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Senior Program Officer, Walton Family Foundation Jobs in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA at ABFE
Senior Program Officer, Walton Family Foundation
Job Description
The Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. The children and grandchildren of our founders, Sam and Helen Walton, lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. The Foundation’s giving is focused on three areas: improving K-12education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta.
The Foundation also invests in areas of deep personal interest to individual family members.
Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, with offices in Washington, D.C., Jersey City, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado, approximately 110 staff conduct the day-to-day operations of the foundation.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
The Walton Family Foundation is anequal opportunity employerand is committed to building and maintaining a culturallydiverseworkplace. We encourage women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status of protected veteran, among other things or status as a qualified individual with a disability.
Position Overview
The Walton Family Foundation is seeking an experienced, skilled, highly motivated, andentrepreneurialindividual to join the foundation as a Senior Program Officer based in Bentonville, AR.
About the Position
The Senior Program Officer will manage adiverseportfolio of grants and strategic projects in service of the Home Region program’s strategic plan. Specific duties include the following:
Support and professionally develop colleagues in service of the program’s mission and goals.
Help manage individual relationships with grantees and potential grantees. This will include performing sourcing proposals, due diligence on proposals, shepherding proposals through the foundation’s approval process in a timely manner, monitoring grantee progress toward objectives.
Manage topical categories of work, ensuring alignment of grants with the foundation’s mission and strategies. This includes partnering with the Home Region program director and other senior staff to work on the foundation’s grant budget and strategy.
Help shape philanthropic investment plans primarily aligned with career-connected learning, workforce pathways and high-qualityeducationstrategy development.
Identify potential new partnerships and opportunities including identifying prospective grantees and funding partners.
Assist grantees in developing and implementing maintenance, monitoring, and funding strategies that lead to the achievement of strategic goals.
Collaborate with foundation colleagues, including members of the foundation evaluation and communications teams to implement, refine, and expand the foundation’s impact.
Manage workflow and processes with grantees, across foundation offices, and with key stakeholders.
Review budgets or appropriate expenditures, review legal documents, monitor grantee operations, review financial and narrative reports and work with our administrative team to ensure timely payments.
Provide superior customer service; be proactive in anticipating needs and provide accurate, timely resolution of issues when they arise.
Other projects and assignments as requested by the Hom…
Title: Senior Program Officer, Walton Family Foundation
Company: ABFE
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
Category: Non-Profit & Social Impact, Management
