The Strategy Officer will lead high-impact projects in collaboration with senior program leadership while managing 1-2 associates on the central strategy team. Potential projects span strategy development and execution planning for current foundation programs as well as cross-foundation efforts and new area exploration. The SO will provide strategic thought partnership, project management, and analytical support to clients across the foundation.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Support strategy development
- Collaborate with Strategy staff to design the overall process for strategy development
- Act as day-to-day manager of strategic process
- Oversee development of materials to facilitate project execution – e.g. analyses, project plans, meeting materials, ultimate strategy document outputs
- Facilitate discussions with internal team, external experts, and other global health/development partners
- Employ strategic resources to develop and assess options, ensure logical reasoning, and challenge assumptions
- Guide strategy development process with a customer-focus orientation – e.g., effective communication – and emphasis on relationship management
- Bring creative solutions to develop group process – e.g., managing conflict and driving alignment
- Provide recommendations to improve overall foundation strategic planning and management process based upon experience supporting teams.
- Support strategy execution planning
- Collaborate with Strategy staff to design the process for strategy execution planning
- Oversee development of materials to strengthen the strategy execution planning process – e.g. analyses, project plans, meeting materials, ultimate execution plan outputs
- Care for the strategy execution planning process that is focused on enabling program teams align the investments, staff resources and voice/affect necessary to implement their strategies and achieve their impact goals.
- Design analytical work in support of strategy development and execution planning
- Identify and design required analytical work
- Develop analytical methodology and analyze data to support decision-making - collating information required from literature and existing public databases on finance, health, and development
- Participate in the development and use of tools to facilitate strategy development and processes associated with budgeting, portfolio management, and other areas as needed
- Perform problem-solving work in support of strategy projects
- Contribute and participate in ongoing improvement of the Strategy team including overall vision, brand, staffing composition, operational processes, performance development, etc.
- Participate in foundation-wide activities (e.g., learning sessions, all staff meetings, performance reviews)
Educational Background:
MBA or other advanced degree in a relevant field such as Business, Engineering, or Sciences preferred.
Skills/Experience:
- Broad understanding of global health/development issues and some global health/development experience is preferable.
- Experience with strategy implementation, measurement, review and adjustment is preferable
- Excellent oral, facilitation, and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to function successfully in a politically demanding environment
- Excellent quantitative/financial knowledge, including experience creating complex models, with a demonstrated ability to extract appropriate data to convey complex information through the use of supporting tables, graphs and other visual representations.
- Excellent organizational skills, demonstrated ability to lead teams through a complex and ambiguous task
- Ability to be self-guided and work effectively and with sensitivity across barriers such as language, culture and distance
- Excellent software skills with Microsoft Office applications. Ability to quickly learn new software modules
- Commitment to the foundation’s core values, mission, and programs with an approach that is consistent with the foundation’s guiding principles and holding self to the highest ethical standards
- Experience working in a matrix environment preferred
- A sense of humor
- Five+ years of professional experience desired, with at least three years in a strategic capacity (preferably leading projects at a top tier strategy consulting firm).
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Listing Stats
Post Date:
Mar 23 2019
Active Until:
Apr 23 2019
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit