Senior Vice President Chief of Program and Innovation Alternative Title

3 weeks ago


Washington, United States On-Ramps Full time
About the Position
As a key member of our leadership team, you will oversee program areas, ensuring collaboration, coordination, and impact. This executive role is crucial in transforming our vision into reality, overseeing leaders managing our substantive program areas. Additionally, you will serve as a culture carrier and exemplar for our mission, vision, and values, enabling us to increase power and capacity for a multi-racial, inclusive democracy in the South.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

  • Provide strategic counsel to the President/CEO and executive leadership team; fostering organization-wide collaboration and serving as a thought partner by helping to set and enable strategic priorities.
  • Lead cross-functional efforts by connecting teams and program areas to ensure ongoing communication, collaboration, and innovation, while embedding our commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) across all work streams.
  • Represent program team interests in strategic planning and problem-solving processes, while acting as a steward for overall organizational health and sustainability.
  • Ensure leadership meetings align with strategic priorities, and that there is clear ownership and follow-through on projects and initiatives.

Executive Management and Organizational Leadership

  • Lead the organization's efforts to create a positive working environment reflecting organizational values; implement initiatives to develop leadership skills and establish accountability mechanisms for leadership.
  • Oversee a high-performing executive team, providing mentoring, coaching, and accountability to the leaders managing our litigation, policy advocacy, communications, and community organizing departments, ensuring integration across all departments and teams.
  • Support the EVP, Chief of Operations in preparing and managing weekly Executive Team and Leadership Team meetings, bi-monthly joint ET/LT meetings, quarterly meetings between the JEDI team and the leadership teams, and all leadership retreats.
  • Design, develop, and implement structures, processes, and initiatives to support organizational goals and priorities; support the prioritization of strategies and tactics to advance organizational goals.
  • Drive innovation across the organization, identifying opportunities for increasing impact and encouraging the team to look at ways to reimagine structures and processes to deliver results.
  • Facilitate and enable timely decision-making, removing roadblocks and enabling teams to work effectively toward strategic objectives.

Internal and External Relations
  • Work closely with partners, donors, and other external stakeholders, representing the organization with strategic partners and building lasting, trusting relationships to advance mutual goals.
  • Represent the organization among critical external constituencies, including but not limited to coalition partners, donors, and the media.
  • Support organization-wide initiatives and strategies that enable all staff to effectively share the organization's narrative and engage communities in its work.
  • Support the communications team's ongoing efforts to embed the organization's practices, principles, and brand throughout the organization.


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