Senior Program Officer

This position is responsible for the development and implementation of the organization's strategies. It necessitates holding an enterprise-wide perspective and having the ability to both craft strategy and implement it. This position requires active community engagement and listening in order to discern between potential paths of action and choose the one that will create impact. The SPO will recommend and manage grants, and work collaboratively with the Foundation’s other departments, including policy, communications, impact investing and learning and evaluation to leverage opportunities for strategic impact. The Senior Program Officer will lead the Foundation’s Community Solutions priority, as well as be part of our locally-focused work and our Capacity Building and Advocacy priorities.

Candidates must have a personal commitment and connection with our mission and cornerstones; work well in ambiguity and managing change; and proactively identify opportunities to advance our mission while remaining grounded in the day-to-day responsibilities. They will need to be able to apply principles of health equity and racial justice across all of their work, as well as integrate concepts of strategy formation and refinement, systems thinking, complexity, adaptive/emergent strategy, worldviews and power.

Ideal candidates will:

• feel comfortable engaging in complex, nuanced conversations around health equity and the Foundation’s strategies and centering race in our work.
• be skilled at critical thinking, problem solving, strategic agility, and have an ability to make decisions and see paths forward even when there is considerable ambiguity.
• create conditions that allow internal and external groups to plan, develop and implement work, including facilitation of those groups.
• provide coaching, consultation, and other support to internal staff, as well as people and organizations externally, that allows them to tap into their capacity in a way that helps them accomplish their goals.
• enjoy the challenge of crafting the big picture strategy, while also figuring out how that needs to be turned into action and executing accordingly.
• have the attention to detail required of managing a large workload of multiple projects and relationships in a fast-paced and ever evolving workplace, without losing sight of our mission.
• excel in developing relationships with various partners and stakeholders; producing written summaries and recommendations; managing multiple projects with consistency, timeliness and accuracy; exhibiting a high level of self-awareness and a desire to learn.
• have a deep understanding of the communities we serve, including communities of color, rural communities, and neighborhoods or regions that face the greatest health inequities.
• have a broad understanding of the social determinants of health, policy and advocacy, capacity building, community change work, and philanthropy.
• be able to work both independently and collaboratively, within and across teams.
• have motivation to identify issues, innovate solutions, take initiative, and continuously improve practice.

Senior Program officers are actively engaged in their assigned regions and communities, which requires a minimum of 40% travel throughout Colorado. A valid Colorado driver’s license is required for travel throughout the state.