Senior Strategy Officer, Gender Equality Office of the President

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Seattle
Posted on: May 3, 2024

Job Description:

The FoundationWe are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. 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. As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.The TeamThe Gender Equality Division's mission is to ensure women and girls in Africa and South Asia can enjoy good health, make their own choices, earn their own money, and be leaders in their societies. When women and girls have an equal chance to thrive and lead, everyone benefits. We know that women and girls are not a monolith. A woman's experience and the barriers she faces are different depending on factors like where she lives, how old she is, and how much money her family has-alongside other factors including her race, caste, and education level. We seek to address these compounding barriers through deep partnership with our grantees. As a philanthropy, our role is to listen to and learn from these experts. We take risks in new areas, prove concepts, and bring these ideas to governments, partner organizations, and private sector companies to scale. The Gender Equality Division builds off our existing strengths as a foundation in areas like global health and data, partnering closely with all our global divisions. The Gender Equality Office of the President creates an enabling environment and a strong business engine that drives forward the achievement of the GE Division's goals. This is achieved through four core pillars: President Enablement & Engagement (includes the Division's Strategic Partnership and the GE Presidents external and internal engagement), GE Division Experience & Engagement (includes president support, executive and leadership team engagement, division communications, and division culture, norms, and DEI efforts), Centralized Business Capabilities (includes rhythm of the business, division guidance for Strategy Reviews and Annual Planning, and knowledge management), and a Strategic Advisory Function whose primary remit is to provide timely, responsive strategy and decision support capabilities to the GE President and to cross-division strategic areas of work in alignment with division impact goals. This role is a Senior Officer role providing functional and project leadership in the Strategy Advisory team.Your RoleWe're hiring a Senior Strategy Officer to lead high-priority strategy projects that will range from providing deep strategy development support to a single PST to providing advisory and decision support for cross-cutting initiatives that impact multiple teams. You will work collaboratively to identify and answer strategic questions, design and lead qualitative and quantitative analyses, and elevate key insights, and use those insights to guide team and division-level strategy, partnerships, and investment-making.This role will focus primarily, but not exclusively, on health strategy projects.The Senior Strategy Officer will report to the Deputy Director for Strategy, Planning, and Management. What You'll Do

• Partner with the Strategic Advisory team to identify, select, and manage a pipeline of priority strategy projects.
• Partner with Directors and leadership teams across the division and within the Office of the President to scope, lead, and execute time-bound strategy development projects by providing decision support capacity to address critical questions that impact multiple PSTs, extending analytical support to accelerate mission-critical strategy development for individual programs, and leveraging our cross-cutting vantage point to support learning and incubation of new ideas as the field and division's needs evolve.
• Identify and participate in ongoing iterative improvement of the strategic advisory function: refining our approach as we learn from early execution and responding to changes in internal and external environments
• Contribute to a collaborative process to develop materials for annual planning, division context meeting during strategy reviews, learning sessions, and other informal communications with foundation leadership, partner with the Director and Leadership team to gather content and expertise, lead synthesis and development of recommendations, and set the bar for quality and rigor in slides, memos, and other communications.
• Support change management activities within domain-specific or foundation-wide initiatives, with an emphasis on successfully bridging strategy with implementation for select projects
• Contribute to inclusive team culture.
• Other duties as assigned. Your Experience
  • At least 7+ years of progressive experience, preferably leading projects at a premier strategy consulting firm
  • Knowledge and/or experience in areas central to our division's programmatic areas, primarily health.
  • MBA, MPH, or other advanced degree in a relevant field preferred but not required
  • Demonstrated strength in structured problem solving, data analysis, and strategic business planning with the ability to easily identify and communicate frameworks to facilitate strategy creation and analyze core issues
  • Ability to learn new content quickly, identify connections and second-order implications and demonstrate proficiency with internal / external teams. Strong pattern recognition grounded in relevant knowledge
  • Ability to manage a high level of ambiguity within and across strategy projects
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to rapidly build trusted advisor relationships with senior leaders
  • Deep knowledge of strategy development and end-to-end sophisticated project management (including process design, team structure, critical thinking requirements, development of novel communication resources and external/senior partner engagement)
  • Ability to work in a self-guided manner, prioritize, and work towards demanding timelines
  • Ability to question and challenge colleagues including managers and partners in constructive manner
  • Accustomed to highly unstructured and ambiguous situations
  • Excellent organizational, facilitation, oral, and written communication skills. Ability to work effectively and with sensitivity across barriers such as language, culture, and distance. Excellent listening skills and compassion
  • Excellent software skills with Microsoft Office applications, including a demonstrated ability to convey complex information using supporting tables, graphs, and other visual representations
  • Experience working in low- and middle- income countries
  • Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationallyMust be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.The salary range for this role is $166,300 to $249,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $181,200 to $271,800 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hire salaries are typically between the range minimum and the midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.#LI-BR1Hiring RequirementsAs part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.Candidate AccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request .Inclusion StatementWe are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion - of voices, ideas, and approaches - and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.

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