Initiative Operations Manager
Arlington, VA
Priority Initiatives – Strategic Initiatives /
Full-time /
On-site
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.
Solving major challenges in society requires coordination and collaboration among many stakeholders across different organizations. You readily throw yourself into the thick of a high-paced environment, navigating complexity and accelerating progress. You’re able to guide your teammates through a challenging rhythm of checkpoints and across the finish line on projects across a portfolio. Even more—you’re creative in finding ways to improve the processes. While you can break down projects into their component parts, you feel accountable to and can articulate goals and results to leveraged audiences whose buy-in you need to be successful.
Your role works with Stand Together's Education leadership team to accelerate one of the most robust and successful portfolios in the country dedicated to transforming the K-12 education system from one-size-fits-all to learning that’s tailored to each student’s unique gifts, interests, and needs.
Every day you will drive multiple concurrent workstreams, partner with a broad range of internal and external collaborators, and help to inform better decision making. To be successful in this role, you must be a proactive project manager, executor, data-driven problem-solver, and effective communicator.
How You Will Contribute
- Contributing to the development of key strategies and partnering with the Vice President on operationalizing strategies into executable projects to manage.
- Creating effective feedback loops with working group members through building and maintaining strong mutually beneficial relationships.
- Overseeing knowledge dissemination, reporting, and document retention to inform strategy development in accordance with compliance policies.
- Leveraging best practices and continually improving internal systems with an eye toward future needs and reality-based constraints and budgets.
- Ensuring initiative team objectives, goals, metrics, and timelines are consistently met, and drive regular planning and analysis of performance.
- Identify and managing landscape shifts and risk mitigation around key projects in partnership with other internal teams.
What You Will Bring
- Understanding and deep connection to classical liberalism and the mission of the Stand Together Community.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure and thrive under ever changing landscapes.
- An innate ability to identify and foster a network of mutually beneficial partnerships with all levels of staff.
- Initiative to continuously identify areas for improvement and willingness to experiment in problem solving.
- Strong writing skills and experience gathering and condensing mass amounts of information into clear, concise reports.
- Proven ability to collaborate across multiple teams and manage multiple concurrent projects, particularly with finance and budgeting capability.
- Standout candidates may also bring experience in managing projects related to education.
- Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect.
What We Offer
- Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.
- A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.
- Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents.
- Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive.
Our Values: Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers our employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.
