Senior Program Officer – Mental Health and Well-Being

Senior Program Officer – Mental Health and Well-Being

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree or equivalent experience is a plus.
• 5-7 years or more of foundation grantmaking experience
• Experience working in the field of mental health and well-being, especially youth mental health.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and SharePoint.
• Keenly discreet and respectful and practices good judgement when handling private and confidential matters.

Responsibilities

• Support the managing director to monitor the Mental Health and Well-Being grantmaking strategy.
• Support the managing director to develop departmental workplans, monitoring, and adjusting workplans and timelines as needed.
• Source new grantee partner opportunities consistent with strategy and desired outcomes.
• Draft memos, grant analyses and recommendations, and summary reports.
• Manage a portfolio of existing and new grants through the full lifecycle from inception to completion.
• Be a resource and thought partner for grantees and other partners.
• Understand and monitor grant budgets and ensure compliance with foundation practices and protocols, including appropriate programmatic and financial due diligence.
• Collaborate with other foundation program staff to explore ways that other foundation collective giving areas might find expression in Mental Health and Well-Being.
• Support information and updates for quarterly board meetings.
• Collaborate with the managing director to develop and support initiatives that create and promote opportunities for the BFOB to engage in this work, both the business entities and the associates interested in having a focus on mental health and well being.
• Stay current on literature in the field, remain abreast of current news and philanthropic strategies relevant to the areas strategy, particularly focused on prevention and connection in early childhood.
• Collaborate with the Foundation’s effective philanthropy team to review evidence and data, ensure alignment with strategy and develop and refine measurement and evaluation for grants and the portfolio as a whole.
• Collaborate with the communications team to share portfolio and grantee progress and relevant trends.
• Build internal and external relationships with a variety of stakeholders including colleagues, nonprofit grantees, other funders, and community leaders and residents.
• Represent the foundation in external meetings and conferences and liaising with other philanthropies and agencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Support and promote a growing culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
• Possess an inquisitive spirit and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate a passion for mental health and well-being across the continuum.
• Demonstrate nimbleness to adapt to a dynamic team and workplace.
• Possess a balance of intellectual and emotional intelligence.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and work collaboratively with stakeholders.
• Be adept at multi-tasking, prioritizing, and balancing changing priorities with minimal direction.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate proficient research and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently balanced with the ability to work on a team.
• Possess excellent organizational, planning and time-management skills.
• Welcome feedback and committed to learning and growing.
• Demonstrate record of building bridges across sectors to strengthen and scale innovation.
• Model leadership for colleagues across the foundation’s program staff.
• Model positive energy and can-do attitude.