Program Associate, Fellowship

The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit public benefit organization. Our mission is to ensure that the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Join us and become part of our mission to promote openness, innovation, and opportunity online

Twenty years ago, this meant building a browser and protecting the open web. Today, it includes making sure AI and data driven technology is more trustworthy. Much of our work is focused on the topic of trustworthy AI to ensure healthy digital lives. For us, this means especially two things: human agency is a core part of how AI is built and integrated, and corporate accountability is real and enforced.

A key part of our strategy is to invest in the innovators at the frontlines of working to make the internet more open, inclusive, decentralized, and secure. Through fellowships and awards, we support these leaders and amplify their important work on issues impacting the health of the internet.

**We are seeking a Program Associate to support our Fellowships and Awards (F&A)** **team**.** The Program Associate is responsible for providing support in the management of grantmaking and program cycles, including fellowships, awardees and our alumni community. This role is also facilitative, working to connect the work of the F&A team internally as well as externally with program participants. The Program Associate will report to the Senior Program Manager, Fellowships & Awards.

This position requires strong project and relationship management skills as the Program Associate will partner with multiple Program Officers as well as teams within the Foundation to influence program design and support program delivery. The ability to work in a remote culture that spans multiple time zones, with the median time zone being Eastern Time, is also crucial for this role.

This would be an ideal role for someone who has a passion for building a more open, secure, and inclusive internet and is interested in pursuing a career at the intersection of philanthropy and technology.

**Join us and become part of our mission to promote openness, innovation, and opportunity online**

**Responsibilities**:
**Advancing Mozilla's philanthropic mission**:

- Research issues, programs, and organizations in line with Mozilla Foundation funding strategies
- Work closely with similar roles across the Foundation to connect work internally, share learning, coordinate planning, facilitate connection, and steward shared knowledge systems
- Prepare memos, research briefs, presentations and/or other materials as requested by the Director, Fellowships & Awards and other team members
- Collaborate with the other teams at Mozilla on special initiatives and cross-programmatic activities

**Providing programmatic support for the Fellowships & Awards team**:

- Support Program Officers in preparing cohort plans, including assessing awardee/fellow/cohort support needs, drafting materials, and scheduling meetings.
- Give to the design and implementation of convenings within and across funding streams, playing a facilitative role to help awardees and fellows take advantage of the many benefits of being in relationship with the Foundation and one another.
- Help to facilitate participant engagement at Mozilla hosted events like MozFest
- Work in close conjunction with colleagues in other teams to build alignment on program implementation, impact measurements, and other related elements, sharing strategies and resources where possible
- Identify and advise on ways to improve processes

**Facilitating the open sharing of learning from F&A programs**:

- Help synthesize relevant field research and internal research findings, including lessons from grant cycles, to advance program strategies and advise future funding
- Assist with tracking and detailing fellow/awardee work, learning, and outcomes on an ongoing basis, including reviewing and providing analysis on interim and final reports, participating in fellow/awardee/cohort meetings, and supervising other news, research, and outcomes
- Actively contribute to a cross-team effort to maintain and improve internal and external knowledge systems, ensuring the integrity of data and the consistency of program coding
- Build periodic reports that visualize, analyze, and summarize common themes across the program's grantmaking portfolios, for the purpose of shared team and Foundation-wide learning as well as for external publication
- Support and attend philanthropic advocacy events such as funder conferences, funder briefings and webinars, external partner and/or grantee events and presentations, as approved

**Key Deliverables / Outcomes**:

- Support the implementation of programming that lifts leaders in the movement for a healthier internet
- Fellows, grantee partners, and community members have the resources they need to thrive
- Analysis of data to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of programs in meeting their defined goals
- Shared processes and