Senior Associate, Civic Innovation

Position Overview

The Rockefeller Foundations US Program and Policy (USPP) team is launching a new strategy focused on empowering communities to navigate and prosper in the face of economic and technological disruption. As part of that effort USPP is building a new Civic Innovation initiative that will focus on supporting state and local governments efforts to improve effectiveness and efficiency as they face new challenges.

The Rockefeller Foundation is seeking a Senior Associate to join USPPs Civic Innovation team which is responsible for strategy development grantmaking and ongoing learning to increase state and local government effectiveness including by developing and scaling AI capacity. Senior Associates at the Foundation have a mix of project management grants/contracts management research team coordination project-based work and Foundation-wide responsibilities.The team leverages various tools (grantmaking convening communications etc.) to engage educate and seed deeper impact across like-minded organizations policymakers and key stakeholders.

Reporting to the Vice President Civic Innovation the Senior Associate will work closely with the Civic Innovation team as well as across the USPP team to manage relationships with existing grantees; conduct research planning and analysis to strengthen the teams strategy and develop new grantee relationships; and improve and manage processes for tracking budgets and impact measurement and learnings. Successful candidates will bring strong research project management and communication skills and a strong grounding and prior experience with multistakeholder engagement.

Pay Range: $105000 - $123700. This represents the present low and high ends of the Foundations pay range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors including but not limited to experience.

Work Schedule: This role is on a hybrid work schedule and required to be in the office on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the development execution and management of the teams portfolio of grants contracts and donations including strategy research and development regular reporting and briefing on performance budgeting learning and measurement and broader impact to the team across programs and to the board.
• Support positive and productive relationships with grantees consultants partners and stakeholders.
• Lead on systems and knowledge management using foundation-wide tools (including Salesforce) for proper documentation tracking and performance management of both grants and key relationships with partners (including outreach and engagement with government leaders).
• Prepare briefing materials for engagements for use by the team the SVP and/or the President of the organization for key meetings events and outreach.
• Coordinate within and across RF teams to support key convenings and events.
• Navigate a high degree of complexity in scheduling organizing and managing meetings and following up and tracking action items. Offer support for the VPs travel and scheduling responsibilities as needed.

Education Experience and Skills

• Generally expected to have at least 5 years of relevant experience in public policy government or government relations with a strong preference for expertise in AI governance and emerging technologies and state/local government processes.
• Bachelors degree
• The ability to represent The Foundation and the USPP team professionally and effectively with strong interpersonal and relationship abilities and excellent writing skills and strategic partnership-building skills.
• Experience engaging with high-ranking actors and organizations across a variety of sectors (public private philanthropic nonprofit).
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and stay organized in an often fast-changing environment. Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to shift adjust and learn new skills/knowledge are essential.
• The ability to effectively work with and across teams (using our communications tools such as Slack Box and Microsoft Outlook) to connect with and collaborate to advance programmatic and institutional objectives.
• Proven project management skills with an ability to work independently under pressure and coordinate effectively across multiple stakeholders and projects to get things done using key systems and software to produce and track outputs and outcomes (Salesforce expertise preferred).
• Demonstrated passion for the mission of the Foundation reflected in your professional history.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Data Oriented: Consistently achieves results by approaching work informed by data.
• Decision Quality: Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Strategic Learning: Actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Values Differences:Recognizes the value of different perspectives and commits to being self-aware respectful and seeks to learn from new and different voices

About The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science technology and innovation that enable individuals families and communities to flourish. We make big bets to promote the well-being of humanity. Today we are focused on advancing human opportunity and reversing the climate crisis by transforming systems in food health energy and finance. For more information sign up for our newsletter athttp:// follow us on X @RockefellerFdn.

The Rockefeller Foundation offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes health insurance programs tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment a generous 401K parental leave and various forms of paid time off all to help our employees feel energized cared for and engaged.

As an organization we focus on six values to advance our culture and continue our success. We are dedicated to being Transparent Optimistic Accountable Collaborative Trusted and Equitable. We expect all employees at the Foundation to contribute by developing their unique perspectives and talent challenging conventional wisdom through evidence and reason and amplifying marginalized voices.

The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal state and local laws concerning employment discrimination including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race color age gender sexual orientation religion marital status national origin or ancestry citizenship lawful alien status physical mental and medical disability veteran status liability for service in the United States Armed Forces or any other protected status.

The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.