Chaloner has partnered with the Center for Reproductive Rights on their search for a Chief of Staff. 

Job Title: Chief of Staff

Department: Office of the President

Center Background: The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is a global human rights organization working to ensure that reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights around the world. With offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.; Nairobi, Kenya; Bogota, Colombia; and Geneva, Switzerland, the Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization changing law and policy throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States. Our 270+ diverse professionals are committed to advancing the Center’s human rights mission through game-changing litigation, legal policy, and advocacy work. This has powered the Center’s exceptional growth to an operating budget of over $67 million and won the respect of law firms in countries around the world. Our global pro bono network includes over 3,000 lawyers across six continents, 64 countries, and 130 law firms. Last year, law firms contributed over $35 million USD in pro bono legal services. 

The Center’s Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: By 2030, half of the world’s population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they were in 2020. The Center has a track record of success to back up this ambitious goal. Since our founding in 1992, the Center has transformed how reproductive rights are understood and applied by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, abortion, assisted reproduction, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights. We have won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies. The Center has also led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights. We have built the legal capacity of women’s rights advocates in more than 65 countries and counting. To learn more about the Center for Reproductive Rights, go to www.reproductiverights.org. 

The Role: The Center is seeking a strategic, forward-thinking and politically savvy Chief of Staff to serve as the right hand and key advisor to the CEO. This role is designed first and foremost to enable the CEO’s effectiveness, ensuring the CEO is fully supported, prepared, and focused on the highest priorities. The Chief of Staff will provide strategic and operational support to the CEO to optimize impact, facilitating timely decision-making, effective information flow, and organizational alignment and implementation of key priorities. The Chief of Staff will act as air traffic controller, problem solver, project manager, and thought partner to the CEO and the Executive Team, working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to help drive the organization's success. 

This role is based in the New York City office in a hybrid model of 3 days in-office, 2 days working from home.

Primary Responsibilities: 

Executive Effectiveness:

• Strategically manage the CEO’s day-to-day and longer-term schedule to prioritize the most important initiatives, activities, and decision-making. Ensure the CEO’s time is used efficiently by establishing clear meeting objectives and agendas, preparing high quality briefing materials in advance, and effectively facilitating meetings.  
• Facilitate the flow of information among the CEO’s direct reports in a timely and organized manner to ensure decisions, action items, and key information are shared with appropriate staff and high priority issues are raised and resolved. Track action items to completion, elevating issues to the CEO and providing troubleshooting support as needed.
• Serve as an organizational integrator, connecting the dots and spotting issues across the organization only visible due to the unique perch of the Chief of Staff. Share information, flag issues, and problem solve to address challenges before they arise. 
• Act with agility and respond with urgency when needed. Keep the CEO informed on progress and challenges related to priority issues and rapid response scenarios.
• Lead and support special projects, as directed.                                                       

Executive Team Effectiveness:

• Support the CEO in managing a high-functioning Executive Team.
• Drive the work of the Executive Team by developing well-structured meeting agendas with clear outcomes and objectives and timely, well-framed briefing materials; ensuring team meetings are conducted efficiently and effectively so objectives are achieved; and establishing clear ownership and deadlines for action items so work is brought over the finish line.  
• Ensure that the Executive Team’s time and attention is focused on issues within its mandate, including strategic and operational issues affecting the whole of the organization. Collaborate with leaders across the organization to ensure that matters not suited or ready for consideration by the Executive Team are addressed by the appropriate decision-makers.
• Create accountability mechanisms to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished; foster a culture of mutual accountability.
• Ensure that Executive Team decisions and other key information is communicated to staff.

Office of the President Management:

• Oversee the 4 person Office of the President, including effective operations, resource and budget management, and effective team leadership. Manage the Director of Board Relations and ensure that the entire Board Relations team is efficient and high performing.

Qualifications:

• At least 15 years of experience across a variety of functions including at least five years directly supporting an executive leader, preferably a CEO, Executive Director, President or high profile thought leader.
• BA/BS required, JD or MBA a plus.
• Strong preference for experience working in/for government, political and rapid response settings.
• Strategic thinker with a bias towards action, thoughtful, data-driven, and analytical in approach to solving problems.
• Systems thinker and process-oriented; can create order out of chaos.
• Superb attention to detail and first-rate organizational skills.
• Excels at building trusted relationships and networks, influences others to achieve outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communications, thoughtful listener and can easily distill information into agendas/briefs for timely review.
• Team player; will roll up their sleeves to take on the task at hand. 
• Trusted partner with discretion, loyalty and a proven ability to handle confidential information.
• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
• Able to travel up to 20% of the time or more as needed.
• Able to work 3-4 days a week in the office, varies with the CEO’s schedule.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At the Center, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation: The annual salary for this position is $275,000. This salary is reflective of a position based in New York City. This salary will be subject to a locality adjustment, if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting. Note that most of the salaries listed on our job postings reflect New York, NY salaries, where our national offices are headquartered.

Union: This position is not covered by the Center’s bargaining unit.

FLSA Status: This is an exempt position.

Benefits:

• Health: The Center provides a comprehensive health insurance plan with no in-network deductible and best-in-class reproductive healthcare coverage, including infertility. The Center also offers Dental and Vision coverage.
• Well-being: The Center offers resources to help prevent and recover from burnout through different programs that enable mental, physical and community well-being. The Center offers generous leave including paid parental leave, personal days, vacation, and sick leave. We are also closed the last week of December to allow staff to spend time with their loved ones.
• Investment: After the first year of employment, the Center will contribute 7.5%* of your annual salary to a 401(k) (* only applicable in US and Kenya)

How to Apply: Please complete the application at www.chaloner.com. A cover letter and resume must be included in your application. Please include these application materials as attachments. The Center does not charge a fee at any stage in the recruitment process (application, interviews, or selection). Nor does it request any medical examinations or bank account information as part of this process. If someone contacts you on behalf of the Center requesting payment for your application please notify talent@reprorights.org before taking any further action.

Our hiring processes and our work culture offer support and flexibility for staff with a variety of needs. Should you face an accessibility barrier in the application and interview process please let us know by contacting talent@reprorights.org. We will work with you to provide the accommodation that works best for you.

Deadline for applications: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: The Center is committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and staff. We strongly encourage people from all communities to apply. If you are excited about this role but unsure about whether your experience aligns with the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles. To learn more about the Center’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, please visit Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Center for Reproductive Rights.

Center policy on visa sponsorship for US based positions: Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by the Center for Reproductive Rights.