The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), located in Princeton, N.J., is the largest philanthropy in America dedicated solely to health. Since 1972 we have been providing funding, assistance, and research for projects and programs to help people, their families, and their communities be as healthy as possible. RWJF is committed to working alongside others to build a Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and well-being.
The Foundation is seeking a program officer to focus on its efforts to ensure that all children and their families have an equitable opportunity to achieve their optimal health and well-being. RWJF’s aims to improve child and family well-being, particularly during the earliest years of a child’s life, through policy, systems, and environmental changes.
This PO will play a critical role in advancing the Foundation’s priorities by designing, managing, and monitoring strategies and initiatives that focus on promoting multigenerational policies that promote health outcomes for children and advancement of healthier school environments. Drawing upon experience working in highly collaborative environments, leading strategy development and monitoring, and designing systems-change initiatives, the new PO will lead the design and implementation of new and on-going initiatives and programs that propel policy change; evaluate progress at the strategy and initiative levels; learn from our investments and activities in close collaboration with RWJF’s Research, Evaluation, and Learning Unit; and create impact through dissemination of knowledge.
RWJF’s bold endeavor to build a Culture of Health requires that all staff are skilled at navigating changing environments, responsive to trends and shifts in the landscape. Candidates who will be most successful are highly adaptive; are practiced in critical thinking; have the ability to take in, synthesize, and apply complex information; know how to plan, develop and execute strategies; can rapidly learn the foundation’s management processes and systems; and demonstrate commitment to RWJF’s vision and guiding principles. In addition, the ideal candidate has expertise in child and human development policies and is adept at operationalizing initiatives with the understanding of the multiple factors that underpin healthy equity and the processes required to achieve it.
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