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Join Open Philanthropy as a Program Officer and lead transformative economic growth initiatives in LMICs with a $30m budget
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Salary
£203855.76
Location
Remote - Global
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Expires at anytime
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Open Philanthropy is a forward-thinking grantmaking organization on a mission to maximize impact through strategic philanthropy. We are dedicated to identifying and supporting causes that are crucial, overlooked, and solvable. At an exciting time of expansion, we're launching a pivotal program aimed at stimulating economic growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a venture with huge potential to make a difference.
- Develop and implement a groundbreaking grantmaking strategy with a significant budget.
- Manage a diverse portfolio of grants, ensuring maximum cost-effectiveness and impact.
- Take the lead in evaluating grant outcomes to promote sustainable economic growth in LMICs.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in economic growth within LMICs.
- Significant experience beyond the minimum is highly encouraged.
- Competitive compensation package, including a base salary and 401(k) grant (for U.S. hires), or full salary for international hires.
- Remote work flexibility with a requirement to overlap with North American Central Time Zone for at least 2 hours a day.
- Potential sponsorship for U.S. work authorization.
Our comprehensive benefits package supports a healthy work-life balance and includes 100% premium coverage for health insurance, dental, vision, and life insurance, a generous PTO policy, fully paid family leave, and a supportive environment for continual learning and professional development. We are deeply committed to diversity and inclusion and seek candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to join our passionate team.
Open Philanthropy is looking to hire a Program Officer to lead our new program: economic growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The successful candidate will help launch this new program, with a minimum budget commitment of $30m over 2025-2027. They will develop our grantmaking strategy and be responsible for leading and executing that strategy.
Open Philanthropy is a grantmaker; our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability.
We are launching a new program focused on promoting economic growth in LMICs. The potential benefits of successful grantmaking are substantial, and we believe that there are strategic, high-value grants that Open Philanthropy is well-placed to make.
Your primary responsibility will be to make, manage, and evaluate grants to promote economic growth in LMICs. Your key goal will be to maximize the cost-effectiveness of the grantmaking portfolio. You will develop and execute OP’s grantmaking strategy in this area.
We expect all applicants to have at least 5 years of relevant experience working to promote economic growth in LMICs. We strongly encourage applicants with significantly more experience to apply and expect that many strong candidates will have more experience.
The baseline compensation for this role is $203,855.76, which would be distributed as a base salary of $180,855.76 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $23,000.00 for U.S. hires. All compensation will be distributed in the form of take-home salary for internationally based hires.
You can work from anywhere, though we would require the successful candidate to be able to overlap 2 hours/day with the North American Central Time Zone. Although we don’t require this role to be based in the U.S., we are happy to consider sponsoring U.S. work authorization.
Our benefits package includes: Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the U.S. for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses. Dental, vision and life insurance for you and your family. Four weeks of PTO recommended per year. Four months of fully paid family leave. A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive. A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered. Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with an Open Phil coworking hub in your city.
We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
