Program Officer

• Serve as a key executive partner to the CEO in supporting the Board of Directors’ fiduciary, strategic, and oversight responsibilities
• Report to the CEO and Board on program performance, outcomes, risks, compliance status, and strategic initiatives
• Ensure programs comply with federal, state, funding, certification, and licensing requirements
• Lead programmatic growth, service expansion, and innovation initiatives
• Ensure readiness for audits, regulatory reviews, and external evaluations
• Provide enterprise-wide leadership and direction to program and clinical operations
• Develop, implement, and monitor multi-year strategic plans and growth initiatives with the CEO and executive team
• Translate Board-approved strategy into measurable operational goals, outcomes, and performance metrics
• Identify emerging service needs, funding opportunities, and strategic partnerships
• Collaborate with Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Quality Improvement, and Planning
• Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality, person-centered services
• Lead continuous quality improvement using data, performance metrics, and stakeholder feedback
• Oversee licensure, human rights protections, clinical integrity, and program standards
• Prepare and manage the annual operating budget with the CEO and CFO
• Ensure financial sustainability and monitor program performance
• Identify and mitigate operational, financial, and compliance risks
• Lead, mentor, and develop the executive and senior management team
• Ensure succession planning, leadership development, and retention strategies

Chief Program Officer leading human services programs for The Center for Family Support

Chief Program Officer – CPO

Chief Program Officer leading residential, community, clinical, and self-directed human services programs for The Center for Family Support. Translating Board strategy into growth, quality, compliance, and financial performance.

• Steward existing evidence strategy across the Digital Holistic Student Supports portfolio, ensuring alignment with solution development and scaling goals.
• Lead an active portfolio of grants and contracts, ensuring continuity, quality, and timely execution of evidence-building activities.
• Identify and raise risks, gaps, and opportunities, and support appropriate adjustments to keep portfolio measurement and evaluation activities on track.
• Be responsible for evaluation approaches (implemented through grants, contracts, and partners) to ensure high-quality execution and alignment with established evidence strategy.
• Monitor and assess AI system performance and real-world use, including adoption, reliability, and appropriate reliance on AI-driven decision support.
• Identify and flag risks, gaps, and contextual constraints (e.g., data infrastructure, institutional readiness) that may affect system performance and downstream outcomes.
• Lead and be responsible for external evaluations (e.g., RCTs, quasi-experimental studies, etc.) to assess impact on downstream learner outcomes such as credit accumulation, persistence, and other measures of education progression and success.
• Ensure alignment between embedded product metrics and validated education outcomes, identifying risks and gaps in measurement approaches.
• Stay current on and apply emerging AI-enabled evaluation approaches and apply them as appropriate to support ongoing work.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to advance evaluation methods and practices across the Postsecondary strategy and US Program division.
• Lead key partnerships and serve as a primary point of contact for measurement- and evaluation-related work, ensuring continuity and strong feedback loops.
• Translate complex evidence into clear, decision-relevant insights to support leadership and ongoing investment decisions.
• Support existing learning routines and business rhythms, ensuring Digital Holistic Student Supports team can effectively use data and evidence to stay on track.
• Contribute flexibly across portfolios where product or system evaluation needs are highest, consistent with a team-first, impact-oriented approach.
• Promote equity-centered evaluation practices, including attention to differential impacts across learner populations.
• Support inclusive, high-performing team culture through modeling behaviors and actions; raise issues in a timely fashion to appropriate partners.

Senior Program Officer managing evaluation and learning for the Digital Holistic Student Supports portfolio

Senior Program Officer, Measurement, Learning, Evaluation

Senior Program Officer managing measurement, learning, and evaluation for the Digital Holistic Student Supports portfolio. Leading evidence strategies and partnerships while ensuring educational impact assessments areconducted.

• Provide end-to-end oversight of program goals/objectives and deliverables, ensuring 100% achievement of annual deliverables through ongoing monitoring, regulation, and performance management.
• Deliver weekly data-driven reports to the CEO.
• Develop and implement the strategic direction for all programs.
• Collaborate with the executive team to shape the organization's long-term strategic vision.
• Lead the development of new programs and services to meet emerging needs within the community.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, policies, and ethical standards.
• Monitor program budgets to ensure resources are allocated effectively and financial objectives are met.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including funders, community partners, and government agencies.
• Prepare and present regular reports to the CEO, board of directors, and funders.

