Job Description
SUMMARY:
The Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer (CSIO), reporting to the CEO, is a new position created to help drive design and implementation of Counterpart International's strategy. A member of the Executive Team, s/he will supervise a small team (anticipated 1-2 FTEs) and oversee multiple, virtual inter-disciplinary project teams. S/he will collaborate closely with other members of the Executive Team and Senior Management Team.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Refine Counterpart's organization strategy, including oversight of related implementation planning and execution activities;
- Define Counterpart's theory of change, programmatic framework, tools and methodologies, and partnership strategy for enabling the new framework;
- Develop and oversee implementation of a change management program to support the new strategy;
- Develop and oversee implementation of an annual planning process;
- Design and oversee implementation of a program evaluation capability across all practice areas;
- Oversee pilots and other key program and partnership innovations;
- Develop a knowledge sharing approach to support the new strategy;
- Support external relations to enhance Counterpart's profile and build productive external partnerships.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- MBA or equivalent degree and work experience.
- 10+ years experience with strategic planning and change management in large, distributed, and geographically diverse organizations.
- Demonstrated successful experience with project management – including organization-wide project implementation.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple teams, with members who are geographically distributed throughout the organization.
- Familiarity with international development practices and trends.
- Familiarity with government-financed projects and budgets, particularly USAID.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in different cultural settings.
- Ability to conduct business in fluent English; other language skills a plus (including French, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.)
- Willingness and ability to travel to project sites and business meetings around the world. Anticipated travel ~25%.
- Ability to lead teams and influence colleagues across the organization.
- Demonstrated capability to work across divisional and geographic lines to engage, inform, and persuade.
- Commitment to Counterpart International's values.
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Founded in 1965, Counterpart is a diverse, non-profit, international development organization dedicated to helping people in need in the areas of civil society, private enterprise, environmental resource management, humanitarian relief, and healthcare. We do this by building the capacity of local partner nongovernmental organizations, lenders, businesses, governments and other institutions to solve their own, self-defined economic, ecological, political, and social problems in ways that are sustainable, practical, and independent.
"Counterpart International strongly believes in equal opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, veteran's status, age, marital status, sexual preference, disability or any other protected personal characteristic."
