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
Program Assistant, Higher Learning
The Program Assistant will provide grant management, administrative, clerical, and logistical support for the program. He/she/they will participate in various collective activities of the program and the Foundation, and on occasion may take on special assignments.
The Program Assistant will have an opportunity to acquire experience in the administration of the grantmaking process, and in working with higher-education professionals. We seek a thoughtful, strongly motivated, energetic, and congenial individual with well-developed communication competencies and organizational skills. This position combines independent work on on-going grantmaking activities (such as reviewing reports, responding to calls and correspondence from grantees, and assisting with preparing dockets for trustee meetings) with collaborative work with colleagues on program planning, special projects, and organizing meetings hosted by the program. The Program Assistant will report to the Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program and Senior Program Officer. The work is meticulous and requires precision, patience, efficiency, good humor, and discretion.