Chief Program Officer managing programs at Homeless Children’s Network

Chief Program Officer overseeing strategic direction and program management at Homeless Children’s Network. Leading diverse teams and ensuring effective service delivery for underserved communities.

• Steward the long-term excellence and evolution of CollegeSpring's program, ensuring it continues to deepen student impact while responding to the evolving needs of educators, partners, and the education landscape
• Define the long-term vision and strategic direction for CollegeSpring's instructional model, program portfolio, curriculum, and technology ecosystem
• Continuously strengthen the quality, innovation, effectiveness, and scalability of CollegeSpring's instructional model and program portfolio to improve student outcomes
• Identify and lead strategic innovations, including new curriculum, services, instructional models, and the thoughtful application of AI and emerging technologies that expand CollegeSpring's impact and position the organization to serve significantly more students over time
• Provide executive leadership that aligns strategy, people, investments, and organizational priorities to maximize student impact
• Serve as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, shaping organizational priorities, investment decisions, resource allocation, and long-term planning
• Integrate data, program outcomes, educator and partner feedback, operational realities, financial considerations, and emerging trends to evaluate opportunities, navigate competing priorities, and make strategic decisions that maximize long-term student impact
• Lead and develop a national program organization of Directors and program leaders, building the organizational capacity required to scale CollegeSpring's impact while maintaining program quality and student outcomes
• Champion CollegeSpring's mission, values, and commitment to educational equity while ensuring every strategic decision advances measurable student outcomes
• Cultivate relationships with school systems, nonprofit organizations, funders, higher education institutions, state agencies, and strategic partners that advance the mission
• Identify and pursue opportunities to expand CollegeSpring's reach through new markets, program offerings, funding opportunities, and strategic collaborations
• Represent CollegeSpring nationally through thought leadership, speaking engagements, publications, and participation in education networks

Chief Program Officer leading program strategies at CollegeSpring

Chief Program Officer

Chief Program Officer leading program strategies at CollegeSpring. Focused on improving student outcomes through innovative educational programs and partnerships.

• Provide support for Office of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State.
• Ensure effective execution of program requirements; establish systematic methods of program execution, evaluation, and advocacy.
• Determine whether funding is warranted and available and assess activities to determine funding requirements.
• Analyze program and budget proposals and present them to the State Department and interagency panels.
• Prepare justification or recommendation memoranda for review and approval by appropriate officials.
• Provide follow-up problem-solving assistance, guideline interpretations, and technical consultations as required to applicants.
• Provide leadership technical assistance throughout the federal assistance life cycle that includes pre-award, award, and post-award phases in grants and cooperative agreements.
• Assist with Departmental briefings to congressional staffers on these programs.

Program Officer ensuring execution of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor programs at the U.S. State Department

Program Officer – SME III

Program Officer ensuring effective execution of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor programs at the U.S. Department of State. Overseeing funding and providing technical assistance during the federal assistance life cycle.

• supports BCYF’s participatory grantmaking and grantee engagement work
• manage a portfolio of approximately 20–25 funded partners
• provide ongoing monitoring, support, and compliance oversight throughout the grant lifecycle
• maintain strong relationships with grantees while ensuring program alignment with BCYF expectations
• conduct site visits and document observations and recommendations

Associate Program Officer supporting participatory grantmaking at BCYF in Baltimore

Associate Program Officer

Associate Program Officer managing grantee engagement and monitoring compliance for BCYF. Supporting participatory grantmaking and maintaining partnerships with funded organizations in Baltimore.

• BCYF, Inc. is searching for a strategic, community-centered, and results-oriented Program Officer - Grants & Grantee TA to continue to build and implement BCYF’s participatory grantmaking.
• Lead site visits, meetings with grantees and organizations, grant provide technical assistance (TA), and serve as grantee partners’ primary point of contact within the organization.
• The PO will review, track, and evaluate BCYF, Inc.’s grantmaking portfolio, assess and report on the overall effectiveness of grants as they relate to the portfolio as a whole.
• Ensure grantee outcomes and data related to portfolios are captured in BCYF, Inc.’s grantmaking system and communicated when appropriate to staff and trustees.
• Reporting to the Director of Grantmaking-Portfolio, the PO will manage a portfolio of grants, conduct research, and prepare analytic reports to inform current and future grantmaking.

