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Senior Program Officer, Endless Foundation

Dalio Family Office

Dalio Family Office Overview:

The Dalio Family Office (DFO) supports Barbara and Ray Dalio and their family in their ventures, investments, and philanthropic efforts under Dalio Philanthropies, which includes OceanX, Dalio Education, Endless Network, and the Beijing Dalio Foundation. The core of the DFO’s culture is built around meaningful work and meaningful relationships and the family’s commitment to giving back. The office is headquartered in Westport, CT with regional offices in New York City, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi.

Endless Overview:

Endless is a mission-driven game, learning, and technology organization with a bold vision: to empower people to shape technology, rather than be shaped by it. We believe the most powerful way to prepare young people for the digital world is through making games. Game creation is a uniquely engaging and scalable pathway to teach design, storytelling, collaboration, coding, and problem-solving—skills that prepare youth not just to play in the digital economy, but to create it.

To pursue this mission, we bring together three strands of work. Through our commercial ventures, we build games and platforms where youth learn by creating. Through our impact investments, we support companies aligned with our thesis that making is the most effective form of learning. And through our philanthropy, we expand access so that young people everywhere, not just the privileged, can learn through creation. At Endless, we use every tool available to advance towards one north star: empowering youth, at scale, to prepare for their futures by creating the games, and the world they want to live in. This role will sit squarely in the Endless Foundation and be focused on philanthropic impact.

Learn more about us at www.endlessglobal.com.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Program Officer who has experience in philanthropy or impact and who has a demonstrated affinity for the Endless mission. The Senior Program Officer should be adept at identifying opportunities, building partnerships and being an advocate for the Endless mission. The Senior Program Officer will play a key leadership role in managing and advancing the Endless Foundation’s grantmaking and strategic initiatives, with a strong focus on building and sustaining complex relationships across diverse stakeholders. This role will focus on emerging markets, with an initial focus on MENA, Africa, or India. This position requires expertise in program design, implementation, and evaluation, as well as the ability to navigate and balance the needs of grantees, partners, and internal teams. The Senior Program Officer will serve as a trusted advisor and connector, cultivating and shaping collaboration, addressing challenges with thoughtful creativity, and ensuring alignment with the foundation’s mission and goals. Ideal candidates will bring deep experience in stakeholder engagement, exceptional communication skills, deep nonprofit partnership building experience, and a proven track record of driving impact through grantmaking and partnerships in a dynamic and evolving environment. The Senior Program Officer will report to the Managing Director of Endless.

This role will have heavy international travel, and will require the individual to live in Abu Dhabi September -May annually.

Day-to-day responsibilities would include a combination of the following:

Partner with Principal and Programmatic Staff: Collaborate closely with the Principal to understand and be able to clearly advance and communicate his objectives.
Strategic Grantmaking: Lead and evolve our grants strategy, balancing support for high-impact existing work with targeted initiatives that align with our mission and theory of change. Oversee the full lifecycle of grants and/or related investments and develop metrics to assess effectiveness and share insights across the ecosystem.
Build Strategic and Operational Partnerships: Cultivate relationships with mission-aligned organizations, helping them leverage the Endless platform and build toward shared goals. Initial focus will be in MENA, Africa, India and nearby emerging markets.
Shape an Ecosystem of Impact: Drive collaboration across grantees, connecting game developers, educators, employers and learning platforms to create synergies.
Evaluate & Share Impact: Oversee the full grant lifecycle, track outcomes, and surface insights that strengthen the entire ecosystem.
Stakeholder engagement: Manage both internal and external stakeholder communications with expertise, working with a range of individuals including key Principals.
Represent Endless Foundation: build strong relationships with grantees, philanthropic partners, and others in the community.

The ideal candidate will possess the following knowledge, skills, attributes, and values:

Integrity, transparency, honesty, and strong ethical orientation.
Humility and a low ego.
A conceptual thinker with ability to navigate from the conceptual to the details.
Strong ability to synthesize.
Superb written and oral communication and presentation skills.
A lateral thinker, able to make connections and see patterns.
Ability to hold people accountable and maintain high standards.
Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize, and deliver high‐quality work in a fast-paced environment where excellence is expected.
An individual who is able to collaborate effectively with a diverse group of people managing multiple tasks simultaneously and who thrives in a complex environment.
Self‐starter with a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
High tolerance for ambiguity.
A natural connector, comfortable working with diverse stakeholders including nonprofit leaders, game designers, educators, and funders alike.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a great sense of humor.
Strategic thinking with ability to see how different initiatives can interconnect to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
Ability to navigate thoughtfully across different cultures with appropriate sensitivity and respect.
Strong Plus:
- Experience working with or in family foundation(s), or with a founder strongly preferred.
- International grantmaking experience.

Illustrative Benefits:

100% company paid medical premiums
17 company paid holidays
Friday summer hours
Monthly community happy hours
Hybrid work environment
Free catered food services for in-office days
Generous PTO offering
Casual dress code
150% 401(k) match up to $7,500 and 100% match above $7,500 ($15k match limit)
Gym reimbursement, back up childcare services, insurance, financial, and legal services, and much more!

Qualifications:

10+ years’ experience in creative grantmaking, program strategy, and partnership building ideally in education and technology.
Bachelor’s degree Required, Advanced Degree in related field preferred.
Passion for the power of innovation in philanthropy, such as video games as tools for education, creativity, skills development and social change. You will bring a strength in being able to gain subject matter expertise quickly on a variety of subject areas as portfolios evolve.
Experience with or a strong understanding of how technologies (games, apps, computing, new scientific technology, etc.) can be effectively deployed for impact.
Experience curating events in collaboration with foundations and nonprofit organizations
Experience working in emerging markets, ideally MENA, Africa or India
Knowledge of managing the due diligence process and financial analysis to enable effective and compliant grantmaking and partnerships.
Superb oral and written communication skills, with the ability to form partnerships and effectively advocate for the mission

Compensation:

Compensation for the role includes a competitive salary in the range from $240,000 -$300,000 (inclusive of a merit-based bonus, dependent on years of experience, level of education obtained, as well as applicable skillset) and an excellent benefits package, including a comprehensive employer paid medical plan and generous employer match for 401k.

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