Manager, Programs, Israel

Position: Manager, Programs, Israel - Tel Aviv, Israel Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

Job Id: 330 # of Openings: 1

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (www.dell.org) builds pathways that change lives for families around the world. With offices in Austin, Texas; New Delhi, India; Cape Town, South Africa; and Tel Aviv, Israel, the foundation supports programs that advance quality public education, promote children’s health, and strengthen family economic stability. Since its inception, the foundation has committed over $2.8 billion to initiatives that expand opportunities and improve outcomes for families globally.

Current Opportunity: Manager, Programs, Israel – Tel Aviv, Israel

The foundation is seeking a mission-driven, highly capable Manager, Programs to join our growing team in Tel Aviv. This role is an opportunity to shape and drive social investments across key issue areas in Israel—including education, employment, mental health, and financial services.

The ideal candidate brings a strong strategic mindset, deep execution skills, and the ability to build trust-based relationships with nonprofits, entrepreneurs, government entities, and other ecosystem players. This individual will lead program development and implementation, manage a diverse set of partnerships, and help design scalable models that deliver measurable and sustainable outcomes.

The Manager, Programs will be part of a highly collaborative global team and will work closely with foundation colleagues in Israel, the United States, and other countries of operation. This is an in-office role, based in Tel Aviv with work expected from the Tel Aviv office on all weekdays.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Development: Proactively work with existing and new grantees, as well as mission-aligned entities and related stakeholders to ensure the success of MSDF grants and investments. Build recommendations about the design, development, and scale of new models and practices that deepen impact and create opportunities to ensure more effective allocation of public and private resources.
• Program and Outcomes Management: Lead project management activities that deliver measurable (and sustainable) positive impact on children, youth, and families through various interventions. Work closely with investees and grantees to unlock value and support the growth of these organizations in key operational areas. Facilitate program implementation with a fanatical eye for detail, deploying agreed-to portfolio strategies in all projects managed.
• Strategic Partnership Management: Collaborate with partners to develop new innovations that further the Foundation’s portfolio strategies. Manage relationships with grantees and partners to ensure timely and regular engagement by setting agendas for check-in meetings, documenting progress and lessons learned, and providing analytical assessments to elevate opportunities for adaptive management and course correction.
• Portfolio Assessment and Knowledge Management: Conduct rigorous appraisals of foundation-supported projects, drive active projects for maximum success, and make hard choices to move away from ineffective initiatives when necessary. Make active use of external evaluation data to drive internal decision-making. Synthesize key findings and drive adoption of lessons learned within the foundation and beyond.
• Communications: Communicate with leadership and peers regarding project development, connect with the internal Communications team on opportunities to elevate partners’ work, and represent the foundation on working groups, committees, and external events or conferences.
  
  

Education And Experience

• A bachelor’s degree from a recognized, top-tier academic institution is required. A master’s degree is a plus.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience leading/managing complex, integrated projects with clear, demonstrated outcomes.
• Experience in management consulting, investment management, operations management, or project management desired.
• A track record of delivering measurable outcomes in ambiguous and challenging contexts.
  
  

Skills And Traits

• A true curiosity and commitment to finding more effective ways to offer children and families pathways out of poverty; a willingness and desire to engage fully in the challenges of this work and to communicate its lessons, successes, and conclusions.
• Solid leadership skills, even in the absence of managing people directly.
• Ability and willingness to manage work across multiple subject matter areas simultaneously.
• Analytical, fact-based problem solving and implementation.
• A strong attention to detail.
• Ability to learn quickly and connect learning to ongoing program and portfolio conversations.
• An interest and comfort in using data and technology applications to improve outcomes for children and families.
• A degree of personal organization and results-orientation that would allow success in a quantitative, outcomes-oriented environment and a proven ability to exercise sound judgment and work independently on complex initiatives.
• Ability to project manage external vendors as well as foster internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to demonstrate inclusiveness, collaboration, and respect across organizational interests.
• An ability to dive into the details of a project when needed yet synthesize learnings to shape the overall strategy of our work.
• A demonstrated ability to influence from the outside and achieve results regardless of whether you are the direct leader of the work.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with an emphasis on distilling complex problems to meet the understanding of a wide range of stakeholders.
• Embody the highest levels of stewardship and ethical leadership in administering the foundation’s resources.
• Agile and thoughtful while adapting to shifting priorities—comfortable dealing with the ambiguity inherent in the work.
• Humility and an ability to empathize with partners and stakeholders.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office suite, including the ability to perform advanced analytics in Excel and create articulate presentations in PowerPoint.
  
  

Travel: Regular travel within Israel is required. Occasional international travel may be needed.

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