Program Officer managing participatory grantmaking at Baltimore Children and Youth Fund

Program Officer managing participatory grantmaking at BCYF, collaborating with grassroots organizations and evaluating grant effectiveness. Leading technical assistance and reporting to the Director of Grantmaking.

• Leading complex research administration activities for a diverse portfolio of faculty and research units, independently managing high-impact proposals from development through submission.
• Serving as an institutional authority for proposal approvals, sponsor submissions, and contract negotiations, including complex federal, international, and non-standard research agreements.
• Providing expert guidance on research compliance and regulations, interpreting sponsor requirements, university policy, federal and state laws, and industry best practices for researchers and university leaders.
• Partnering with principal investigators, colleges, and administrative leaders to support successful funding pursuits while safeguarding institutional interests and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Mentoring and developing research administration professionals, providing coaching, training, and knowledge-sharing to build expertise across the team.
• Leading outreach and education initiatives for the research community, delivering training on electronic research systems, proposal development processes, and sponsored program best practices.

Senior Sponsored Program Officer providing oversight on externally funded grants and contracts.

Senior Sponsored Program Officer

Senior Sponsored Program Officer managing pre-and post-award administration for faculty and research units. Ensuring regulatory compliance and providing expert guidance on grant management at Ohio State University.

• Support the Deputy Director and investment officers on a wide range of investment-related activities, including serving as primary or secondary officer on select grants and contracts, co-investing alongside colleagues across the team and division, helping arrange meetings with partners, meeting with partners, synthesizing notes and plans, and leading projects
• Conduct literature reviews, synthesize research findings, and produce clear written reports and presentations to inform investment strategy and advise grantees and partners
• Plan, coordinate, and provide on-the-ground support for team convenings, partner events, and conferences, including travel as needed
• Assist officers with investment details—tracking progress, monitoring budgets, preparing funding recommendations, and ensuring grant management tasks are completed accurately and on time
• Identify and propose improvements to team processes, tools, and workflows, serving as a resource on AI and productivity tools and helping colleagues adopt practices that improve efficiency and quality
• Engage directly with partners, grantees, faculty, and students to gather input, support relationship management, and maintain strong communication across projects
• Exhibit respect and understanding of traditional university culture, working towards using technology to help instructors and students succeed while simultaneously strengthening the important human connections needed for quality education, and building towards the cooperation needed for academia to rise to higher levels
• Help build an exceptionally positive and trusting team culture, prioritize collective success, and model equitable and inclusive behaviors.

Support investment officers in a nonprofit focused on education equity.

Associate Program Officer – Digitally Enabled Teaching and Learning

Support investment officers at a nonprofit fighting inequities in education, facilitating research and investment activities. Coordinate events, conduct literature reviews, and maintain communication with diverse stakeholders.

• The Program Officer serves as a key relationship manager across multiple client foundations.
• Work closely with each foundation's board of directors and internal staff to shape and advance their grantmaking strategy.
• Lead due diligence on applicant organizations and contribute to grantmaking planning, strategy, and evaluation across a range of funding areas.
• Focus on environmental grantmaking — including forest and watershed restoration, land preservation, regenerative agriculture, and environmental education.

Program Officer managing relationships and grantmaking strategies for multiple client foundations

Program Officer at a philanthropic services firm managing relationships and grantmaking strategies. Focused on environmental initiatives and collaboration with various stakeholders in nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

