Program Officer, Programs; WPF

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund is seeking a program officer to support strategy refinement and grantmaking, as well as internal and external collaboration focused on advancing a locally-rooted, inclusive vision of human rights and social justice, with a focus on Latin America.

• With the Country Programs team and in close partnership with local experts, support the program’s strategy refinement and grantmaking in Latin America through a combination of research; site visits; engagement of local experts, advisors, and organizations; and pro-active coordination and collaboration with Wellspring and with peer grant-makers.
• Act as point person at Wellspring for international program collaboration and coordination in Latin America. With the Country Programs team, develop and advance a learning agenda within Wellspring focused on the Latin American region; identify and engage the appropriate expertise, resources, and support to Wellspring programs to strengthen their work; and support Spanish language use and translation.
• Support learning and collaboration within the program team and across geographic contexts.
• Stay abreast of new developments and trends and provide analysis and synthesize implications for Wellspring.
• For grants in which staff is directly responsible, conduct comprehensive due diligence, including: monitoring and evaluating grantee performance; recommending new, renewal, and final grants; and ensuring grantees satisfactorily complete applications and reports.
• Manage relationships and maintain regular and responsive and respectful communications with all relevant partners.
• Prepare written summaries and evaluations of grant proposals; track spending; enter all information in grants database; prepare and manage consultant contracts.
• Support the development of external reviews and strategic plans for the program; create presentations and written reports for internal learning.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience working on Latin America with local human rights and social justice organizations required, including working with marginalized communities.
• Experience working in multiple Latin American countries strongly preferred; experience working with regional mechanisms and regionally-focused organizations in Latin American a plus.
• Collaborative, team-oriented workstyle required; ability to connect and coordinate with staff internally as well as with peer grantmakers externally to deepen impact.
• Experience working in other developing country contexts, including sub-Saharan Africa, a plus.
• Substantive grantmaking experience strongly preferred; experience with organizational development and leadership support a plus.
• Strong organizational skills; ability to handle a variety of programmatic and administrative tasks independently and meet deadlines.
• Excellent research, writing, editing, and communications skills.
• Initiative, resourcefulness, flexibility, and strong cross-cultural skills.
• Ability to handle confidential information with complete discretion.
• Understands and values social justice, including racial and gender equity as an organizational operating principle – and is committed to continued learning on issues related to race, gender, equity, diversity, and inclusion.=

Salary range: $110,000-$120,000 based on experience. Wellspring offers a very generous benefits package including payment of 100% of the health insurance premiums for employees (and 80% of the premiums for spouses, domestic partners and qualified family members). Wellspring also offers other benefits including life insurance, long-term disability protection, a group 401(k) retirement plan (with…