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Associate Director – Innovation Strategy and Execution
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.. Lead the portfolio's most important projects and high-stakes special projects from start to finish .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing high-stakes projects and fundraising efforts, with a focus on strategic planning and organizational development. Exhibits exceptional problem-solving abilities and effective communication skills to engage with senior leadership and stakeholders.
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Project ManagementStrategic PlanningFundraising CoordinationProblem-SolvingCommunication Skills
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Hard Skills
Project ManagementStrategic PlanningFundraising CoordinationProgram DevelopmentRisk IdentificationData AnalysisDecision-MakingOrganizational DevelopmentTeam Structure ManagementGrowth Strategy
Soft Skills
Structured ThinkingPolitical AwarenessJudgmentEntrepreneurial ApproachSelf-Direction
Tools & Technologies
AI Productivity ToolsClaudeChatGPTCodex
Certifications & Qualifications
MBA or Equivalent Graduate Degree
Industry Keywords
Global HealthInternational DevelopmentPhilanthropyChief of Staff ExperienceSpecial Projects
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesChai
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the portfolio's most important projects and high-stakes special projects from start to finish
- Coordinate Innovation's role in major fundraising efforts for priority programs and manage key funder relationships
- Work with program leads during rapid growth to strengthen plans, team structures, senior hiring, and critical workstreams
- Draft memos and slide decks and obtain information or decisions needed to move work forward
- Act as a thought partner to the Vice President, Innovation, on strategy, prioritization, and organizational questions
- Identify portfolio-wide risks, connections, opportunities, and synergies across teams
- Maintain a live view of priorities, deadlines, dependencies, funder deadlines, reporting cycles, and leadership reviews
- Triage incoming requests and route them to appropriate owners
- Prepare Innovation leadership for key meetings and manage follow-through on commitments
- Prepare portfolio inputs for CHAI's CEO, board, and senior leadership
- Coordinate major fundraising efforts, develop new program concepts into funded plans, and support programs expanding into new countries
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8 or more years of professional experience
- Track record of progressively senior, trusted responsibility
- Track record of taking an ambiguous problem, structuring it, and delivering the result with full ownership
- Hands-on operating experience inside an organization, such as leading a function, launching a program, or running part of a business
- Exceptional structured thinking and problem-solving
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to compress complex material for senior audiences
- Entrepreneurial, self-directed approach with high output and high standards
- Comfort with limited structure and shifting priorities
- Confidence to hold and voice an independent view, including disagreement with senior leaders
- Judgment to recognize when a decision is not theirs to make
- Political awareness and ability to work across teams and levels without formal authority
- Confident, advanced daily use of modern AI productivity tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex
- Discretion and judgment with confidential personnel, funder, and board-sensitive material
- MBA or equivalent graduate degree is an advantage
- Experience in global health, international development, or philanthropy is an advantage
- Experience in a chief of staff, strategy, or special projects role supporting a senior executive is an advantage
- Founding or early-stage experience building a product, program, or business from scratch is an advantage
- Experience supporting a program, team, or business through rapid growth is an advantage
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equal employment opportunity and commitment to fairness, mutual respect, diversity, and inclusion
- Remote work arrangement
- Regular in-person working days in Boston
- Occasional international travel