Program Officer, Strategy

Job Title: Program Officer, Strategy

Reports to: Vice President of Strategy

Date Revised: January 15, 2025

Organization

Rasmuson Foundation is a private, family philanthropy that works to empower Alaskans to help each other. The Foundation invests, connects, and convenes Alaskans while awarding grants to Alaska-based nonprofits, Tribes, and other government entities. The Foundation seeks employees who are mission-oriented, provide diverse perspectives, and share the organization’s values of celebration, collaboration, community, respect, innovation, responsibility, and partnership.

Summary/Objective

The “Program Officer – Strategy” serves as a Strategy team member and supports and implements the Foundation's strategic and proactive grantmaking priorities. The work includes monitoring opportunities in areas of interest, holding convenings, and managing partnerships, program-related initiatives and grantmaking programs. The Program officer also serves as a resource to the Vice President of Strategy to support strategy development and planning. This position works with staff to accomplish goals, is committed to collaboration and uplifting grant recipients, and is grounded in kindness, respect, grace, and humility.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Exercises independent judgment and discretion on matters of significance.
• Works on multi-year strategic initiatives and partnerships to advance the priorities of the Foundation through a combination of outreach, convening, collaboration and grantmaking. Responsible for initiative portfolio and one or more partnerships.
• Engages in all aspects of initiative grantmaking: evaluation of initiative grant proposals, writing funding recommendations, monitoring grant performance, contract management and budget oversight. These efforts may involve multiple grantees, cross-team staffing and management of consultants.
• Supports Strategy and Impact team efforts to assess, develop, and implement initiatives and partnerships that align with areas of identified interest. The work will include data and information gathering and review, facilitating convenings and forming collaborations.

• Monitors and stays informed to develop content expertise in areas of strategic priorities to identify and share opportunities, issues and changes in the field.
• Represents the Foundation externally and actively forms relationships with leaders, nonprofits and funders to monitor developments and outcomes in the foundation’s impact areas. Serves as a primary contact with grantees.
• May manage outside consultants.

Qualifications

• Alignment with the Foundation's mission and values.
• Minimum of 5 years of increasingly responsible work experience in a specific subject matter area and/or sector of importance to the Foundation.
• Knowledge and experience in the philanthropic sector, nonprofits and Alaska, with experience evaluating and managing grants preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a track record of leading and influencing others and building and sustaining collaborative relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to synthesize information and work with cross-cultural and diverse audiences to build consensus.
• Demonstrated project management skills, experience with standard office software, and comfort working with or learning a grant management software system.
• Occasional travel may be necessary.
• A valid driver license and insurance.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher Experience can substitute.

Position Competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills with the ability to synthesize information and work with cross-cultural and diverse audiences to build consensus.
• Experience with standard office software such as Microsoft 365, and comfort working with or learning a grant management software system.
• Demonstrated organizational skills with a strong attention to detail.

• Self-motivated with the ability to manage several projects at once.
• Good judgment and integrity.

Compensation

• Job Classification: Salaried, Overtime Exempt
• Pay Range: $96,750 - $161,250

Work Environment and Physical Demands

Much of the work is performed in an office environment, with other work performed on partner sites that can have less predictable environments. As such, physical demands include listening, talking, walking, sitting, standing, lifting modest payloads (rarely more than 30 pounds), getting in and out of vehicles, typing on keyboards, and operating a range of office equipment. You may frequently travel locally by vehicle, and within the state and out of the state by air.

Salary : $96,750 - $161,250