What You’ll Do

Leadership Teams (60%)

• Plan and manage leadership engagement that enables senior team members to be effective leaders and successfully advance the execution of organizational programs and priorities.

• Oversee the planning and management of a regular cadence of SLF meetings on behalf of the CEO and in support of Chief of Staff. Coordinate all aspects of the leadership teams’ meeting management in partnership with CEO Office colleagues, Events, IT/AV and other foundation colleagues. Includes monthly SLF Advisory Council meetings, quarterly SLF meetings, and annual retreats. Also includes 4-5 meetings / year of the Program Directors Forum (PDF), a subset of the SLF.

• Monitor, measure and assess success of leadership team engagement against clearly defined charter and purpose, developing recommendations for continuous improvement and adjustments over time that drive forward the maturity of the leadership team.

• Collaborate across program and operational teams to define agendas and curate discussion topics for senior leadership groups. Engage key partners to ensure agenda topics are well-developed and engaging.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders, to inform programming and engagement approach.

• Establish and oversee clear communications plan for defined internal audiences to cascade key messages coming out of leadership team meetings.

• Responsible for drafting and developing agendas, meeting notes, and other leadership team communications.

• Responsible for knowledge management of SLF across multiple channels and venues.

• In partnership with HR, establish and facilitate a cadence to build and support team development and team effectiveness for the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and SLF, grounded in trusted partnerships and an ability to surface and address critical issues.

• Advise and support Communications and CEO Office colleagues to develop and manage internal communication strategies.

CEO Office (40%)

• Lead CEO Office team’s implementation of foundation-defined Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy; coordinate execution of divisional DEI Action Plan and represent CEO Office on cross-divisional DEI working group; foster diverse, equitable and inclusive practices to create a work environment where everyone can do their best work in contributing towards our impact.

• Coordinate with team members to ensure a cohesive approach to addressing critical foundation priorities across all leadership groups: Board of Trustees, ELT, CEO, SLF, and others.

• Maintain positive relationships, effective collaboration, and timely, relevant communication between the team members and the rest of the foundation; represent the priorities and values of the office and CEO as a champion and ambassador in all aspects of our work.

• May occasionally make and manage small grants or contracts.

• Support planning, management, and execution of cross-foundation projects and priorities; represent and speak on behalf of the CEO for defined cross-cutting issues or initiatives.

• Act as a thought partner to Director, CEO, and CEO Office colleagues across all areas of CEO Office support.

• Other duties as assigned

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s or other advanced degree with 7+ years of experience or equivalent experience

• Experience leading through influence without having formal authority and developing trust-based relationships with all levels of the organization.

• Experience demonstrating flexible working styles with senior-level leaders of an organization and working in a highly matrixed organization.

• Experience developing and facilitating team building and team development approaches in a high-energy, creative way that ties back to a team development maturity model/framework.

• Stays on top of trends in team building, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and/or employee experience design.

• Excellent communication skills, while maintaining confidentiality in working with the CEO’s office and handling Co-Chair information

• Capability to prioritize, focus and achieve results. Attention to detail and delivery of high-quality work products.

• Strategic and proactive problem solver with demonstrated ability to use quantitative and qualitative data to present options for decision making, highlight tradeoffs, and propose recommendations. Able to navigate ambiguous information and situations and generate insight and action recommendations.

• Sense of humor and optimism.

• Capability to use judgment and to navigate complex organizational environments/political landscape, understand necessary governance/sponsorship structures, work at all levels, cross-culturally, and with internal and external colleagues.

• Solid interpersonal capacity to build trust and rapport, be a great teammate, empower, and educate colleagues.

• Demonstrates ability and interest to quickly learn about strategy and progress of the foundation’s programmatic work

Other Attributes

• Preference for those with leadership development, senior and/or executive level advising, organizational effectiveness, organizational strategy, and/or cross-organizational/ interdepartmental collaboration experience within a dynamic and complex environment.

• Experience in a global organization preferred

• Experience defining and implementing a change management plan preferred