Careers

Through its grants, the Foundation seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and guided by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core grantmaking areas, Higher Learning, Public Knowledge, Arts and Culture, and Humanities in Place, and through signature Presidential Initiatives. The Foundation is an equal opportunity employer that offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits and working conditions.

The Mellon Foundation is committed to access and inclusion for our applicants. If you have accessibility requests to support your participation in the hiring process, please let us know at your earliest convenience.

The Foundation’s benefits program is intended to offer employees multiple choices in high-quality benefit plans, comprehensive core benefits, and the flexibility to choose optional benefits. We seek to provide employees with the benefits that best fit their needs and the needs of their families. Current benefits include:

The Mellon IT team is looking for DevOps Engineer to support the Cloud infrastructure for the Mellon business applications and build an automation framework to improve manual processes. The DevOps Engineer will report to Director, Enterprise Architecture and Engineering. The engineer will work on multiple projects with various technology stacks and collaborate with internal and external teams.

The Manager of Strategic Initiatives and Planning (MSIP) plays a key role in ensuring the effective coordination, documentation, and implementation of program grantmaking and activities. Working closely with the Program Director and the Higher Learning team, the MSIP manages strategic initiatives, grantmaking operations, and field engagement efforts. The position blends strategic and administrative functions, providing operational leadership, supporting program planning, and contributing analysis and insights that inform program direction and learning.

The Vendor Management Specialist plays a key role in ensuring accurate and compliant vendor onboarding within the Foundation’s financial systems. This position is responsible for managing the vendor onboarding process from end to end, including portal management, compliance verification (OFAC, TIN Matching), and banking verification via scheduled callback procedures. This role reports to the Accounting Manager. This role maintains clean, verified vendor data and ensures compliance with internal controls and external regulatory requirements.

The Accounts Payable Specialist will perform a variety of accounting functions with a strong emphasis on accounts payable, vendor management, and compliance. This role is responsible for the accurate and timely processing of vendor payments, including both grantee and non-grantee batches, manual bill entry, and 1099 processing. This role reports to the Accounting Manager. The Accounts Payable Specialist will also support broader accounting functions, including AP aging reconciliations, bill capture, mailbox management, and matching gift administration.

Reporting to a Senior Program Associate, the Program Assistant will provide programmatic and logistical support to the Senior Program Associate, their supervising Program Officer, and the broader Arts and Culture team. The successful candidate will be thoughtful, highly motivated, energetic, collaborative, and congenial, with well-developed communication and organizational skills. Responsibilities may include, but will not be limited to grants management and administrative duties.

The Foundation is seeking an Investment Intern to work with the Investment Team during a 10-week intensive summer program. The Investment Team is responsible for managing the Foundation’s endowment which comprises $8 billion in assets across public and private investments. This is an in-person internship in our New York City offices. The Investment Intern will support a range of projects throughout their time at the Foundation and will gain exposure to a wide spectrum of investment opportunities and asset classes.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, the CHRO ensures that Mellon’s HR function leverages best practices to advance the Foundation’s mission, fostering an engaged and positive workplace that attracts, retains, and develops top talent.

The CHRO provides expert strategic leadership and exemplary operational management for the Foundation’s people function, which includes business partnering, employee relations, talent acquisition and management, learning and development, total rewards strategy and implementation, and HR operations and compliance.

A member of the Foundation’s Senior Leadership Team, the CHRO also serves as a strategic advisor to Foundation leadership on organization-wide people- and culture-related planning and policy issues and provides high-touch support to fellow SLT members on particularly sensitive or complex matters.

This is a five-year, term-limited position reporting to the Program Director, with a start date of July 1, 2026.

Responsibilities may include, but will not be limited to, the following: