The Organization
The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We work to promote the well-being of humanity and make opportunity universal and sustainable. Our focus is on scaling renewable energy for all, stimulating economic mobility, and ensuring equitable access to health care and nutritious food.
The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We work to promote the well-being of humanity and make opportunity universal and sustainable. Our focus is on scaling renewable energy for all, stimulating economic mobility, and ensuring equitable access to health care and nutritious food.
Position Overview
The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) is seeking a Managing Director to support the Chief Operating Officer. The Managing Director of Operations will serve as a key strategic thought partner and operations lead, who will be responsible for driving organizational alignment across people, strategies, workflows, and systems, encouraging cross-functional collaboration and a mutual pursuit of organizational goals. They will work with all the Operations teams to implement and strengthen processes and conditions with a holistic approach, requiring big-picture thinking while monitoring project-based tasks needed to operationalize enterprise objectives.
Pay Range: $221, 817 – $297,428. This represents the present low and high end of the Foundation’s pay range for this position. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.
Work Schedule: This role will be onsite 4-5 days a week
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Support the Chief Operating Officer in strategic operational goals and priorities, becoming a trusted thought partner in driving organizational culture and alignment. Serve as the COO’s liaison for key internal decision-making areas as needed.
- Anticipate and balance the needs of the Chief Operating Officer and colleagues, understanding where and when resources need to be directed for optimal impact.
- Identify, prioritize, and successfully execute strategic operational initiatives in partnership with Organizational Development and Program Strategy teams corresponding with overall Foundation goals.
- Liaise and collaborate with program leads and the PLT strategy team to ensure the successful execution of the work and the long-term operationalizing of the workstreams.
- Collaborate with Operation team leads to ensure the successful operationalizing of headquarters and convening space, inclusive of our climate strategy initiatives.
- Support new and ongoing projects and efforts, with the ability to solve problems with respective team members and experts across the Foundation (e.g., Human Resources, Organizational & Learning Development, Foundation Services, Finance).
- Support and execute the strategy that drives the migration of RF operating systems from Atlas to Salesforce.
- Collaborate on the execution of the transformation of internal communications.
- Demonstrate leadership by setting an expectation of cohesiveness, promoting synergies, and influencing others across the Foundation, to drive cross-functional collaboration in a mutual pursuit of organizational goals.
- Champion our values by maintaining accountability and setting clear directives and expectations that enable operational excellence and efficiency.
Education, Experience, and Skills
- 12+ years of experience leading global strategic operations in a non-profit organization, foundation, or equally fast-paced, goal-oriented enterprise; experience in management consulting a plus
- Bachelor’s degree required; an advanced degree in business or operations management preferred.
- Finds professional passion in, and excels at, designing, managing, and simplifying operations and processes in matrixed organizations to improve efficiency and impact.
- Experience planning, developing, delivering, and evaluating strategic operational initiatives maximizing the benefits and minimizing challenges of organizational change.
- Experience partnering or working within strategy and/or program units, and enterprise operations or shared services business units to ensure the operational support accelerates mission and strategic objectives.
- High emotional intelligence, a strong sense of collaboration, and an ability to navigate complexity with strategic and analytic savvy.
- Highly organized with the ability to wear multiple hats in a dynamic, fast-moving environment; a solution-oriented team player who manages toward clarity.
- Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders having cultivated effective facilitation, influencing conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- Experience leading teams with global, remote, and onsite team members
- Exceptional communication skills, able to develop and communicate executive-level presentations for internal and external stakeholders ranging from community leaders to foreign dignitaries.
Qualifications and Competencies
- Balances Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Cultivates Innovation: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
- Develops Talent: Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
- Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Values Differences: Recognizes the value of different perspectives and commits to inclusion, equity, and diversity in every aspect of work.
About The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We work to promote the well-being of humanity and make opportunity universal and sustainable. Our focus is on scaling renewable energy for all, stimulating economic mobility, and ensuring equitable access to health care and nutritious food.
The Rockefeller Foundation offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes health insurance programs, tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment, a generous 401K, parental leave, and various forms of paid time off, all to help our employees feel energized, cared for, and engaged.
As an organization, we focus on six values to advance our culture and continue our success. We are dedicated to being Transparent, Optimistic, Accountable, Collaborative, Trusted, and Equitable. We operate from a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in everything that we do. It is not only the right thing to do – we could not make an impact without our team members’ diverse perspectives and experiences. We expect all employees at the Foundation to contribute by developing their unique perspectives and talent, challenging conventional wisdom through evidence and reason, and amplifying marginalized voices.
The Rockefeller Foundation is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end, the Foundation ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status, or liability for service in the United States Armed Forces.
The Rockefeller Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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