Senior Associate - Foundation Program Officer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

 

 

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

 

 

 

This position is hybrid - Tuesday - Thursday in the New York Office and Monday and Friday work from home.

 

The Foundation Program Officer supports the development, implementation, and management of the philanthropic funded grants, projects, and activities in partnership with the VP of the New York Life Foundation. This role explores possible grant opportunities, develops grant recommendations, coordinates grant activities, manages grantee partner relationships including engagement opportunities, and ensures that grant requirements are met in a timely manner. The Foundation Program Officer works closely with the organization’s leadership to ensure that grant-funded projects are properly implemented and managed. This role also provides support with managing the grants management system in partnership with the Operations team.

Grants management

• Manage the grant proposal and recommendation process in partnership with the VP of the New York Life Foundation.

• Manage day-to-day activities for grant progress.
• Research potential organizations/partnerships.
• Perform an initial screen of funding request inquiries.
• Review, evaluate and provide feedback on applications/proposals/inquiries.
• Follow-up on proposals/inquiries.
• Analyze grant requests and organizational/project budgets, including site visits and other due diligence as needed.
• Communicate with grant applicants as needed during the submission and review process to ensure timely, accurate and complete budget and program information; and to keep grant applicants apprised of the review process and timeline as appropriate.
• Draft funding recommendations.
• Draft grant agreements, and other related grant communications.
• Create dashboards, searches, reports, and other data analyses to support programmatic, financial, and operational decision-making.

Grant administrative management

• Review, analyze and summarize progress and final grantee reports.
• Monitor and manage active grants; review and track grantee requirements; and provide feedback and/or technical assistance to organizations as appropriate.
• Provide regular “progress” updates on program work, proposal review and problematic grants.
• Work in partnership with Grants team to improve and innovate processes and policies.