Senior Program Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alaska, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee the Community Grants program, including the development and evaluation of strategy and processes.

• Assist in the strategy for responsive funding and special initiative grant programs.

• Create region-wide outreach strategies in collaboration with the Grants team.

• Identify and cultivate relationships with new and emerging organizations that align with priority communities.

• Collect and analyze information, data, insights, and trends within LGBTQ+ communities throughout the region.

• Manage all facets of Community Grants implementation, such as outreach, application review, administration, reporting, and due diligence.

• Execute responsive funding and special initiative grantmaking processes.

• Establish and sustain relationships with grantee organizations while monitoring their developments.

• Incorporate trust-based philanthropic principles throughout the grantmaking process.

• Collaborate on grants administration tasks.

• Assist with other grant programs, including attending events.

• Ensure consistent messaging for the program in coordination with the Grants Team and Senior Communications Manager.

• Share narratives about the grant program both internally and externally.

• Embed racial justice considerations into work plans and strategic initiatives.

• Engage in building organizational culture, participating in caucus spaces and learning opportunities.

• Identify and tackle structural inequities in program implementation and community engagement.

• Contribute to a mission-driven, inclusive, and community-focused culture.

• Report to the Associate Director of Programs and work alongside the Director of Programs and Senior Program Officers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience, understanding, and dedication to the mission and values of the Pride Foundation.

• Strong commitment to promoting intersectional racial equity and justice.

• Dedication to power-sharing and redistributing power to communities most affected by inequities.

• Experience working with or within communities affected by systemic injustices, particularly LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex, and/or gender-diverse communities.

• Excellent relationship-building abilities across diverse communities and regions.

• Exceptional experience in project management.

• Strong communication, organizational, and coordination skills.

• Active participation in feedback and evaluation processes.

• Capability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and objectives collaboratively in team environments.

• Proficient in using Microsoft Office, databases, online application systems, and project management tools such as Asana.

• Willingness to work some evenings and weekends as needed.

• Ability to travel approximately 10–20% of work time throughout Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

• Preferred, though not mandatory: experience in rural, small-town, and urban communities across the five Northwest states.

• Preferred, though not mandatory: experience in community engagement, organizing, grantmaking, program implementation, or related supportive sectors.

• Preferred, though not mandatory: experience working with Pride Foundation grantee organizations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular Cost of Living Adjustments and salary increases.

• Employer-sponsored medical coverage, including gender-confirming health services and procedures.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Disability coverage.

• Employer contributions to retirement accounts.

• Option to invest in an individual retirement account.

• Four weeks of paid vacation.

• Sixteen wellness/sick days.

• Three personal days/floating holidays.

• Eleven paid holidays.

• Paid family and medical leave.

• Four-day, 32-hour work week.