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Chief of Staff to CEO

🔥 2 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👩🏽‍✈️ Chief of Staff

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Posted on International Youth Foundation's careers page, not through a job board

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International Youth Foundation

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1990

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

<International Youth Foundation> is a global nonprofit organization that designs and delivers job and life-skills programs to connect young people to economic opportunity. For 35 years it has partnered with employers, foundations, and local organizations to scale industry-validated technical training, career coaching, and awareness initiatives that reach millions of youth worldwide. IYF centers young people’s lived experiences to improve completion rates and employment outcomes, and focuses on workforce readiness, social inclusion, and measurable impact.

📋 Description

• Serve as a strategic partner and force multiplier to the CEO and President • Translate IYF’s vision and growth strategy into focused organizational action • Oversee execution of CEO priorities and Executive Office initiatives • Translate priorities into workplans, owners, deliverables, and completion commitments • Manage issues and decisions requiring CEO attention, providing context, analysis, and recommendations • Coordinate organization-wide communications related to strategy, priorities, and leadership decisions • Lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives from concept through implementation • Establish transition plans and hand off mature initiatives to functional or long-term owners • Integrate leadership and departmental teams by identifying gaps, overlaps, and execution barriers • Drive the effectiveness of the Executive Leadership Team and Senior Leadership Team through meeting cycles, agendas, decision processes, and follow-through • Own annual and quarterly planning cycles across functional departments • Design and manage the annual leadership operating calendar, including leadership meetings, Board involvement, planning, performance reviews, and budgeting • Partner with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to translate strategy into growth priorities • Evaluate growth opportunities using market intelligence, pipeline and performance data, programmatic expertise, and financial considerations • Drive cross-functional execution of strategic growth priorities and monitor milestones, risks, and barriers • Incubate growth initiatives through business case development, stakeholder alignment, testing, and early implementation • Coordinate organizational capabilities across Programs, Business Development, Finance, Operations, and other functions • Provide visibility into strategic growth initiatives, including assumptions, risks, dependencies, resources, results, and recommendations • Represent the CEO’s priorities, track commitments, and reinforce decisions when the CEO is unavailable

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience required • 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in strategy, operations, organizational leadership, consulting, business development, social impact, international development, or another complex, high-performance environment • Experience serving as a trusted partner to a CEO and coordinating executive priorities, accountability, alignment, and follow-through • Experience contributing to organizational growth, revenue strategy, business development, or initiatives strengthening financial sustainability, reach, or impact • Understanding of strategic and annual planning, organizational goal setting, performance management, decision-making, accountability, and cross-functional handoffs • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent executive communication skills, including concise writing, presentations, and facilitation • Ability to build productive working relationships across functions, levels, cultures, and perspectives • Strong project and portfolio management capabilities • Experience leading through organizational growth, transformation, or change • Highly self-directed and accountable, with strong judgment and discretion • Experience working across cultures, geographies, and diverse perspectives • Genuine commitment to IYF’s mission and expanding opportunity for young people worldwide • Strong organizational awareness and political judgment • Success adapting to diverse executive leadership styles and anticipating executive needs • Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% • Exceptional adaptability, independent judgment, proactive problem-solving, resilience, discretion, and composure under pressure

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Opportunity to work for a global nonprofit advancing youth economic opportunities • Inclusive and supportive workplace • Opportunity to work on rewarding, mission-driven initiatives • Professional growth and learning-oriented culture • Ability to work across global teams and cultures

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