Director, Planning and Performance

Full-time, Remote, Exempt

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Position Summary

Rewiring America is in a phase of rapid growth, and we seek an entrepreneurial Director of Planning and Performance to join our Chief of Staff & Operations team. This position reports to the Chief of Staff, Vice President of Operations and Planning.

In partnership with the Vice President, the Director of Planning and Performance moves our organization's mission forward by driving and optimizing our strategic planning processes and performance management systems. In this role, you will work closely with senior leadership, staff, and external partners to ensure alignment with our mission, vision, and values while maximizing our impact and operational efficiency. 

The Director of Planning and Performance plays a pivotal role in facilitating Rewiring America’s strategic planning process and measuring our progress against it through our use of OKRs. This includes supporting senior leadership retreats with programming and creating reporting dashboards to elevate strategic insights and choice points. 

This role requires a unique blend of skills. You’re a wizard with spreadsheets, processes, and systems thinking. You juggle all the balls while hopping on one foot twirling a hula hoop, never drop a detail, and find it fun. You do this while possessing a deep understanding and passion for people. You are both a performance dashboard virtuoso that translates data into tangible insights and a people-reader that inspires collaboration and team engagement to achieve our goals. You bring expertise in organizational development and management best practices and the emotional intelligence of having moved people through systems change. 

What You’ll Do

As the Director, Planning and Performance, you will collaborate closely with the Chief of Staff, Vice President of Operations and Planning to improve organizational effectiveness by:

1. Optimizing our strategic planning process. This includes supporting programming for leadership retreats and collaborating across teams to develop annual Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). 
2. Evolving and further developing our performance measurement system. This includes tracking and enhancing reporting against our Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), delivering performance insights to our leadership team. 

This role also serves as a pivotal bridge between our multidisciplinary teams spanning the public and private sectors, including creative, communications, research, product and engineering, and policy. It is a culture creator and carrier for how we organize and facilitate our organizational strategy across our people.

Strategic Planning:

• In partnership with the Chief of Staff, Vice President of Operations and Planning, improve strategic planning efficacy, incorporating best practices from OKRs, KPIs, DACIs/MOCHAs, SMART goals, and other management tools.
• Collaborate with the senior leadership and stakeholders to develop and implement annual OKRs, ensuring alignment with the organization's mission and long-term goals.
• Support the Chief of Staff, VP of Operations and Planning in creating content for leadership reports and retreats.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, incorporating best practices from the field of management consulting. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process enhancements.

Performance Management:

• Develop and maintain a robust performance management framework with clear metrics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms, emphasizing data visualization.
• Conduct quantitative analysis to assess program effectiveness, efficiency, and impact.
• Work closely with program managers and function leaders to establish performance targets and facilitate performance improvement initiatives. Drive OKR reporting across teams to ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Quantitative Analysis and Data Visualization:

• Create visually compelling performance dashboards and reports to communicate key performance metrics and insights to stakeholders. Elevate strategic choice points and recommend adjustments as needed, leveraging quantitative analysis.
• Use data visualization tools and techniques to make