Program Assistant

Program Assistant

• Grants and Contract Management support
• Knowledge Products and drafting
• Bachelor’s degree.
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally including grant or contract administration in a foundation, non-profit, multilateral, or international development setting.
• Strong writing skills — able to produce clear, well-structured first drafts from scratch, synthesize complex source material, and adapt register across audiences. Writing samples will be requested.
• Experience supporting senior colleagues across multiple concurrent workstreams: comfortable taking direction, and equally comfortable spotting and raising gaps unprompted.
• Demonstrated accuracy in managing agreements, budgets, deliverables, and reporting deadlines, and the documentation discipline to capture decisions and their rationale in shared systems that other people can actually use.
• Research skills and the judgment to recognize and flag when a figure or claim cannot be substantiated.
• Comfort in working in a multi-cultural, internationally distributed and rapidly changing environment
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams).
• Discretion, confidentiality, and sound judgment with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally.
• Experience supporting international, multi-stakeholder convenings and events, including logistics and materials production.
• Experience working alongside specialist functions — communications, legal, finance, or grants management — as a program counterpart rather than performing those functions directly.
• Experience supporting senior-level relationship management: preparing briefing material, maintaining engagement records, and driving follow-through on commitments.
• Exposure to food security, nutrition, humanitarian response, climate adaptation, or data and information systems. Subject-matter depth is welcome but not required; curiosity and willingness to learn the field quickly matter more.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity tools.
• Additional language skills, which are valued across the program’s country footprint.
• Pay $30-$35
• Temp
• The City