Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact projects and initiatives in collaboration with Directors and Deputy Directors to define and execute on our division’s strategy.
• Shape and execute strategy efforts, providing strategic thought partnership, materials development, project management, and analytical support.
• Provide operational support including input into annual planning processes, ongoing pipeline and portfolio management, reporting of progress towards program goals and bodies of work, and the coordination of work across a global division with communications offices in Europe, Africa, India, and China.
• Partner with the DDSPM and Communications Leadership Team to scope, lead, and execute strategy development for both discrete projects and broader strategic areas of work.
• Support execution of strategies by leading a process translate strategy into clear, actionable plans where everyone knows what they accountable for.
• Lead ongoing iterative improvement of the strategy and respond to changes in the internal and external environment.
• Identify, lead, and support qualitative and quantitative analyses, elevate insights, and outline tradeoffs to drive strategic decision making.
• Serve as strategic advisor to Communications leaders and teams, challenge our thinking to elevate the rigor in decision making.
• Develop compelling and clear presentation materials, memos, and frameworks
• Partner with DDSPM and SPM team on operational model execution and process improvements

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in formal strategy development roles
• A Master's degree or equivalent experience, preferably in management consulting, strategy development, or marketing strategy.
• Mastery-level knowledge of strategy development and ability to coalesce groups around common goals and priorities to drive work forward
• Experience leading program design, results frameworks, measurement, learning & evaluation, scorecards and performance management is a plus, but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and support a wide array of projects to successful conclusion while operating in a dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Strong presentation skills (both oral and written), with proven ability to adapt tone and style for broad and diverse audiences
• Proven track record working with diplomacy, flexibility, efficiency, cultural sensitivity and savvy across multiple global, matrixed contexts
• A record of getting things done, of driving clarity amid ambiguity, and finding a mutually agreeable path forward out of complicated priorities.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Ability to be creative and successful, both collaboratively and as an independent problem solver.

Preferred

• Significant experience leading projects at a premier strategy consulting firm is preferred, but not required.
• Significant experience leading marketing campaign strategy development is preferred, but not required.

Benefits

• We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.