Strategic Leadership

• Collaborate with the ED and leadership team to implement BCC’s strategic plan, aligning initiatives with organizational goals.
• Drive multi-year goal setting and prioritize projects that advance BCC’s mission.
• Translate organizational strategies into actionable steps and ensure measurable progress while fostering team-wide accountability.
• Employ strong data analysis skills to evaluate BCC’s performance, project outcomes, and opportunities for improvement.
• Act as a representative of the Executive Director in meetings, calls, and initiatives, ensuring key takeaways are communicated and operationalized effectively.
  

      Operational Excellence and Project Management

• Oversee cross-departmental workflows, enhancing interdepartmental collaboration.
• Serve as the central project manager, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time and within scope.
• Establish systems to track and report progress on initiatives, compiling and analyzing relevant data to maintain momentum.
• Oversee administrative operations, including budget development, workflow optimization, scheduling, and material preparation.
• Co-collaborator with the leadership team in the creation of and oversight of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track organizational progress.
• Develop effective feedback mechanisms to track organizational progress and improve decision-making.
• Act as a resource for resource allocation and operational decision-making.
  
  Leadership and Team Empowerment
• Act as a strategic partner to the ED, managing up to align leadership team priorities.
• Serve as a unifying force across teams, ensuring alignment with BCC’s mission and strategic goals.
• Ensure all team members feel valued, supported, and empowered in their roles. 
• Enhance internal communication with a matrix framework to prevent hierarchical bottlenecks. 
• Act as an accountability partner for both the ED and the leadership team, ensuring progress on shared goals. 
  

       Cultural Competency and Inclusive Leadership

• Foster an inclusive and cohesive employee experience, supporting diversity, equity, and belonging.
• Develop initiatives that strengthen team cohesion, trust, and shared purpose.
• Use emotional intelligence to build relationships and address challenges proactively.
•  Manage up effectively, providing actionable feedback and prioritization strategies to the ED.
  

        Communication

• Develop transparent feedback loops and communication strategies that engage all levels of the organization.
• Serve as a unifying force across departments to align goals and address challenges collaboratively.
• Anticipate organizational needs and create strategies to mitigate challenges proactively.
• Drive a matrix-based communication approach, minimizing silos and enhancing organizational connectivity.
• Partner with stakeholders to draft and deliver strategic communications, including presentations, reports, and talking points for internal and external audiences.

         Employee Experience and Organizational Culture

• Champion professional growth, employee engagement, and talent retention strategies.
• Champion BCC's mission by ensuring that all initiatives, programs, and communications reflect the values and priorities of the communities it serves.
• Actively listen to and engage with feedback from clients and staff, using insights to inform policies, programs, and organizational culture.
  

         Understanding and Engaging the BCC Community 

• Demonstrate an understanding of the diverse cultural, social, and economic backgrounds represented by BCC’s singers, families, and staff.
• Foster relationships with staff, singers, and families to build trust, ensure inclusivity, and enhance the organization’s sense of community.
• Integrate BCC's community's lived experiences and unique perspectives into strategic decision-making and operational processes.

• Minimum of 10 years of administrative management and project management experience in an executive environment.
• Proven ability to align priorities, manage up, down, and sideways, and work inclusively with all levels of an organization.
• Strong emotional intelligence, with a demonstrated ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and manage interpersonal dynamics effectively.
• Exceptional project management skills, including the ability to implement effective feedback loops and bring together diverse perspectives to achieve organizational goals.
• Proven success in developing and sustaining collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to represent the organization to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Experience managing teams toward measurable goals.
• Expertise in non-profit finance, operational metrics, and tools like Microsoft Office.
• A background in arts education, administration, or project management is a plus.
• Commitment to BCC’s mission and core values.

Compensation for the role of Chief of Staff at Boston Children’s Chorus is $125,000. BCC offers a competitive benefits package including health, vision & dental insurance, 403(b) employer contributions, generous PTO, short-term disability, and more.

For immediate consideration, please submit a cover letter, resume, and four (4) references addressed to the Search Committee via email: [email protected]. Please apply by January 5th, 2025.