Sr. Program Officer, Endless

Overview

The Dalio Family Office (DFO) supports Barbara and Ray Dalio and their family in their ventures, investments, and philanthropic efforts under Dalio Philanthropies, which includes Ocean

X, Dalio Education, Endless Network, and the Beijing Dalio Foundation. The core of the DFO’s culture is built around meaningful work and meaningful relationships and the family’s commitment to giving back. The office is headquartered in Westport, CT with regional offices in New York City, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi.

Endless Overview: Endless is a mission-driven game, learning, and technology organization with a bold vision: to empower people to shape technology, rather than be shaped by it. We believe the most powerful way to prepare young people for the digital world is through making games. Game creation is a uniquely engaging and scalable pathway to teach design, storytelling, collaboration, coding, and problem-solving—skills that prepare youth not just to play in the digital economy, but to create it.

Through commercial ventures, impact investments, and philanthropy, Endless aims to empower youth at scale to shape their futures by creating the games and the world they want to live in. This role sits in the Endless Foundation and focuses on philanthropic impact.

We are looking for a Senior Program Officer who has experience in philanthropy or impact and who has a demonstrated affinity for the Endless mission. The Senior Program Officer should identify opportunities, build partnerships, and advocate for the Endless mission. This role will lead and advance the Endless Foundation’s grantmaking and strategic initiatives, focusing on building and sustaining complex relationships across diverse stakeholders.

The initial geographic focus will be on emerging markets, including MENA, Africa, or India. The role requires expertise in program design, implementation, and evaluation, and the ability to balance the needs of grantees, partners, and internal teams. The Senior Program Officer will serve as a trusted advisor and connector, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with the foundation’s mission and goals.

Ideal candidates will have deep experience in stakeholder engagement, strong communication, extensive nonprofit partnership experience, and a proven track record of driving impact through grantmaking and partnerships in a dynamic environment. The Senior Program Officer will report to the Managing Director of Endless.

This role involves heavy international travel and requires the individual to live in Abu Dhabi from September to May annually.

Day-to-day responsibilities would include a combination of the following:

• Partner with Principal and Programmatic Staff: Collaborate closely with the Principal to understand and advance objectives and communicate them clearly.
• Strategic Grantmaking: Lead and evolve our grants strategy, balance support for high-impact existing work with targeted initiatives aligned with our mission and theory of change, oversee the full lifecycle of grants and related investments, and develop metrics to assess effectiveness and share insights.
• Build Strategic and Operational Partnerships: Cultivate relationships with mission-aligned organizations, helping them leverage the Endless platform and work toward shared goals. Initial focus will be in MENA, Africa, India and nearby emerging markets.
• Shape an Ecosystem of Impact: Drive collaboration across grantees, connecting game developers, educators, employers, and learning platforms to create synergies.
• Evaluate & Share Impact: Oversee the full grant lifecycle, track outcomes, and surface insights that strengthen the ecosystem.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Manage internal and external stakeholder communications with expertise, including key Principals.
• Represent Endless Foundation: Build strong relationships with grantees, philanthropic partners, and others in the community.

• Integrity, transparency, honesty, and strong ethical orientation.
• Humility and a low ego.
• A conceptual thinker with the ability to navigate from the conceptual to the details.
• Strong ability to synthesize information.
• Superb written and oral…