Vice President of Operations, Risk Management

🔥 2 hours ago

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $235k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Oxfam America

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1942

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Oxfam America is a global organization dedicated to fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. It operates with a mission to create an equal future where nobody lives in poverty. Oxfam offers lifesaving support during crises and advocates for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action. It addresses various global emergencies and issues, including humanitarian responses, women's rights, and corporate accountability. As a non-profit, Oxfam America engages in research, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing to maximize its impact on social change across more than 80 countries.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Oxfam America’s Operations and Risk Management division, including Finance, Technology and Information Management, and People, Culture and Human Resources • Coordinate with Oxfam America’s Senior Leadership Team, operational leaders, Oxfam International and affiliate teams, the Board, external advisors, auditors, vendors, and consultants • Establish operating rhythms, decision rights, service expectations, controls, and cross-functional processes • Drive process simplification, automation, shared services, strategic outsourcing, and data and technology use • Ensure business continuity and operational resilience • Oversee employee lifecycle practices including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, professional development, retention, promotion, and offboarding • Modernize people policies, systems, and processes • Partner on organizational health, leadership effectiveness, talent mapping, succession planning, and workplace culture • Oversee technology strategy, infrastructure, service delivery, data governance, cybersecurity, digital risk, vendors, and outsourcing • Advance modernization and integration of operational platforms and business systems • Provide executive oversight of Finance and financial systems, including stewardship, planning, controls, reporting, and decision-making • Strengthen grants management, payroll, procurement, contracting, vendor, and shared-service processes • Lead the operational risk management framework and oversee compliance and controls • Partner with executive leadership, the Board, Audit Committee, external advisors, and internal leaders on risk reporting and governance • Oversee facilities and workplace operations for Oxfam America’s hybrid operating model • Develop shared administrative services and manage outsourced vendors • Partner with executive leadership on enterprise-wide priorities, planning, and execution • Report and provide recommendations to executive and Board leadership • Build leadership capacity, accountability, collaboration, and performance across the division • Represent Oxfam America with Oxfam International, affiliate counterparts, and external partners

🎯 Requirements

• 10–15+ years of progressively senior leadership experience with significant responsibility for complex organizational operations and enterprise-wide systems • Demonstrated executive leadership across Human Resources, Finance, Technology, Facilities, and Risk Management • Track record of operating-model redesign, process improvement, systems modernization, automation, outsourcing or vendor strategy, and organizational change • Significant experience with enterprise risk management, compliance, internal controls, cybersecurity and digital risk, business continuity, and governance • Financial fluency including budgeting, forecasting, financial controls, reporting, audits, grants or restricted funding, and enterprise financial systems • Experience managing senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams and establishing accountability and service standards • Experience partnering with Presidents/CEOs, executive teams, and Boards • Ability to operate independently, lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and combine strategic thinking with operational depth • Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills • Values-driven leadership and experience overseeing people, finance, technology, and risk functions • Experience in employee relations, talent, organizational development, labor relations, HR systems, or people operations • Experience in an international NGO, federated or confederated organization, or organization operating across multiple legal, financial, and regulatory contexts preferred • Experience with enterprise resource planning transformation, cloud migration, cybersecurity and data governance, AI-enabled process improvement, and technology outsourcing preferred • Experience with grants management, sanctions/OFAC or anti-terrorism financing controls, safeguarding, or comparable risk frameworks preferred • Satisfactory references and appropriate pre-employment checks required • Must comply with Oxfam America’s safeguarding standards and conduct requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work permitted • Equal opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities • Safeguarding-focused, safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace • Pre-employment safeguarding checks and references • Hybrid operating model support • Professional development • Talent mapping and succession planning support