Chief of Staff

Step Up For Students is a state-approved, nonprofit scholarship funding organization that helps administer scholarships for Florida schoolchildren:

• The donor-funded Florida Tax Credit Scholarship (FTC) Program and the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options (FES-EO) helps K-12 students attend private schools.
• The Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA) empowers families to personalize the education of their students by directing funds to where they’re needed most.
• The Personalized Education Program (PEP), which is part of FTC, for students who are not enrolled full-time in private or public school.
• New Worlds Scholarship Accounts supports K-5 public school students who need additional academic support in reading and/or math.
• The Transportation Stipend to help K-8 students travel to a public school of their choice

Public education is rooted in the promise of equal educational opportunity, regardless of income, special needs, or home address.

Step Up For Students is a partner of public schools, and these scholarships strengthen public education by offering options to all families so they can choose the learning environment that best meets their children’s individual needs.

The Opportunity:

The Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer is a high-impact, strategic leadership role responsible for driving execution, solving complex challenges, and ensuring the CEO’s vision is translated into operational reality. This role is designed for a proactive, results-oriented professional who excels at anticipating needs, removing roadblocks, and advancing key priorities with urgency and precision.

Responsibilities:

• Create the mechanisms that drive accountability on CEO priorities and decisions.
• Lead CEO office rhythms: preparation, agendas, follow ups, and cross functional coordination.
• Own board preparation, synthesis, and process management.
• Track and advance high stakes projects, ensuring momentum and clarity across SLT forums.
• Attend key meetings with or in place of the CEO; ensure information flows seamlessly across teams.
• Bring a strategic lens to planning, decision making, and problem solving during a period of hypergrowth.
• Serve as integrator across chiefs as SUFS scales, including supporting ECA and other emerging initiatives.
• Build operating practices that help the organization move faster with less friction.
• Protect CEO bandwidth by filtering and elevating issues that require direct attention.

Ideal Candidate:

• Minimum of 10-15 years leading highly effective teams in a rapidly growing organization.
• Proven effectiveness supporting the CEO and senior leadership’s capabilities by providing analytical insights, anticipating needs, and advancing key priorities with urgency and precision.
• Highly organized with demonstrated success facilitating change management through adoption of new workflows and processes while promoting cross-functional alignment.
• Advanced proficiency using digital tools and platforms to complete tasks, solve problems, and boost productivity. Highly fluent with productivity and collaboration technologies
• Demonstrated success in payments, banking, financial services, not-for-profit, education and/or military environments.
• Commitment to the mission and values of Step Up For Students.

Location: United States Remote, East Coast working hours

DRiWaterstone is proud to lead this search on behalf of Step Up For Students.

Please apply on DRiWaterstone's website:

https://driwaterstonehc.com/position/cos-sufs/

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