Senior Program Associate, Our Future Agenda

Job Description

Job Description

The salary range for this position is $59,000 to $65,000

Position Overview

The Senior Program Associate will lead program coordination for Our Future Agenda, with a primary focus on day-to-day management support of the Unlock the Future Coalition. The Senior Program Associate will maintain the coalition’s cadence by coordinating calls, preparing meetings, and ensuring deliverables are met on time, while also assisting with high-level events and intergenerational dialogues. Responsibilities include preparing policy content and youth materials, maintaining trackers and documentation, and supporting basic monitoring and learning across a diverse, global partner set, with a particular focus on partners and opportunities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

This is a permanent position based in the New York office. (Hybrid Schedule)

Essential Functions

• Set and monitor the rhythm for coalition, steering, and working-group meetings across time zones
• Monitor calendars and shared channels
• Onboard and support members
• Co-create agendas, briefing packs, and materials, track deliverables and approvals across the coalition.
• Convene and align the Story Lab young advisors and support the coordination of the Funders Collective steering group
• Maintain work plans and approvals on course to ensure ideas flow from storytelling to production and delivery with clear timelines and owners
• Plan in-person, hybrid, and virtual events during key UN and global moments, including speaker outreach, creative components, and logistics, so outputs are concise, accessible, and youth-friendly
• Build and quality-check decks, one-pagers, decision memos, run sheets, and outcome notes using approved templates and brand guidelines
• Maintain a shared content calendar in coordination with the Our Future Agenda team.
• Track UN policy windows and public moments that matter to young people, especially across Africa, Asia, and Latin America
• Assist with travel, invoices, consultant paperwork, procurements, and sub-grant documentation through UNF systems; and support team planning cycles

Selection Criteria

Benefits & Compensation

For full-time, U.S. benefit eligible employees, UNF offers an excellent range of benefits, including :

Additionally, all benefit eligible employees have 12 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 3 personal days, and 8 weeks of family leave care.