Careers
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a not-for-profit, grant making organization that believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty and empowerment to be found there.
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.
Foundation Benefits: A Summary
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:
- A competitive salary
- A retirement savings plan, including employer contributions, as well as the opportunity for employee tax-advantaged savings
- Comprehensive insurance coverage, including medical, dental, and vision (also covering domestic partners), life and accidental death, and disability
- General time-off benefits including holiday, vacation, personal, and sick days
- Employee assistance and referral programs
- Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment programs for employees
Content Apprentice
Reporting to the Senior Producer, the Content Apprentice will participate in a highly collaborative, one-year apprenticeship supporting the content team—a division of Mellon’s broader Communications department—by providing a wide range of administrative, organizational, editorial, and research support. The apprentice will work independently and with the team to support the development and execution of digital campaigns and other ongoing content projects, including managing aspects of the digital newsletter, sourcing and organizing digital assets, writing and proofreading copy, assisting with video and documentary projects, monitoring relevant social listening topics, and helping generate story ideas in accordance with an editorial calendar.
This is a 12-month, full-time position with a start date of early June 2026.
Media Relations Apprentice
This position, reporting to the Media Relations Senior Associate with oversight from the Director of Media & Public Relations, will support a wide range of media relations efforts within the Foundation’s New York-based Communications department. Responsibilities include administrative and organizational duties, research support, media monitoring, drafting materials, and outreach.
This is a 12-month, full-time position with a start date of early June 2026.