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
Director, Human Resources Business Partner
Reporting to the Chief Human Resources Officer, the Director, HR Business Partner will serve as a strategic advisor and trusted consultant to senior leaders across the Foundation. This role operates at the intersection of business strategy, organizational effectiveness, talent management, workforce planning, and employee experience, helping leaders proactively manage their organizations with the same rigor applied to budgets, programs, and operational priorities.
Social Media Manager & Producer
As the operator of Mellon’s owned channels, the Manager is a social media champion, demonstrates an expert understanding of digital media trends and editorial standards, and is motivated to use social media in creative ways for driving engagement with storytelling, announcements, and our grantee partners. They are culturally curious about the topics and projects supported by Mellon and have a track record of entrepreneurial approaches to modes of storytelling. The Manager is also involved with editorial planning, content development, and creative asset iteration. To stay up to date on the performance and features of current and emergent platforms, the Manager stays current on the platform features of Meta, X, LinkedIn, Google, TikTok, and others, while understanding user behavior, emergent formats, platform updates and contemporary best practices.