Senior Strategy and Impact Advisor

6 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Open Society Foundations Full time

Senior Strategy and Impact Advisor. Johannesburg. Posting Date: 01/22/2025. Deadline: 02/06/2025

Role Title: Senior Advisor

Contract Type: Regular

Reporting To: Director, Strategy and Impact

Program/Department/Unit Name: Strategy and Impact Unit

Locations: Johannesburg, Nairobi, Dakar, Rio de Janeiro or Bogota

Team Name: Strategy and Impact

Role Purpose

This role is a substantive leadership, client service and change management role tasked with co-leading on the design, implementation and improvement of Open Society’s strategy framework, and the institutional wide learning in the opportunity model. The role will assist the Director, Strategy and Impact carry out the strategy and impact functions globally, including driving cohesion on strategy and impact policies and practices within the operating model across programs and operations, and enabling the unit’s strategy setting standards, institutional learning, and the provision of high quality technical assistance and accompaniment for strategy development, execution and renewal.

With the Director, Strategy and Impact, the Senior Strategy and Impact Advisor is responsible for providing:

- High-quality methodological and technical support on strategy setting and execution, including guidance, training, facilitation, and bespoke support to programs to develop and implement focused strategies with highest potential for transformative change.
- Standard setting and oversight, including clear benchmarks and expectations strategy in the opportunity model. Designs and continuously improves governance and oversight mechanisms of decisions, processes, and systems related to strategy design and execution. Builds shared understanding of expectations and adapts approaches and standards based on internal learning and external evolution of the field of strategy and impact.
- Designing and leading institutional learning in the opportunity model, contributing to Open Society’s organizational improvement and strategic renewal. Playing a facilitator and enabling roles in integrating programs and operations, change management processes and contributing to driving a culture that sustains Open Society’s operating model.
- Supporting the SIU as Secretariat to the Programmatic Review Committee (PRC), ensuring consistency, transparency, and agility in strategy approval and review, as well as learning from the implementation of Open Society’s work in the world

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director, Strategy and Impact, the Senior Strategy and Impact Advisor:

- Designs and delivers effective client support to Programs_- Responsible for conceptualizing, planning and overseeing the implementation of SIU’s technical assistance and accompaniment function to programs, operations and leadership.- Manage, coordinate, and initiate new policy development and policy review processes in consultation with the Director, Strategy and Impact- Lead and organize the distribution of SIU ‘s support across the organization and the development of strategy capacity across staff, in alignment with Open Society and SIU’s strategic priorities.- Build relationships and manage the feedback loop from other units, contributing to improving relationships among programs and between operations and programs- Oversee cross-department, cross-programs, and organization-wide initiatives, or similarly complex projects, to ensure strategic coherence- Work across stakeholders, including P&C to Develop core strategic competencies across Open Society.- Support the Director, Strategy and Impact in designing and implementing strategy review processes that support rigorous, consistent and data-informed decision making about Open Society’s programmatic work- Contribute to strengthening a network that includes varied actors with experience around strategy and impact to ensure OSF is at the cutting-edge of topics related to foresight, complexity, systems change, inside and outside of philanthropy.
- Change management and organizational culture_- Lead with support from Director, Strategy and Impact, and other team members on further alignment into and continuous improvement of the opportunity model.- Use insights from institutional learning to design and adopt with key stakeholders measures to maintain and improve organizational effectiveness.- Contribute to SIU’s overall work on change management in alignment with other processes across the organization
- SIU operations_- Support the Director in effectively managing the day-to-day of the Strategy and Impact Unit strategy and processes, including management of global projects as determined by the Director- Assist the Director in strategic planning and future planning, as requested

Key internal relationships

Director, VP/COO Office, Managing Directors and staff in their offices, Geographic Leads, Opportunity Leads, Justice Initiative, Ideas team, Operations

Key external relationships

Strategy and impact leaders outside of OSF, including on foresight, MEL, c

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