Program Officer Fellowships

Primary Function:The Program Officer for Fellowships is responsible for advancing the ongoing grantmaking efforts of The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage (“the Center”) to foster a vibrant and inclusive cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Program Officer will report to and thoughtfully partner with the Director of Grantmaking Programs on the planning and implementation of the Center’s annual Pew Fellowships in the Arts grant cycle (“Fellowships).

The Program Officer will collaborate with the Director of Grantmaking Programs in developing program strategy that actively generates ideas for capacity-building programming, editorial content, publications, and other activities that advance the Center’s mission.

The Program Officer will research and connect with artists, curators, scholars, and other practitioners across the fields of art practices served by the Fellowships’ funding area. They will employ this knowledge in their work to contribute to the Center’s grantmaking processes and capacity-building programs, sharing their findings with Center colleagues, grantees and Pew Fellows, as well as other relevant Center constituencies.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 7 years of related work experience in curatorial work/arts administration/art history, grant-making and/or a related field OR graduate degree plus at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Broad and deep knowledge—and love for—art, culture and community within a national and international context.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access with high emotional intelligence and cultural awareness.
• Intellectually curious; rigorous in their work practices but always generous of spirit, patient, persistent, and personable.
• Organized and self-motivated, capable of working alone but also capable of working collegially as part of a team.
• Significant experience working on behalf of artists and knowledge of developments in the field of artist support and knowledge about contemporary visual and performing arts, poetry and writing.
• Passion for the Center’s mission and its commitment to supporting artists and enthusiasm for engaging with artists across multiple disciplines.
• Exemplary writer able to articulate complex creative content across genres, forms, and diverse practices.
• Strong organizational skills and an aptitude for program development and administration as well as the ability to meet deadlines, handle and prioritize multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail.
• Strong field network/access to networks of people who can be potential resources for the Center’s work.
• Effective interpersonal skills to successfully interact with a variety of people, including the cultural community, consultants, grantees, applicants, colleagues at The Pew Charitable Trusts, Barnes Foundation, and the various publics with diverse cultures and backgrounds, as called upon. You need to be appropriately thoughtful, respectful, and effective when expressing feedback. A sense of humility and humor are needed.
• Ability to work strategically within existing and evolving organizational parameters as framed for us by our funder, The Pew Charitable Trusts.
• Ability to function with enthusiasm as part of a team. Ability to delegate tasks to/monitor progress of, colleagues and junior staff to advance the workflow/schedule of the Center’s grant cycles.
• Ability to exercise a high level of discretion and confidentiality in interactions with both internal and external people concerning all work-related information, and with understanding of the Center’s unique relationship to The Pew Charitable Trusts.
• Professional working proficiency in technology and computer literacy;
  Microsoft Office Suite (including Office 365);
  Adobe Acrobat; and remote communications platforms such as Slack and Zoom.
• Ability to periodically attend meetings and events which are after standard business hours or on weekends, as a Center representative.

Clearances:

• Criminal Background-National

Physical Activities to Perform

Essential Functions:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily.…