Job Overview
- The Chief of Staff will serve as the CEO’s strategic execution partner, driving alignment, accountability, and momentum across the organization.
- This role combines strategy, operations, communication, and special projects.
- The Chief of Staff ensures priorities move quickly, decisions are executed, and internal teams remain focused on the highest-value initiatives.
- This is a high-trust, high-impact role for someone who can think strategically, operate tactically, and solve problems independently.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Leverage and Strategic Support:
- Act as a force multiplier for the CEO by managing priorities, follow-through, and decision flow.
- Prepare daily and weekly executive briefings covering priorities, risks, deadlines, and opportunities.
- Convert CEO ideas into structured action plans, owners, and timelines.
- Ensure the CEO’s time is focused on fundraising, partnerships, growth, and strategic leadership.
Cross Functional Execution:
- Drive execution of key company initiatives across operations, partnerships, technology, and project delivery.
- Coordinate teams to ensure milestones are met on time and blockers are escalated quickly.
- Lead weekly business reviews and progress tracking meetings.
Special Projects:
- Own high-priority CEO initiatives such as market expansion, fundraising readiness, new partnerships, or product launches.
- Conduct research, build business cases, and recommend execution strategies.
Internal Communications and Accountability:
- Ensure clear communication of priorities across leadership and teams.
- Track commitments made in meetings and enforce follow-up.
- Build reporting systems, dashboards, and accountability cadences.
Stakeholder Management:
- Support preparation for investor, donor, board, government, and strategic partner meetings.
- Draft briefing notes, presentations, memos, and follow-up summaries.
Organizational Effectiveness:
- Identify inefficiencies and implement systems, processes, and automation.
- Help build a high-performance culture centered on ownership, speed, and transparency.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- CEO time leverage and priority completion rate
- Strategic initiatives delivered on time
- Cross-functional project execution success
- Decision-to-execution speed
- Internal accountability scorecards completed
- Stakeholder meeting readiness and follow-through
- Process improvements implemented.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Public Policy, Finance, Management, or related fields
- MBA is a plus.
- 5+ years experience in consulting, strategy, operations, startups, venture building, development finance, or executive support.
- Exceptional project management and execution discipline.
- Strong analytical thinking and business judgment.
- Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage confidential information with discretion.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, founder-led environment.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in startups, tech platforms, donor ecosystems, ESG, philanthropy, or African development sectors.
- Experience working directly with founders, CEOs, or senior executives.
- Familiarity with dashboards, CRMs, productivity systems, and data tools.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- You are highly organized, commercially minded, politically aware, and relentlessly execution-focused.
- You can move from boardroom strategy to operational detail in the same hour.
- You anticipate needs, reduce chaos, and make leaders more effective.