Chief strategy officer job description

About Mastery:

We believe educational inequity is the most pressing social problem facing our country and the civil rights issue of our day. Mastery exists to help solve this problem. Our ultimate goal is to create a model urban school district that serves all students with excellence. We are organized around one driving mission: All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams. To fulfill this mission, we attend to the whole child - academically and emotionally - matching high expectations for students with high levels of support.

Mastery Charter Schools is a nonprofit network of more than 24 schools serving over 14,000 students in Philadelphia and Camden. We are the largest turnaround school operator in the nation and have been lauded by President Obama and the US Department of Education for our ability to dramatically boost academic achievement in historically low-performing schools.

We know neighborhood schools matter, all students deserve access to a great education, and the people in our buildings can grow and develop sustainably to make the biggest impact possible in this work.

Mastery's Equity Vision:

We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to achieving our mission.

We strive to be an anti-racist school district that eliminates the inequities in academic achievement that limit our students' choices; that cultivates classrooms where every student is affirmed, supported, and held to high expectations; and that nurtures a diverse organization where students, staff, and families are valued, respected, and included.

Position Summary:
Mastery Charter School is seeking a Chief of External Strategy (CES) to support their mission and lead the creation and execution of strategies to manage Mastery's external environment. Reporting to the CEO, the CES is a key member of the executive leadership team focused on building a high-performing organization that serves as a model for school districts serving low-income communities of color. The CES will craft and execute a political strategy at the state, city, and school district levels in both Philadelphia and Camden through leveraging personal relationships, coalition building, partnerships with local CDC and advocacy groups, public relations, and parent advocacy. Mastery has a 5-person organizing team that has nurtured and supported parent leadership groups at each of our 24 schools. The CES will manage the Sr. Director of the Parent Advocacy team that leads the organizing team. Depending on the candidates' experience and interest, the role could expand in the future to include supervision of the Development and/or communications functions.. This is a high-impact position within the organization and a high-profile position to external constituencies. Accordingly, an exceptional strategic mind, outstanding relationship skills, successful political/advocacy experience, and grassroots organizing expertise are prerequisites for this role
Responsibilities:Develop & Execute External Strategy : The CES will develop and manage an overarching external relations strategy designed to engage key constituencies and policymakers to ensure state and local school district policies are supportive of Mastery's work. Mastery's Philadelphia charters are granted by the School District of Philadelphia, but much of the funding and charter policies originate at the state level. In Camden, Mastery is directly accountable to the NJ Department of Education but also relies on the Camden School District and local school board for a variety of services. As a result, the web of relationships and power bases Mastery must navigate includes a wide and diverse range of state, district, and community leaders. This work will include: Support & Coordinate Parent Advocacy : A primary driver of Mastery's external strategy are their parent leaders. The CES will supervise a Senior Director of Parent Advocacy and their team of four organizers. The team supports parents working on issues in their communities and schools as well as broader public policies that impact Mastery's mission. Mastery parent leaders are frequent visitors to state and local politicians' offices. Build & Nurture Diverse Web of Relationships & Partnerships: Both because of Mastery's neighborhood school focus and the need for a broad range of allies, a key driver of Mastery's external strategy is building a diverse and deep range of relationships with key individuals and institutions. This means building relationships with key power brokers at the state, city, and district levels as well as with local community leaders, non-profits, and faith organizations. Ideally, Mastery is building close relationships with organizations and individuals who support its work while opening lines of communication with those who don't. Mastery has a range of natural allies and partners in community development organizations and racial and social justice advocates. Through partnerships of mutual self-interests, the CES will build political coalitions that cross traditional anti- and pro-charter lines. Leverage Money and Power: The CES will build and leverage relationships with local politicians, power brokers, and Mastery board members in service of its political strategy. The CES will also organize and leverage the political contributions of board members and supporters to support our political strategy. Public Relations and Communications: The CES will represent Mastery at public forums and proactively influence key stakeholders via a comprehensive communications strategy which positions Mastery as a national leader and innovator in creating a high-performing public-school district that truly serves all students with the highest level of quality. Forums will include traditional media, social media, speaking engagements, and events. The CES will work closely with the Director of Communications and outside consultants to execute this work.
Qualifications and Skills:The CES will have a successful track record of managing external strategy and/or political campaigns. Experience in the education sector is not essential. This individual should have strengths in political strategy and grassroots organizing. Experience in policy development is a plus. This work is important and challenging. This individual must be passionate about quality public education for low-income students of color in order to sustain the effort this job will require. The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:Politics, Power, and Influence Savvy - Can assess power and influence dynamics and assess key players' motivations and perspectives. Knows how to navigate politics. Strategic Thinking - Can see the big picture, determine root causes and motivations, and figure out how to work towards an end goal. Relationship Builder - Can build relationships with a wide variety of political leaders, community leaders, and School Board members Effective Advocate - Able to distill complex issues into concise talking points. Persuasive. Community Organizer/Political Operator expertise Communications Sophistication - Understands communications strategy, marketing, and public relations. Writes effectively.Team leader -- Can effectively manage and develop team leaders to execute effectively.Organized, Effective Project Leader - Manages multiple priorities and gets things done. Organized and detail-oriented. Can teach others to do the same. Mission & Values Aligned -- Deep mission conviction and alignment with Mastery's values. Takes the high road. Humble - ego is in check
Desired Experience:Minimum seven years of senior political or external strategy experience. Experience leading grassroots organizing initiatives. A track record of success managing and developing teams. Marketing or communications in a large organization environment is highly desirable. Experience in an educational setting is a plus but not required. Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
Mastery Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. We offer a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

