Senior Vice President, Strategy, Operations and Talent

Senior Vice President, Strategy, Operations and Talent

Cambridge, MA

Full-time

Axim Collaborative is a nonprofit that transforms education to work pathways by facilitating collaboration and innovations to build an ecosystem of solutions to drive better outcomes for millions of learners. Axim uses catalytic funding to foster partnerships, convene leaders and scale innovations to strengthen pathways for learners. These pathways engage students in their course of study, enable them to persist through their programs and prepare them to excel in their careers.

Axim Collaborative is a joint endeavor between Harvard and MIT that evolved from edX, the pioneering online learning platform that launched in 2012.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Vice President, Strategy, Operations, and Talent is a leadership role focused on the development and execution of Axim’s organizational strategy and model to align with achieving its goals. This role will be hybrid, occasionally working in‑person in Axim’s Cambridge office 1‑2 days per week at the manager’s discretion and based on business needs that may evolve and change from time to time.

This role will require approximately 20% travel. Additionally, all staff are required to attend in‑person programming three times a year. This role is exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

• Partner with the CEO and team to develop and refine organizational strategy for Axim Collaborative, including refining the theory of change, evolving programmatic strategies and establishing organizational priorities and dashboards for team and board management.
• Continue to build out the organizational model to enable strategy, including processes and functions that support overall strategy, identifying future resource and system needs and coordinating strategic links to the Open edX Project. Processes could include grantmaking, community building strategies, knowledge management and portfolio level initiatives.
• Ensure organizational strategies position Axim for increased partnerships, innovation, and impact in the medium term.

• Lead the implementation and refinement of the partnership process, including the overarching process, data and impact processes, system and tools.
• Oversee the systems required to enable partnership work, currently  Assess and plan for new systems that are required for our partnership efforts.
• Oversee the operational component of all partnerships including due diligence and fiscal oversight.
• Coordinate with VP of Data and Impact to incorporate data processes and gather impact data.
• Build consistency for process use across the team, identifying areas for ongoing improvements.
• Evolve the systems and processes as the organization grows and scales impact.
• Manage team that supports partnership operations and partnership support, currently the Program Manager, Partnership Director and Partnership Coordinator.
• Serve as people manager of potential future VPs building a community of partnership leads and fostering connection.

• With CEO and HR Manager, design short and medium term organizational structure, identifying areas where new staff or consultants will be needed.
• Oversee talent acquisition and talent development efforts for organization, including evolving hiring processes, partnering on performance management, and refining professional development.
• Serve as human resource primary contact for employees to manage requests, concerns and confidential matters. Work in partnership with the senior team and legal counsel to resolve issues.
• Partner with CEO and HR Manager to continue to build the team culture.

• Galvanize and organize the senior team towards organizational development, process and people initiatives.
• Build a sense of shared purpose and collective culture within and across departments; cultivate trust between the organization and its partners.
• Model the values of inclusive excellence and foster environments that actively encourage a…