Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning, and Management (11 month LTE)

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  • Added Date: Monday, 31 March 2025
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The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, weโ€™re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The TeamThe foundationโ€™s U.S. Program (USP) works to ensure that people navigating U.S. education systems and job markets can develop the knowledge, skills, and agency needed to thrive in their communities such that race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status are no longer predictors of educational attainment and economic mobility and security. Our mission is to work with partners to:โ€‹

Generate insights by using data, research, and evidence to illuminate inequities in education, workforce, and social systems and evaluate potential solutions;โ€‹

Accelerate innovation of digitally enabled solutions and high-impact practices and supports that help educators and community leaders eliminate disparities; โ€‹

Strengthen capacity of institutions, intermediaries, and leaders to implement these solutions, practices, and supports in their contexts to further test and prove their effectiveness and impact; โ€‹

Improve enabling conditions, including data infrastructure, policy, and funding, so that proven solutions, practices, and supports can scale to ensure equitable outcomes; and โ€‹

Engage partners to ensure that community voices, student voices, and other key stakeholder voices are included, heard, and incorporated into our work.โ€‹

โ€‹Our mission reflects our belief in the power of evidence, data, technology, and innovation as essential and high-potential inputs to support educators and system leaders to deliver equitable impact for students and communities. USP works on five goals and this role focuses on Goal #5:โ€‹

Increased kindergarten readiness and school and life success;โ€‹

Increased academic and socio-emotional outcomes for K-12 students, with a focus on mathematics, to ensure they are on track for high-school graduation and college preparedness;โ€‹

Increased successful transitions for K-12 students between high school and postsecondary systems; โ€‹

Increased completions of quality, affordable postsecondary credentials that offer value through economic mobility and security; andโ€‹

Increased outcomes for adults experiencing poverty with regards to economic success, power and autonomy, and being valued in their communities.

Our Economic Mobility and Opportunity (EMO) team works with local and state governments and policymakers, small and medium-sized businesses, community and advocacy organizations, funders, and researchers to help increase long-term economic security for people earning low incomes. Our target population is the 47 million people ages 16 to 64 whose annual incomes are below 200% of the federal poverty level, which translates to $27,180 for an individual and $55,500 for a family of four as of 2022. โ€‹

โ€‹The Economic Mobility & Opportunity strategy has three pillars: โ€‹

Making Lives Better Now: Work to address the immediate needs of our focus population by supporting the creation and use of tools that help individuals and families access safety net benefits and tax credits as well as connect employers with skilled workers.โ€‹

Public Good Creation and Dissemination: We provide tools, insights, and resources to local governments, businesses, and organizations to help them create more opportunities for people living in poverty to achieve economic success.โ€‹

Critical Enablers: We collaborate with government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, funders, and others to increase the flow of capital, facilitate learning, and advance shared goals in a way that builds momentum around efforts in our two other focus areas.

Your Role

As a member of the Economic Mobility & Opportunity Leadership team, you are responsible for leading the strategic and operational planning and execution of integrated program areas. You lead all business processes, such as oversight of strategic planning, annual planning and budgeting, ongoing pipeline and portfolio management, business analysis, and the coordination of business strategies across the foundation. You are responsible for the effective use of team and Leadership Team in line with strategic goals. You also oversee, as an advisor to team and program leadership, the measurement, learning, and evaluation functions, the identification and implementation of process improvements, and policies and procedures.

*This position is a limited-term position for 11 months. Relocation will not be provided.

What Youโ€™ll Do

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