[Hiring] VP, Program @Leading Edge

Role Description

Leading Edge is seeking a highly strategic operator to serve as the connective tissue across our Programs team, focusing primarily on Program Integration. This role will ensure that our programs, people, and processes get built clearly and are aligned, streamlined, and scalable as we endeavor to mobilize the field and drive talent and culture change across Jewish organizations. In doing so, our program team focuses on learning experiences that drive influence and mobilization and asks: What experiences will help participants learn, grow, and implement change?

This individual will act as both a programmer and an “air traffic controller” across programs and across the organization—bringing clarity to complexity, building repeatable systems, and enabling our team to operate more efficiently and effectively. They will play a critical role in strengthening how our programs function as a cohesive ecosystem, particularly as we deepen our use of survey data, expand and refine program offerings (both our own and amplifying others’) and activate new infrastructure necessary for implementation, like our learning management system and our approach to adult learning.

Core Responsibilities

• Team Leadership
  • Model core values and ways of working, focusing on outcomes with openness and flexibility.
  • Invest in the growth and development of direct reports and the broader team.
  • Represent Program in various spaces as needed - both internally and externally.
  • Directly hold effective delivery of programmatic offerings when appropriate.
• Design and Implement Key Infrastructure for Programmatic Field Mobilization
  • Lead activation of our learning management system as a delivery platform.
  • Develop and execute on our vision for vetting content across the field.
  • Articulate the Leading Edge bar for content design, organization, and delivery.
  • Ensure consistency and quality across participant experience.
• Standards of Excellence Integration
  • Conduct a thorough landscape analysis to ensure programs reflect Leading Edge’s best thinking.
  • Create visibility into programs representing the user experience.
  • Supervise a contract hire for our Constructive Dialogue Institute partnership.
  • Co-create our programmatic “menu of offerings” for our network.
• Team Operations and Coordination across Leading Edge
  • Design and manage the Programs team’s operating rhythm.
  • Support cross-team communication and alignment.
  • Codify and simplify repeatable processes across programs.
  • Stand up standard operating procedures for collaborative work.
  • Inform and help design future evaluation approaches for programs.

Core ways of operating: Leadership Competencies

This role requires a leader who can seamlessly move between strategy and execution, demonstrating operational rigor, systems thinking, and collaborative leadership.

Year One Initial Success Indicators

• Integration of Leading Edge “Standards of Excellence” into existing work.
• Understanding of the language of Standards of Excellence by our cadre of coaches and consultants.
• Strong user pathways to advance talent and culture norms established.
• A system in place to assess external offerings.
• A deep and diverse bench of providers across a range of standards.
• A feedback loop established to collect input from users.

Qualifications

• Highly attuned to stakeholder needs.
• Fluent working across multiple stakeholders, priorities, and workstreams.
• A strong project and operational manager.
• Comfortable engaging thoughtfully with a range of stakeholders.
• A strong people leader.
• An organizational systems thinker.
• A process optimizer.
• A continuous learner.

Requirements

• Experience leading and managing people and teams.
• Experience designing, delivering, and refining impactful learning experiences.
• A demonstrated track record building and improving processes and operational systems.
• Experience operating at a senior level.

Benefits

• 100% coverage for employees and 50% coverage for spouses and dependents for medical, dental, and vision.
• Retirement matching, wellness benefits, ample flex time, and a three-month paid parental leave.
• Generous professional development stipend.