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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Senior Program Officer, Early Childhood Development - US
ABOUT THE CONRAD N. HILTON FOUNDATION The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (“The Foundation”) works to improve the lives of individuals living in poverty and experiencing disadvantage throughout the world. Conrad N. Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels, established the Hilton Foundation as a philanthropic trust in 1944. The Foundation continues to be guided by the founder’s mandate to “relieve the suffering, the distressed and destitute.” From its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $1.8 billion in grants, distributing approximately $200 million in 2020.Foundation assets increased from approximately $2.9 billion to over $6 billion following the 2019 passing of Barron Hilton who, like his father, pledged virtually his entire estate to the Foundation. The growth in financial resources presents the Foundation with an exciting opportunity to scale the impact of its work globally. The Foundation is a family foundation. Governed by an 11-person board of directors of which a majority are direct descendants of Conrad Hilton, the Foundation has thoughtfully adhered to the wishes of its founder. The Foundation invests in 7 Initiatives that include the areas of early child development (US and East and Southern Africa), older youth development (foster youth and opportunity youth), refugees, safe water, Catholic Sisters, and homelessness. In addition, following selection by an independent international jury, the Foundation annually awards the $2 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize to a nonprofit organization doing extraordinary work to reduce human suffering. The Hilton Humanitarian Prize is the world’s largest annual humanitarian award. Guiding the grantmaking, workplace culture and values of the Foundation is an overarching philanthropic approach, which employs four key pillars: grantmaking, communication and advocacy, collaboration, and learning. Together, these global and interrelated channels work to achieve impact by supporting programmatic solutions to sustain and test recognized and exploratory approaches. Along with direct services, the Foundation realizes they must also support reducing the systemic barriers that create the need for such programs, strengthen and align the systems that can create pathways of opportunity, and share knowledge about the best ways to achieve lasting change. For more information about the Hilton Foundation, please visit: www.hiltonfoundation.org. ABOUT THE POSITION The Senior Program Officer (SPO) is a strategic leader and portfolio manager for the Foundation’s Global Early Childhood Development – U.S. Sub-Initiative. This role will serve to advance the Conrad Hilton Foundation’s efforts aimed at improving the developmental outcomes of young children (from birth to age three) and the lives of their caregivers with a focus on young families. This is a new sub-initiative that will begin in 2021 in Los Angeles County with a second US location to begin in 2022. Grantmaking will seek to further goals at local, state, and national levels and will contribute to building an international movement. Science tells us that early experiences affect brain architecture – particularly during the first 1,000 days of life which then influences future health, educational outcomes and behavior. At the same time, adverse early childhood experiences may negatively impact brain development, making the window of the first few years a critical period for parenting support. Taking a holistic, two generation approach, this program aims to strengthen the capacity of public systems (including health systems that serve pregnant women and the youngest children) and community actors to provide comprehensive family support. By ensuring that children aged 0-3 receive the nurturing care they need to be ready for school and resilient to meet challenges, our Global ECD Initiative aims to contribute to their healthy development, as well as improved education, economic and health outcomes over the longer term. This program aims to bring the early childhood sector together with programs addressing the needs of young parents to enable the delivery of holistic, two generation support, with a racial equity lens. The program also plans to ensure that parents’ perspectives are heard. The SPO for the Global ECD-U.S. Sub-Initiative is the content expert and thought leader on early childhood development and two-generation approaches to serve young parents within Los Angeles County and the U.S., and s/he provides creative thinking in both strategy direction and in the day-to-day management of the sub-initiative portfolio. In addition to strategic leadership and portfolio management, the SPO is responsible for supporting the management of the eventual 3-person team while providing guidance on learning and evaluation and advocacy efforts that will inform strategy implementation, grant monitoring, management, integration across the portfolio, and future strategy development. The SPO will initiate and sustain external partnerships with grantees, stakeholders, policy decision makers, and other funders. The Senior Program Officer will embrace a core belief that the Foundation has an important role to play in contributing to systemic change to create a more equitable world. The Foundation employs a strategic philanthropic approach, and in doing so, they plan, implement, evaluate, and adapt and ask the same of its partners. To do this effectively, the Foundation must share power and elevate the voices of partners and those with lived experience. The SPO will manage an annual grant portfolio of approximately $18 million. This position reports to the Director, Global ECD Initiative and is based in Westlake Village, California. KEY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The broad goals and objectives facing the new SPO are the following:
PROFESSIONAL QUALFICATIONS AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES The Senior Program Officer should ideally embody the following professional qualifications and personal attributes: Professional Qualifications:
Personal Attributes:
COMPENSATION Compensation for the Senior Program Officer – ECD US includes a competitive base salary, and an excellent package of health and employee benefits. TO BE CONSIDERED Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter, responding specifically to the experience and qualifications required, to: Daniel Sherman Refer to Hilton Foundation/SPO ECD US in the subject line.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is an equal opportunity employer with values grounded in promoting equality and inclusion and embracing diversity. We welcome qualified applicants of all races, colors, gender identities, sexual orientations, economic classes, ages, religions, national origins, and ability/disability statuses. Veterans and individuals with lived expertise are encouraged to apply. We respect and seek to empower every member of our Foundation community. We support and celebrate our collective array of cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, skills, and experiences; fully realizing that such diversity is what makes our organization flourish and better enables us to fulfill our mission in the world. All correspondence will remain confidential. Download This Job Posting |
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The
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation seeks to recruit a Senior Program
Officer, Early Childhood Development - US to be based in Westlake
Village, California. .