Job Opportunity: Senior Program Officer - Awakening Child Program with the Hemera Foundation - Boulder, CO

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ABOUT HEMERA REGNANT, LLC

Hemera Foundation is a Private Foundation founded in 2007 as a twenty-five year spend-up foundation. The Foundation’s programs promote healing, wholeness, and compassion on individual and collective levels; we do this by identifying and providing resources, training, and tools that allow individuals to reconnect with the innate goodness and sanity of the human person. Currently, we fulfill this vision through programs in contemplative practice, early childhood development, education, and the arts.

Hemera Regnant, LLC located in Boulder, CO is hiring additional team members to support the philanthropic programs of the Foundation, which has been established as a Bermuda Charitable Trust. Hemera Regnant helps create, manage, and implement programs initiated by the Foundation, manages grant due diligence and evaluation and supports the administrative functions of the Foundation.

AT-A-GLANCE

• Founded in 2007
• Currently a full-time staff of 4
• Promotes the use of contemplative practice to enhance philanthropic programs and personal development
• Early stage philanthropic investor focused on innovative programs within early childhood, education and the arts
• Located in Boulder, Colorado

ABOUT THE POSITION: SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER, AWAKENING CHILD PROGRAM

We are looking for a Senior Program Officer to take our Awakening Child Program to the next level. This program is focused on bringing new attention and focus to the first critical years in a child’s development ages 0-3. You will be responsible for promoting the vision of the Hemera Foundation within the design and execution of the Foundation’s Awakening Child program. The right candidate will combine project and communications management with relationship management. You leverage and cultivate a collective of relationships that promote innovative and sustainable strategies to help kids reach their full potential. You have experience in a funding organization and have strong, sound judgment, enabling you to allocate funding properly.

The Foundation relies upon a collective of funders, non-profits, and research partners to help design, implement, and fund sustainable programs in this field. Working with partners in this program such as the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and The Thirty Million Words Initiative at the University of Chicago, you will use your natural strong interpersonal and relationship building skills to develop and maintain these partnerships. You’re an entrepreneurial explorer and you’re eager to get out from behind the desk, and to learn by doing and experiencing rather than solely by researching.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE…

Program Management

• Managing, designing, and executing the program to achieve the Foundation’s vision.
• Targeting underserved sectors of the 0-3 year old childhood development field and developing potential funding opportunities.
• Developing, testing, and refining theories of change. 
• Ensuring and understanding grant impact and effectiveness in tandem with the Executive Director by designing and publishing reasonable program metrics.
• Managing the full grant process, on-going due diligence, and compliance.

Communication

• Conveying correct and pertinent information about the full early childhood landscape: the education system, health and human service environment, public policy, and other organizations’ initiatives, in order to identify potential funding resources for programs and grantees.
• Creating and building meaningful relationships that promote innovative and sustainable strategies to help young children realize their full potential. 
• Representing the organization at meetings and conferences, both internally and externally.
• Working with a diverse set of people supported by sophisticated and versatile communications skills, both written and verbal.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE:

• Who is passionate about helping underserved kids.
• With at least 5 years of experience in social work, early childhood development or the education fields.
• With a Master's degree in a childhood related area. 
• Who has experience working within an Early Childhood program for a non-profit or foundation.
• Who demonstrates a very high level of integrity, a positive attitude, as well as being mission-driven and self-directed.
• Who has knowledge and experience conceiving, designing, and managing strategies, initiatives, and programs that facilitate organizational change or improvement.
• Who has a proven track record of developing complex partnerships and building partnership networks that improve information sharing and drive collective action, preferably in a mission-driven field.
• Who demonstrates strong, sound judgment by making appropriate decisions, knowing when to take initiative, and having the ability to create innovative solutions to both anticipated problems and present challenges. 
• Who is a creative thinker, who can remain a high level visionary yet is action-oriented.
• Who is curious to learn about how contemplative practice can affect personal, team and professional dynamics and has an interest in developing their own unique practice.  
• Who is adaptable, flexible, and unflappable in a small evolving environment.
• Who has the ability to travel 3-4 times per quarter.

BONUS IF YOU ARE SOMEONE…

• With a PhD. 
• With volunteer or fellowship experience such as Peace Corps, Teach for America, Americorps, etc.
• With an established personal contemplative practice.
• With experience in for-profit or non-profit business development and creating partnerships.

HOW WILL WE KNOW YOU’RE THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB?

Please complete the following application - http://bit.ly/ZHkoJU. Priority will be given to those applications submitted by midnight MT on Wednesday, November 19. These short-answer questions are designed to replace a cover letter, please take your time with them and copy in your answers from a separate document.

If you are chosen as a finalist, you will first be interviewed by ReWork and then by our Hemera Regnant staff. Candidates may also be requested to complete a short trial project. The final step in the hiring process will be to arrange personal reference calls to confirm details of your work history and performance.

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU’RE SELECTED?

You’ll be invited to join our growing team in our Boulder, Colorado offices. You’ll receive a competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package including an amazing vacation policy and sponsored meditation retreats. If you have any questions about the role, please feel free to email Lauren Batcheck: lauren.batcheck[at]rework.jobs. We look forward to reading your application!