Chief of Staff; AJP

The Chief of Staff will support the CEO in developing strong organizational culture, internal communications, and cross-organizational planning. The Chief of Staff will enable the CEO to focus on broad strategic initiatives both within and beyond the organization, and will follow up on critical projects, carrying initiatives forward with the CEO. This leader will bring the skill and experience to integrate quickly into the American Journalism Project and work effectively with the leadership and board, operating at maximum effectiveness.

We’re an entrepreneurial team working to re-shape the future of local news in our country. We’re passionate about journalism, civic engagement and how local news plays a unique role in shaping our democracy.

We help build and grow sustainable local news organizations all over the country, through financial investment, venture support, and movement building.

We are a distributed team and strive to maintain a healthy, fun and productive workplace, working alongside smart, energetic colleagues who enjoy one another and enjoy the work.

Employees: 12

In 2019, the American Journalism Project announced its first $8.5M in grants to support 11 civic news organizations across the U.S.

The Chief of Staff will provide strategic counsel to key leaders of the organization while building and maintaining cross-departmental relationships to enable leadership success.

• Serves as a key advisor to the CEO on all aspects of the American Journalism Project and works closely with team leads to facilitate fluid cross organizational planning and communication.
• Oversee planning and execution of all board meetings as well as governance and investment committee meetings. Oversee board development and onboarding of new board members.
• Own behind-the-scenes preparation to make CEO meetings, both internal and external, successful, including research and preparation, drafting correspondence and tracking, monitoring, and execution of action items that stem from these meetings, as well as attending many of them.
• Work with team leaders to design and steward planning and seek to streamline organization-wide systems and processes.

• Support in hiring of new roles and lead ad hoc strategic projects and research.
• Oversee key projects related to talent and staff development.
• Partner with the CEO to invest in staff and board’s cultural competence and foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization.
• Oversee an internal communications and culture building strategy, including managing internal all-staff meetings and designing the systems and processes for fluid communication and culture building throughout the organization.

• Manage part-time executive assistant and ensure CEOs time is maximized and prioritized effectively.
• Maintain a critical eye to ways the CEO's time can be best utilized by formally and informally, assessing systems in place and implementing new ways to make things work better.
• Support CEO to draft written communications and work with Marketing and Communications teams to prepare CEO for external communications opportunities.

• You will work closely with our CEO, EA, team leaders as well as strategy and operations staff.

This is a full-time position with competitive salary and benefits.

This role is a fit if you are…

• Results-Focused: You set clear timelines and drive projects to completion. You move with a sense of urgency and know how to get things accomplished.
• Problem Solving: You're someone who thinks strategically. You love to brainstorm and come up with ideas. You look at the way things are and then imagine 20 ways they can be improved.
• Collaborative: You love people…