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• Chief of Staff, Executive Office
  (Washington DC location preferred)

  Position Summary:

  The newly created position of Chief of Staff will serve as a key change leader and connector across HU. Working closely with the CEO as part of HU’s Executive Office, the Chief of Staff will be responsible for supporting the CEO and Executive Committee (comprised of the CEO; COO; Managing Director, Programs; and Managing Director, Public Engagement & Partnerships) to focus and deliver on strategic organizational goals and priorities. The successful candidate will be an experienced executive, systems thinker, builder, and dot-connector whose focus will be on translating the organization’s priorities into action, and ensuring these are accomplished with deep collaboration, trust, and high accountability. This role will design and maintain the systems and rhythms that enable the CEO and Executive Committee to focus on strategic direction, while ensuring efficient organizational execution.

  This position collaborates closely with the Executive Committee (EC), the broader Leadership Team (LT), and key members of the Operations Team. The Chief of Staff will serve as a trusted advisor, pivotal communicator, and strategic executor, while aligning with HU’s mission and values.

  This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to the CEO. A location in or near Washington DC or San Francisco Bay Area is required, with a strong preference for Washington DC. Our hybrid work approach provides ongoing flexibility for regular remote work, however the duties of this role will require proximity to an HU office for regular gatherings, in-person meetings, and special events.

  Core Job Responsibilities:

  Management Coordination and Accountability

  • Coordinate the creation of annual organizational goals in close collaboration with the CEO, EC, LT, and other key stakeholders. Ensure regular monitoring of progress and accountability against organizational goals, and own the internal infrastructure that connects organizational goals to execution.
  • Translate CEO and Executive Committee strategic decisions into coordinated plans, tracking implementation and progress across departments.
  • Support the creation of clear and transparent decision-making and prioritization processes for the EC and LT. Ensure decision-making processes are structured, transparent, and drive timely execution at the operational level.
  • Create and implement an annual roadmap for Executive Committee and Leadership Team Meetings and Retreats, ensuring agendas and associated materials are sent in advance, time is well spent, objectives are achieved, and follow-up occurs on identified action items.
  • Work in collaboration with Senior Portfolio Directors and Senior Operations staff to ensure ongoing planning, internal communications, and strong execution of CEO and EC priorities.
  • Proactively surface insights, risks, and opportunities to the CEO and EC to improve decision quality.

  Culture, DEIJ, and Organizational Change

  • Expand and strengthen the LT, helping ensure that it is a highly functioning team that fosters trust among staff in the organization.
  • Support the renewal of LT and EC management culture, including the ability to engage in generative conflict and creative problem solving.
  • Help build organization-wide DEIJ fluency, working closely with the DEIJ Action Team, the People team, and any external consultants.
  • Support the organizational strategy process, and associated structural and organizational changes needed to execute the organizational strategy.

  Internal Communications and Coordination

  • Align and coordinate internal communications from the CEO, EC, and LT in a way that promotes transparency and inclusion.
  • Lead key cross-functional initiatives, ensuring projects stay on track and in alignment with strategic goals.
  • Develop consistent communication pathways between executive leadership and staff, ensuring organizational transparency and coherence; ensure appropriate and timely internal communications across HU related to all of the efforts above.

  CEO and Board Support

  • Support the CEO in managing Board engagement, ensuring a healthy board culture that reflects HU values and a deep connection to HU’s mission.
  • Support the CEO in managing the reserve and institutional funds held by the Executive Office.
  • Supervise and work closely with Executive Assistant and Board Liaison to manage priorities and workflows.
  • Oversee and manage all contracts and consultants out of the Executive Office.

  Organizational Leadership

  • Act as a visible organizational leader with the ability to build trust and strong relationship, embody HU values and integrity, and lead by example.
  • Work effectively with staff at all levels, balancing projects and priorities for multiple team members.
  • Contribute to a culture that values deep equity.
  • Foster cross-departmental collaboration to ensure that strategic goals are understood and acted upon consistently across the org.

