Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy Execution & Integration

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Presidential Execution

• Serve as the primary integrator of enterprise strategy, Board direction, presidential priorities, and innovation initiatives.

• Translate enterprise and presidential priorities into executable workplans with clear ownership, sequencing, milestones, and timelines.

• Oversee dependency management, readiness, and execution planning across organizational units to ensure follow-through.

• Monitor progress, surface risks and tradeoffs, and recommend corrective actions to the Chief of Staff.

Innovation Governance & Integration

• Provide enterprise-level governance and integration support for the Office of Innovation to ensure alignment with IEEE’s strategic plan.

• Partner closely with the Chief Innovation Officer and innovation leadership to:

  • Pressure-test initiatives against enterprise priorities

  • Establish clear decision criteria for advancing, pausing, or stopping initiatives

  • Align innovation pipelines with organizational capacity and execution ownership

• Ensure innovation outputs transition into operational delivery pathways rather than remaining isolated pilots or platforms.

• Support innovation-related committees by ensuring their work is decision-oriented and connected to execution expectations.

Cross-Organizational Integration & Change Management

• Serve as the enterprise integrator for initiatives spanning multiple organizational units, portfolios, or leadership domains.

• Align timelines, inputs, and dependencies to reduce duplication, execution friction, and unnecessary escalation.

• Lead change-management approaches for enterprise initiatives, including sequencing, readiness, adoption, and sustained follow-through.

• Maintain momentum during leadership transitions, annual presidential cycles, or periods of competing priorities.

Committee, Governance, & Executive Support

• Provide staff leadership for strategy-, alignment-, and innovation-related committees as operating bodies with clear workplans and deliverables.

• Translate governance decisions and recommendations into coordinated execution actions.

• Support preparation for Board meetings, retreats, and key executive engagements where strategy, innovation, or enterprise execution is involved.

• Serve as execution lead for Board- and President-commissioned initiatives requiring enterprise coordination.

Operational Authority & Continuity

• Act as decision authority for routine execution matters and escalation point for complex or time-sensitive cross-cutting issues.

• Serve as acting Chief of Staff when required.

• Maintain execution continuity during periods of organizational change or leadership transition.

Trusted Partner to the Chief of Staff

• Act as a senior thought partner on execution strategy, prioritization, and organizational dynamics.

• Provide candid assessments of where execution is breaking down and recommend corrective actions.

• Support the Chief of Staff in maintaining coherence across strategy, innovation, presidential leadership, and organizational delivery.

Authority & Operating Principles

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