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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Senior Officer, Strategy & Implementation Management in Seattle, Washington
The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
"Guidance, Solutions, Integrity" describes the Legal division’s approach to providing responsive legal guidance supporting pursuit of the foundation’s mission and implementation of the foundation's programmatic and operational strategies. The Legal division delivers comprehensive legal services by providing efficient and reliable legal guidance, managing legal risk, and supporting the development of solutions to achieve the mission of the foundation and its affiliated entities.
The Legal division partners with our colleagues across the foundation to enable mission-driven work by maintaining an efficient, well-run global organization where employees can thrive and make their best contributions. Doing this well requires effective collaboration, strong alignment, and thoughtful planning across both operational and programmatic teams – as well as shared accountability for mitigating risk and optimizing the foundation’s operational resources.
Your Role
This is a role for a creative leader with a high degree of ownership and process improvement skills. You will design and lead the planning and execution of projects and activities supporting improvements and change across legal operations business processes, teams, and functions. Provides proactive program and project leadership, identifying and driving project deliverables . Partners with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery of outlined scope, business value, timeline, and quality . You mu st have deep experience partnering and working with global Human Resource and Expansion teams and developing and driving improvements and change across global teams and functions .
What You’ll Do
Design, lead, launch and monitor Legal operations programs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation.
Provide tactical management throughout project lifecycle and oversee development of all project deliverables (charter, requirements, detailed design, plan, recommendations, post-project, etc.) .
Ensure effective convening and communication with project members, stakeholders, and senior leadership. Includes providing proactive status updates , solutioning, risk/issue management and documenting/tracking key decisions and action items.
Facilitate meetings and communications throughout the project lifecycle to build momentum and ensure visibility of relevant information to appropriate audiences .
Establish and nurture collaboration with project partners/sponsors to coordinate development of all deliverables and ensure alignment on prioritization .
D evelop artifacts, d ocument ing processes and findings from each project ensuring knowledge is captured and available for future implementation . Find opportunities for creating templates , playbook s, and standard processes for broader use .
Your Experience
We are looking for people who enjoy the opportunity of working on complex problems and collaboratively creating solutions that have the potential for transformational change in the lives of people around the world.
Demonstrated complex project management skills and a successful track record of leading or running multiple simultaneous legal operations projects relating to process improvement initiatives in the labor and employee relations and human resources.
Able to work with flexibility, efficiency, and tact in a fast-paced, challenging environment. Open to rapid change and able to learn new things quickly.
Ability to communicate to internal and external partners, at all levels about technical and operational details, effectively adjusting approach to meet varying needs and level of understanding while protecting critical and legally privileged information.
Exemplary written and verbal communicator, comfortable communicating in multiple ways while intently and with a bias toward being responsive and productive. Strong preparation and presentation of executive-level information.
Demonstrated authoritative knowledge of, and ability to work across multiple project management systems, accompanied by knowledge in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and other web-based software applications.
Demonstrated DEI mentality in understanding and valuing differences in others and seeking input from the values and uniqueness of people of different groups and cultures.
*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
The salary range for this role is $166,300 to $249,500 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences where our offices are located , in Seattle and Washington D.C.. The range for this role in these locations is $181,200 to $271,800 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission and new hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise , as evaluated during the interview process.
Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Candidate Accommodations
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/) works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Mark Suzman, under the direction of co-chairs Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates and the board of trustees.