Program Operations Manager
Current1) Leading the development and execution of the Performing Arts Program’s full portfolio grantmaking practice and direct charitable activities ($25-$40 million in annual grantmaking)2) Direct grantmaker and relationship manager for roughly 1/3 of the Performing Arts Program’s portfolio, including funding, advising, convening, and network-weaving3) Change management to craft an increasingly embedded approach to philanthropy and grantmaking, with a North Star vision of sustainably integrating strategy, operations design, program implementation, and strategic learning and evaluation—to foster efficacy, adaptability, transparency, and accountability4) Frequent assembly and leadership of cross-functional expert teams (areas of Strategy, Operations, Analytics, Information Technology, Finance, Legal, etc.) to develop innovative scaled responses to rapidly shifting field and institutional opportunities5) Project manager for strategic communications, including management of partnerships with internal communications team and external communications consultants—ensuring effective and sustainable production pipeline for communications assets such as long-form publications, research works, blog posts, newsletters, and events to transparently share progress and learnings with field and leverage institutional voice as a tool for advancing toward strategic goals6) Thought leadership in subjects of collaboration across difference, arts and democracy, philanthropy as creative practice, and applying investment frameworks in grantmaking7) Content area expert in Program Management, Portfolio Management, Change Management, Financial Modeling, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Strategic Organizational Planning, and Operations Design—serving as knowledge resource to staff across Foundation at all levels and in all functions.8) Leadership of foundation-wide Program Operations Managers in the collaborative development and execution of the Program Management function