior experience with grant processing, grant making systems, compliance, and risk management 
Thorough understanding of compliance law for US-domiciled foundations and reporting requirements for US-domiciled foundations administering grants to global grantees  
Demonstrated experience leading large-scale complex, cross-functional projects more

Role Purpose

The purpose of the Strategy and Impact function is in service of quality & performance within the Opportunity Model and will be enabled by a dynamic, cohesive, and right-sized approach to strategy development and renewal. Each component of the model—Opportunities, Core Partner Allocations, and Urgent Capital Allocations—will have a bespoke strategy setting and renewal process and... approach to monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) plans based on the purpose and goals of each allocation. A dedicated Strategy & Impact unit will ensure a consistent and unified approach to strategy across the organization.

The Officer, Strategy & Impact Will Help Provide:

Strong Strategy Support for the Opportunity Model: they will serve as a focal point for anyone pursuing an Opportunity to provide guidance and support and will have access to outsourced support for strategy support to ensure that all ideas can develop into full Opportunities
Standard Setting & Overview: Based on clear benchmarks and expectations developed by the unit, the officer will help translate these requirements into services that can help OSF staff understand what is required for strategy inputs, MEL, data validity, etc., to conduct oversight where necessary. The officer will help populate and ensure data consistency for dashboards and other analytic products that show the whole of work across the organization
Rigorous Examination: the officer will maintain knowledge of and relationships with outsourced capacities needed to ensure highest quality of thinking is available to the network in strategy pursuit. They will help provide rigorous feedback to ensure adherence to standards

Key Responsibilities

As Officer of Strategy and Impact, you will:

Support with development, implementation, and monitoring of day-to-day tasks that ensure that Strategy & Impact helps catalyze and maintain the model with strong strategies for Opportunities that are based on impact and promising ideas on the frontiers of systems change
Support the provision of services and guidance to the network that allows OSF to unleash potential and action the new vision to ensure the most competitive ideas succeed
Provide individual support for Opportunity development; it will also provide support for Core Partner, Urgent Capital, and embedded functions.
Promote and support adherence to standards, criteria, and guidelines, including on MEL
Be conversant in dashboards and other analytic products that the Strategy and Impact unit use to show cohesion, saturation, and innovation for the enterprise
Work as a trusted partner to all parts of the network to ensure fidelity to the model, rigorous assessment of strategies, consistent support to teams that need strategy and impact support, and that OSF is flexible and capable of adapting and shifting—including based on effective learning-derived information

People Responsibilities (Total Team/DRs)

None

Key internal relationships

Directors, Officers, Operations

Key external relationships

Strategy and impact leaders outside of OSF, including on foresight, MEL, complexity, systems change, consultants, etc., inside and outside of philanthropy

Qualifications

Essential:

Prefer experience in lieu of qualifications

Desirable:

University degree

Essential:

Experience

Substantial experience working on developing strategies and designing and managing cross-department, cross-programs, or similarly complex projects

Desirable:

Worked with a variety of sectors - public, private and NGO stakeholders
Building and maintaining networks of stakeholders related to varied strategy topics
Work with consultants, researchers, writers, and other sectors, including for contracting and budgeting purposes

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Demonstrated effective time management, including with multiple stakeholders or other types of complex coordination
Ability to generate, capture and organize information and knowledge, especially on topics of strategy development, foresight, analysis, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL)
Ability to take decisions and directions and convert tasks into consistent project planning
Skilled in drawing out patterns and communicating why the patterns are important for strategy, analysis, and MEL
Experience in budgeting, strategic analysis, and financial planning
Demonstrated record of success with teamwork and delegating tasks
Clear written communication and ability to edit with clarity and timeliness

Personal Competencies:

