Senior Director, Chief of Staff, Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns (M2)

The Role of Chief of Staff

The Chief of Staff acts as an extension of the Vice President for Policy, Advocacy, and Campaigns (PAC), and is responsible for ensuring the execution of the division agenda across the Save the Children Action Network (SCAN), Government Relations, and Finance and Operations teams. You’ll serve as an advisor to the Vice President, as extra eyes and ears, fostering relationships important to the division’s priorities, considering the needs of the agency, anticipating potential roadblocks, and identifying areas requiring our attention. You will be responsible for driving gains in productivity, managing effective information flow, supporting strategic planning processes and divisional reporting, and ensuring effective external engagement. You will also manage and drive effective administrative coordination for the division.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Managing VP and PAC Division’s Prioritization and Delegation of Operations and Initiatives (30%)

• Manage and prioritize critical issues and information flows for the Vice President to facilitate strategic planning, information sharing, and decision-making.
• Support the Vice President with communicating guidance to division staff on strategy, operations, staffing, and other issues, including direct staff engagement opportunities.
• Represent the Vice President on agency-wide project leadership and decision-making where appropriate.
• Support, represent, and follow through on delegated issue resolution.
• Provide timely and proactive status briefings, elevating issues when required, and providing effective solutions to remove barriers and roadblocks.
• Provide transparency within the division to establish and maintain a strong sense of shared purpose, vision, and focus across the organization.

Managing Administrative and Board Support Functions in the Office of the Vice President (30%)

• Manage coordination and support for the SCAN Board of Directors and division engagement with the Save the Children Board of Trustees.
• Organize and provide active guidance for scheduling, travel, expense, and task management for the Vice President.
• Organize and support senior management meetings, including preparing materials for meetings, retreats, and team-building activities.
• Create and oversee a unified, division-specific onboarding process for new staff.
• Train, coach, and supervise administrative and board support staff, clearly communicating priorities and how their work contributes to our mission, ensuring that the working environment continually fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging – supporting Save the Children values.

Facilitating Effective Engagement Within Save the Children US and the Save the Children Federation (25%)

• Develop systems and tools for collecting and using metrics that enable the Vice President to monitor the division’s agenda and objectives.
• Work with PAC’s Senior Advisor for Finance & Operations on agency-wide operational requests, including cross-functional task teams, transformation projects, and special projects.
• Track reporting, signoffs, and other requests of the Vice President from Save the Children International.
• Facilitate cross-divisional partnerships, integrate and connect functions within and outside of the division to improve broader collaboration.
• Solicit and provide socialized feedback from across divisions.

Support External Engagement by Division Leadership (15%)

• Review and prioritize the Vice President’s external engagement opportunities, manage internal coordination of support, including briefings and talking points, and draft correspondence and speeches as needed.
• Drive external outreach such as ensuring the scheduling of key meetings with stakeholders such as foundations, corporations, coalitions, the administration, and/or Capitol Hill.
• Track and manage leadership engagement with key coalitions.
• Coordinate media and other communications requests with the Marketing, Communications, and Fundraising division.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in the U.S. policymaking process, government structures, the political system, and/or advocacy or campaigning in the U.S.
• Proven success working with a senior leader including strategic thinking, adding value to a senior leader’s vision, applying organizational and political intelligence, and anticipating/averting as well as analyzing/resolving problems.
• Political acumen and diplomacy with demonstrated interpersonal skills.
• Ability to make decisions and demonstrate sound judgment in a fast-moving environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage confidential information and communicate effectively to diverse audiences in an appropriate fashion.
• Proven ability to network and develop critical partnerships to strengthen and further senior leadership agenda.
• Ability to take initiative, generate innovative ideas, and engage distinct constituencies.
• Ability to move seamlessly across multiple content areas.
• Professional verbal and written communication skills in English, refining senior leadership messaging and ensuring that it is understood by the right audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate successfully and with transparency with individuals and teams at all levels.
• Professional proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, inclusion, and fostering an environment of belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated successful project-management skills: including organization and professional discipline, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Experience in complex organizations.
• Prior experience advising senior leadership, political candidates, or elected officials.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 – NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above the national average: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary.
• Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary.
• Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary.

The salary ranges listed above are for US-based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision, and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

About Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership, or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support, and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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