Senior Director, Office of the President & CEO
Job Details
Position Overview
The Senior Director for the Office of the President is a detail-oriented trusted advisor to the President and CEO, ensuring exceptional operation of all aspects of the President’s Office. This role manages the Office of the President, oversees high-level administrative functions, plays a key role with the strategic plan and board of directors, and facilitates communication between the President and CEO and internal/external stakeholders. Key duties include driving major projects from concept to completion, establishing project frameworks, improving processes, and reporting on progress to leadership. The Senior Director plays a critical role in advancing WFP USA’s mission by living the organizational values, driving operational excellence and enabling strategic decision making.
About World Food Program USA
World Food Program USA’s values provide the framework for how we behave and work together to reach our goals to feed and save the lives of the most vulnerable people around the world. Those values are:
Collaborative: We are all one team
Accountable: We own our work
Respectful: We are kind to each other
Inclusive: We champion diversity
Optimistic: We have a make it happen attitude
We are looking for applicants who embody these values and are invested in forwarding our mission.
Why Join Us?
- We are a dynamic, forward leaning, financially stable organization.
- You will be joining an effective, committed, high-performing group of colleagues who are well-regarded in the community.
- This position will play a crucial role in aiding the organization in their mission of ending global hunger
Highlighted Responsibilities:
The Senior Director has three major components: operational excellence for activities of the President’s Office, coordination for organizational strategic priorities and serving as liaison to the Board of Directors and the President’s Advisory Council.
President’s Office Management
- Supervise Senior Manager, Board Relations and Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the CEO.
- Oversee operations for the Office of the President, including budget management for the office and Senior Leadership Team (SLT) member requests.
- Establish best practices, expectations for effective coordination, and operational efficiency.
- Oversee the coordination and accuracy of the President and CEO’s schedule including travel, itineraries, and agendas in close coordination with each Senior Leadership Team member.
- Work with Senior Leadership Team members to identify and prioritize strategic opportunities to engage President and CEO.
- Establish best practices throughout organization around communications for the President and CEO in a way that also supports organizational values of collaboration, respect, accountability, inclusiveness, and optimism.
- As needed, accompany the President and CEO for organizational meetings and events.
- Review briefing materials, presentations, and reports for the President and CEO’s meetings, conferences, and public engagements.
- Take ownership of high-priority, ad-hoc projects as directed by the President and CEO leadership, ensuring they are completed skillfully and on schedule.
Strategic Plan and Global Coordination
- Assist with the coordination and support of the World Food Program USA’s strategic plan across all departments, prepare briefing materials, manage action items and monitor organization-wide key performance indicators.
- Work with President and CEO to ensure alignment of vision with SLT.
- Foster a culture of teamwork and collaboration between the World Food Programme (WFP) and World Food Program USA in support of the “One WFP” initiative that embodies a one team, one goal approach for working together successfully.
- Oversee large, cross-functional, organization-wide projects and initiatives.
- Prepare SLT meeting agendas and ensure appropriate and consistent dissemination of strategic updates to staff through written communications.
Board of Directors and President’s Advisory Council
- Support President and CEO in planning and coordination of Executive Committee activities.
- Plan and organize President and CEO’s Board and Advisory Council member engagements and action items.
- Oversee Board meeting planning and processes, including meeting preparation, agenda development, preparation of reports and talking points for the President and CEO and management of follow-up actions.
- In accordance with governance best practices, develop and maintain the Board of Directors handbook as well as all relevant documents pertaining to By-Laws, resolutions and term limits.
- Manage communications with the Board of Directors and Advisory Council collaboratively with the President and CEO, ensuring timely information flow and excellent relationship management.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of relevant work experience in at least one functional area (e.g., executive office operations, strategic planning, board relations).
- 6 years of management experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience.
- Strong technical fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint), Salesforce or other CRM
- Strong interest in humanitarian assistance, international development or global hunger.
- Self-starter with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects at the same time with minimal oversight.
- Extremely organized and detail oriented with a strong systems mindset.
- Strong team player with a collaborative work ethic and ability to work well across WFP USA, with WFP and with external stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- High emotional intelligence.
- Must live in the greater Washington, DC area and able to commute to our DC office daily (4 days a week minimum) or as needed.