Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and External Affairs

This Vice President role combines enterprise strategy, external affairs, strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, and organizational development.
You will serve as a senior thought partner to executive leadership, translating vision into clear priorities, roadmaps, and actionable recommendations.
The position is intentionally designed as a build-stage leadership opportunity, balancing immediate execution with long-term capability development.
You will assess emerging opportunities, stakeholder dynamics, organizational needs, and external trends to help shape strategic decisions.
The role offers significant autonomy and influence across a lean, collaborative, mission-driven environment undergoing continued evolution.
You will work across functions and external relationships to connect strategy with execution, resources, governance, communications, and growth.
Success will require exceptional judgment, strategic clarity, relationship-building, and the ability to turn ambiguity into meaningful action and measurable outcomes.

• 12+ years of progressively responsible experience in philanthropy, social impact, movement infrastructure, mission-driven intermediaries, or other complex and evolving environments, including 8+ years of meaningful senior-level leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success managing and developing staff, building organizational capabilities, and leading complex initiatives or functions.
• Strong enterprise-level strategic thinking, with the ability to recognize patterns and opportunities, frame complex challenges, and advise senior leaders while remaining willing to work hands-on when priorities or capabilities are still developing.
• Proven experience contributing to cross-functional strategic planning or similarly complex organizational strategy processes and translating ambiguity into clear choices and decision-ready recommendations.
• Experience building or significantly shaping a team, function, initiative, or organizational capability from an early or evolving stage.
• Meaningful experience working within or alongside mission-driven intermediaries and fiscal sponsors, with an understanding of how intermediaries move capital, manage risk, and create value for funders, movements, and communities.
• Experience evaluating or developing complex partnerships, funds, programs, products, services, or new lines of work while balancing mission, financial, stakeholder, and operational considerations.
• Deep understanding of the philanthropic and social impact ecosystem, including foundations, donor networks, movement leaders, advocates, socially responsible businesses, public-sector partners, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Established relationships with diverse stakeholders across relevant social impact and philanthropic ecosystems.
• Strong strategic communications and narrative-development capabilities, supported by exceptional written and verbal communication, facilitation, synthesis, and executive-advisory skills.
• Sound judgment and discretion when navigating complex stakeholder relationships, sensitive issues, reputational considerations, and rapidly evolving environments.
• Ability to lead through influence across functions and organizational levels, build trust quickly, and make clear recommendations amid competing perspectives.
• Strong ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, distinguishing what needs to be decided immediately from what can be tested, learned, and refined over time.
• Deep commitment to racial, economic, environmental, and social justice, with meaningful understanding of organizing, advocacy, philanthropy, and power.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple technology platforms and systems with a self-directed approach to learning.
• Experience with impact investing or other mission-aligned capital strategies is a plus.
• Strong adaptability, curiosity, accountability, collaboration, and problem-solving skills suited to a lean, evolving, startup-like environment.