• Act as a trusted thought partner to the CEO: help translate strategic goals into concrete operational plans. • Prepare briefing materials, memos, and decision-making documents for high-level meetings. • Identify priority areas and help set CEO focus — proactively flag opportunities, risks, and critical issues. • Oversee special projects that don’t have a clear owner but are mission-critical (e.g., events, risk mitigation, process redesign). • Partner with the CEO to actively shape and protect strategic priorities — ensuring focus, energy, and time are aligned with organizational goals, donor strategy, and long-term impact. • Exercise judgment over what rises to the CEO’s attention, proactively assessing requests, opportunities, and commitments for strategic value and timing. • Lead and coordinate cross-functional, high-impact initiatives from planning through execution. • Serve as project lead on strategic priorities, tracking progress, managing roadblocks, and ensuring key deliverables are met. • Define metrics for initiatives, monitor performance, and report on outcomes. • Design, implement, and refine frameworks for organizational planning, decision-making, and accountability. • Establish and manage leadership meeting rhythms (e.g., planning meetings, review cycles). • Create systems to synchronize work across teams (status dashboards, shared planning tools, decision-tracking). • Identify operational risks and inefficiencies; propose and implement solutions. • Help shape and maintain a strong leadership culture by facilitating cross-team collaboration, trust, and transparency. • Act as a connective tissue across departments, surfacing misalignment early and helping leaders resolve issues before they escalate. • Support board operations: prepare board meeting materials, agendas, and follow-up.