Program Officer, Children and Families, William Penn Foundation

Posted by William Penn Foundation on January 13, 2026

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 $155 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 to advance their objectives with members of their program team, communications team, other program teams, grants management, research, and others under the direction and guidance of a Program Director.

The Program Officer, Children and Families, will be responsible for two objectives within the Foundation’s Children and Families program, which seeks to support the healthy development and academic success of young children, ages 0-8, in Philadelphia. Objectives were identified through the strategic planning process and announced in June 2024. Over time, we may learn that objectives need to be modified to incorporate learnings from implementation, and/or reassigned to balance staff workloads.

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