Achieving our ambitious goals starts with an exceptional team built on our Hope to Action Values - Courage, Empathy, Integrity, Accountability, Community, Inclusivity, Pragmatism, Resilience, Imagination, and Hope. A Framework that anyone, anywhere, can use to build trust, activate participation, and expand opportunity in their community.
Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Development Operations, the Manager of Development Operations Administration is a key operational leader responsible for driving the internal business, fiscal, talent, and cultural infrastructure of the Development Operations division. This role ensures that our systems, financial resources, personnel onboarding, and administrative workflows run with absolute precision to support the Foundation's increasing annual revenue goals and long-term sustainability.
The Manager oversees internal divisional budget management, vendor contracts, procurement workflows, and executive reporting. Additionally, serving as the department’s talent and onboarding lead in partnership with the People Team, this role designs and administers structured onboarding, professional development programs, and team culture initiatives. The Manager directly supervises the Development Operations Analyst, directing agile operational support across the division.
The salary range for this role is between $87,020 and $108,775.
This is a hybrid role based at the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park in Chicago.
For an overview of our benefits package, including insurance, paid time off, retirement & more, please visit https://www.obama.org/careers/.
Don’t check off every box in the requirements listed above? Please apply anyway! If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!
The Foundation is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. The Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at careers@obama.org if you require a reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
At the Obama Foundation, we are guided by a core belief: that ordinary people working together can change history. Our mission is to inspire those people to take action, empower them to change their world for the better, and connect them so they can achieve more together than they can alone.
We were founded by community organizers, so when we seek change, we do it by bringing people together.
That approach begins at home, on the South Side of Chicago, where we are building the Obama Presidential Center. The Center represents a historic opportunity for Chicago: a chance to build a world-class museum and public gathering space that celebrates our nation’s first African American President and First Lady, steps away from where he began his career, where she was raised, and where—together—they made their home.
But that approach extends to all our work, whether it’s holding leadership training sessions in communities throughout the U.S., bringing local leaders together in countries around the world, working to support the global education of girls, or ensuring young men of color have pathways to opportunity.
As President Obama has said, “we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together.” So join us.
