The Ford Foundation’s U.S. Program in Civic Engagement and Government (CEG) seeks a collaborative, strategic, team-oriented Program Officer to help build out and implement the foundation’s nascent reflective governance work. Reporting to the CEG Director and working alongside four other program officers, the Program Officer will lead our emerging reflective governance portofolio, supporting broad coalitions of actors outside and inside government to demonstrate how democratic government centered on justice can deliver for communities, particularly those long excluded from power, and seed new democracy.
In particular, the foundation seeks a dynamic, credible, proven field or government leader who brings a strong intersectional analysis to the work with a particular emphasis on gender, disability, and racial justice. The Program Officer must have a proven track record of working closely with communities that have been historically marginalized from the systems that affect their lives keeping the lived experiences of people and communities at the center of CEG’s grantmaking approach.
An ideal candidate is curious about the intersections of structural democracy reform, the value and impact of government in protecting rights and providing public goods, and most importantly that representative and reflective constituencies and communities should work together to implement public policy agendas. They would also be able to help anticipate how the work must evolve to realize the promise of democracy through a government-centered approach to civic engagement. Ideal candidates possess superb analytical skills and the ability to strategize and prioritize and assess opportunities, challenges and institutions with which to engage. They are action-oriented and entrepreneurial self-starters who are open to new ideas and can work well independently and in teams.
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