Lead Business Execution Consultant, Strategic Partnership, Initiatives

Responsibilities

• Own and drive core operating routines, governance, and tools across financial coaching programs and innovation initiatives, including integrated project trackers, management tools, capacity planner, and leadership meeting agendas to ensure execution rigor and follow-through.
• Lead third-party partner lifecycle management, including contracting and required risk reviews.
• Manage budgets and supports annual investment planning, monitoring expenses and performance against forecasts, and providing insights to inform business decisions and tradeoffs.
• Drive external engagement execution by maintaining annual strategies and workplans; managing assets, agendas, and execution for ongoing Corporate Communications partnerships; and overseeing digital properties, program materials, newsletters, and speaking engagements.
• Serve as the primary owner for end-to-end planning and delivery of HOPE Inside Grand Welcome events, including governance, cross-functional coordination, executive materials, on‑site execution, and post‑event continuous improvement.
• Support strategy and lead execution for other signature storytelling events and activations, including HOPE Global Forums, EMERGE, and future initiatives.
• Support special projects as needed.

• 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Strong project management skills, including setting agendas, prioritizing work streams, and ensuring teams stay aligned and on track to meet goals across multiple initiatives.
• Excellent coordination and execution capabilities, leading high‑visibility external engagements with internal and external partners, including executive events, sponsor ships, or community activations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage business operations, including budget visibility, spend tracking, and partnership with finance teams (no deep financial expertise required).
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to lead, present, and obtain buy in from large stakeholder groups spanning staff through senior and executive management.
• Effective decision making/critical thinking/problem solving skills
• Ability to lead through influence across highly matrixed organizations, including risk, finance, communications, and line of business partners to deliver enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Ability to handle highly confidential data on a regular basis and demonstrate discretion and diplomacy
• Experience working with or supporting financially vulnerable, underbanked and/or low‑income communities.