SENIOR MANAGER, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES & PARTNERSHIPS

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.

The Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships will oversee the execution of key organization-wide, innovative, and strategic initiatives being implemented under CARE’s strategy. This will require partnering with and working through cross functional teams across a global organization to drive forward strategic priorities. This position will also be responsible for coordinating, nurturing, and leading the review of Strategic Partnerships that support CARE reaching its strategic goals. This will involve looking at Partnerships at an organizational level – seeking opportunities for mergers, acquisitions, and other types of strategic partnerships that further our mission and goals. The Sr Manager will lead establishing criteria, finding, assessing, engaging internal and external stakeholders, and aligning decision-makers on opportunities, risks and other considerations to move strategic opportunities forward. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Strategy and Planning, this position will be a strong problem solver, project manager, and a cross-team facilitator. S/he will support integrated ways of working (breaking silos), managing towards goals owned by multiple teams, 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:

• Manage Strategic Initiatives
• Manage Strategic Partnerships
• Problem Solving & Thought Partnership
• Analytics, Performance Mgt, & Budgeting Nalytics
• Other duties, as defined

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.
• 5 years experience leading partnerships with global and sectoral stakeholders, foundations, and think tanks and/or managing organization wide partnerships and mergers/acquisitions
• Strong project management with an adaptive mindset; executive presence and presentation skills.
• Comfort with Microsoft Office Suite with strong analystics background; PowerPoint story building; advanced written communications,