Advancing Diversity & Inclusion involves encouraging, respecting and seeking out diverse viewpoints and perspectives, ensuring everyone has an equal voice, and building workgroups that are broadly inclusive to support effective decision making and cultural transformation across the organization
Looks outside OSF to stay relevant and adapts to changes in field(s) of expertise. Uses external networks to achieve positive outcomes for OSF
Establishes goals, plans for contingencies, readjusts where appropriate, and takes responsibility delivering outcomes that have a positive impact. Balances risk/reward, and intellectual curiosity with pragmatism to get things done
Encourages and seeks out innovative solutions and brings people on a journey constructively and empathetically
Makes the best possible judgements based on financial and time availability
Considers multiple options to achieve long-range goals, appropriately balancing risk and reward, selecting the best strategies for success
Builds collaborative relationships inside OSF through the understanding and development of other's and own ideas. Uses appropriate means & tone of communication to convey messages, seeks input from others and ensures understanding

Languages:

An excellent knowledge of English.
Knowledge of other languages would be an asset more

We’re seeking a Program Manager for Fiscal Justice to be based in one of our hub or regional offices to design and execute strategies to address socio-economic inequalities through redistributive fiscal policies and green industrial policy.
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people. We... are active in more than 120 countries, making us the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.
The Program Manager for Development and Climate Finance works in the Fiscal Justice Division of the Equity Pillar of Global Programs. This division works to reduce the number of economic and political constraints that limit States’ ability to finance and implement green, inclusive and equitable policies. 
As a Program Manager for Fiscal Justice at Open Society you will:

Conceive, design and manage cross-department, cross-program or similarly complex projects that advance fiscal justice and promote green, inclusive, and equitable economic policies.
Play a lead role in constructing, managing and assessing grant making portfolios on fiscal and economic justice, sharing responsibility for portfolio strategy design.
Maintain primary relationship with grantees and with internal and external partners to advance shared goals and advocacy strategies around economic and fiscal justice.
Use a variety of tools, such as research, advocacy, communications and grant-making to advance agendas around economic and fiscal justice.

What we are looking for:

Master’s degree or equivalent in Economics or related discipline.
5-7 years of deep knowledge of and experience, including strong networks with civil society organizations, academic institutions or think tanks, on at least one of the following issues: economic inequality, fiscal policy, industrial policy and trade, macroeconomics
Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism and social justice.
Commitment to listening and working with humility; ways of working that are respectful to all people; and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace.

Desirable (but not required):

A demonstrated understanding of policy-relevant economic research.
Strong networks and experience working in the Global South.
Experience working in or with multilateral organizations and international financial institutions, governments and academic networks.
Fluency in additional languages besides English. more

Duties And Responsibilities

Grant-making: Developing, managing, and monitoring impact-based portfolios rooted in grant making plans.
Partner Engagement: Managing relationship with strategic partners in the private, public, civil society and philanthropic sectors on climate action and climate justice; connecting them to grantmaking, investment and advocacy work of the team and Open... Society.
Research and Knowledge: Providing foresight and analysis of systems level trends in climate justice, especially as related to: (i) human rights, including the rights of indigenous groups, (ii) the protection of climate activists and environmental defenders, and (iii) transparency, accountability and participation in areas of climate actions, especially as it relates to transition towards low carbon economies and value chains (including the use of transition minerals).
Strategy Development and Management: Assistance with the development, management and delivery of innovative portfolios of work in a team-centered context, making recommendations to senior management to inform their selection and pursuit of results-oriented strategies around transnational climate justice.
Communications and Advocacy: Engaging stakeholders to carry out a constructive and effective dialogue on programmatic goals; contributing to shaping long term advocacy or communications plans to advance Climate Justice’s priorities or strategic objectives; and establishing and nurturing relationships with key parties.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: Shaping learning strategies and methods for and gathering key learnings from investments, grants, and policy engagements in order to improve program delivery; designing and executing on program related research; working with OSF’s strategy team to monitor and evaluate Climate Justice portfolio strategies for iteration and adaptive management; and providing learning expertise to colleagues.

Skills And Competencies

Substantial knowledge of the human rights issues implicated in climate change and the response to it, especially just transitions (energy and beyond), climate governance, as well as strong networks in these fields.
A commitment to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion, including to a diversity of perspectives and voices, especially from the global South.
An ability build and manage collaborative relationships with an array of stakeholders, and a capacity to coordinate networks of them.
An understanding of and sensitivity to the power differential inherent in the funder-grantee relationship and a demonstrated ability and willingness to handle such relationships properly and respectfully.
An ability to consider multiple options to achieve long-range goals, appropriately balancing risk and reward, selecting the best strategies for success.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.

