The Community Strategist works closely with executive leadership and senior management to advance the Foundation’s strategic agenda, manage large/multiple projects, and drive mission-critical initiatives. Bringing expertise in advanced problem-solving, analysis, stakeholder management, and communication, the Community Strategist will build tools and develop recommendations to support colleagues in making decisions that best support people with cystic fibrosis.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Support the development of the five-year organization-wide strategy with a focus on the future of the Foundation’s models to support community-facing initiatives.
- Lead and support specific high-priority, cross-functional strategic initiatives (including project design, research and analytics, stakeholder management, deliverables, and presentations to senior management and the Board).
- Develop compelling recommendations based on an understanding of diverse stakeholders, including people with CF, caregivers, volunteers, donors, care team members, researchers, and CF Foundation staff.
- Focus on initiatives to advance analytical capabilities such as building an organizational dashboard and maturing approaches to program evaluation.
- Support investment decisions by modeling the Foundation’s long-term financial strategy, assessing the cost-benefit of options, and forecasting service growth.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Partner with and advise senior management in community-facing departments (e.g., Community Partnerships, Communications, Field) and other areas on topics relevant to their own functional areas (e.g., strategy, organization design, resource allocation and planning, etc.) on request.
- Maintain strong understanding of the external environment to guide strategy and initiatives (informed by primary and secondary research on peer organizations, business frameworks, and operational best practices).
- Help to continually improve the annual planning process, risk management, and strategy execution for community-facing initiatives across the Foundation.
Educational Background:
MBA or other advanced degree in a relevant field such as Business, Medicine or Sciences required.
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum of two years of experience in a strategic consulting function preferably at a top tier strategy consulting firm.
- Strong quantitative and modeling skills with ability to distill complex information to intuitive graphs, tables and other visuals. Proficiency with market research a plus.
- Excellent software skills (MS Office). Financial analysis, database and/or data visualization (Tableau) experience required.
- Experience with strategy design, execution and tracking. Support of network models preferred.
- Excellent organizational skills; demonstrated ability to lead work groups through tasks.
- Self-starter; demonstrated ability to lead projects independently.
- Strong oral, facilitation, and written communication skills.
Leadership Characteristics:
- Excellent problem-solver – places emphasis on using data to drive decision making.
- Positive, can-do attitude with a learning orientation.
- Creative, incisive and forward thinking.
- Intelligent with sound business judgment.
- Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity.
- Great team player and strong listener – partners well with diverse stakeholders.
- Commitment to the Foundation’s mission.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 19 2018
Active Until:
Oct 19 2018
Hiring Organization:
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit