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About the Role
The Program Officer is a key role on the Catalytic Deployments team, responsible for supporting the strategy and execution of major areas within the portfolio. This involves developing large philanthropic investments, from grants to multi-year initiatives, and potentially new institutions, requiring strong judgment, high ownership, and autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the strategy, prioritization, and the Foundation’s approach to Catalytic Deployments; over time, own specific areas within Catalytic Deployments
- Source, evaluate, and recommend grants and other funding opportunities. Conduct diligence on organizations, projects, and leaders, including execution capability and potential for scaling the benefit of AI-enabled approaches
- Support a growing portfolio of grants, ensuring strong judgment, clear prioritization, and high-quality follow-through
- Engage deeply with the external ecosystem, including researchers, nonprofits, academic centers, public-interest organizations, data platforms, funders, and other potential grantee organizations
- Identify gaps in the current ecosystem and develop ideas for how the Foundation can support new efforts, partnerships, or field-building initiatives
- Develop and launch new initiatives from zero-to-one, including helping shape concepts, convene stakeholders, and stand up new efforts where needed
- Represent the Foundation in external conversations, helping to build credibility, source opportunities, and strengthen the broader field
- Write clear internal recommendations and strategy memos to support decision-making
Requirements
- 5+ years of leadership experience in nonprofits, philanthropy, or government
- Subject matter expertise in at least one social sector domain, such as public health, education, poverty alleviation, and economic mobility
- Ability to reason clearly about AI capabilities, implementation constraints, organizational readiness and the risks of deploying AI systems in civil society contexts.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate technical or organizational opportunities and make strong recommendations
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities may evolve over time
- Experience engaging credibly with external experts, institutions, and senior stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information clearly and persuasively
- Strong strategic judgment combined with a bias toward execution
- High degree of ownership, discretion, and accountability
- Deep motivation to accelerate AI’s impact in civil society and contribute to the Foundation’s mission
Skills
- AI capabilities
- AI systems deployment
- AI-enabled approaches
- AI for good
- Strategic judgment
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Synthesizing complex information
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years of leadership experience
Salary/Compensations
- $220,000 to $300,000 USD
About the Company
- AI is already changing how people work, learn, and access care, with the potential to unlock extraordinary benefits across various sectors.
- The Foundation aims to enable the use of AI to find solutions to humanity’s hardest problems, transform human capabilities, and deliver real benefits, while preparing for new challenges and enhancing societal resilience.
- The Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion over the next year across life sciences, curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs.
- Civil Society and Philanthropy is a new OpenAI Foundation team dedicated to applying advanced AI to global challenges facing people and communities.
- This team partners with nonprofit, civil society organizations, and governments worldwide, providing philanthropic investment, technical expertise, and convening power.
- The team focuses on three areas: applying AI in essential services, equipping civil society organizations with AI tools and support, and building shared infrastructure for the social sector.
- The belief is that meaningful AI applications will be shaped by diverse stakeholders, including educators, clinicians, legal advocates, public servants, researchers, governments, and community organizations.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.