Chief of Staff

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Alliance for Youth Action

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

🌍 Social Impact

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

Description

• Oversee large, often cross-functional organization-wide projects or initiatives. • Organize the ideas, projects, people, time, and resources necessary to keep all departments moving forward. • Assign tasks to the appropriate people, support them, and hold them accountable for the results. • Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity. • Lead the coordination and development of departmental goal setting to ensure programmatic and operational work is efficiently and accurately reflected in the organization's annual planning. • Collaborate with senior leaders and staff to develop systems and integration of other software used by the organization for effective monitoring, analyzing, forecasting, and reporting of projects across the organization. • Manage annual performance review process, including improving evaluation instruments, providing support for staff, and ensuring accountability for staff performance. • Communicate the vision, ideas, projects, or the process to the necessary stakeholders. • This includes creating content, providing context, and helping connect the dots across all departments to create opportunities and growth. • Refine and maintain internal communications systems to ensure staff have the information needed to successfully perform their responsibilities. • Lead initiatives in organizational management, performance management, and leadership development. • Help develop existing managers, ensuring they are operating at their best and continuing to improve their management skills. • Partner with the Executive Director and relevant staff to manage the relationship with the Board of Directors. • Coordinate with appropriate stakeholders in all aspects of project planning, monitoring, and implementation for all capacity building activities.

Requirements

• Significant management experience (5+ years), particularly supervising professional staff in a fast-paced environment, in areas including but not limited to Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, operations, human resources, strategic planning, nonprofit financial management, and/or nonprofit governance. • Proven ability and a vision for building an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace, where all staff feel a sense of belonging in both a remote and in-person environment • Experience implementing management best practices, including caring for and getting the best out of people in both a remote and in-person environment • Tact, diplomacy, and a collaborative spirit in interacting with staff, Board, and external partners • Experience improving organizational systems and preparing departments to utilize them with rapidly shifting organizational demands • Proficiency in excel and/or google sheets • Proficiency in Google Suite, Project Management Software and Slack • Excellent interpersonal skills and patience • Excellent written and verbal communication • Comfortability with technology and virtual communication systems, including Zoom, Google Hangouts, etc.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance covering 100% of employee premiums • 75% of premiums for employee dependents • Employer retirement contributions (SEP IRA) of 5% of salary • Employer paid life insurance, short and long term disability income protection insurance • Cell phone and internet stipends of $100 per month • WMATA transportation Smartbenefits for staff located in the DMV area • Professional development opportunities and funds • Generous paid time off policy through which staff accrue 10 hours of PTO per month • Unlimited sick leave • Paid family and medical leave up to 16 weeks • Paid Sabbatical (after 4 years of service) • 15 paid holidays • Potential for end of year or other bonuses