VP , Philanthropic Services Board Management

Location: Northern

** Vice President, Board & Strategy Programs
** The Board Program team supports a variety of partners including Fidelity-wide key functional leaders, senior management, and the Boards of Trustees and Directors for the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (“Fidelity Charitable”), Signature Donor Advised Fund (“Signature DAF”), the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Pooled Income Fund (“PIF”), various supporting organizations, and other related entities. This role will lead strategic planning and oversight of board related processes and programs within the Fidelity Philanthropic Services (“FPS”) business unit, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives.
** The Role
** In this role, you will balance the strategic priorities of FPS and Fidelity with the needs of independent trustees and directors. You will lead the team to be responsible for overseeing Boards of Trustees and Directors for Fidelity Charitable, Signature DAF, PIF, and other legal entities which hold overall responsibility for their respective charities’ tax-exempt status, risk management, internal controls, financial reporting, and contractual relationships.

You will provide strategic direction and leadership align board strategy with FPS and Fidelity’s overall strategy and support the trustees and directors in meeting their fiduciary duties. You will also lead strategic programs that drive efficiency and effectiveness in the Board Program and across FPS.
This includes managing the budgets for the various boards, leading board book management, delivering impeccable quality in both materials and board meeting event execution, delivering a best-in-class board meeting experience, serving as the primary relationship manager to trustees and directors, maintaining trustee and director candidate pipelines, onboarding new board members, and producing board scorecards.

A successful candidate will leverage knowledge of the FPS business lines and nonprofit boards’ fiduciary duties to provide oversight and direction that aligns board strategy with FPS’s overall strategy throughout the year.
* Oversee and participate in 4-6 boards, and managing relationships with executive-level Independent and Management Trustees and Directors
* Oversee end-to-end planning and management of Board meetings for Fidelity Charitable and Signature DAF
* Assess deliverables in context of evolving board calendars, coordinate across groups to ensure adherence to schedule so trustees and directors have the information needed to fulfill their duties
* Develop and maintain Board agendas incorporating historical practices, standard methodologies, recurring items, and current developments and strategy. Consider and develop creative and effective solutions to agenda challenges
* Identify continuous improvement opportunities for board guidelines, processes, and procedures for board presenters, to align to board goals
* Oversee strategic programs, including capacity efforts through automation, standardizing across boards, to drive effectiveness and efficiency
* Provide feedback to presenters prior to the meetings to ensure alignment and post-meeting to promote constant improvement
* Serve as the primary contact for internal business partners, senior executives, and trustees for assigned boards.
* Identify and communicate board matters and decisions requiring escalation to senior leadership.
** The Skills and Expertise You Bring
*** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
* A minimum of 15 years of nonprofit, board leadership, and/or financial services experience
* Executive presence to support and navigate trustees and Fidelity executives
* Strategic relationship manager experience
* Effective project management skills, with experience guiding multiple work streams…