Senior Director, Strategy and Transformation

Senior Director, Strategy and Transformation

Nutrition International

Location: Ottawa

Ottawa (and around the world) – Nutrition is the difference between attending school and learning. It is the difference between fighting a disease and surviving it. It is the difference between giving birth and giving life. Everyday, Nutrition International works hard to create this difference, striving for better and faster ways to bring improved nutrition to the people of the world who need it most.

Nutrition International (formerly known as Micronutrient Initiative) was created in 1992 and has since grown from a small Canadian initiative into a global nutrition organization, reaching millions of vulnerable people in some of the most impoverished parts of the world. Since its inception, Nutrition International has focused on forging powerful partnerships with countries, donors, and implementers around the globe to ensure the world’s most vulnerable populations get the vitamins and minerals they need to survive and thrive.

Nurtrition International is a rapidly growing organization that continues to attract and secure funding and partnerships around the world. Driven by its mission and aspiring to serve more deserving communities and people, the Organization is mapping new frontiers and paths forward, and is subsequently in search of a new Senior Director, Strategy and Transformation to lead them through this growth period.

Reporting to the President & CEO, the Senior Director, Strategy and Transformation, provides executive-level leadership and guidance to organizational strategy and global vision, bringing business units together across the enterprise to maximize organizational performance. The Senior Director identifies opportunities, facilitates internal knowledge sharing, develops plans of action, and executes corporate strategic initiatives that will ensure Nutrition International’s continued growth and success. A key member of the front office, the Senior Director plays the role of change agent, leading complex change management initiatives on a global scale, fostering inter-unit collaboration and ensuring buy-in and synergy across the enterprise. The Senior Director will engage with and track the work of the executive team, analyzing data and presenting evidence-based strategic directives in coordination with other members of the strategy and governance team. A key contributor to the Organization’s 2024-2030 investment case, the Senior Director designs strategy that is responsive to present contexts, but also actively anticipates future challenges and opportunities.

As the ideal candidate, you are a dynamic, conceptually clear leader with expertise in facilitation and consultation. You aptly elicit biases and ideas in a collective, listening closely to better understands the people and pieces of the puzzle around you and figuring out new ways of bringing them together. You have experience building a strategy from the ground up, facilitating buy-in, and developing collaborative processes in the development of strategic initiatives. You have an enhanced cross-cultural competence, are self-aware, and emotionally intelligent, readily able to leverage your strengths and creatively mitigate your gaps while working with partners and collaborators from around the world. Leading by influence, you are a skilled relationship builder and expert communicator and manager. You are a deeply strategic thinker with the skill to synthesize complex, technical data into relatable and practical applications. You are an agent of change who thinks on a global scale and thrives in an international, multi-stakeholder context. You are a maestro, swiftly bringing people together across business units to work in harmony towards common goals. You have a sound understanding of governance structures and approaches, able to inform and optimize governance systems and structures. Lastly and most importantly, you are a values-driven leader who strives to use your skillset to make the world a better place for its most vulnerable populations.

If you are interested in being part of a mission-focused organization that is improving the lives of millions around the world, please submit your application and related materials to Mike Young ([email protected]) and state Senior Director, Strategy & Transformation in the subject line of your e-mail.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those under consideration for the role will be contacted.

Nutrition International is committed to building diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible working environments. Nutrition International welcomes those who would contribute to the further diversification of staff including, but not limited to, women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity to apply.

Nutrition International and Boyden strive to provide a barrier-free process and make every effort to accommodate individual applicant needs. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. A request for accommodations will not affect an individual’s candidacy.