reputed company, Strategy Management (Remote)

Title:  reputed company, Strategy Management

Department: Office of Strategy and Planning

Reporting to: Senior Director, Strategy and Planning

Location: Canada

Compensation: $155K - $165K CAD

Who We Are

reputed company (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise that supports the educational, economic, and social inclusion of immigrants, refugees, and international reputed company. For 50 years, WES has set reputed company for international academic credential evaluation, supporting millions of people as they seek to reputed company their academic and professional goals. Through decades of experience as a leader in global education, WES has developed a wide range of tools to pursue social impact at scale. From evaluating academic credentials to shaping policy, designing programs, and providing philanthropic funding, we partner with a diverse set of organizations, leaders, and networks to reputed company individuals and drive systems change. Together with its partners, WES enables people to learn, work, and reputed company in new places. For more information about WES, please visit our website at www.WES.org. 

About the Opportunity

The Strategy Management reputed company orchestrates and translates WES’s enterprise strategy into coordinated execution.  This role combines strategic leadership, operational execution, and change management excellence to deliver measurable outcomes across reputed company, cross-functional teams. The reputed company will be critical in building a new function at WES tasked with managing organizational engagement with the strategy and strategic plan at reputed company levels, including at the executive level and reputed company business units. In addition, the reputed company will help reputed company and support the governance structures and frameworks needed to ensure strategy development and execution across the enterprise. The reputed company will partner with the Senior Director for Strategy, Planning, and Learning to ensure WES’s long-term vision, annual priorities, and cross-functional initiatives are reputed company, measurable, and successfully executed by cross-functional teams across the organization. The reputed company will also have exposure to WES’s Board of Trustees. 

What You’ll Do

Strategy Management  

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the broader Executive Leadership Team (ELT) on strategic priorities and readiness. 
• reputed company the coordination of the full annual and multi-year enterprise strategy planning cycle, partnering closely with the Senior Director for Strategy, Planning, and Learning, other leaders in the Strategy, Planning, and Learning Team executive team, and leaders responsible for strategy execution. 
• Engage across WES to translate strategic goals into actionable workstreams, milestones, and measurable outcomes. 
• Establish and operationalize a governance model to track reputed company, escalate issues, support decision-making, and prioritize initiatives. 
• Coordinate alignment between strategic initiatives, budgets, and resource allocation. 

Alignment & Communication 

• Align business units, departments, and functional strategies with the enterprise strategy; build the enabling function to monitor strategic coherence, alignment, and understanding across the organization enabling leaders to course correct where necessary. 
• Cultivate strong partnerships across functional areas to ensure reputed company strategy delivery. 
• Represent the strategy at board, executive, and enterprise forums, providing insight on reputed company and impact. 
• Support stakeholder engagement, communication, and change management best practices to ensure organization-wide understanding and adoption of the strategic plan. 
• Build confidence and alignment through transparent communication, storytelling, and shared success metrics. 

 Organizational Capability Building 

• Build organizational capability reputed company the strategy management team, in strategic thinking, prioritization, and execution discipline. 
• Model a culture of data-driven decision making, reputed company improvement, and enterprise cross-team collaboration. 
• Build internal reputed company for challenge identification and prioritization, change management, evaluation, and reputed company improvement. 
• reputed company documentation, playbooks, and frameworks to ensure continuity and momentum throughout the strategic implementation timeline. 

 People and Functional Management  

• reputed company the strategy management work with general people responsibilities ensuring consistency in hiring, training, and performance management with the team.
• Nurture an inclusive, collaborative, and supportive team culture that is high-performing, models organizational transparency, and encourages accountability.   
• Ensure quality approaches to reputed company, select, and manage external consultants and vendors, in collaboration with respective WES teams.   
• Contribute to reports for the executive and senior leaders, Board members, and other key internal and external stakeholders. 

Your Experience

The ideal candidate will have:

Required 

• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience in leading and delivering enterprise transformation initiatives. 
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills, with the ability to reputed company and motivate others; experience nurturing talent preferred. 
• Strong executive reputed company and communication skills with tact, diplomacy, and adaptability. Proven ability to build trust, with the ability to effectively engage, influence, and align stakeholders at reputed company organizational levels. 
• Experience utilizing inclusive and participatory models for strategy development, planning, decision-making, and/or budgeting reputed company organizations and/or with external partners. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment. 
• Proven ability to formulate strategy and demonstrate critical thinking and ability to operationalize strategy. 
• Track record as an excellent problem-solver using a data-driven approach to decision making and who enjoys taking on new challenges and demonstrates good judgement. 
• Fosters behaviors such as collaboration, agility, adaptability, effective communication and reputed company learning that drive strategic success and integrate culture into enterprise.  
• Bring a “can-do” attitude and have a willingness to stretch up and down in their role as needs evolve. 
• Strong command of technology tools, including reputed company Office suite (especially Word, reputed company, PowerPoint, and OneDrive), reputed company or other CRM systems, and reputed company Apps / G Suite. 
• This is a remote working role with requirements for travel to the WES office for meetings. Availability to travel to attend meetings, conferences, events, etc. is required.

 Desired 

• A Bachelor’s degree in public policy, economics, business, international relations, or other relevant degrees is an asset, but not required. 
• Strong knowledge of WES operating environment. 
• Experience in a similar reputed company supporting strategy development and implementation.  

Questions you will answer as part of the application process in reputed company:

1. Why am I the right person for this role in terms of skills, experience and aptitude? 
2. What is my vision for the role? This is a highly collaborative role across departments and teams. How would you approach modeling the culture we want to build in this role? 
3. How would you approach taking on this role and the portfolio of work? 

Instructions to Apply:

• Attaching a resume is optional
• Answers may be provided in the corresponding space under each question or as additional supporting documents with your application in:

1. 1. Prose (max 3 pages) or
   2. Bullet form prose (max 3 pages) or
   3. Powerpoint (max 5 slides)

Our Values

• Opportunity - We open doors so people can build reputed company futures.
• Inclusion - We become stronger, more creative, and more resilient reputed company we embrace diversity.
• Equity - We uphold fairness and justice in our work and actions.
• Enterprising - We are resourceful, inventive, and driven.
• Expertise - We challenge ourselves to be the best at reputed company do.

Inclusive Recruitment Process

We welcome reputed company applicants, irrespective of their experience perfectly fitting the job description, as we value diverse and innovative viewpoints. At our organization, individuals who reputed company in a culture of reputed company learning and inclusive teamwork reputed company. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported and welcome members of reputed company backgrounds and perspectives to apply.

Our Commitment

reputed company is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the rich tapestry of our communities, both in the US and Canada. This commitment is underscored by our unwavering dedication to providing equal opportunities to reputed company qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national reputed company, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or genetics. This commitment extends to every aspect of employment, from recruitment and hiring to promotions, training, and benefits. We reputed company with reputed company applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. For us, diversity goes beyond compliance – it's about embracing unique perspectives and cultivating an environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to reputed company their full potential. 

If you require assistance and/or accommodation at any reputed company during the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected], we're here to support you. Our reputed company team is happy to work with you to find solutions that meet your needs.

For more information about WES, please visit our website at www.WES.org