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About the Role
The Andrew Carnegie Foundation is seeking a Program Officer to identify, develop, and recommend funding opportunities in democracy and elections. This role will contribute to the program’s strategy, identify promising potential grantees and partnerships, and manage a portfolio of grants and projects.
Responsibilities
- Advance National Program's goals focusing on structural reforms to American elections.
- Stay current on trends, research, public policy, and practice in elections and democracy.
- Proactively identify prospective grantees and partners and assess proposals.
- Review and strengthen proposals, assessing budgets, staffing, workplans, and outcomes.
- Present funding recommendations with clear critique of strengths, weaknesses, and risks.
- Serve as a spokesperson for the portfolio, program, and foundation.
- Represent Carnegie externally; speak and publish on relevant issues.
- Organize and participate in meetings, conferences, and field-wide activities.
- Support the ongoing improvement of the Foundation’s strategy.
- Conduct site visits; support and monitor active grants, engaging grantees directly.
- Coordinate across education and democracy work, including on AI's role.
- Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team and provide guidance to colleagues.
- Take on other duties as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in political science, public policy, or a related field preferred.
- Deep grounding in the research, policies, and reform efforts in democracy and elections.
- Strong professional network and demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships.
- Recognized expertise through publications and speaking experience preferred.
- Proven ability to collaborate with people and organizations within the field.
- Exceptional writing: precise, persuasive, board- and public-ready.
- Ability to turn scattered data and research into sharp recommendations.
- Working fluency with AI tools and their application preferred.
- Strong strategic thinking, leadership, presentation, and listening skills.
- Willingness to travel.
- Work onsite.
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
Skills
- Research
- Strategic thinking
- Leadership
- Presentation
- Listening
- Writing
- Collaboration
- AI tools
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Advanced degree in political science, public policy, or a related field preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000-$160,000
About the Company
- The Andrew Carnegie Foundation, originally established as Carnegie Corporation of New York, was founded in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie.
- Our funding supports education, democracy, and peace.
- Our grantmaking is grounded in Andrew Carnegie’s vision to do “real and permanent good in the world.”
- The National Program unites education and democracy portfolios, believing they reinforce each other.
- Education portfolio prepares young people for citizenship and careers by investing in high schools, colleges, universities, and nonprofits.
- Democracy portfolio backs nonpartisan work to strengthen democratic institutions, including rule-of-law protections, electoral reform, election administration, immigrant civic integration, civic learning, and collaboration across differences.
Equal Opportunity
- The Andrew Carnegie Foundation is an equal opportunity employer committed to complying with all federal, state and local equal employment opportunity (“EEOC”) laws.
- The Andrew Carnegie Foundation strictly prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of the individual’s race, creed, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, height and weight, disability, and any other characteristic protected by law.
- The Corporation abides by all applicable rules and regulations in its recruiting and employment practices including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws.