Senior Program Officer, Organizational Culture

Position Summary: The Senior Program Officer (SPO), Organizational Culture functions as a Senior Program Officer with specialized expertise in organizational development, organizational transformation, and sacred-centered organizational culture. Partnering closely with the Vice President, Organizational Culture, this role helps shape, implement, and continuously refine the department’s external strategy while cultivating projects, partnerships, and learning that advance spiritually grounded organizational culture.

The position serves as a strategic thought partner and implementation leader, supporting Fetzer’s partners and strategic initiatives as they strengthen organizational culture and transformational practices. This work includes direct engagement with partners as well as coordinating and leveraging external consultants, facilitators, and subject matter experts as needed.

This role sits at the intersection of organizational development, systems change, leadership, spirituality, and philanthropy. We are looking for someone who is equally comfortable helping organizations navigate strategy, leadership, and systems change while engaging questions of spirituality, meaning, and human flourishing. The successful candidate will be energized by helping shape an emerging field rather than applying established practices, while contributing to Fetzer’s broader mission of helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.

Build the first living expression of a sacred-centered field through relationships, a pilot cohort, and a funding model that reflects practice.

• Bridge internal culture to external expression, an active case study (Org-to-World Translation)
• Create deep, sustained relationships with cross-field partners
• Build and initiate relationships with 10-15 aligned practitioners/orgs
• Design and recruit the pilot mutual learning cohort (3-5 orgs)
• Develop the spiritual development funding model (with clear parameters)

Partner with the Vice President, Organizational Culture to refine and advance Fetzer’s external Organizational Culture strategy through strategic thinking, learning, field-building, and partnership development. Specific responsibilities include:

• Help refine, implement, and continuously strengthen the department’s external strategy related to sacred-centered organizational culture, organizational transformation, belonging, and spiritually grounded leadership.
• Translate learning from projects, partners, programmatic colleagues, research, and the broader field into strategic refinements, recommendations and emerging initiatives.
• Contribute to the development of frameworks, resources, learning agendas, and field-building efforts.
• Identify opportunities for new partnerships, collaborations, and strategic investments that advance the Organizational Culture strategy.
• Synthesize learning across projects and partnerships to inform future strategy, investments, and the continued development of Fetzer’s Organizational Culture work.

Support Fetzer’s strategic organizational partners as they strengthen organizational culture and transformational practice. Specific responsibilities include:

• Build trusted relationships with partners, practitioners, and field leaders.
• Design and support learning experiences, retreats, convenings, and communities of practice.
• Accompany organizations through organizational learning and culture development using relational, developmental, spiritual, and systems-informed approaches.
• Coordinate and partner with external consultants, facilitators, coaches, and subject matter experts to support partner organizations.
• Help partners adapt and apply…