Executive Officer – Transformation and Strategy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the integrity and progression of Heifer’s transformation architecture and comprehensive transformation portfolio.

• Maintain a holistic perspective across the Program Model, Operating Model, Business Model, culture, governance, organizational capabilities, and transformation streams as they emerge within an RNO.

• Facilitate the translation of Heifer’s developing Regenerative Network Organization operating logic into practical organizational applications.

• Ensure alignment across organizational designs, structures, policies, processes, decision roles, governance, and fiduciary responsibilities.

• Foster transformation governance, shared stewardship, and collaborative decision-making with the Transformation Stewardship Committee, TSC, and Node Leads.

• Develop distributed transformation capabilities across countries, networks, ecosystems, functions, and capability communities.

• Guarantee that countries receive necessary resources, connections, support, and ongoing feedback.

• Guide human and cultural transformation alongside structural and operating-model modifications.

• Incorporate learning, sensing, and adaptation into transformation stewardship.

• Establish Heifer’s long-term ecosystem for transformation, organizational development, culture, human systems, governance, and learning capabilities.

• Collaborate closely with the CEO, Transformation Stewardship Committee, Board of Directors, distributed transformation capabilities, and the Communications Team.

• Provide leadership to the Sr. Director, Integration and Adaptation, and the Communications Team (Node).

⛳️ Requirements

• A Master’s degree in MBA, strategy, public policy, organizational development, or a related field.

• A minimum of fifteen (15) years in strategic leadership roles, encompassing transformation and organizational change, strategy, and operating-model evolution.

• At least eight (8) years of experience in people management and working with senior executives and governing bodies within complex organizational environments.

• Proven experience in leading or stewarding significant transformations across distributed, international, networked, or federated organizations.

• Experience in global, multicultural settings—ideally in international development, philanthropy, networks, or federated systems.

• Background or knowledge in enterprise-level communications.

• A demonstrated record of success in collaborating with senior leadership and stakeholders to achieve strategic alignment and lead major organizational transformations.

• Strong understanding of systems thinking, adaptive strategy, organization design, strategy development and execution, and shared and distributed leadership models.

• Outstanding communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.

• A commitment to locally led development, equity, and regenerative systems.

• Willingness and ability to travel internationally, potentially up to 30% of the time.

• Proficiency in additional languages is considered an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive, locally relevant benefits that are customized to each country's context.

• A Total Rewards package designed to support diverse employee needs and encourage long-term engagement.

• Inclusive recruitment practices and reasonable accommodations for the application process.

• Flexible base location options.

• Significant opportunities for international travel.