UPDATE AS OF MAY 2022 - Please review Mastery's Health and Safety Plans here to learn about our approach to vaccination and testing as well as our response to COVID-19 for the 2021-22 school year. For ongoing positions, Mastery roles are designated as in-person, with regular on-site responsibilities, unless otherwise noted. As such, Employees must be able to support Mastery Schools' academic plan and business strategies on-site - at a Mastery campus - as required.

Exceptions to this requirement will be considered on an individualized basis.

BankFive was chartered in 1855 as the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, one of the first Five Cent Savings Banks in America. While other banks at that time required a minimum $1 deposit to open an account, BankFive only required a five-cent deposit. This was more achievable to many of the factory workers who worked and lived in the area. Since then, the Bank has been serving the SouthCoast community and has made a commitment to provide local individuals and businesses with outstanding products and services to meet their financial needs. In 2015, the Bank unveiled a new logo/branding strategy.

Approximately 220 FTE.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads the bank strategic, business and budget planning processes. Evaluates financial performance, variance to plan and identify opportunities to improve profitability.
• Maximize bank operating performance and achieve financial objectives.
• Analyze and enhance lending profitability while managing risk.
• Special project research, analysis and recommendations including acquisition and growth opportunities.
• As a member of the executive management team, contribute to strategic planning. Direct initiatives to support bank’s financial and developmental goals while ensuring compliance adherence and risk mitigation. Participate in Board level committees including; Board of Directors, Executive, Audit, Risk, ALCO, Compliance & CRA and Technology. Member of management ALLL, ALCO, LPC, Risk Management, and Technology Committees.
• Represents the Bank by serving on various community Boards/Committees and participating in internal employee and external community events.
• Regularly reviews and analyzes products and service offerings to ensure they are meeting customer needs and the Bank’s desired results. Manage appropriate pricing.
• Oversees bank’s loan loss mitigation efforts.
• Effectively develop quality managers and staff members. Exercise authority in developing appropriate staffing levels, hiring and developing talent, managing performance,
• Assures that everyone under the Risk Management umbrella is interacting with other departments to achieve what is best for the Bank for compliance, efficiency, referring customers and common goals.
• Together with the Manager of Credit Risk ensure there are systems, programs and processes designed to accurately assess appropriate portfolio composition, concentration limits, reserve analysis.

Together with the CFO ensure that there is adequate oversight of interest rate risk and liquidity risk, the credit worthiness of loan assets and ensure that are assigned a risk level to loans so that the Bank can reasonably assess the current and potential future risk of the portfolio and take action to mitigate that risk.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree with additional education in management, banking and/or business administration required, with at least 10 years of relevant experience in general banking and/or regulatory compliance.
• Must have excellent analytic skills, excellent understanding of banking regulations and Federal and State legal issues. Requires outstanding oral, written and interpersonal skills and the ability to solve problems. . Extensive background in financial institution operating policies and procedures
• Experience in commercial credit, litigation and bankruptcy.
• Excellent analytical, management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills, high level of attention to detail, efficient and trustworthy.

