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Program Officer


William + Flora Hewlett Foundation


Location

Menlo Park, CA | United States


Job description

William + Flora Hewlett Foundation

Program Officer

Menlo Park, CA

Background

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation invests in creative thinkers and problem solvers working to ensure that people, communities, and the planet can flourish. Together with our partners, we are harnessing society’s collective capacity to solve our toughest problems — from the existential threat of climate change to persistent and pervasive inequities, to attacks on democracy itself. A nonpartisan philanthropy, the Hewlett Foundation has made grants in the U.S. and globally for nearly six decades based on an approach that emphasizes long-term support, collaboration, and trust. Learn more at  .

About the Performing Arts Program

The Performing Arts Program focuses on ensuring Bay Area communities, artists, and youth have meaningful opportunities to discover and advance artistic and cultural practices that enrich their lives and the region. We are committed to directing our resources to people, practices, and places that persevere despite inequities, further community self-determination, and exemplify the expansive power of the arts. Our team is made up of 7 program staff, complemented by three staff from the Communication; Grants, Learning, and Operations (GLO); and Legal departments. Additional information about the program is available at: .

Hewlett Foundation Guiding Principles

The foundation is guided by the philanthropic ethos and values of its founders. This includes evolving the foundation’s approaches to changing contexts while maintaining core principles that have guided its work for nearly 60 years. To help ensure its actions are consistent with its aspirations, the Hewlett Foundation has articulated a set of guiding principles.

The foundation:

The Foundation's operations depend on a lean staff, which is given considerable autonomy; a commitment to simple, flexible procedures; and a cooperative working relationship between the board, the president, and the staff. The president is the leader of the foundation.​

Position and Portfolio

The Performing Arts Program fulfills its strategies by working with roughly 160 grantee organizations that support meaningful artistic experiences for a wide range of communities, artists, and youth throughout the Bay Area. The program supports a breadth of types of organizations, including arts organizations and community-based organizations whose work integrates arts and culture as part of a related social mission. Many have budgets of less than $500,000 and are rooted in and led by specific, self-defined communities, such as racial, ethnic, geographic, sexual orientation, gender, economic and/or other identity groups. Often, grantees’ work centers multiple and intersectional formations of community and embraces constantly evolving community needs and aspirations.

The Performing Arts Program Officer will be committed to the Hewlett Foundation's mission and art’s essential role in helping individuals and communities thrive. They will manage one third of the program’s overall grantmaking portfolio and serve as the lead for the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy. Specifically, the Program Officer will hold over half of the program’s grants that advance its Communities strategy as well as a cross section of grants that advance the program’s Artists and Youth strategies (each of which is led by other Performing Arts Program Officers). The Program Officer will take an expansive understanding of identity and community self-determination; provide counsel and make grants that advance artistic and cultural expression; and strengthen the program’s Communities strategy to advance performing arts broadly and equitably.

The Program Officer reports to the Director of the Performing Arts Program and works collaboratively with the Performing Arts team as well as relevant foundation staff in fulfilling their role. They are responsible for maintaining collaborative relationships. The Program Officer will actively engage with both the regional arts ecosystem and national trends to support program planning and strategy implementation, particularly in anticipation of a program strategy refresh in 2026. It is essential that the Program Officer expertly navigate building and maintaining relationships with artistic and cultural communities with vastly varied histories, group dynamics, needs, and desires. In addition, a strategic mindset is critical to their ability to refine the Communities strategy given the breadth of communities across the Bay Area, and abundance of opportunities to equitably advance performing arts.

There is an eight-year term limit for each program officer position. Each staff member is expected to work from the Hewlett Foundation’s offices at least two-to-three days per week.

Responsibilities

Grantmaking and Knowledge-Building

Strategy and Leadership

Foundation Support

Desired Qualifications

Experience

Skills

Key Competencies

Benefits and Compensation

The Hewlett Foundation is committed to providing compensation that is competitive within the philanthropic sector. A generous total compensation package that emphasizes both base salary and comprehensive benefits is offered for this position. The salary range for this role is between $195,000 and $225,000. Offers are based on the candidate's years of experience and the foundation’s practice of maintaining salary equity within the foundation.

As the primary relationship manager with a portfolio of diverse foundation grantees, this position requires frequent local travel (20%), including attendance at performing arts events during evening and weekend hours. Occasional travel to national conferences is also required (5%).

This position description is based upon material provided by the Hewlett Foundation, an equal opportunity employer. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation embraces the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion both internally in our hiring process and organizational culture and externally in our grantmaking and related practices. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.

Application Requirements and Search Process

DRG is conducting this search on behalf of the Hewlett Foundation. Interested candidates should submit, as soon as possible, materials including the following:

Application Deadline: March 15, 2024

Start date: Spring/Summer 2024

To apply for this position, please click HERE .

Jennifer Fleischer, Senior Talent Consultant, [email protected]

Nina Cogan, Talent Consultant, [email protected]

Sarah Skrovan, Senior Associate, [email protected]


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