Qualifications

Comprehensive, specialized knowledge in climate justice related fields, including familiarity with current controversies and issues, leading figures and thinking, and especially actors in the Global South..
At least 5 -7 years of progressively responsible experience working in policy, advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and/or green commercial solutions as related to climate change issues in the global South, especially equitable development, democracy, human rights and/or justice.
Experience with the grantmaking process.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge of in environmental sciences, economics, political economy, economic sociology, public policy or other related field; graduate degree or equivalent expertise preferred.

Benefits Include

Opportunity to work with a dynamic and diverse team in a role where you can grow.
Allowances for professional development and generous benefits, including paid health insurance, retirement savings plan, paid parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and potential sabbaticals.
Location: Berlin, London, Nairobi, New York, and Washington
Work Authorization – this position is eligible for work authorization sponsorship[YD1] . more

As a Program Manager for Fiscal Justice at Open Society you will:

Conceive, design and manage cross-department, cross-program or similarly complex projects that advance fiscal justice, safeguard essential public services, and promote green, inclusive, and equitable economic policies.
Play a lead role in constructing, managing and assessing grant making portfolios on fiscal justice, sharing... responsibility for portfolio strategy design.
Maintain primary relationship with grantees and with internal and external partners to advance shared goals and advocacy strategies around economic justice.
Use a variety of tools, such as advocacy, communications, grant-making, strategic litigation and research, to advance agendas around economic and fiscal justice.

What We Are Looking For

5-7 years of experience in a field connected to the advancement of economic rights and justice.
Deep knowledge of and experience, including strong networks with civil society organizations, working on at least one of the following issues: economic inequality, tax policy, public budgets, debt, development financing and/or social and economic inclusion issues.
Practical experience using multiple tools to effect change, including grant-making, campaigning, coalition-building, NGO strengthening, and policy research.
Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism and social justice.
Commitment to listening and working with humility; ways of working that are respectful to all people; and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace.

Desirable (but Not Required)

Strong networks and experience working in the Global South.
Experience working in or with multilateral organizations and international financial institutions, governments and academic networks.
Fluency in additional languages besides English. more

The Program Manager will particularly work towards supporting a just transition towards low carbon economies, while minimizing unintending effects of climate actions and protecting communities in the frontline. We are looking for candidates with expertise, experience and strong networks in one or more of the following issues: protection of environmental defenders; indigenous rights and... intersectionality; transparency, accountability and participation, the governance of natural resources. The Program Manager will share responsibility for engaging with climate justice related fields of interest to OSF, developing appropriate grant, research, advocacy and communications strategies, identifying tools for fostering desired social change in the pursuit of climate action, and developing, engaging and managing relationships with internal and external partners.



For this role, we are seeking a candidate with a thorough familiarity with climate justice fields and relationships with key actors in major regions of the global South, especially the intersection of climate justice with human rights, economic and social justice.



The Program Manager will share responsibility for bringing one or more complex strategies to fruition in a manner that makes effective use of OSF tools and resources in pursuit of our mission.



We seek candidates who can exercise solid judgment in their work, using supervisory consultation for more complex issues, but making initial determinations and recommendations based on their own insights as informed by dialogue and collaboration with other team members.



Duties And Responsibilities

Grant-making: Developing, managing, and monitoring impact-based portfolios rooted in grant making plans.
Partner Engagement: Managing relationship with strategic partners in the private, public, civil society and philanthropic sectors on climate action and climate justice; connecting them to grantmaking, investment and advocacy work of the team and Open Society.
Research and Knowledge: Providing foresight and analysis of systems level trends in climate justice, especially as related to: (i) human rights, including the rights of indigenous groups, (ii) the protection of climate activists and environmental defenders, and (iii) transparency, accountability and participation in areas of climate actions, especially as it relates to transition towards low carbon economies and value chains (including the use of transition minerals).
Strategy Development and Management: Assistance with the development, management and delivery of innovative portfolios of work in a team-centered context, making recommendations to senior management to inform their selection and pursuit of results-oriented strategies around transnational climate justice.
Communications and Advocacy: Engaging stakeholders to carry out a constructive and effective dialogue on programmatic goals; contributing to shaping long term advocacy or communications plans to advance Climate Justice’s priorities or strategic objectives; and establishing and nurturing relationships with key parties.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: Shaping learning strategies and methods for and gathering key learnings from investments, grants, and policy engagements in order to improve program delivery; designing and executing on program related research; working with OSF’s strategy team to monitor and evaluate Climate Justice portfolio strategies for iteration and adaptive management; and providing learning expertise to colleagues.