  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  Must-have requirements:

  • Deep commitment to HU’s mission and values (including Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice).
  • Experience in a similar Chief of Staff role and/or reporting directly to a CEO or C-Suite executive.
  • Proven experience in stakeholder relationship management, including influencing without formal authority across senior teams.
  • Experienced in supporting and enabling effective executive decision-making.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and strengthen culture and DEIJ with a systems lens.
  • Skilled facilitation capability, with the ability to design and run effective executive meetings, retreats, and governance processes.
  • Proven ability to translate strategic goals into measurable results across complex organizations.
  • Expertise in strategic and internal communications, including message alignment, facilitation, and decision-making processes.
  • Strong project and program management capability with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from conception through execution.
  • Financial and operational acumen, with experience managing budgets, contracts, consultants, and/or institutional resources and operational controls.
  • Experience managing and coaching direct reports; committed to developing and empowering staff.
  • Strategic operator who translates executive vision into action through systems, process and alignment, with the ability to spot systemic issues and implement solutions to improve performance.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
  • Results-oriented, organized, and resourceful, with the ability to operate with agility and integrity in a fast-paced environment.
  • Passionate about getting things done well, efficiently, and with high integrity.
  • Candidates must have the right to work in the United States.

  It’s a bonus if you bring:

  • Lived and/or professional experience in fields connected to HU’s mission focus areas.
  • Experience supporting or managing board-level governance and meeting processes.
  • Prior executive leadership experience in philanthropy, mission-driven organizations, or cross-sector partnerships.
  • Skilled mediation or conflict resolution practice.

  We encourage qualified candidates with informal or indirect experience to describe how their background has served as preparation for this role.

  Salary: The salary range for this position will vary by geographic location to account for local job market & cost of living. Starting salaries within the range are based on job-related skills, experience and background. At HU, salary progression is based on performance and proficiency in a role over time.

  Example starting salary ranges are provided below, with other locations available on request. We will share more about the starting and full salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

  • San Francisco – $223,509 – $248,343
  • Washington DC – $201,158 – $223,509

• Coaching Panel RFP Overview & Needs

  Background

  Humanity United (HU) is a philanthropic organization focused on advancing the dignity and voice of those most affected by violent conflict, exploitation, and injustice. Established in 2008 to cultivate conditions for enduring peace and freedom, HU today focuses on systemic change across three bodies of work: Peacebuilding, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, and Racial Justice and Equity, with a strong focus on leveraging Public Engagement across these issues. Humanity United is part of The Omidyar Group, a diverse collection of companies, organizations, and initiatives united by a desire to improve the lives of people and societies. We have approximately 60 staff spread across the United States (with 1-2 based in Europe), with offices in the SF Bay Area & Washington DC.

  HU is committed to embedding equity internally in our culture and practices as well as externally in our grantmaking lens and partnerships. Supporting team effectiveness and the wellbeing, growth and development of our staff via coaching is a key aspect to enable us to achieve this aim.

  Our organization is inviting expressions of interest from experienced practitioners to join our organizational coaching panel. This multidisciplinary panel will support our staff and leadership team in advancing our human rights and philanthropic mission through trauma-informed, equity-centered, and purpose-driven support.

  We are seeking partners who bring both compassion and rigor to their work, who can help us navigate change, deepen our leadership practices, and sustain ourselves in the pursuit of our mission.

  About the Opportunity

  The coaching panel will operate on an as-needed basis and will be available to support staff across the organization. Members of the panel may be called upon to provide:

  • Leadership and executive coaching
  • Individual, team and group coaching
  • Organizational facilitation and retreats
  • Consulting on leadership development, equity, culture and trauma-informed practices

  Delivery format is expected to be primarily virtual, with the potential for periodic in-person and hybrid engagements e.g. facilitation of team retreats or convenings.

  Our vision is to create a diverse, multidisciplinary pool of trusted practitioners we can engage with over time for a variety of organizational needs and engagements.

  Who We’re Looking For

  We welcome expressions of interest from both individual coaches and consulting teams or firms. If you’re applying as a team or firm, please include profiles for all potential coaches or facilitators who might work with us.

