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The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Education program seeks a Program Associate to project manage and support grantmaking. The goal of the Foundation’s Education program is to engage in grantmaking that contributes to equitable access to high-quality Early Childhood Education (ECE), and positive learning experiences for children and families who have been most disenfranchised by the current ECE system. This full-time (37.5 hours per week) exempt (salary) position is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Program Associate reports to a Program Officer within the Education Program and works collaboratively with the entire program team. The successful candidate must live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, the Foundation has a flexible hybrid approach to work, allowing staff to work from home or the office while maintaining a regular in-person cadence for community building, learning, collaboration, and direction setting. The Education Team meets in person at least quarterly and as needed to fulfill departmental objectives. The Foundation’s approach to hybrid work will continue to evolve and may change as soon as January 2025. Please click here: https://app.trinethire.com/companies/391013-heising-simons-foundation/jobs/97689-program-associate to learn more about this position and how to apply.

The Heising-Simons Foundation is a family foundation based in Los Altos and San Francisco, California. The Foundation and the Heising-Simons Action Fund, its affiliated 501(c)(4) organization, work with its many partners to advance sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking research in science, enhance the education of our youngest learners, and support human rights for all people.

The Foundation’s grantmaking is guided by the values of humility, courage, justice, opportunity, sustainability, innovation, relationships, and integrity. Since its first grant in 2008, the Foundation has awarded more than $1 billion across over 3,800 grants.