Vice President of Operations, Risk Management

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

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and operational direction for Oxfam America’s Operations and Risk Management division.

• Supervise Finance, Technology and Information Management, and People, Culture and Human Resources.

• Enhance and streamline operational systems, infrastructure, personnel processes, financial management, risk oversight, compliance, grants administration, and shared services.

• Establish operational rhythms, decision-making authority, service standards, controls, and cross-departmental processes.

• Promote process simplification, automation, shared services, outsourcing, and the utilization of data and technology.

• Ensure business continuity and operational resilience.

• Oversee employee lifecycle practices, people policies, systems, organizational health, talent mapping, succession planning, and workplace culture.

• Provide executive oversight of technology strategy, infrastructure, data governance, cybersecurity, digital risks, and vendor management.

• Manage Finance and financial systems, including grants administration, payroll, procurement, contracting, vendors, and shared services.

• Lead operational risk management, compliance, internal controls, cybersecurity, insurance, legal risk, and risk reporting.

• Enhance grants management, facilities, workplace operations, shared administrative services, and contract management.

• Collaborate with executive and Board leadership on enterprise-wide priorities, planning, execution, and reporting.

• Represent Oxfam America with Oxfam International, affiliates, external partners, advisors, auditors, and vendors.

• Foster leadership capacity, accountability, collaboration, and performance across the division.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10–15+ years of progressively senior leadership experience with significant responsibility for complex organizational operations and enterprise-wide systems.

• Proven executive leadership across Human Resources, Finance, Technology, Facilities, and Risk Management.

• Experience in leading operating-model redesign, process enhancements, systems modernization, automation, outsourcing or vendor strategies, and organizational transformation.

• Extensive experience with enterprise risk management, compliance, internal controls, cybersecurity and digital risk, business continuity, and governance.

• Financial fluency encompassing budgeting, forecasting, financial controls, reporting, audits, grants or restricted funding, and enterprise financial systems.

• Experience managing senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams.

• Experience collaborating with Presidents/CEOs, executive teams, and Boards.

• Capability to work independently, lead through uncertainty, manage competing priorities, and integrate strategic thinking with operational acumen.

• Exceptional interpersonal, written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.

• Experience overseeing people, finance, technology, and risk functions, including employee relations, talent management, organizational development, labor relations, HR systems, or people operations.

• Preferred: experience in an international NGO, federated or confederated organization, or organizations operating across multiple legal, financial, and regulatory frameworks.

• Preferred: experience with ERP transformation, cloud migration, cybersecurity and data governance, AI-enabled process improvement, and technology outsourcing.

• Preferred: experience with grants management, sanctions/OFAC or anti-terrorism financing controls, safeguarding, or comparable risk frameworks.

• All offers are contingent upon satisfactory references and appropriate pre-employment checks.

• Must meet applicable work authorization requirements as an E-Verify employer.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work options.

• Hybrid operating model.

• Professional development opportunities.

• Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

• Commitment to safeguarding and inclusive workplace practices.

• Pre-employment checks and references.