  Ideal candidates will bring:

  • A trauma-informed and healing-centered approach to coaching and facilitation
  • Deep practice and commitment to equity, justice, and inclusion
  • Demonstrated experience supporting mission-driven, human rights, or philanthropic organizations
  • Comfort working across cultures and contexts, with experience in both U.S. and global south settings is especially valued
  • Clear evidence of an equity-centered lens incorporating anti-oppression frameworks
  • The humility and flexibility to meet individuals and teams where they are and tailor approaches accordingly across coaching, consulting, and facilitation
  • The ability to tailor approach to meet various needs of individuals and teams
  • International Coaching Federation (ICF) certification or equivalent experience is highly desirable
  • Exceptional standards of ethics and confidentiality

  Additional skills and expertise we are keen to see represented within this multidisciplinary pool include:

  • Mediation and conflict tending experience
  • Experience supporting neurodiverse people in the workplace
  • Specialist experience and/or skills with trauma-informed practices and tools
  • Fluency in racial literacy and/or restorative justice practices
  • Experience coaching executive leaders
  • Experience with career development coaching
  • Experience with different career sectors including but not limited to Communications, Policy, Strategy, and Operations
  • Lived experience of one or more areas of HU’s work
  • Experience working with survivor leaders and/or with people affected by conflict
  • Experience working in the Global South / working with people of the global majority
  • Deep experience providing trauma-specific, trauma-responsive, or other trauma-informed coaching practices working with trauma-impacted populations
  • Fluency in other languages including Spanish and Arabic
  • Diversity of locations and time zones, especially across the U.S. and western Europe

  Engagement Terms

  Panel members will be engaged on a flexible, project-by-project basis over a two-year period. Specific scope, duration, and compensation will be coordinated directly for each assignment.

  Panel members will enter into a two-year contract with HU, from April 2026 – April 2028.

  Work will be invoiced on an hourly basis based on project requests and organizational need. Contracted providers will be utilized on an as-needed basis. There is no minimum value to these contracts. Panel members will have a designated relationship manager within HU and work with a variety of individuals on each task.

  All panel members are expected to:

  • Participate in an initial onboarding call, quarterly panel roundtable briefing calls, and quarterly 1-1 check-ins with HU’s People team.
  • Maintain a two-way communication channel to understand HU’s org priorities and strategy and support a feedback loop in both directions to support learning and sense-making.
  • Share back any organizational recommendations and insights emerging from their work, to support HU

  Timeline

  • 18 Dec 2025: Expressions of interest open
  • 31 Jan 2026: Expressions of interest due
  • Feb 2026: Expressions of interest reviewed and interviews scheduled
  • Mid Feb – mid March 2026: Interviews take place & selections finalized
  • March 2026: Notifications & contracting
  • April 2026: Onboarding & panel commencement

  How to Express Interest

  Please share a concise expression of interest introducing yourself and outlining your approach to coaching. In particular, we ask that you address:

  • How you integrate equity, inclusion & justice into a typical coaching engagement
  • How your approach to this work is trauma-informed
  • How your approach and experience relates to our desired skills and expertise (as outlined above)

  Please include profiles and rates for all practitioners who would be part of the panel work. References or work samples are welcome but not required.

  Submissions, and any questions, can be emailed to coaching@humanityunited.org by January 31, 2026.

  Submissions will be reviewed by a small cross-functional review group, using a qualitative scoring framework. We are looking for practitioners whose values, approaches, and lived experience align with our mission.

  DEIJ Commitment:

  HU was founded on the belief that we are all united in the challenges and opportunities we face. We believe in the power of all people to bring about extraordinary change. When humanity is united, we can act together to create a powerful force for human dignity. We recognize that diversity is a core strength of humanity. We seek out and value a diversity of perspectives and partners, and we try to elevate the contributions of individuals and communities that aspire to a world free of human exploitation and violent conflict.

  Humanity United believes that diversity, equity and inclusion make us more successful in our work, and we are able to grow and learn better together when our team is diverse and representative of the communities we serve. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, class, religion, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status and any other characteristics protected by law. We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse identities or who are members of marginalized communities.