Sand Cherry Associates is a business strategy and management consultancy whose services help businesses drive measurable results. Calling its work environment "one of the most frie
Chief of Staff
Location
United States
Posted
25 days ago
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Job Description
Chief of Staff
Sand Cherry Associates
Role Description The Chief of Staff is a strategy and execution partner to a senior business leader, with direct accountability for driving operating cadence, cross-functional alignment, and delivery of key initiatives. This is a hands-on, execution role that blends strategic thinking with day-to-day program management, requiring ownership of deliverables, tracking mechanisms, and executive-level communications. The role ensures that priorities are translated into actionable plans, decisions are clearly documented, and initiatives progress with discipline and accountability across teams. This is a 3-6 month contract consulting role with the potential to be temp-hire for the right candidate. This role will start as a 1099 consultant. This is a remote role and candidates may travel once a month. All qualified candidates must live and be authorized to work in the United States without requiring any visa sponsorship or transfer. Responsibilities - Strategic Planning & Operating Cadence - Drive annual and quarterly planning process, translating leadership priorities into clear initiatives, objectives, and execution plans - Build leadership agendas, meeting and operations cadence including preparation materials, notes, and follow-up actions - Coordinate and execute quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and offsites, including development of materials and tracking of outcomes - Maintain decision logs, action trackers, and ownership alignment to ensure follow-through across leadership priorities - Cross-Functional Execution & Program Management - Drive cross-functional initiatives spanning development, engineering, operations, and commercial teams - Build and maintain integrated initiative trackers (milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, owners) - Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive resolution plans with accountable owners and timelines - Performance Management, Reporting & Analytics - Partner with functional leaders to define and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and performance tracking tools - Produce weekly and monthly executive updates, business reviews, and leadership/board-ready materials - Conduct targeted analysis (portfolio prioritization, resource planning, scenario modeling) and translate findings into clear recommendations and decision frameworks - Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Communications - Serve as a central liaison across teams to align priorities, timelines, and deliverables - Coordinate cross-functional communications, ensuring consistent messaging and timely escalation of issues - Represent senior leadership in meetings as needed, capturing outcomes and clear execution of next steps - Develop executive-level communications, presentations, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders - Governance, Risk & Decision Support - Maintain decision logs, risk/issue registers, and action trackers with clear ownership and due dates - Ensure materials are complete, accurate, and decision-ready for leadership review - Organization Enablement & Operational Improvement - Support organizational scaling through operating model clarity, role definition, and onboarding coordination - Drive process improvement initiatives, including standardization of reporting, meeting governance, and documentation practices Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree required - 8+ years of experience in energy, infrastructure, corporate strategy, consulting, or program management - Experience supporting senior executives and driving cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment - Strong understanding of energy, power, or infrastructure business models and lifecycle (development through operations) - Proven ability to drive execution across cross-functional teams and manage complex, multi-threaded initiatives - Strong program management capability, including building trackers, dashboards, and structured reporting outputs - Strategic and analytical ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear recommendations and executive-ready materials - Financial and commercial acumen to support business cases, prioritization, and trade-off decisions - Exceptional communication skills, including drafting executive communications and facilitating senior-level discussions Benefits - Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. - Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. - We recognize our employees for their contributions. - Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. - Opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. - Team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. - Professional career growth is one of our main priorities.
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