Stemz Global - Manager - Strategy

Strategy Associate - JD

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Strategic support for designing initiatives

- Contribute to initiatives in Development, providing support related to shaping strategy and setting objectives for impact

- Consult with teams with initiatives in Execution to support assessment and adaptation of strategies in complex, evolving systems

- Conduct quantitative and quantitative analyses to inform learning and choice-making within initiatives

- Manage relationships and engagements with grantees and partners contributing to strategy and strategic plan development

Strategic planning support for operationalizing strategies

- Consult initiative teams on target setting and implementation planning, including resource management and planning (e.g., budgeting, grant-making plans)

- Conduct risk assessment, mitigation planning and monitoring in collaboration with initiative teams

Support continued refinement and strengthening of dynamic management approach across teams

- Continue to enhance organizational capabilities around project management, work planning, team structuring and process planning

- Collaborate with the Monitoring and Evaluation teams to support dynamic learning and strategy shaping

- Push thought leadership/Foundation perspective on key questions and develop tools that can be used across teams

Ad Hoc Strategic/Organization Project Support

- Provide bounded strategy and planning support for fast-moving opportunities beyond those that emerge from the Foundation's pipeline of initiatives

- Support ad hoc projects that aim to improve RF impact and performance in areas that are critical to RF goals and strategy

Qualifications :

- Experience with hypothesis-driven problem solving; comfort distinguishing - signal from noise- and pushing through conceptual ambiguity to arrive at powerful insights

- Analytical skills to break down complex problems into component parts, in order to better understand underlying patterns and dynamics in complex systems

- Ability to research, synthesize and integrate disparate pieces of data, analysis, and information

- Demonstrated ability to help craft a clear path forward in rapidly changing or ambiguous contexts

- Ability to multi-task and experience dynamically setting work priorities among competing needs; comfort with a changing work environment

- Ability to build informal working relationships, quickly establish credibility in new areas of work, and mobilize people at all levels towards collaborative goals (including more senior colleagues and external partners)

- Excellent communication skills to convey complex information appropriately to stakeholders with different backgrounds and needs, both oral and written

- High level of self-confidence with a direct, honest, respectful, and empathetic approach and ability to effectively provide and receive feedback

- Basic knowledge and broad curiosity about issues that the Foundation seeks to positively impact

- An appetite for and sensitivity to working with and in diverse cultures

CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS

Successful applicants will demonstrate:

- An action-oriented, entrepreneurial person who is a self-starter, and can work independently as well as in teams

- Sound, mature judgment and integrity

- Commitment to the Rockefeller Foundation's mission and core values - effectiveness, equity, integrity, innovation and leadership - and the particular social impact objectives of the U.S. Youth Employment effort

Education, Training and Experience :

- Bachelor's degree in an area requiring integrative and analytical thinking (e.g. Management, Engineering, Economics, finance, statistics) from Top-Tier Institute

- Minimum of two years- strategy and/or strategic planning work experience, ideally with project experience in for-profit environments

- Experience delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced environment

- Consulting and/or client service experience strongly preferred

- Experience working in global organizations and /or contexts strongly preferred

- High proficiency to work, communicate, and write in English is required, with fluency in other languages an asset