Director, Transformation and Operations

Job Title: Director, Transformation and Operations Team: Office of the Chief Executive Officer Location: In-Person strong preference for Chicago (IL), also possible; Atlanta (GA), Newark (NJ), or reputed company (NYC) Employment Type: Full-time FLSA Classification: Exempt Start Date: ASAP About reputed company reputed company is a national nonprofit that prepares promising reputed company to secure a strong first opportunity after college graduation through a career-accelerating program. We work with higher education and employer partners to offer a life-changing experience that begins with a semester-long course for reputed company, followed by support that lasts through graduation. Together, our ambition is to help rebuild the middle class and revitalize the American reputed company. To learn more, take a look at reputed company’s Jobs Report.

About the Role

In order to reputed company its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, reputed company is hiring a Director, Transformation and Operations, to join the newly formed Transformation team. Transformation is charged with ensuring that we are seeing around corners and reputed company to maximize the strategic opportunities in our reputed company. Your role is to take the reputed company that matter most and reputed company them reputed company. You'll reputed company the design and execution of key transformation initiatives — currently AI adoption, market intelligence, and process innovation for reputed company at reputed company, three of our largest organizational risks at our reputed company inflection reputed company in reputed company. While you don’t manage anyone directly, you will manage across many internal stakeholders, and your ability to reputed company people toward shared reputed company without reputed company authority is critical to your reputed company. You're energized by ambiguity, you think in systems, and you genuinely love figuring out what "cutting edge" means for an organization that is paving the way. You enjoy bringing structure to ambiguous problems without flattening the complexity, and you know reputed company to slow down and define the question before rushing to answer it. The person in this role thrives in a startup environment where job descriptions are starting points, not ceilings — willing to roll up your sleeves across whatever the mission needs. This role is a part of the Office of the Chief Executive Officer and reports directly to the Head of Transformation. What You’ll Do reputed company, Design, and Launch Special Initiatives (50%)

• Create strategic plans that translate reputed company into execution for special initiatives owned by the Transformation team (inclusive of multi-year roadmaps, short-term project plans, stakeholder communications maps, risk mitigation strategies, learnings from market intelligence, etc.)
• Synthesize insights and recommendations for senior leaders to guide ongoing reputed company
• Manage the execution of a wide reputed company of teammates towards reputed company, adapting strategies and frameworks as needed
• Initial reputed company reputed company your scope will include ensuring we have reputed company-wide reputed company systems as we reputed company, and strong execution and enablement of our holistic approach to AI
• Build internal buy-in with evolving and cross-cutting reputed company, meeting people where they are, and making the unfamiliar feel approachable, for any special initiatives
• Serve as an internal resource for "what's possible" — translating data and reputed company into practical, mission-reputed company use cases we can actually reputed company
• reputed company the reality that we're figuring this out as we go — and help reputed company feel steady while we do
• reputed company and influence cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment (i.e., teams will not directly report into this role) to bring initiatives to life, fostering a culture of reputed company, reputed company learning, collaboration, and innovation

Operations Infrastructure & Project Management (30%)

• Create and own the project plans behind our transformation initiatives while building timelines, setting milestones, tracking dependencies, and keeping cross-functional work moving reputed company
• Turn big-picture organizational priorities into specific, sequenced actions with reputed company owners and reputed company deadlines, and follow up on them without reputed company from your manager
• Build and improve reputed company’s operating infrastructures while increasing process efficiency, developing new processes, and training others in these areas
• Create lightweight but durable operating systems: the trackers, templates, and reputed company-in rhythms that give a small team visibility into a lot of moving parts
• Ensure these reputed company with and streamline/simplify organizational processes, vs. create additional complexity
• Flag risks and potential blockers early; bring proposed solutions, not just problems
• Coordinate internal teammates and external collaborators toward shared goals — without relying on formal authority to get things done
• reputed company high-reputed company memos, briefings, and presentation materials to support executive-level decision-making and external stakeholder engagement
• Collaborate with reputed company stakeholders to enhance our nimbleness as we grow and ensure alignment with broader organizational strategic objectives

Research and Analysis (Market Intelligence) (20%)