• Develop and maintain relationships in the community development sector, by participating and representing LISC Phoenix on local coalitions and workgroups and with government agencies and thought partners.
• Assist in efforts to develop strategic collaborations with and among community-based organizations, anchor institutions, and other corporate, civic, and public sector organizations to leverage LISC’s capabilities.
• Manage and support stakeholder groups (i.e. LAC, ACRC, APHC) by coordinating meetings and executing agree-upon activities
• Raise visibility of LISC Phoenix activities through communications, policy and advocacy, and community engagement activities, support story development, media outreach and social media management.
• Develop and manage external communications for LISC Phoenix, including websites. eblasts, newsletters, Jostle updates, program announcements, and project summaries.
• Collaborate with staff and partners to gather stories, visuals, and data that highlight program outcomes and community impact.
• Draft reports, talking points, and narrative materials for internal and external audiences.
• Maintain consistent public messaging that uplifts community voices and reflects LISC Phoenix’s commitments to removing barriers to opportunity and collaboration.
• Work with the Senior Executive Director to support funding proposals, preparing the annual giving campaign, invoicing for regular donations, and tracking of fundraising activities in Salesforce
• Administers contracts between LISC and consultants, through the lifecycle of the contract, including drafting, evaluating performance, and maintaining contractual records.
• Manage application development and intake for competitive grant programs (i.e. HUD, ACRC, Pre-Dev, AHF, HHF)
• Lead strategic planning and logistical management for the Annual LISC Phoenix Event, including vendor contracts and coordination, sponsorship alignment, content curation, and communications.
• Support the design and implementation of community resilience projects, including site visits, workshops, multi-partner gatherings, and public facing engagements.
• Provide high-level project management and day-to-day oversight across multiple program areas, including the Housing Development Training Institute (HDTI), Community Resilience portfolio, and Special Projects.
• Represent LISC Phoenix and the Executive Director at meetings, events, and conferences as needed.
• Participate in National LISC meetings and activities as required.
• Periodic local travel, evening and weekend work as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Program Officer managing community development initiatives in Arizona

Program Officer managing community development initiatives aimed at housing affordability and equitable economic development. Collaborating with diverse stakeholders and administrative project management in Arizona.

• Manage programs and activities connected to LISC Indianapolis’ local housing strategy, including efforts focused on affordable housing preservation, housing production, homeowner stability, and partner capacity building.
• Track local housing trends, project pipelines, partner needs, and implementation barriers to help inform LISC Indianapolis’ housing priorities and investment strategies.
• Prepare reports, presentations, briefing materials, and written updates on housing programs, real estate development activity, partner progress, and program impact.
• Manage a portfolio of housing and real estate development initiatives, including grantmaking, partner support, technical assistance, program monitoring, and evaluation of outcomes.
• Cultivate relationships with funders, financial institutions, public agencies, and philanthropic partners to align funding and investment opportunities with LISC Indianapolis’ housing and real estate development goals.
• Support the preparation of proposals, applications, reports, presentations, and tours as required by funders, investors, LISC, and other stakeholders.
• Manage grants, contracts, and consulting engagements with community-based partners and technical assistance providers, including program scopes, disbursements, partner monitoring, and narrative and financial reporting.
• Participate in peer learning opportunities with other LISC markets and departments, and support special projects as needed.
• Identify and cultivate housing and real estate development lending opportunities aligned with LISC Indianapolis’ mission, local housing strategy, and neighborhood priorities.
• Build and maintain relationships with nonprofit developers, emerging developers, community development corporations, public agencies, private developers, lenders, funders, and other real estate partners.
• Support early-stage project review, including assessment of project concepts, development budgets, sources and uses, financing gaps, timelines, partner capacity, and alignment with LISC priorities.
• Coordinate with LISC Lending, underwriting, legal, asset management, and investment teams to help move prospective deals through the appropriate review, approval, closing, and monitoring processes.
• Strengthen the capacity of local housing partners, nonprofit developers, community development corporations, emerging developers, and mission-driven real estate partners to plan, finance, and execute affordable housing and community development projects.
• Convene trainings, peer learning sessions, workshops, and partner meetings to share best practices and support local developer capacity.
• Serve as LISC’s neighborhood liaison for assigned Quality of Life Plan area(s), representing LISC at local meetings and building relationships with resident leaders and partners.
• Explore opportunities to leverage LISC tools, programs, and investments to support the implementation of neighborhood plans and foster vibrant local economies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Program Officer managing housing strategy and real estate initiatives

Program Officer, Housing and Real Estate

Program Officer managing housing strategy and real estate development initiatives for LISC Indianapolis. Strengthening housing stability and neighborhood investment across communities.

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