Pact exists to help create a world where those who are poor and marginalized exercise their voice, build their own solutions, and take ownership of their future.
The Executive Director contributes to realizing this purpose by:
• Ensure that Pact Institute’s staff, strategy and operations serve the parent company;
• Ensure the health and integrity of Pact Institute and its portfolio;
• Grow and diversify non-USG revenue streams across the entire Pact portfolio;
• Ensure Pact Institute is a valuable constituent part of how Pact realizes its mission;
• Ensure we keep our promises to both donors and project participants;
• Cultivate and nourish strategic, high quality customer relationships;
• Contribute to leadership decision making for the entire global enterprise;
• Inspire and promote our desired organizational culture across the global enterprise.
Position Purpose:
The Executive Director, Pact Institute reports to the CEO, is an officer of the corporation and is a member of Pact’s executive leadership team. As a senior leader, the ED is responsible for leading and overseeing all Pact Institute initiatives including a portfolio of non-USD development projects, supporting Opportunity Development with non-USD proposal development, ensuring high quality and thriving donor relationships, and ensuring alignment between Pact Institute and Pact, Inc. The ED is jointly responsible for the overall success of the organization. In summary, the position is responsible for leading and overseeing the continued success of Pact Institute.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership:
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO; help move Pact from a transactional to a transformational organization; provide constructive dissonance in the forging and of ideas and decisions;
• Partner in advancing the mission and serve as a standard bearer of organizational philosophies and behavioral competencies;
• Inspire, champion and spread a culture of shared success that makes true our belief that every imaginable problem has a solution and that when we dedicate ourselves to pursuing it, our efforts will be rewarded with a better world;
Board Responsibilities:
• Engage with the Pact Institute Board of Directors to help them be successful leaders and partners;
• Coordinate, organize, and lead 3 annual Pact Institute Board meetings;
• In conjunction with the CFO, prepare and finalize financial and operational reporting for Board meetings;
Strategic Implementation:
• Ensure clear articulation of Pact Institute purpose and mission within Pact, Inc. Strategy Map;
• Work to sync all Pact Institute activities and initiative in support of Pact, Inc. overall business strategy; Balanced Score Card, and Operating Plan;
• Work to identify and support new business opportunities aligned with the non-USG donor strategy;
• Network with donors to gather intelligence on up-coming funding opportunities;
• Ensure cross organizational collaboration, shared success and joint action
Financial and Operational Management:
• Working through Pact Inc. operational support and leadership structures help oversee a portfolio of non-USG development projects, ensure compliance with all donor regulations and reporting requirement;
• While working within a ‘matrix management structure’ ensure project quality, and the donor relationship is strong and thriving. Ensure donors stay aware of financial progress as it related to project deliverables;
• Ensure monthly financial targets are achieved including gross revenue and new unrestricted fund;
• Meet with the CFO regularly reporting out on financial progress and opportunities
Business Unit Relationships:
• Maintain strong working relationship with Program Delivery, Program Advancement, and Opportunity Development to ensure high quality proposals and program implementation;
• Build and mainstream high level of internal customer service, providing timely and complete support services to other business units and country teams;
• Integrate and translate the efforts of other support / enabling units;
Country Office Support:
• Support country office teams and Opportunity Development by playing a key role in the technical and delivery design on projects, ensuring that all relevant proposals are technically, operationally and fiscally sound and capitalize upon Pact’s worldwide knowledge base;
• Ensure support facilitating requests from the country office teams to strengthen project quality;
• Provide strategic support in positioning Pact for ongoing engagement with donors in both existing and new country offices;
• Ensure that best practices are documented, disseminated and used for improved programming
Basic Requirements:
• Demonstrated experience in progressively responsible management and leadership positions;
• Experience in complex non-profit international development organization with demonstrated ability in strategic visioning, planning, and effective execution;
• Excellence in working effectively in groups and independently and within a matrix structure;
• Experience with managing teams of culturally diverse employees in a global environment;
• Experience building, partnering and maintaining excellent relationships with a variety of donor organizations, corporations, foundations and others;
• Ability to effectively present programmatic data and financial information to a diverse range of people;
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally;
• Curiosity, drive, discernment, humility, passion of purpose
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