Chief Strategy & Integration Officer

The Chief Strategy & Integration Officer (CSIO) is a key member of the Executive Leadership Team and serves as the President & CEO's strategic partner in advancing enterprise priorities, organizational effectiveness, and long-term growth.

The Chief Strategy & Integration Officer (CSIO) is a key member of the Executive Leadership Team and serves as the President & CEO's strategic partner in advancing enterprise priorities, organizational effectiveness, and long-term growth.

Acting as both a builder and connector, the CSIO strengthens the organization's ability to execute its mission by aligning people, systems, departments, and resources around shared strategic priorities. The CSIO leads enterprise strategy, organizational integration, innovation, business intelligence, executive planning, and strategic initiatives while fostering collaboration across departments to ensure The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region remains agile, forward-thinking, and positioned for sustainable growth.

Working across the organization, the CSIO transforms strategic vision into measurable organizational impact through data-informed decision making, cross-functional leadership, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution.

• Enterprise strategic planning and organizational alignment.
• Successful execution of organization-wide strategic initiatives.
• Cross-functional integration and executive collaboration.
• Organizational effectiveness and continuous improvement.
• Business intelligence, executive dashboards, and performance analytics.
• Innovation, new growth opportunities, and strategic partnerships.
• Executive Leadership Team effectiveness, agency execution and CEO support[JZ1] .
• Board strategy support and enterprise reporting.
• Leadership of enterprise change management initiatives.
• Building organizational capacity for long-term sustainability.

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor and thought partner to the President & CEO.
• Partner with the Executive Leadership Team to ensure organizational priorities remain aligned across all divisions.
• Facilitate enterprise decision-making by identifying opportunities, risks, dependencies, and organizational impacts.
• Foster a highly collaborative executive culture focused on enterprise success rather than departmental optimization.
• Represent the CEO and organization with credibility and professionalism in strategic initiatives and external partnerships.

• Lead development, coordination, monitoring, and refinement of the organization's Strategic Plan.
• Translate strategic priorities into measurable enterprise initiatives with defined outcomes and accountability.
• Facilitate organizational strategic planning processes with executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and key stakeholders.
• Monitor progress toward strategic goals and recommend adjustments based on changing organizational needs.
• Conduct environmental scanning, trend analysis, and scenario planning to support executive decision-making.
• Lead the identification, evaluation, feasibility analysis, and business planning for new service lines, strategic ventures, strategic partnerships, affiliations, acquisitions, and organizational growth opportunities prior to operational implementation.
• Identify emerging opportunities that advance the organization's mission, sustainability, and long-term impact.

• Strengthen coordination across Finance, Human Resources, Programs, Clinical Services, Advancement, Technology, Facilities, and other departments to improve organizational effectiveness.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that require collaboration across multiple departments.
• Identify organizational barriers, redundancies, and inefficiencies, recommending solutions that improve alignment and performance.
• Facilitate executive collaboration to ensure enterprise initiatives remain coordinated and successfully implemented.
• Build systems that improve communication, transparency, and organizational accountability.

• Identify and evaluate opportunities for organizational growth, new services, strategic partnerships, affiliations, acquisitions, and diversified revenue.
• Lead enterprise innovation efforts that improve services, operations, and organizational effectiveness.
• Evaluate emerging trends in disability services, healthcare, behavioral health, workforce development, housing, technology,…