Chief of Staff supporting the President at LEE, a civic leadership development organization. Balancing strategic vision and day - to - day operations while managing key projects and external relations.
About the role
- Chief of Staff maximizing CEO’s impact and translating strategy into measurable results. Overseeing strategic priorities and ensuring organizational alignment in a hybrid work setting.
Responsibilities
- Maximizing the CEO’s leverage
- Prepare the CEO’s key meetings (objectives, context, expected decisions)
- Structure, prepare, and ensure follow-up for executive committee meetings, board meetings, and all-hands
- Reduce distractions and back-and-forth to improve the quality of strategic decisions
- Represent the CEO in certain meetings and carry their vision in their absence
- Help formalize the long-term vision with the founders
- Prepare strategic materials (executive committee, board, presentations)
- Clarify options, trade-offs, and impacts on structuring topics
- Act as a sparring partner to the CEO on key decisions
- Turn strategic priorities into concrete roadmaps and action plans
- Implement and run an OKR / KPI framework
- Ensure executive committee decisions are followed by actions and executed on time
- Align tech, business, and operations teams around priorities
- Structure governance rituals (executive committee, key forums)
- Track decisions and trade-offs, and address misalignments or tensions
- Ensure smooth and consistent information flow across the organization
- Temporarily take ownership of critical or poorly managed business or operations topics
- Run rapid diagnostics (consulting-style) on urgent situations
- Clarify issues, build an executable action plan, and hand ownership back to teams
- Structure and roll out the internal communication roadmap
- Organize key leadership moments (extended executive committees, offsites)
- Strengthen the founders’ internal and external credibility
- Actively contribute to the animation of Vizzia’s culture
Requirements
- Strong experience in Chief of Staff, strategy, consulting, or a senior cross-functional role
- Excellent strategic vision with a strong ability to move quickly into execution
- Very strong project management, coordination, and PMO skills
- Comfortable with data, KPIs, and performance management frameworks
- Ability to solve complex problems quickly and in a structured way
- Leadership, assertiveness, and managerial courage
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong sense of confidentiality
- High adaptability and stamina
- Strong personal fit with the CEO and co-founders
Benefits
- Hybrid work
- “Contrat cadre” and RTT (between 8-12 per year depending on the number of public holidays in the current year)
- A Mac or PC depending on your preferences
- 60% coverage of meal vouchers worth €9 per worked day
- Sustainable mobility allowance
- Mutuelle (Alan)
- Offices located in central Paris (9th arrondissement)
- Annual offsite with the whole team and plenty of company events
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