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About Berkeley
At the University of California, Berkeley, we are committed to creating a community that fosters equity of experience and opportunity, and ensures that students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds feel safe, welcome and included. Our culture of openness, freedom and belonging make it a special place for students, faculty and staff.
About UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s leading institutions of higher education, distinguished by its combination of internationally recognized academic and research excellence; the transformative opportunity it provides to a large and diverse student body; its public mission and commitment to equity and social justice; and its roots in the California experience, animated by such values as innovation, questioning the status quo, and respect for the environment and nature. Since its founding in 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world.
We are looking for equity-minded applicants who represent the full diversity of California and who demonstrate a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds present in our community. When you join the team at Berkeley, you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, staff, students and community partners. In deciding whether to apply for a position at Berkeley, you are strongly encouraged to consider whether your values align with our Guiding Values and Principles, our Principles of Community, and our Strategic Plan.
Application Review Date – The First Review Date for this job is: July 19, 2021
Departmental Overview
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business offers a unique opportunity to champion new ideas, collaborate across boundaries, and continually learn in a workplace committed to increasing diversity and creating a welcoming environment for all. Our distinctive culture is captured within our four Defining Leadership Principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. These principles distinguish Berkeley Haas as a unique environment, conducive to teamwork, collaboration, and career growth.
For more information about the Haas School of Business visit: https://haas.berkeley.edu/about/
About the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a family foundation, guided by the enduring business philosophy and personal values of Lucile and David, who helped found one of the world’s leading technology companies. The Foundation invests in effective organizations and leaders, collaborates with them to identify strategic solutions, and supports them over time to reach common goals. The Foundation’s goals and how it carries out its work reflects its commitment to equity and justice. A staff of 130 conducts the day-to-day operations and a Board of Trustees oversees the work of the Foundation. David and Lucile Packard passed on the following core set of values: integrity; respect for all people; belief in individual leadership; commitment to effectiveness; and the capacity to think big. For more information about the David and Lucile Packard Foundation visit: https://www.packard.org/
About the Conservation and Science Program
The Conservation and Science (C&S) program at the Packard Foundation is focused on the challenge of sustainability—finding development paths that meet human needs while protecting and restoring the ecological systems upon which all life depends. It prioritizes solutions to climate change—an urgent, undeniable, and unique threat that touches all cultures and geographies. Climate change disrupts earth’s natural systems. It threatens public health, global development, and safety. And it hurts the world’s most vulnerable people most of all. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the next 10 years is essential to stabilize our climate. It is a problem that can be solved in ways that provide economic and social benefits for all.
The Program Analyst will support the loosely defined “Climate and Land” team comprised of the Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation (ALC), Bioenergy, and Palm Oil grantmaking strategies. This team executes grantmaking internationally and domestically to support livelihoods for smallholder farmers, rural, forest-dependent, and indigenous communities while also conserving tropical forest areas; reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by the expansion of commodity agriculture and associated with bioenergy; and enhancing the ability of natural ecosystems to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through reforestation and carbon sequestration. It includes a Director, Program Officers, Program Associates, and in-country Advisors in Ethiopia and Indonesia. The Program Analyst will be deeply engaged with the Climate and Land team, along with our internal and external partners, in this process.
The C&S program also recognizes that as members of the philanthropic community they have a responsibility to be agents of change. The team recognizes that the power imbalances in the systems in which they work are barriers to achieving our goals. C&S is committed to addressing these imbalances, promoting diversity, and advancing equity and inclusion through the use of financial and human resources. The Program Analyst will help the strategy teams implement and be accountable to this commitment.
Position Overview
The Program Analyst will support the loosely defined “Climate and Land” team comprised of the Agriculture, Livelihoods, and Conservation (ALC), Bioenergy, and Palm Oil grantmaking strategies. This team executes grantmaking internationally and domestically to support livelihoods for smallholder farmers, rural, forest-dependent, and indigenous communities while also conserving tropical forest areas; reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by the expansion of commodity agriculture and associated with bioenergy; and enhancing the ability of natural ecosystems to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through reforestation and carbon sequestration. It includes a Director, Program Officers, Program Associates, and in-country Advisors in Ethiopia and Indonesia. The Program Analyst will be deeply engaged with the Climate and Land team, along with our internal and external partners, in this process.
Responsibilities
· Provides analyses for complex budget, financial, academic, data, systems and resource projects working directly with all levels of managers.
o Conducts yearly review of grants, outcomes and impact and presents results.
o Gathers complex data from experts, literature research and other foundations to inform grant making areas of focus.
o Assesses and recommends financial investments across the C&S portfolio.
· Researches and summarizes best practices in field. Tracks trends and innovations in conservation and science to inform grant making.
o Tracks works of other foundations, governments and multilaterals on conservation investments to identify opportunities/gaps and explore potential partnerships.
o Overall seeks training to allow position to grow and develop.
· Proposes, leads and / or participates on policy and planning committees and working groups. Provides strategy development for organizational or research initiative.
o Participates on foundation-wide committees such as on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
o Participates and leads C&S annual and semiannual retreats to review progress, identify changes needed, and plan for future strategy.
· Develops proposals and recommendations to guide and support a broader strategic direction for the organization or initiative.
o Conservation & Science is a key program of the foundation, and the Analyst develops funding recommendations for the program and oversees grant distribution, evaluation and learning.
o Leads the monitoring and evaluation function.
o Overall seeks training to allow position to grow and develop.
· Coordinates efforts with a variety of external and internal contacts; researches organizational structures, policies and procedures and summarizes best practices in field. Provides technical guidance and quality assessment.
o Coordinates programs with other funders in joint ventures.
o Coordinates formal external evaluations of programs and investments.
· Performs ad hoc, analytical studies on a wide variety of policies, programs and issues which are complex in nature.
o Leads studies on emerging issues.
o Leads studies on diversity and inclusion among grantees.
· Researches and drafts complex proposals, reports, briefings, executive summaries, and speeches.
o Writes detailed grant recommendations and executive summaries for presentation to the senior leadership and board of trustees.
o Presents to senior leadership and board of trustees.
o Provides briefings on new areas of interest to senior leadership.
· Establishes and maintains contacts internally and with external constituents for the collection and exchange of data.
o Regularly communicates with all members of the C&S team.
o Communicates and oversees work with evaluators, consultants, content experts, and related foundations and grantees.
o Travels to visit grantees, collect information, gather insights.
How To Apply
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