SENIOR MANAGER, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES At CARE USA

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

CARE USA is one of the world’s largest humanitarian and development organizations in the world fighting global poverty. Founded in 1945 in the wake of World War II, CARE has evolved over time from our famous CARE Packages of life-saving food to long-term development projects. Our work is centered around and built with the leadership of local partners and local communities with a special lens of always putting women and girls at the center of our approach. During 2020, CARE worked in over 100 countries, reaching more than 90 million people through 1,300 projects.

CARE USA has just launched its new, four-year strategy, which prioritizes three “impact drivers”: gender equal, locally led, globally scaled. Together, these impact drivers will enable us to accelerate and deepen our impact, putting us on a path to meet our ambitious 2030 impact goals, while also leading the sector in doing the critical work of decolonization, shifting power, and transforming the organization. At the heart of our strategy is transformation, change, and embracing new ways of working.

The Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives will oversee the execution of key strategic initiatives being implemented as a part of the work under the new strategy, partnering with cross functional teams across the organization to drive forward priorities. Reporting to the Director of Strategy and Planning, the Senior Manager, will be a strong problem solver, an exceptional project manager, and a cross-team facilitator, ensuring a breakdown of siloed ways of working and managing towards goals owned by multiple teams and delivering against set roadmaps and charters. The Senior Manager will also be a thought partner to the Strategy Team and the Global Management Team. Creative problem-solving and problem structuring, quantitative analysis, strategic acumen, ability to communicate complex ideas in simple ways, strong planning and project management skills, comfort with ambiguity, relationship-building and influencing skills, and a bias toward action are important for success in this role. The ability to envision opportunity and stay focused on the people we support (and to have fun while doing it) is required.

Responsibilities:

• Managing strategic initiatives
• Problem solving and partnership
• Analytics, performance management and budgeting
• Special projects: Supports the executive department on needs as they arise including strategy sprints, driving partnerships, communication and reporting; and promoting equity and inclusion

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree (MBA, MPP, MPA, or MA in International Development or equivalent), or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 6-8 years’ experience leading and managing strategic initiatives and strong international experience or understanding of challenges facing the humanitarian and development sector
• Strong project management with an adaptive mindset; executive presence and presentation skills
• Comfort with Microsoft Office Suite, and specifically conducting analysis in Excel (e.g., formulas and pivot tables) or PowerBI; PowerPoint story building; advanced written communications, cross cultural communication and change management