Program Director & Leadership jobs in philanthropy

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Someone with 5+ years managing conservation field projects in Central Asia or similar regions, comfortable mobilizing local partners around ecosystem restoration and climate adaptation, and experienced navigating complex stakeholder environments in emerging democracies.

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Someone with experience overseeing mental-health or crisis-intervention programs in underserved communities, comfortable managing staff and volunteers in a fast-paced environment, and grounded in the realities of delivering care across multiple touchpoints.

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Program officer with deep knowledge of environmental health, water infrastructure, or climate resilience who can build and manage a portfolio connecting Flint's recovery priorities to national field-building work, comfortable engaging both local institutions and policy actors.

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Senior nonprofit leader experienced building and scaling regional chapters or affiliates for a health-focused national organization, comfortable balancing fundraising, community engagement, and alignment with national research and clinical priorities.

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A program leader with deep relationships in academic neurology, translational research, or clinical-trial infrastructure who can shepherd multi-million-dollar grants to top-tier medical institutions and speak fluently with leading Alzheimer's researchers about study design and institutional capacity.

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Program leader with experience designing and managing educational travel or international-exchange initiatives, comfortable serving both Jewish organizational networks and diverse participant populations, and skilled at translating mission-driven outcomes into logistical and programmatic reality.

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A seasoned legal-services leader with experience managing statewide civil legal aid programs, comfortable navigating funding relationships with multiple nonprofits and policy work around housing and eviction prevention.

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Engineering leader with experience building or scaling technology platforms for humanitarian or social-service delivery at nonprofit or mission-driven scale, comfortable translating operational needs into product roadmaps and managing distributed teams.

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Leader with deep experience building and scaling grassroots veteran or military-connected networks across multiple regions; skilled at designing community programs that reach injured service members and families while managing distributed teams across 14+ locations.

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Program leader with experience designing or scaling African American studies, equity-focused curricula, or culturally-centered student-support initiatives in higher education, comfortable translating research into experiential learning and managing cross-functional university partnerships.

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Program leader with lived or direct professional experience supporting stroke survivors, comfortable translating patient priorities into research agendas and embedding survivor voices throughout a research funder's grant-making and strategy work.

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Senior technologist or imaging scientist with experience managing cross-functional R&D teams, translating between computational and wet-lab researchers, and shipping tools that hundreds of biologists actually use.

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Program leader with direct experience co-designing or managing stroke-survivor engagement initiatives who understands how to center lived experience in voluntary-sector program development, particularly across Welsh communities.

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A technologist or policy leader with 10+ years building programs at the intersection of AI governance, digital rights, and tech regulation—comfortable translating between technical complexity and policy strategy at national scale.

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Program leader with deep roots in or commitment to rural community development, experienced managing education or early-childhood initiatives across multiple counties, and skilled at building trust with local educators, families, and nonprofit partners to strengthen outcomes.

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Program leader with 8+ years building or scaling community health or food-security initiatives, comfortable managing staff and budgets, designing nutrition-education curricula, and translating local needs into measurable outcomes across vulnerable populations.

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Program officer with deep roots in Flint or similar post-industrial communities, comfortable making both multiyear operational grants to anchor institutions and strategic capital investments in neighborhood-based organizing, early learning, and K–12 infrastructure.

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Program officer with experience managing portfolios in fiscal policy, budget reform, or election administration at think tanks or advocacy organizations; comfortable stewarding large grants to research institutes and building relationships across nonpartisan policy networks.

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Program officer with expertise in Chicago gun violence prevention—whether through community violence intervention, policy advocacy, or public health approaches—and comfort moving between grassroots organizations and institutional partners.

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A government-affairs or public-sector partnership manager with experience navigating state and local agencies to secure funding or in-kind donations for direct-service nonprofits, comfortable managing complex compliance requirements and building sustainable relationships with government stakeholders.

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Program leader with 10+ years in extractive-industry reform, community-led governance, or natural-resource livelihoods work, comfortable building multi-country partnerships and translating mining-sector accountability into sustainable livelihood outcomes for affected communities.

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Senior malaria program leader with 10+ years managing disease-elimination initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa, fluent in Portuguese, and proven ability to coordinate across government health systems, NGO partners, and diagnostic/treatment supply chains.

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Program manager with experience coordinating grants and donor relationships within a community foundation or public charity; comfortable managing scholarship programs, donor-advised funds, and local Bay Area grantmaking across multiple issue areas.

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Operations leader with experience scaling out-of-school-time programs or club-based youth services; comfortable managing budgets, staff, and logistics across multiple sites while keeping youth outcomes and equity at the center.