Chief of Staff

Company Profile 

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally-native, data-empowered solutions.  Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team.  Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.  

Overview 

The Chief of Staff is a strategy and execution partner to a senior business leader, with direct accountability for driving operating cadence, cross-functional alignment, and delivery of key initiatives. This is a hands-on, execution role that blends strategic thinking with day-to-day program management, requiring ownership of deliverables, tracking mechanisms, and executive-level communications. The role ensures that priorities are translated into actionable plans, decisions are clearly documented, and initiatives progress with discipline and accountability across teams. This is a 3-6 month contract consulting role with the potential to be temp-hire for the right candidate. This role will start as a 1099 consultant. This is a remote role and candidates may travel once a month. All qualified candidates must live and be authorized to work in the United States without requiring any visa sponsorship or transfer.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Operating Cadence

·       Drive annual and quarterly planning process, translating leadership priorities into clear initiatives, objectives, and execution plans

• Build leadership agendas, meeting and operations cadence including preparation materials, notes, and follow-up actions
• Coordinate and execute quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and offsites, including development of materials and tracking of outcomes
• Maintain decision logs, action trackers, and ownership alignment to ensure follow-through across leadership priorities

Cross-Functional Execution & Program Management

• Drive cross-functional initiatives spanning development, engineering, operations, and commercial teams
• Build and maintain integrated initiative trackers (milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, owners)
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive resolution plans with accountable owners and timelines

Performance Management, Reporting & Analytics

• Partner with functional leaders to define and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and performance tracking tools
• Produce weekly and monthly executive updates, business reviews, and leadership/board-ready materials
• Conduct targeted analysis (portfolio prioritization, resource planning, scenario modeling) and translate findings into clear recommendations and decision frameworks

Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Communications

• Serve as a central liaison across teams to align priorities, timelines, and deliverables
• Coordinate cross-functional communications, ensuring consistent messaging and timely escalation of issues
• Represent senior leadership in meetings as needed, capturing outcomes and clear execution of next steps
• Develop executive-level communications, presentations, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders

Governance, Risk & Decision Support

• Maintain decision logs, risk/issue registers, and action trackers with clear ownership and due dates
• Ensure materials are complete, accurate, and decision-ready for leadership review

Organization Enablement & Operational Improvement

• Support organizational scaling through operating model clarity, role definition, and onboarding coordination
• Drive process improvement initiatives, including standardization of reporting, meeting governance, and documentation practices

Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 8+ years of experience in energy, infrastructure, corporate strategy, consulting, or program management
• Experience supporting senior executives and driving cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment

• Strong understanding of energy, power, or infrastructure business models and lifecycle (development through operations)
• Proven ability to drive execution across cross-functional teams and manage complex, multi-threaded initiatives
• Strong program management capability, including building trackers, dashboards, and structured reporting outputs
• Strategic and analytical ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear recommendations and executive-ready materials
• Financia