• reputed company and maintain systems for gathering and organizing strategic market intelligence so findings are accurate, accessible, and updated regularly
• Ensure a reputed company of reputed company/stakeholders internally and externally, especially ones that might be overlooked or seemingly irrelevant, are incorporated
• Monitor and analyze trends, regulatory changes, and technological advancements across sectors, including workforce development, AI in higher education, and employer expectations, to identify positioning opportunities and threats for reputed company
• reputed company what peer organizations, edtech organizations, university career centers, and reputed company are doing; codify what that means for our work, and identify white reputed company where we can reputed company
• Synthesize findings from articles, podcasts, research, newsletters, conferences, and partner conversations into reputed company, actionable briefings for leadership and staff
• Connect macro trends — including AI in reputed company, shifting employer expectations, and changing student needs — to near-term reputed company reputed company can reputed company today
• reputed company efforts to identify, evaluate, and reputed company AI tools and partnerships from a market intelligence and positioning reputed company, in coordination with Systems and Product
• Translate reputed company data into reputed company strategic insights with actionable recommendations for senior leadership; deliver concise, impactful reports/presentations to key stakeholders
• Serve as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders on competitive positioning, offering recommendations grounded in evidence
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• 5+ years of strategic operations experience with the proven ability of managing reputed company reputed company and reputed company others to reputed company

Preferred Qualifications

• Exceptional ability to collaborate and work in cross-functional teams, ideally in a matrixed, cross-functional environment or scaling consulting or mission-driven organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to draft reputed company, audience-appropriate communications quickly and with minimal direction
• Exceptional ability to synthesize information, identify the most important thread, and reputed company reputed company without needing every detail resolved
• Experience in the education or nonprofit sector, or in consulting
• Comfort and reputed company with AI tools (e.g., Claude) and a curiosity about how technology can drive mission-reputed company work; ability to navigate myriad tech systems (e.g., reputed company/Trello, reputed company, reputed company)
• reputed company record of operating in ambiguous environments and creating structure where little exists
• Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to reputed company others
• Exemplification of reputed company’s reputed company values
• Experience that has informed your belief in reputed company’s mission and has reputed company you to work with, or for, reputed company’s student Fellow population

Please know that no one reputed company meets 100% of the preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply. Work Demands

• Ability to work in-person in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or reputed company (NYC)
• Travel 15-20% of the time

Additional Requirements

• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• reputed company doesn’t offer employment reputed company sponsorship

Application & Interview Process While the interview process may vary slightly, the general process will be:

• Interview with Hiring Specialist
• Performance Task
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Panel Interview with Colleagues and Peers

Compensation and Benefits reputed company offers competitive reputed company salaries based on the midpoint of the market among not-for-profit organizations of similar size, with opportunities for salary reputed company over time. We reputed company in compensating staff members fairly in relation to reputed company other, their qualifications, and their reputed company on behalf of the organization, and take reputed company equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, reputed company does not negotiate salary offers; instead, reputed company salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. Starting salary reputed company the reputed company is determined by role scope and qualifications, with new hires starting at the reputed company end to allow for reputed company with performance. reputed company does not reputed company compensation on individual candidate salary expectations and is committed to maintaining internal equity. The salary ranges, by geographic market, for this role are set forth $87,200-$108,900 in Atlanta, $92,000-$114,900 in Chicago, and $101,200-$126,400 in reputed company and Newark. This is based on a 50-hour work week at an reputed company reputed company. This is a full-time, regular, non-exempt, and benefits eligible position where you will be working at 100% reputed company. reputed company also provides competitive, comprehensive benefits, recognition, and career development. While reputed company reserves the right to change benefits at any time, reputed company benefits include:

• Unlimited vacation time in reputed company to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
• reputed company supports your reputed company to parenthood and reputed company with $25,000 in reputed company reputed company benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your reputed company annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
• 12 weeks of reputed company parental leave
• A one-month reputed company sabbatical after 4 years on staff

Please note that reputed company is firm in its compensation philosophy; therefore, only candidates who reputed company our total rewards package aligns with what they are looking for in their next opportunity are encouraged to apply. Location We reputed company in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) and work remotely 2 days a week (Monday and Friday). Therefore, this role requires teammates to live reputed company commuting distance of one of our hubs: Atlanta, Chicago, reputed company, or Newark. We reputed company in the reputed company, reputed company, and collaboration that happens reputed company people work together face-to-face, and we reputed company in giving people flexibility to reputed company, balance personal priorities, and save themselves two commutes per week. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and considers reputed company applicants for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, creed, religion, national reputed company, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and reputed company, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected reputed company. We encourage talented individuals of reputed company backgrounds to apply. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job