Summary

The Chief of Staff will report to the COO and provide direct support and partnership to the COO and other senior leaders. The Chief of Staff for the Office of COO will manage or support key strategic initiatives, objectives, and activities. You will impact program effectiveness by streamlining strategic initiatives and communicating objectives between divisions. The Chief of Staff will provide Executive level advising, consulting, and cross departmental collaboration in support of the COO.

What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Advises, supports, and enables the COO

• Organize and prioritize critical issues and required information for the COO to facilitate efficient & timely decision making.
• Drive prioritization and delegation tasks to enable the COO to control time spent on detailed, day-to-day operational decisions and increase time spent on strategic decisions and planning.
• Represent the COO to facilitate agency-wide project leadership and decision making where appropriate (in partnership with the Executive Leadership team).
• Act as a point of contact for COO and other stakeholders.
• Draft and/or edit key COO communications.
• Monitor the status of key priorities and initiatives including through regular check-ins with senior leaders.
• Provide timely and proactive status briefings, elevating issues when required and providing effective solutions to remove barriers and roadblocks. Support, represent and follow through on delegated issue resolution.
• Partner with the Senior Advisor for Strategy to support strategy and annual planning through research and preparation, data collection and presentation, articulating clear processes and timelines, budget analysis, engagement of key stakeholders, socializing processes, and follow-up.
• Develop systems and tools for collecting and using metrics that enable the COO to monitor the COO agenda and report to the CEO and the Board of Trustees. Support in the drafting of COO materials/presentations for the Board.
• Oversee administrative and organizational support for senior management meetings, working with the COO and colleagues to prepare materials for meetings.

Management of Special Initiatives and Projects

• Partner closely with the COO to design, put together, support, or supervise special projects in step with the COO agenda and priorities.
• Conduct analyses of systems, processes, structures to assess effectiveness, agility, and efficiency and alignment with strategy.
• Help to define and develop new operational tools and/or strategies, working with COO.

External Relationships, Profile and Partnerships

• Assist with planning and prioritizing external engagements, priorities, and commitments.
• Review and prioritize COO's external engagement opportunities, manage internal coordination of support, including briefings and talking points, and draft correspondence and speeches as needed.
• Serve as point person for all international travel; planning, content, engagement with country teams, external engagement during and after trip.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Experience in global humanitarian relief, development, and/or social justice and how to effectively position organizations and their leaders in those spaces
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior level executives to move complex issues forward
• Political acumen and diplomacy with demonstrated interpersonal skills
• Ability to make decisions and demonstrate sound judgement in a fast moving environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage confidential information and communicate effectively to diverse audiences in appropriate fashion
• Ability to interact strategically with a wide variety of sophisticated external actors
• Ability to take initiative, generate innovative ideas, and engage distinct constituencies
• Ability to move seamlessly across multiple content areas
• Organizational skills with the ability to handle fluctuating priorities
• Demonstrated ability to create, convey and execute strategic priorities
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in support of building a team-based culture of work
• Ability to develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness
• Some travel required, in US and potential for occasional international travel
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging

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 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 (more information on job structure is available ). 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.