Deputy Director, Strategic Planning & Management

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The U.S. Program (USP) is pursuing Ambition 2045—an enterprise-wide effort to accelerate progress toward equitable upward mobility through educational attainment. Delivering on this ambition requires a step-change in how the division aligns strategy, prioritizes investments, allocates resources, and drives coherence across a complex, interdependent portfolio.

The Office of the President (OOP) plays a central role in enabling the U.S. Leadership Team (USLT) to operate as a cohesive, high-functioning decision body. Within OOP, the Strategic Planning & Management (SPM) function serves as a critical enterprise capability that enables division-wide strategy integration, planning, governance, and organizational coherence. The function ensures that strategic priorities are translated into actionable plans, decision forums, and operating rhythms that support high-quality, timely, and accountable leadership decisions across the division.

Posting Close Date: Sunday, June 14th at 11:59pm PDT

Your Role

As Deputy Director, Strategic Planning & Management (DDSPM) within OOP, you will lead division-wide strategy integration and execution by translating Ambition 2045 into actionable priorities, planning processes, governance mechanisms, and enterprise decision frameworks. You will be accountable for strengthening strategic coherence across portfolios by enabling integrated planning, surfacing tradeoffs and interdependencies, and ensuring leadership decisions are operationalized through clear accountability, sequencing, and execution pathways. You will help design and steward the management systems, operating rhythms, and cross-functional coordination mechanisms that enable the division to operate as one integrated enterprise while preserving portfolio ownership and context-specific flexibility.

You will work across all priority pillars and strategies to:

• Drive division-wide strategy development and ongoing refinement in partnership with OOP leadership and the USLT

• Structure annual and multi-year planning, budgeting, and prioritization processes across portfolios

• Design and facilitate leadership governance forums and decision-making processes that enable timely, high-quality, and actionable decisions

• Surface cross-portfolio tradeoffs, resource implications, sequencing considerations, and operational interdependencies

• Translate strategic priorities into clear division-wide guardrails, standards, and execution expectations

• Strengthen organizational alignment and coherence through shared planning norms, communication mechanisms, and cross-functional coordination

• Build and support a division-wide community of practice across SPM leaders to reinforce strategic integration, operational excellence, and shared accountability

• Partner closely with OOP Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) leadership to ensure evidence and insights are integrated into prioritization, planning, and resource allocation decisions

You will serve as a key enterprise integrator and strategic partner to the Director, SPM/Chief of Staff, helping enable effective leadership decision-making and division-wide execution against Ambition 2045.

What You’ll Do

Division-wide Strategy Integration & Planning

• Lead the design and stewardship of division-wide strategic planning processes aligned to Ambition 2045

• Structure and facilitate annual and multi-year planning, prioritization, and budgeting processes across the division

• Translate division strategy into actionable operational guardrails, sequencing frameworks, and execution expectations for PSTs/FSTs

• Develop division-wide approaches for evaluating tradeoffs, prioritization decisions, and resource allocation options

• Ensure planning and governance systems enable alignment acr