Key Responsibilities
As Officer of Strategy and Impact, you will:
Support with development, implementation, and monitoring of day-to-day tasks that ensure that Strategy & Impact helps catalyze and maintain the operating model with strong strategies for Opportunities that are based on impact and promising ideas on the frontiers of systems change
Support the provision of services and guidance to the network that allows OSF to unleash potential and action the new vision to ensure the most competitive ideas succeed
Provide individual support for Opportunity development; it will also provide support for all other programs, and embedded functions.
Promote and support adherence to standards, criteria, and guidelines, including on MEL
Be conversant in dashboards and other analytic products that the Strategy and Impact unit use to show cohesion, saturation, and innovation for the enterprise
Work as a trusted partner to all parts of the network to ensure fidelity to the model, rigorous assessment of strategies, consistent support to teams that need strategy and impact support, and that OSF is flexible and capable of adapting and shifting—including based on effective learning-derived information
Key internal relationships
Directors, Officers, Program Managers, Operations
Key external relationships
Strategy and impact leaders outside of OSF, including on foresight, MEL, complexity, systems change, consultants, etc., inside and outside of philanthropy
Qualifications
Essential:
Prefer experience in lieu of qualifications
University degree
Desirable:
Post graduate degree in a field related to open societies (human rights, democracy, development, economics etc.)
Experience
Essential:
Substantial experience leading strategy development and execution, preferably in complex settings; and/ or leading design and execution of monitoring evaluation and learning frameworks preferably in complex settings; and/or experience applying/ integrating strategic foresight methodologies in complex settings.
Experience with data analytics, both qualitative and quantitative
Meeting/workshop and process facilitation