Program Manager, Investments

Stanford Impact Labs; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Impact Labs seeks a Program Manager to join its Investments team in Palo Alto. The role will own the operations and management of the grantmaking process and drive strategic initiatives across the university to boost the impact of SIL’s grantees.

The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of relevant work experience, with a detail-oriented, self-motivated, problem-solver mindset and a passion for operations in mission-driven organizations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience in operations or programs.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated and problem-solver mindset.
• Passionate about operations in mission-driven organizations.
• Experience supporting grantmaking processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the operations and management of SIL's grantmaking process.
• Drive strategic initiatives across Stanford to increase grantees' impact.

Skills

Operations management

Grantmaking

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Job description

The world’s biggest social problems are complex, multi-faceted, and pervasive. No academic center, company, or organization can solve systemic issues – such as economic inequality, inequitable access to health care and education, and racial discrimination – alone. We need leaders with different skills and experiences to come together to generate fresh insights, evidence, and action to make progress. Stanford Impact Labs (SIL) was created to help make such progress possible.

A major initiative at Stanford University, SIL invests in mission-driven teams of researchers and practitioners from government, business, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropy. These teams (we call them impact labs) work together on social problems of their choice, where practical progress is possible. With our support, these impact labs rapidly develop, test, and scale new solutions to social problems that affect millions of people worldwide. Learn more about our work at https://impact.stanford.edu/.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Stanford Impact Labs is looking for a Program Manager to join its Investments team in supporting mission-driven teams tackle big social problems. The Program Manager will own the operations and management of Stanford Impact Labs' grantmaking process, and drive strategic initiatives across the university to increase the impact of SIL’s grantees. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of relevant work experience, bring a detail-orientation, self-motivated, problem-solver mindset and be passionate about operations in mission-driven organizations.