Senior Program Officer, K-12 Field Readiness – Educators

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $209.1k - $324.1k / year

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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1001 - 5000 employees

🤝 Non-profit

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Non-profit • Healthcare • Education

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. The foundation is committed to improving global health and development, and promoting gender equality. Focused on creating opportunities for all, particularly in developing countries, it aims to enhance health and self-sufficiency, while also working to ensure that individuals in the United States, especially those with limited resources, have access to educational opportunities.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute investment strategies preparing school-based educators to adopt, implement, and use HQIM and AI-enabled tools • Design and manage grants and partnerships with professional networks and associations serving educators • Lead grantmaking and performance-based investments that increase educator capacity to evaluate AI tools, implement HQIM, and use AI responsibly • Cultivate relationships with districts, teacher and principal networks, and unions to inform policy and decision-making • Provide internal technical guidance on educator readiness, instructional supports, professional learning design, and evidence translation • Represent the foundation externally as a thought leader on responsible AI adoption for K-12 educators • Synthesize field intelligence and investment learnings to identify educator needs and course-correct investments • Build coherence across professional learning, tool-selection guidance, and policy supports • Collaborate with Product R&D, Implementation R&D, and Measurement, Learning & Evaluation sub-teams • Build co-investment structures, feedback loops, and joint reporting mechanisms with strategic partners • Support inclusive culture and escalate issues to appropriate stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree or equivalent demonstrated experience • Mastery-level knowledge of schools, schooling, and instruction • Deep understanding of how teachers, principals, and school-based staff select and use instructional materials and AI-enabled tools • Significant experience designing and leading complex, cross-sector collaborations • Significant experience managing grant or performance-based investment portfolios toward measurable educator-capacity outcomes • Significant experience with subject-matter associations, unions, and teacher-support organizations • Experience across the education research-to-practice continuum, including evidence standards and professional learning design • Demonstrated experience with HQIM and AI in K-12 education • Significant experience building and sustaining relationships with senior education leaders and diverse external stakeholders • Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where the position is located • Must successfully complete a background check • Relocation will not be provided • International remote outside of the US is not possible

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums • Generous paid time off • Paid family leave • Foundation-paid retirement contribution • Regional holidays • Opportunities to engage in several employee communities • Various work arrangements • Wellness and family benefits • Inclusive and accessible hiring accommodations