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Job Description Summary
The Vice President, Strategic Planning and Initiatives serves as the principal integrator and strategic right hand to the President, enabling the effective leadership and operation of the division. This role ensures that the President's priorities are translated into organized action, that the leadership team operates with coherence and accountability, and that the division's operating rhythm supports high performance.
This is a role of trust, discretion, and organizational influence. The VP, Strategic Planning and Initiatives operates at the executive level — managing enterprise-sensitive information, coordinating across organizational boundaries, and carrying peer-level credibility with senior leaders. The role does not direct the leadership team but works as a trusted coordinator who ensures alignment, reduces friction, and amplifies the President's impact.
Job Description
The VP, Strategic Planning and Initiatives occupies a unique position in the division's leadership structure. The role sits within the President's office and operates with delegated authority in defined domains. It is not a line of leadership role — it does not hold formal supervisory authority over the President's direct reports — but it is expected to function as a peer to that group in terms of organizational weight, credibility, and access.
The role handles matter of significant sensitivity, including confidential personnel and organizational issues, cross-divisional political dynamics, and matters with board or enterprise-level exposure. Absolute discretion, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate complexity with composure are non-negotiable requirements.
The VP, Strategic Planning and Initiatives will have two direct reports: the Senior Executive Administrator, responsible for the President’s calendar management, travel, expenses, task management, meeting prep, and other administrative responsibilities; and Program and Resource Fellow, responsible for providing project support.
1. Executive Advisory and Decision Support
Prepare the President for key meetings, decisions, and engagements — synthesizing information, anticipating questions, and surfacing relevant considerations.
Manage the flow of information to and from the President's office, ensuring timely, accurate, and actionable communication.
2. Strategic Planning — Facilitation to Ownership
This responsibility could evolve over time as the VP, Strategic Planning and Initiatives builds organizational relationships and demonstrates effectiveness.
Year 1 — Facilitate and support: Coordinates and manages the strategic planning process under the President's close direction; ensures the process runs effectively, structures inputs from the leadership team, and produces clear documentation of priorities, goals, and accountabilities.
Year 3 and beyond — Own: Holds full accountability for the strategic planning process; translates the President's vision into a structured, actionable, multi-year plan; leads execution tracking and mid-cycle adjustments.
3. Operating Rhythm and Leadership Team Effectiveness
Design and manage the division's operating calendar, including leadership team meetings, planning cycles, performance reviews, and key governance touchpoints.
Ensure leadership team meetings are well-structured, purposeful, and outcome-oriented — preparing agendas, managing pre-reads, facilitating follow-through decisions.
4. Strategic Initiative Oversight
Lead or co-lead cross-functional initiatives on behalf of the President, carrying full accountability for scope, timeline, and outcomes — not merely visibility and monitoring.
Building off the Division’s annual planning and the implementation of Enterprise’s Strategic Framework, and in coordination with the VP of Business Operations, develop a process for elevating initiatives and opportunities for investment by the Resource Allocation Framework.
5. Organizational Health and Culture
6. Information Architecture and Communications
Oversee the development of key internal communications from the President's office, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with organizational priorities.
7. External Engagement Coordination
Accountability and Outcomes
The following links the role's key responsibilities to their expected deliverables and measurable outcomes.
Executive advisory & decision support
Briefing materials; decision memos; tracking system for commitments
Measurable Outcomes
President reports high confidence in preparation; commitments tracked and met on time
Responsibility
Key Deliverables
Annual strategic plan; planning calendar; leadership team inputs; progress reports
Measurable Outcomes
Plan produced on schedule; leadership team reports process is well-run and their input is reflected
Responsibility
Operating rhythm
Key Deliverables
Leadership meeting calendar; agendas; decision logs; follow-through reports
Measurable Outcomes
Meetings are purposeful; decisions documented; follow-through rate measurably improves
Responsibility
Strategic initiative oversight
Key Deliverables
Initiative charters; status reports; risk logs; escalation recommendations
Measurable Outcomes
Initiatives delivered on time and scope; President has accurate real-time visibility
Responsibility
Organizational health
Key Deliverables
Periodic health assessments; culture reports; recommended interventions
Measurable Outcomes
Early identification of risk; leadership team trust scores improve over time
Responsibility
Information architecture
Key Deliverables
Communication systems; President's communication calendar; key internal messages
Measurable Outcomes
Information bottlenecks reduced; staff report clarity on division priorities
Responsibility
External engagement
Key Deliverables
Briefing packages; stakeholder maps; follow-through on external commitments
Measurable Outcomes
President rates external preparation highly; external relationships are maintained with consistency
Responsibility
Change management
Key Deliverables
Change management plans; stakeholder engagement strategies; progress reports
Measurable Outcomes
Change initiatives achieve intended outcomes; staff report feeling informed and involved
Decision-Making Authority
The VP, Strategic Planning and Initiatives operates with significant delegated authority in defined domains. The following framework describes the expected degree of autonomy:
Decides Independently
- Operating and process decisions within the President's office
- Day-to-day management of the operating calendar and meeting rhythm
- Routine external coordination and scheduling on the President's behalf
Decides with President Consultation
- Strategic initiative scope and resource decisions
- Communications from the President's office on sensitive matters
- Significant changes to planning process or operating calendar
President Decides
- Strategic priorities and direction
- Personnel decisions affecting the leadership team
- External commitments with material organizational consequence
Core Competency Framework
The following competencies define what high performance looks like in this role, based on Enterprise’s Leadership Competencies. Behavioral anchors are provided at two levels to support evaluation and development.
Executive judgment and discretion/Customer and client focus
Cultivates innovation through strategic thinking and planning
Collaborates and communicates effectively
Manages ambiguity and situational adaptability
Values differences and supports culture-building
Demonstrated experience managing organizational performance metrics, dashboards, and reporting, including aggregating key KPIs for internal and external audiences, to support accountability and storytelling.
Demonstrated experience managing organizational performance metrics, dashboards, and reporting, including aggregating key KPIs for internal and external audiences, to support accountability and storytelling.
Working Conditions and Expectations
Salary Transparency
You will be joining a team of talented professionals motivated by serving the community and addressing the need for affordable housing.
Enterprise offers a comprehensive total rewards package for you and your family. The pay range for this position is $195,000 - $225,000. The salary range represents the low and high end of what may be paid for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range, and compensation decisions may be influenced by a variety of factors, including skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Total Rewards at Enterprise
This range is just one component of our total rewards package, which also includes annual performance bonuses and generous paid leave programs.
Our benefits form a major part of the total rewards package. These include dental, health, and vision care plans, as well as family-building benefits such as adoption and surrogacy support. Enterprise supports flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance and offers health advocacy, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and mental health benefits. We round out our package with financial education, wellness programs, and auto-enrollment in the company’s 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions.
Finally, you will have access to learning and development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement for job-related courses and certifications. Thank you for your interest in joining the Enterprise team and contributing to our mission to serve others.
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