Senior Manager, Transformation Enablement

Heifer International is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.  About Heifer International  In 1944, Heifer International’s founder, Dan West, began outlining a simple but groundbreaking plan to tackle hunger around the world. West, a farmer from the Midwest and Church of the Brethren member, had recently returned from feeding weary refugees during volunteer service in the Spanish Civil War. He had seen firsthand that giving people food was a short-term solution, whereas providing them with animals offered a steady supply of nutritious food for an entire family. His philosophy still inspires Heifer’s work today. Partnering with farmers across a range of different livestock and crops, we create unique solutions to local challenges.  Today, Heifer International has operations in 19 countries around the world, working alongside local farmers, business owners and their communities, as they mobilize and envision their futures. Together, we build inclusive, resilient economies, so communities can develop effective ways to end global hunger and poverty in a sustainable way.  To date, we have supported more than 42 million farming families across Africa, Asia and the Americas and in the past five years alone. We have worked alongside 2.7 million families to close the living income gap or set them on a path to doing so. Between now and 2030, we will support an additional 10 million people to reach a living income by scaling up our signature programs. To achieve this, Heifer International relies on its passionate, committed, and highly skilled staff.  Role Overview  Heifer International is in the midst of a significant organizational transformation—shifting from a traditional hierarchical structure toward an agile, adaptive, farmer-focused, regenerative network organization guided by a living systems mindset. This shift is redefining how programs are designed, how decisions are made, and how teams collaborate across a globally distributed organization.  The Senior Manager, Transformation Enablement is a key member of the Transformation, Strategy & Communications (TSC) team, responsible for helping to steward this transformation from design into day-to-day practice across the organization. This role works across transformation efforts—helping teams stay aligned, connected, and progressing. You will partner with global teams, Regional Transformation Connectors, and other stakeholders to ensure priorities are clear, work is connected, and efforts are moving forward. A core part of the role is maintaining a system-level view of what is evolving—surfacing risks, identifying interdependencies, and translating emerging priorities into coordinated action. You will also partner closely with external consultants and internal teams to shape and maintain coordination systems (e.g., roadmaps and planning tools) and assume ongoing stewardship of these as the work transitions to internal ownership.   This role partners closely with the Director of Transformation Effectiveness, and other members of the TSC team. It is a highly collaborative role that relies on influence rather than authority and is ideal for someone who enjoys working across teams, making sense of complex work, and helping organizations turn strategy into coordinated action.   The Successful Candidate  You are a systems thinker who brings structure to complex, evolving work and helps teams move forward with clarity and momentum, even when structure is still emerging. You enable progress without relying on formal authority—building trust, facilitating alignment, and translating strategy into practical action across functions and geographies. You are comfortable working in networked, adaptive environments, supporting shared ownership and distributed leadership rather than traditional hierarchy.  You are skilled at sense-making—able to identify patterns, synthesize insights, and translate complexity into clear, actionable direction, including turning discussions and emerging thinking into concrete next steps and coordinated action. You build strong relationships and connect priorities across teams and functions—identifying overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for alignment. You operate as a strategic thought partner in complex transformation work to enable collaboration, culture, and strategic transformation.  RESPONSIBILITIES & DELIVERABLES  Transformation Enablement & System Alignment (40%) 

• Partner closely with the Director of Transformation Effectiveness as a critical thought partner, contributing to the ongoing shaping of Heifer’s transformation—particularly the evolution of its operating logic and