Chief of Staff

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $200k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👩🏽‍✈️ Chief of Staff

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Achieving the Dream

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2004

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Achieving the Dream is an organization dedicated to transforming community colleges into catalysts for more equitable and economically vibrant communities. By partnering with college leaders, Achieving the Dream focuses on putting students at the center of education through tailored support and innovative programs that enhance leadership, data utilization, and equity. Their comprehensive approach includes coaching, workshops, and assessments designed to foster holistic change and improve student outcomes across various educational institutions.

📋 Description

• Serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the President and CEO • Provide confidential counsel on sensitive organizational matters • Support the President in setting priorities, managing competing demands, and protecting time for high-value work • Prepare briefing materials, talking points, remarks, presentations, correspondence, and background research • Draft and coordinate the President's written communications • Anticipate issues requiring the President's attention and bring forward options with recommendations • Manage ATD's strategic planning process end to end • Coordinate engagement of the Board of Directors, staff, Network colleges, funders, and partners • Translate the approved plan into annual organizational priorities, division-level commitments, and reporting • Maintain alignment between the strategic plan, annual budget, and organizational priorities • Serve as primary staff liaison for the Board of Directors and its committees • Coordinate Board agendas, meeting materials, governance documentation, and meeting logistics • Track Board actions and commitments through completion and report status • Support Board recruitment, orientation, development, and governance improvement • Coordinate the Senior Leadership Team's work, agendas, materials, and decision sequencing • Monitor organizational priorities and executive decisions and commitments • Identify cross-divisional issues and lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives designated by the President • Supervise the Executive Assistant to the President and CEO • Oversee President's Office operations, correspondence flow, commitments, and requests • Establish systems supporting the President and Senior Leadership Team • Manage confidential records and communications • Maintain records of governance decisions, executive commitments, and institutional history

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree required • Minimum of eight years of progressively responsible leadership experience in higher education, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, public service, or a related field • Experience managing or substantially supporting an organizational strategic planning process • Experience working directly with a chief executive and a governing board • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and projects requiring executive coordination • Experience preparing executive-level written materials, including board materials, remarks, and correspondence • Experience supporting organizational planning, decision making, and follow-through in a period of change • Strong understanding of community colleges, higher education, or mission-driven organizations • Demonstrated ability to manage a strategic planning process, including facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and translation of a plan into measurable commitments • Strong understanding of nonprofit governance and the working relationship between a chief executive, a board chair, and a board • Ability to hold peers and senior colleagues accountable for commitments without direct authority over them • Excellent writing ability, including the capacity to draft in another person's voice and to prepare material for board, funder, and public audiences • Sound judgment and discretion in handling confidential and politically sensitive matters • Ability to synthesize information quickly and present options and recommendations rather than summaries • Strong project management skills and the ability to sequence competing priorities against organizational capacity • Ability to work effectively across all levels of an organization and to build trust with staff who do not report to this position