Program Manager. Amman. Posting Date: 04/10/2025. Deadline: 04/30/2025
Role Title: Program Manager
Contract Type: Regular
Reporting To: Director, Programs
Program/Department/Unit Name: Programs
Location
Amman, Jordan; Mexico City, Mexico; Bogotรก, Colombia; Nairobi, Kenya
Team Name: Normalizing Migration
Opportunity Description
The Normalizing Migration opportunity focuses on building new pathways for legal migration to help the worldโs most vulnerable people relocate to safety and prosperity. We aim to do this in ways that mitigate threats to democracies by devolving power to local actors, building public confidence in inclusive immigration systems, and diminishing the ability of authoritarians to use migration as a wedge issue. We build support for legal pathways across diverse constituencies, seeking to understand and shape public attitudes and foster a less divisive, more inclusive, and coordinated movement to influence and hold governments accountable for increasing legal pathways for vulnerable migrants. We also pilot innovations in technology and policy that drive power to the local level, creating policies and systems that empower local actors to support and sponsor migrants in growing numbers, generating proof that more functional migration systems are popular and possible.
The aim of opportunities is to dynamically organize staff, strategies, and budgets around the demands of each opportunity. It balances the need for sustained attention to complex problems and demands rigorous planning and evaluation, while also providing leaders with the autonomy to pursue radical ideas and approaches.
Role Purpose
The Program Manager will be responsible for day-to-day liaison and coordination with grantee and partner organizations in the Western Hemisphere and globally (excluding our work in the US and UK). The Program Manager will play a critical role with implementing the opportunity, which may use a variety of OSFโs strategic capabilities, including advocacy, impact investing, strategic litigation, in addition to grant making. The expectation is that the Program Manager is a subject matter expert in the specific opportunity and/or related topics.
Key Responsibilities
As Program Manager, you will:
Partner with the Director of Programs to design and implement strategic opportunities, monitor progress, and assess outcomes.
Build and maintain relationships with grantees and partners across sectors, while also coordinating with OSF colleagues to deploy all the tools at our disposal and to advance the institution's strategic objectives
Play a critical role in ongoing strategy development and drive complex initiatives by making proposals, suggesting alternatives, and coordinating partner contributions to advance collective goals
Exercise considerable discretion and work with a high degree of intellectual independence
Lead day-to-day grant management, including proposal review, processing, payments, reporting, and compliance with OSF standards and regulations
Manage consultant contracts and provide regular status updates on implementation, risks, and opportunities to the Director
Work with leadership to maintain grant-making practice aligned with OSF's approach to grant-making and in compliance with organizational and external standards and regulations
Key internal relationships
Director, Programs; Managing Director, Programs; Network Grants, Special Advisors, Senior Advisors, Grants Management, Operations
Key external relationships
External Partners
The ideal candidate
Educated to a degree-level (or equivalent)
Substantial expertise in migration in the Western Hemisphere, in the Europe-Africa corridor, and/or globally, particularly in designing and implementing new legal pathways, in conceiving new approaches to protecting vulnerable migrants, and in building diverse coalitions for immigration and refugee protection.
Experience or enthusiastic interest in applying cutting-edge technologies to immigration challenges would be welcome.
Proven track record leading complex, multi-year social and political change initiatives, including strategic planning and cross-functional team management
Background in managing multi-stakeholder partnerships and in building novel coalitions that go beyond the civil society, such as with faith groups, the private sector, unions, and community organizations
Experience using diverse tools including grantmaking, advocacy, litigation, and communications to execute strategies
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain partnerships across geographies and sectorsโgovernment, civil society, private sector, think tanks, academia, or multilateral organizations Build and maintain relationships with grantees and partners across sectors, while also coordinating with OSF colleagues to deploy all the tools at our disposal and to advance the institution's strategic objectives
Strong relationship management skills, particularly in navigating complex and sensitive topics