Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, External Affairs

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

📋 Description

• Assist in the development and implementation of AUM+’s External Affairs division.

• Enhance the connection between AUM+’s strategy, external relationships, growth, communications, and emerging opportunities.

• Act as a senior strategist and builder-leader, reporting directly to the Chief Strategy Officer/EVP of External Affairs.

• Convert the CSO’s vision into well-defined priorities, phased work plans, measurable outcomes, deliverables, timelines, and resource suggestions.

• Support AUM+’s strategic planning across various functions.

• Formulate and execute an enterprise strategy that aligns with AUM+’s mission, organizational goals, and growth objectives.

• Interpret the enterprise vision into strategic options, priorities, and recommendations.

• Organize and sequence high-priority enterprise initiatives while considering operational, financial, legal, compliance, and readiness factors.

• Create decision-ready recommendations, business cases, scenarios, and tradeoff analyses.

• Develop a strategic narrative that ties together AUM+’s lines of work.

• Establish planning, sensing, research, and decision-making practices.

• Shape strategic communications and public affairs, focusing on narrative strategy, thought leadership, executive visibility, and priority messaging.

• Manage intricate relationships with funders, intermediaries, clients, or ecosystems.

• Assess new funds, fiscal sponsorship opportunities, partnerships, products, services, ventures, and other enterprise possibilities.

• Integrate philanthropic, movement, policy, market, and partner intelligence into enterprise planning.

• Represent AUM+ in selected external venues and relay insights to internal stakeholders.

• Facilitate the incubation of strategic initiatives through foundational strategy, governance, partnerships, resources, and leadership capacity.

• Collaborate with operational and functional leaders to include capacity, infrastructure, resources, governance, and risk factors.

• Transform approved directions into priorities, outcomes, guardrails, decision points, and execution handoffs.

• Identify obstacles to implementation, new evidence, and unresolved strategic choices.

• Link enterprise strategic priorities to teams, capabilities, and resources for effective implementation.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of twelve years of progressively responsible experience in philanthropy, social impact, movement infrastructure, mission-driven intermediaries, or similar complex and dynamic environments.

• At least eight years of significant senior-level leadership experience.

• Proven success in managing and developing staff.

• Capability to function in ambiguous situations without creating unnecessary complexity.

• Skill in differentiating between immediate decisions and those that can be tested and learned over time.

• Proficiency in collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders while executing during organizational changes.

• Proven experience in contributing to cross-functional strategic planning or similarly complex organizational strategy processes.

• Experience in converting ambiguity into clear choices and decision-ready recommendations.

• Background in building or significantly shaping a team, function, initiative, or organizational capability.

• Substantial experience working with or alongside mission-driven intermediaries and fiscal sponsors.

• Experience in evaluating or developing complex partnerships, funds, programs, products, services, or new lines of work.

• In-depth understanding of the philanthropic and social impact sectors.

• Strong relationships with diverse stakeholders within the ecosystem.

• Excellent strategic communications and narrative development abilities.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication, facilitation, synthesis, and executive-advisory skills.

• Sound judgment and discretion in navigating complex stakeholder dynamics, reputational, or sensitive environments.

• Ability to lead through influence across functions and levels, quickly build trust, and provide clear recommendations amid competing perspectives.

• Strong commitment to racial, economic, environmental, and social justice.

• Meaningful understanding of organizing, advocacy, philanthropy, and power dynamics.

• Proficiency in working across multiple technology platforms or systems with a focus on self-learning.

• Experience with impact investing or other mission-aligned capital strategies is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-covered health insurance (medical, dental, and vision).

• 401k matching.

• Paid Time Off and leave policies.

• Funds for professional development.

• Stipend for remote work.

• Domestic travel opportunities, including team gatherings, external meetings, key partner engagements, and retreats as needed.