VP, Transformational Change Management

POSITION SUMMARY

Eligible for Hybrid/ 3 days in office – Alexandria, VA)
The Vice President, Transformational Change Management leads the implementation of change practices to realize the United Way Transformation, a comprehensive global program to ensure that United Way is impactful, relevant, and sustainable in its next century of service. As a senior leader in United Way Worldwide’s Transformation Realization Office, the successful candidate will be a seasoned change‑management practitioner who embraces and applies UWW’s change methodology to deliver large‑scale transformation.

The position is ultimately accountable to the UWW President and CEO, the initiating sponsor of the United Way Transformation. The Vice President will apply a broad range of skills to advance successful and large‑scale change in a complex, federated, global nonprofit environment. Combining technical acumen with outstanding management, political savvy, engagement skills, and emotional intelligence, the leader will oversee transformational change management for multiple interdependent work streams in a fast‑paced and demanding environment.

The Vice President, Transformational Change Management will partner actively with United Way network leaders and UWW colleagues to ensure seamless, quality change execution. Additionally, the Vice President will engage the Vice President, Learning & Leadership Development to build change capability within the United Way network to make it a core competency of the organization. The ideal candidate will actively champion United Way’s mission to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world, and our vision: a world where every person in every community is thriving.

The Vice President will demonstrate a deep commitment to fully realizing the promise of United Way’s transformation.

• Lead the change‑management practices to successfully achieve the goals of the United Way Transformation across the global federation of 1,000 local United Ways
• Lead multiple work streams to fully achieve the change‑management goals of United Way 2030, a five‑year network‑wide plan that is the first major chapter in the multiyear United Way Transformation
• Manage a complex, dynamic, integrated change portfolio
• Oversee successful on‑time delivery of transformation commitments, both the installation of change activities and full realization of the transformation’s promise
• Design and facilitate successful change engagements with a wide array of stakeholders, from senior executives and board members to emerging leaders
• Design and deliver dynamic large‑scale change campaigns across a global environment
• Ensure full and seamless integration of United Way 2030 change efforts with ongoing business operations and annual operating goals
• Build and manage a global change network to deploy the transformation across 34 countries and within United Way Worldwide
• Manage the communication, measurement, and reporting related to the United Way Transformation, including successful achievement of specific change‑management goals across the global United Way network and within United Way Worldwide
• Co‑create and lead the implementation of change‑capability building for the United Way network

• Bachelor’s required
• 10 years of senior‑level change‑management experience, including 5 years in guiding successful, large‑scale strategic transformations
• Sound judgment and decision‑making in a complex distributed environment
• Commitment to embrace and apply the United Way change methodology, incorporating their own change experience while sustaining the integrity of a well‑established process founded on Daryl Conner’s Strategy Execution Framework
• Skills in managing a large‑scale change portfolio, including excellent planning and integration skills, and the ability to manage many moving parts to achieve impact
• Engagement with a wide variety of change sponsors, agents, and stakeholders
• Influence, political savvy, and the relationship‑building skills to lead effectively in a federated work environment without corporate controls
• Leadership skills to oversee and manage…