Description

The Chief of Staff is a senior-level strategic partner that work directly with the CEO to define, communicate and support their key priorities, and for driving alignment, clarity, and accountability across the organization. The right candidate will possess the skills and experience to integrate themselves into the organization quickly and assess issues that serve as barriers to the organization operating at maximum effectiveness. 

Requirements

• Support the CEO in setting overall strategy and managing day-to-day operations of the organization.
• Serve as a strategic advisor and accountability partner for the CEO; strategically manage CEO’s time and involvement in projects and decision-making processes, ensuring appropriate balance of attention to highest priority items.
• Enable rapid, well-informed decision-making for the CEO by filtering, aggregating, and organizing data from key sources and presenting in a digestible, objective and actionable format.
• Act as an extension of CEO, understanding long term strategy and attending meetings to guide decision making and delegate tasks and projects to individuals best positioned to complete them.
• Proactively address pressing business issues and takes initiative to own special projects that might not neatly fit into existing organizational structure.
• Work with leadership team to identify opportunities to improve alignment, increase cross-functional collaboration, streamline policies and procedures and support the execution of strategic priorities.
• Own and continuously improve organization’s operating cadence (e.g. team meetings, goal setting workshops, quarterly and annual reviews, leadership offsites, etc.).
• Prepare and facilitate leadership meetings; accountable for setting the agenda, providing insights and analysis to inform strategic conversations, and capturing 

and ensuring meaningful follow-up and completion of action items.

• Drive the importance of confidentiality and discretion across organization.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree; Master's degree/MBA preferred
• Minimum 5-7 years professional experience 
• Highest level of integrity, emotional intelligence, and management of sensitive and confidential information
• Excellent communicator in written and verbal form; able to lead and influence across multiple levels and multiple functions of an organization in a concise manner
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to implement autonomously and lead multiple high-profile initiatives of varying timelines simultaneously with minimal oversight or direction
• Excellent analytical, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking skills with the ability to judge situations accurately and quickly, grasping complexities, identifying key issues and applying sound judgment
• Exceptional active listening, questioning, and coaching skills
• Tact and diplomacy to navigate difficult conversation, exceptional active listening, coaching skills and willingness to challenge assumptions/perspectives
• Entrepreneurial, with a high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity; able to take initiatives from concept to reality
• Ablility to balance the demands of short-term execution with long-term value creation and understand the broader goals of the business and make decisions accordingly
• Ability to comfortably dive into any area of the business, understand business needs, and facilitate executive decisions based on changing priorities