Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives

Job Details

Job Location:

Cary, NC 27513

Position Type:
Full Time Salary Range: $ - $ Salary Job Overview

The Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives serves as a trusted advisor and execution partner to the CEO, driving high-priority initiatives for the V Foundation from concept through completion. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and delivery by translating the CEO’s priorities into structured plans, coordinating execution across departments, and ensuring that mission-critical work moves forward with clarity, accountability, and pace.

This role is suited for someone who is equally comfortable thinking strategically alongside executive leadership and rolling up their sleeves to manage complex, cross-functional work in a resource-conscious nonprofit environment. The Senior Director will often be the single accountable owner for initiatives that do not have a natural home in one department and bridge gaps to build alignment among staff. The role will also serve as a key architect of organizational culture and cohesion, planning all-staff convenings and other org-wide initiatives that keep the V Foundation’s mission-driven team engaged and working well together to continue advancing its vision to achieve Victory Over Cancer.

Salary Range

$110,000 - $140,000

It is uncommon for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. Actual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to, responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, work location, internal pay equity, as well as market and business considerations.

• Partner directly with the CEO to shape, prioritize, and refine organizational strategic priorities to include the annual strategic plan.
• Conduct research and internal assessments (programmatic, operational, or funding-related) to inform executive decision-making.
• Prepare board materials, executive briefings, and presentations to clearly communicate strategy, progress, and recommendations to the Board of Directors and other volunteer leadership.
• Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and executive leadership team on emerging opportunities, risks, and organizational challenges.
• Track progress against the organization’s strategic plan and provide regular reporting to the CEO, executive leadership team, and, as needed, the Board of Directors.
• Represent the CEO in select cross‑departmental or external stakeholder meetings when appropriate.

• Serve as the single accountable owner for CEO- and Board-directed strategic projects, driving them from scoping through successful completion, mindful of the organization’s staff capacity and budget realities.
• Develop project plans, timelines, milestones and resource requirements; proactively identify and resolve roadblocks.
• Lead and coordinate cross‑functional project teams, garnering support and holding stakeholders accountable without direct authority over them.
• Navigate ambiguity — many projects will lack existing playbooks and to move
• Monitor and report on the status of active strategic initiatives, flagging risks and course-correcting as needed.
• Manage relationships with external consultants, facilitators, or partners engaged in support of strategic initiatives, as applicable.

• In collaboration with departmental leadership, plan and facilitate staff retreats, all-staff meetings, and other org-wide convenings that build alignment, strengthen culture, and reinforce the organization’s mission and values.
• Design retreat and meeting agendas in partnership with the CEO, incorporating…