Chief Impact Officer

Summary

Join WorkMoney, Inc. as their Chief Impact Officer (CIO) and lead the development and advancement of organizational strategy. This role involves overseeing research, campaigns, member services, and public relations. The CIO will manage and mentor leadership staff across multiple program areas, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in organizational strategy, executive leadership, and team management. WorkMoney offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a dynamic work environment.

Requirements

• Be inspired by the WorkMoney mission and be passionate about advancing economic fairness and opportunity
• Be an expert in issues impacting low-and-moderate income Americans and have built and led organizations that address financial security
• Demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding the organization’s culture and values
• Be considered a thought leader and be experienced as an exceptional thought partner
• Have a track record of taking a germ of an idea and independently turning it into a comprehensive, multi-year strategy aimed at improving the financial lives of low-and-moderate income Americans
• Have cohered staff around a shared vision and understand how to leverage organizational capacities in service of a strategy
• Have held executive-level roles and been on executive teams at start-up and legacy organizations
• Have been directly responsible for “holding the whole” of an organization, from infrastructure to program, and be able to see and lead across the entirety of an enterprise, identifying gaps and co-developing solutions to address
• Be goal and impact oriented, relying on hard metrics to assess organizational effectiveness
• Have experience effectively leading through a variety of anticipated and unanticipated cultural, financial and programmatic organizational dynamics
• Be an experienced team and staff leader and have successfully mentored other seasoned leaders
• Have experience leading teams across multiple program areas with the ultimate goal of significantly impacting the lives of working and middle class Americans
• Possess a high EQ and the ability to integrate a people-centric collaborative approach to decision making
• Have experience working effectively in ambiguous, fast–paced, highly dynamic environments
• Use strong strategic and analytical thinking skills to identify and address root causes, and have a track record of being on the right side of tough judgment calls by carefully assessing complex situations, weighing all options and making humane, just and impact-driven decisions
• Have a demonstrated track record of building relationships that support individual and collective ability to grow, thrive, and work effectively together
• Embody a growth mindset, approach your relationships and work with a learning orientation, and continuously seek to improve your work and the work of the organization
• Possess a deep appreciation for diversity, equity and inclusion and seek to bring people together along lines of difference
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and thrive on direct, honest, and supportive communication
• Have a high comfort level with technology and use it effectively to communicate ideas and plans

Responsibilities

• Develop and advance organizational program strategy in support of WorkMoney’s mission, in partnership with the Founder & CEO, Managing Director and the Chief Partnerships Officer
• Track and elevate internal and external developments that require strategic pivots and partner with fellow executive leaders to update and embed new strategic priorities
• Cohere the whole of the organization around the program strategy, ensuring all entities are coordinated, fully leveraging their unique assets and complementing each other, in partnership with other leaders
• Engage in cross-organizational strategizing, planning, budgeting and problem-solving as a member of the Executive Team
• Identify and cohere program staff around top-level organizational impact goals and oversee development of team-level goals; regularly track progress to goals and address gaps and implement needed shifts and pivots, in partnership with the other leaders, in particular the Chief Marketing and Chief Product Officers
• Act as a steward of WorkMoney’s mission by continually ensuring programming is advancing organizational goals and identifying and implementing cross-team alignment and collaboration
• Develop and support a staffing strategy and plan that aligns with goals and meets organizational needs, in partnership with other leaders
• Contribute to fundraising efforts by attending meetings with donors and reviewing donor proposals and reports on an as-needed basis, in collaboration with the Chief Partnerships Officer
• Act as a steward of the culture at WorkMoney, modeling the organization’s values
• Directly manage, support, mentor and grow leadership staff on the campaigns, member services and public relations teams.  Cultivate fostering a culture of high performance, accountability, and continuous learning
• Cohere staff around the vision and goals for the organization and support alignment and collaboration with other WorkMoney teams, in partnership with team leaders
• Oversee implementation of team strategies and tactics and ensure teams effectively drive toward team goals, in partnership with leaders
• Support team leaders in meeting team needs and addressing team challenges

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience working with and organizing people across the political spectrum
• Have experience working with unionized workforces
• Have experience with fundraising
• Have experience scaling advocacy and/or direct service programs

Benefits

• Full coverage of premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement plan with up to a 6% employer match for IRA contributions
• Employer contribution toward student debt repayment
• Five weeks of paid vacation each year
• Generous paid family and medical leaves
• Stipends for remote work expenses
• Stipends for professional development
• Stipends for health & wellness
• Stipends for cell/internet data usage