We have a simple belief - Unexpected Works. It means that the best idea is the one you never saw coming. The thing that catches you so off guard that you can't look away. And the only path to genuinely unexpected works is through creativity. Not just what passes for creativity because it answers a brief, looks the part and helps everyone sleep at night. But creativity that is foreign, surprising and interesting enough to cause jaws to drop and sales to soar. It's having the fresh perspective and raw energy to bring something into the world that no one's ever seen before. We're talking about the courage to shake things up and maybe even tear a few things down. And knowing that what most would call the finish line is where the real work starts. We believe in people, product, and profit, in that order. For us, people always come first. They're the soul of our agency. It takes amazing folks to make amazing work. That's why we make sure everyone who comes through the door is as great as the people who are already here. It's also why we constantly strive to build diverse teams where everyone brings something unique to the table. Because you can't make the unexpected if you only work with the usual suspects. By bringing together diverse thinkers with different backgrounds and perspectives, we validate Bill Bernbach's notion that an idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. So, come be part of the magic.

The Head of Strategy is an expert in building brands that impact culture, drive business and create emotional resonance with consumers. This person is a nimble strategic thinking that "knows enough to be dangerous" about all parts of the marketing mi and specializes in partnering with creatives to create unexpected work that has an outsized impact in the market.

In its simplest terms, this position is about proving that Creativity is the Most Powerful Force in Business.
Creativity

+ Has an ambition for the brands we lead, and a plan for how to get them there

+ Inspires original creative ideas among every team member (creative, account, clients, partner agencies)

+ Stays engaged in the crafting and selling of ideas, always finding ways to make the work better and more impactful

+ Evangelizes insights and POVs to trigger original creative ideas among every team member in every aspect of a brand's behavior

+ Leverages client trust to help take business-appropriate risks and knows where any given assignment fits into overall strategy

+ Collaborates with Creative Department to ensure creative product is the highest quality, meets client objectives and leads the category

+ Uncovers opportunities to maximize current marketing plans, engage customers in new ways, and increase customer loyalty through integrated communications solutions

+ Encourages the exploration of innovative ideas, including non-traditional media options

+ Feels as comfortable writing headlines and commenting on directors treatments as they do crafting comms plans and running focus groups

+ Develops innovative consumer insight(s) for specific client's brand issue

Productivity

+ Makes the strategic choices necessary to give clear and single-minded direction for all of the brand's actions

+ Works to keep simplicity and focus over time - always with an eye toward creative output

+ Synthesizes large amounts of data into actionable insights

+ Always exploring new ways to understand how effective we are, from forming KPIs to working with clients on research and testing approaches

+ Able to translate client feedback into actionable creative guidance, in real time

+ Develops projects / white papers that improve the quality of the agency's work and publishes these as appropriate

Knowledge and Skills

+ Strong understanding (how to use, strength and weakness, etc.) of tools that allow us to understand the effectiveness of our work. Cross-pollinates ideas from new sources including consumer understanding, wider trends and forecasts and internal DDB tools and resources

+ Networks with internal experts and industry contacts to keep informed of trends and issues affecting the client's business

+ Stays current on as much relevant research as necessary to keep clients' brands and agency's reputation ahead of competitors

Relationships/Communication

+ Develops excellent relationships with senior managers within the client organization

+ Is the senior strategist in the development, with the client, of long-range brand planning and annual communications plan

+ Brings the team together by creating shared thinking about our brands and our consumers

+ Provides a POV (verbal and written), which is so persuasive and inspiring, it, can convert a skeptic on the team to an advocate

+ Is the advocate for the single minded strategic idea with all partners

+ Delivers compelling presentations and facilitates internal and client meetings

Leadership

+ Is equally passionate about "better results" as "better ideas"

+ Creates an environment for continuous learning to ever increase the effectiveness of our solutions across all media channels

+ Generates a high level of passion among the entire team

+ Displays empathy and decisiveness

+ Keeps an eye out for good talent, knows what makes a strong DDB employee

+ Rewards and motivates people allowing them to step up and encouraging them to lead their own career development

+ Leads team to establish appropriate measures of success and criteria for judging performance

+ 12+ years experience as strategist on global brands, preferable at creatively-driven agencies

+ Has the proven ability to create consensus and strategic direction from multiple opinions

+ Has proven examples of idea generation that created winning brand strategies. Is able to employ both imagination and rigor to take an idea from good to inspiring

+ Exhibits intense curiosity about human nature and the world we live in. Is observant, open-minded and receptive to new experiences from which he/she can learn

+ Has a reputation for being able to tap into the minds of others - learns about attitudes, opinion, interests and motivations from multiple audiences

+ Has consistently displayed an understanding of the methods and procedures commonly used in advertising and marketing research that have provided a foundation for drawing valid conclusions and implications from client studies.

DDB is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and to review all of our job postings to minimize biased language. DDB San Francisco does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.

ID: 2022-1707

External Company URL: www.ddb.com

Street: 200 California Street