Program Associate, Catholic Sisters, Africa/Global

Brief Description

The Program Associate (PA) plays a critical administrative and project management role in coordinating the Initiative's grantmaking activities. The associate will provide support for key operational areas of the team, including project management/tracking, communications, and knowledge sharing, coordination of meetings, contribution to project reports, research, budgeting, and grant process management. This position will also assist the team with general administration functions including the coordination of convenings, site visits and scheduling.

The Program Associate will participate in project and department-wide activities, meetings, conferences, etc. They will participate in programming discussions and will be familiar with the Foundation's approaches. They will possess significant writing skills and an excellent ability to multitask. This role will serve to advance the Foundation's mission of impacting those experiencing disadvantage, specifically by strengthening Catholic sisters' education, formation, and elderly care in Africa and supporting their advocacy and human development services to improve the lives of children, youth and families living in disadvantaged situations. The Initiative supports sisters and communities to thrive and achieve self-sufficiency through collaboration and strengthening partnerships with a range of stakeholders, including sisters' conferences, Church, key networks, and other entities in our focus geographies (Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, etc.) and ensure sisters have the tools and platforms needed to make a lasting impact in the lives of the communities they serve. Partnership is a key tenet of the Initiative program strategy; consequently, this person should be adept at interacting with a range of diverse stakeholders in a professional, collaborative, and diplomatic way.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of relevant work experience in the non-profit sector or a private entity with a social mission.
• Candidates with lived experience related to Initiative area are encouraged to apply.
• Skilled writer with the ability to produce communication products for a variety of audiences.
• Comfortable working with complex budgets and work plans and have a good understanding of non-profit finances and budgets. They are highly attentive to detail.
• Possess solid organizational skills and are able to effectively manage and prioritize workflow to meet deadlines.
• Possess bilingual capacities.
• Work well independently and collaboratively within a team and demonstrate a high degree of initiative, resourcefulness, and flexibility to meet the needs of the role.
• Curious, value learning, and continually seek information and new approaches to processes and practices.
• Critical thinking skills to analyze and summarize reports.
• Interpersonal skills and cross-cultural competency, and adept at interacting with a range of diverse stakeholders in a professional, collaborative, and diplomatic way.
• Comfortable with traveling, including 1-2 site visit trips per year and domestic travel.
• Ability to continually seek information and look for new approaches to processes and practices.
• Excellent technological skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office (with an emphasis on Outlook, Word, and Excel) and experience with database software (e.g., Giving Data, Salesforce, related grants, and/or data management software).
• Excel skills include generating graphs and charts, and an understanding of how formulas work.
• An understanding of grantmaking processes.
• Knowledge of the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work on-site at least three days each week (MTW) according to the hybrid schedule policy.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at a time.

Summary

International hotelier Conrad N. Hilton established the grantmaking foundation that bears his name in 1944 to help people living in poverty and experiencing disadvantage worldwide. More than eighty years later, the work continues, concentrating on efforts to ensure healthy early childhood development and sustainable livelihoods for youth and refugee populations, support young people transitioning out of foster care, improve access to housing and support services for people experiencing homelessness, identify solutions to safe water access, and lift the work of Catholic sisters. Additionally, following selection by an independent, international jury, the Foundation annually awards the $3 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize to an organization doing extraordinary work to reduce human suffering. The Foundation is one of the world’s largest, with approximately $7.3 billion in assets. It has awarded grants to date totaling more than $3.6 billion worldwide, and $300 million in 2024. Please visit www.hiltonfoundation.org for more information.