Senior Program Officer, Assessments, Digitally-Enabled Teaching and Learning

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.

As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The foundation's U.S. Program works with partners to help ensure that people navigating U.S. education systems and job markets can develop the knowledge, skills, and agency they need to thrive in their communities. As the division advances its long-term ambitions, strong strategy, planning, portfolio management, and cross-team coordination are essential to translating priorities into impact. The Digitally-Enabled Teaching and Learning (DETL) team, part of the Postsecondary (PS) Courseware and Navigation team, develops, scales, and supports postsecondary solutions.

A key goal is to significantly improve student success rates in college gateway courses, while reducing success gaps in key student demographics, all while assisting faculty and academic communities in their success goals. Read more about our updated strategy here: https://docs.gates foundation.org/documents/

You primarily manage a portfolio of investments in digitally-enabled teaching and learning—including topics like courseware, assessments, AI innovations, course supports, professional development, and community building—with an emphasis on summative assessments, as part of the team’s overall strategy. Our preference is for the hired candidate to be located in either Seattle, WA or Washington, DC - and relocation assistance is available to support a move for candidates not residing within a commutable distance from either office.

In some instances remote work from a US state only may be considered.

Develop and manage a portfolio of grants and contracts on DETL topics including courseware, AI-enabled tools, assessments, course supports, professional development, and community building, with an emphasis in assessments. You’ll co-invest frequently with fellow officers and division colleagues, and all your investments fit with of the team’s overall strategy and goals and focus on real measurable impact. Have an emphasis on and serve as the team’s primary resource on summative assessments: track innovations in assessment design, pedagogy, and technology;

participate in foundation events and task forces; provide regular updates to the team; and assist colleagues on the assessment dimensions of their work. Conduct market analyses to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities in various aspects of college-level teaching and learning. Design and oversee efficacy and implementation research to produce actionable evidence and help guide courseware and other product designs. Build and advise partnerships with AI innovators, edtech developers, open-source communities, faculty, administrators, and research institutions.

Help guide higher education toward effective technology adoption and toward greater collaboration within and across institutions (e.g., coordinated courses), in service of important human roles in education (student-to-student, student-to-faculty, and faculty-to-faculty) and of the important cultural role of the…