Skills And Competencies

Substantial knowledge of the human rights issues implicated in climate change and the response to it, especially just transitions (energy and beyond), climate governance, as well as strong networks in these fields.
A commitment to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion, including to a diversity of perspectives and voices, especially from the global South.
An ability build and manage collaborative relationships with an array of stakeholders, and a capacity to coordinate networks of them.
An understanding of and sensitivity to the power differential inherent in the funder-grantee relationship and a demonstrated ability and willingness to handle such relationships properly and respectfully.
An ability to consider multiple options to achieve long-range goals, appropriately balancing risk and reward, selecting the best strategies for success.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.

Qualifications

Comprehensive, specialized knowledge in climate justice related fields, including familiarity with current controversies and issues, leading figures and thinking, and especially actors in the Global South..
At least 5-7 years of progressively responsible experience working in policy, advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and/or green commercial solutions as related to climate change issues in the global South, especially equitable development, democracy, human rights and/or justice.
Experience with the grantmaking process.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge of in environmental sciences, economics, political economy, economic sociology, public policy or other related field; graduate degree or equivalent expertise preferred.

Benefits Include

Opportunity to work with a dynamic and diverse team in a role where you can grow.
Allowances for professional development and generous benefits, including paid health insurance, retirement savings plan, paid parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and potential sabbaticals.
Location: Berlin, London, Nairobi, New York, and Washington
Work Authorization – this position is eligible for work authorization sponsorship[YD1] . more

Job Profile
The Regional Safety & Security Officer-Africa sits within the Global Safety & Security team. Reporting to the Director of Global Safety and Security, this new role will be part of a globally dispersed team leading, delivering and advising on the full a range of our safety and security services across the span of Open Society with a particular focus on Africa. They will help embed best... practices, ensure a consistent, and comprehensive approach to security management and promote a proactive and inclusive security culture. Designing, developing and implementing processes and procedures in line with our global policies and standards calibrated for the relevant contexts this role will act as an advisory partner, implementer and resource in all matters of safety and security within the regions.



As a Regional Safety and Security Officer at Open Society you will:

Act as the Global Safety and Security teams lead for safety and security services and support for designated regional area(s) of responsibility
Manage and oversee the continuing development of safety and security related operating procedures processes, templates and frameworks throughout OSF and across the span of our services and that align with the global security strategy
Monitor the security situation in locations of significance to Open Society and communicate relevant information to stakeholders
Provide safety and security support, briefings and guidance to other regions or departments as required as part of the wider Global Safety and Security team service delivery model
Assist in the development and delivery of internal safety and security training programs
Work closely with our Global Operations teams to ensure an integrated approach to safety and security risk management at OSF

What We Are Looking For

A minimum of 5 years safety and security risk management experience with a demonstrable understanding of the challenges faced by organizations such as Open Society
Knowledge of global security and geo-political trends with a particular focus on those affecting NGO/INGOs in Africa
A strong network of relevant security contacts and resources
Experience in developing and implementing safety and security frameworks, plans and processes across a matrixed organization.
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and the ability to distill security information for internal and external consumption is required;
Strong communications and relationship building skills; effective at building trust and confidence
Ability to manage competing priorities and to work under pressure, in a continuously changing environment
Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism and social justice.
Commitment to listening and working with humility; ways of working that are respectful to all people; and that support space and voice for all diverse perspectives in our workplace

Desirable (but not needed)

Proficiency in another language relevant to the regional area of responsibility
Experience working in/on other regions that Open Society operates in
Recognized qualifications in security risk management
Recognized qualifications in health and safety management
Experience with technical safety and security systems more