Program Officer, Arts and Culture, William Penn Foundation

Posted by William Penn Foundation on September 17, 2024

The William Penn Foundation, founded by Otto and Phoebe Haas in 1945, is a leading American philanthropy located in Philadelphia with over $3.3 billion in assets and a $150 million annual grant budget. Our approach to grantmaking is focused on one central idea: let’s help make more lives better by connecting more people to more opportunities and more resources. We aim to do this work in the Philadelphia region particularly for groups of people who have often been shut out of opportunity in the past because of disinvestment, discrimination, or systemic inequities.

Position Summary

Program Officers at William Penn Foundation play a leadership role in advancing multiple specific objectives that are part of the Foundation’s new strategic plan. In this role, Program Officers work collaboratively with members of their program team, communications team, other program teams, grants management, evaluation and learning, and others under the direction and guidance of a Program Director to advance their objectives.

The Program Officer, Arts and Culture, will be responsible for two objectives within the Foundation’s arts and culture strategy, which seeks to ensure people across Philadelphia region benefit from inclusive, diverse, and high-quality arts and culture experiences:

• WPF-funded efforts will provide access to arts and culture experiences that are intentionally designed to engage a community or audience.
• WPF-funded efforts will support research, evaluation and data, communications tools and network-building to strengthen the arts and culture sector.

In addition, the Program Officer will develop deep knowledge of the organizations and communities they serve and support; manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders; and serve as an internal subject matter expert on issues related to their objectives.

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