Senior Director, Foundation Strategy and Implementation

6 days ago

Seattle, Washington, United States Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Full time
About the Role

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is seeking a highly experienced and strategic leader to serve as the Deputy Director, Foundation Strategy and Implementation. This role will play a critical part in leading and managing strategy projects and serving as a member of the Foundation Strategy Office's leadership team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Strategy Development and Implementation: Provide oversight to ensure projects aimed at answering key strategic issues for our programs are analytically grounded, account appropriately for the foundation's comparative advantage, and can be completed with fidelity.
  • Client Relationship Management: Establish effective relationships with key stakeholders, especially Directors and Senior Directors, to ensure that right decisions are made. Build trust in those relationships and provide advice to Directors across a breadth of issues, including those beyond the scope of staffed projects.
  • Project Scoping and Management: Structure, sequence, and identify dependencies in the overall development and execution of strategies. Manage and monitor overall performance of projects and resources.
  • Execution and Performance Management: Provide support to team to ensure successful execution of strategy development and translation into implementation. Develop and improve methodologies that enable the foundation to improve the performance of our existing strategies.
  • Thought Leadership: Support the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Leadership Team on critical foundation strategy issues. Act as a thought partner to Directors and other foundation leadership. Continuously contribute to the set of assets, processes, tools, and services that enable most efficient development of strategies and enhance implementation fidelity and translate these into project team deliverables.
  • Special Initiatives: Lead projects and implementation of initiatives that are sponsored by the Chief Strategy Officer and initiatives that the division undertakes on behalf of the CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
Team Leadership and Management
  • Team Management: Alongside Senior Director peers, provide management and oversight of a ~20-person team that provides strategic and implementation support across the foundation. Ensure team incorporates and responds to client feedback.
  • Direct Oversight: Directly oversee a cohort of senior officers leading projects.
  • Talent Development: Develop and retain talent within the team. Drive culture.
  • Operational Excellence: Contribute to ongoing evolution and continuous improvement of the FSO's operating model.
  • Leadership Team Engagement: Actively shape the agenda and functioning of the FSO's leadership team and contribute to colleagues' success.
Requirements
  • Advanced Degree: An advanced degree, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
  • Strategy Development Experience: Comprehensive strategy development experience acting in a senior strategic planning function at a top-tier strategy-consulting firm, business, or non-profit organization.
  • Strategy Implementation Experience: Experience in strategy implementation, facilitating change management, identifying, and managing risks, and developing business processes to monitor and evaluate performance against goals.
  • Matrixed Organization Experience: Experience working in a highly matrixed organization with a clear understanding of key strategic levers and frameworks to help guide and inform organizational decisions.
  • Relationship Management: Significant experience cultivating trust and managing relationships to guide confidential information and situations with flexibility and diplomacy. Expert in developing strong partnerships and relationships inside and outside the organization, managing conflicts, and building consensus.
  • Pattern Matching and Synthesis: Comprehensive experience pattern matching and synthesizing cross-cutting themes across a wide variety of domains areas (i.e., health, economics, advocacy, organizational dynamics).
  • Complex Problem-Solving: Comprehensive experience structuring, scoping, and breaking down complex, multi-stakeholder problems with many dependencies into outputs and actionable work products.
  • Strategic Planning: Mastery level knowledge of strategic planning principles and processes, including strategy development, performance assessment, and resource allocation.
  • Data Analysis and Visualization: Mastery level knowledge of data analysis and visualization, including the ability to integrate large volumes of quantitative and qualitative information into succinct and compelling syntheses and visually use data to create persuasive narratives and novel insights.
  • Team Management: Mastery level knowledge of team management principles and best practices, including knowledge of how to simultaneously manage multiple teams.

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