Program Officer, Civic Engagement and Government

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  • Added Date: Monday, 13 January 2025
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The application deadline is on February 17, 2025. Please submit both a resume and a cover letter to be considered.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

The Ford Foundationโ€™s U.S. Program in Civic Engagement and Government (CEG-US) seeks a collaborative, strategic, and team-oriented Program Officer to oversee our โ€œStructural Democracyโ€ portfolio, an anchor element of CEG-USโ€™s strategy to build resilient, reparative democracy. CEG-US takes a broad view of structural democracy, viewing it as all the systems, processes, and institutions that make democratic participation meaningful by removing obstacles to and expanding pathways of civic engagement and democratic impact. Our structural democracy portfolio moves in close collaboration with our reflective governance and โ€œbigger weโ€ work, in recognition that advances in democracy require deep community engagement by those otherwise on the margins and governance that reflects the many not the view.

Reporting to the CEG-US Director, and working alongside four other program officers, the Program Officer will collaborate within the CEG-US team and with other US programs to support work to defend, strengthen, and expand democracy within the U.S. The Program Officer will build on the many years of Ford work in this arena, continuing to identify key ecosystems, and work with relevant actors and other funders, to analyze challenges and opportunities, seek rigorous evidence about program effectiveness, identify levers of change, and play a leading role in shaping specific grant activities that build a strong democracy anchored by communities

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

The Program Officer will inform work on strengthening the structural democracy field, supporting innovations in defending and expanded pathways for democratic engagement, and helping bridge divides to ensure that technical/legal experts center communities as leaders and co-strategists in crucial democracy fights. In collaboration with the Director and team members, the Program Officer will oversee a body of work in several domains, some of which overlap with other program officers on the team.

In addition, the Program Officer will perform the following and/or similar activities:

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