Director, Facilities, Events, Travel, And Security (Fets) And The Chief Security Office (Cso)

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

This is an extraordinary opportunity to lead a multidisciplinary group comprised of the Global Facilities, Events and Travel (FETS) and the Global Security function, which were previously separate. The FETS team focuses on creating an extraordinary experience for our employees, partners, and grantees. Global Security focuses on the safety and security of personnel, facilities, and information in a “converged” model, bringing together physical and information security for a comprehensive perspective on risk and mitigation. The power of convening is a comparative advantage of the foundation, and this is a critical enabler to convening employees and partners in pursuit of impact. It also supports the organizational goals to build an effective, efficient & impactful organization while strengthening our culture and improving employee experience. This supports our belief that all lives have equal value.

Your Role

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will be leading all aspects of strategy and delivery of foundation security, facilities, events, and travel operations. You will get to work collaboratively with program leaders to deliver vital support in service of our mission.

This will include driving the best strategies in service delivery and vendor management to support our headquarter operations in Seattle, its global regional offices, and its two affiliates in the United States. In addition, this role has management responsibility for incident and crisis management. The successful leader in this role will balance and adjudicate an array of sometimes conflicting priorities and consistently exercise sound and situationally appropriate judgment in a constantly evolving and potentially “high stakes” environment, adeptly assessing risks and aligning decisions with foundation values.

What You’ll Do

• Leads planning for and execution of annual operating budget and capital budget.
• Direct strategic and operational leadership for multidisciplinary team; set goals and objectives, build teams, mentor, lead performance management, support talent development, and hiring processes.
• Ensure stewardship and optimal use of resources and technology; establish and maintain appropriate rigor, efficiency, and cost effectiveness in delivery of security services that align with and reinforce our values and philosophical approaches to operational excellence and guardrails; find opportunities to standardize, simplify, and achieve efficiencies.
• Develop and integrate activities with key internal partners (Finance, HR, Legal, program teams, etc.) and important external partners, such as law enforcement.
• Lead planning and preparedness activities related to foundation incident management and business continuity programs in collaboration with other foundation leaders; ensure incident management protocols are accurately documented, understood, and sufficiently practiced; activate and coordinate incident management response.
• Set enterprise-wide best-in-class standards and practices for services; create opportunities for scalability of services for all global foundation offices and affiliates.
• Evaluate risks, understand implications for foundation, and ensure an appropriate risk management program is in place to address exposures.
• Oversight of business planning, policy, and procedure development; monitor critical service metrics to ensure maximum value, drive innovation and continual process improvement for service effectiveness and customer satisfaction; monitor benchmarks; develop overarching approach to managing diverse set of key global vendor relationships through effective performance-based agreements and periodic performance reviews.
• Lead the foundation’s sustainability initiative to achieve net carbon neutrality.

Your Experience

• Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills for all levels of the organization.
• Extensive knowledge of vendor management, business planning analytics and process improvement, contracting and sourcing services, finance, expense, and capital budgeting, risk and incident management, physical and information security approaches, mitigation strategies.
• Strong people and functional leadership skills and ability.
• At least 15 years of proven experience leading teams in multiple subject areas.
• Experience working in a complex organization, people, process, and change leadership skills.

The typical annual salary range for this role is $216,300.00 to $401,700.00 USD. The exact offer will be determined by a variety of factors such as the candidate’s individual skills, qualifications, and experience relative to the requirements of the role.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Depending upon your work location, we may require proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 and any recommended booster doses. All employees based in the United States are to provide proof of full vaccination upon hire and any recommended boosters, subject to applicable laws.

Candidate Accommodations

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.