Senior Strategic Planning and Development Specialist

Overview

The Senior Strategic Planning and Development Specialist serves as a senior strategic partner to executives, supporting the shaping and integration of Compassion’s revenue portfolio over a two‑year and longer horizon. This role enables leaders to make durable, forward‑looking decisions about revenue growth, diversification, and sustainability by managing the planning and governance processes that guide long‑term investment, sequencing, and tradeoff choices.

The Specialist translates executive strategic direction into decision‑ready portfolio views and facilitates executive discussions that clarify strategic options, risks, and implications across multi‑year timeframes. By establishing clear planning cadences, operating governance mechanisms, and performance insights, this role helps leaders align near‑term actions with long‑term revenue strategy, steward resources wisely, and maintain focus on the strategic choices that will shape Compassion’s future impact in alignment with the ministry’s mission.

What will you do?

• Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintaining a courteous, Christ‑like attitude in interactions within and outside Compassion, and faithfully uphold Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Act as an advocate to raise awareness of the needs of children. Understand Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commit to and prioritize child protection considerations in all decision‑making, tasks, and activities across the ministry. Abide by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Report any concerns of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and support appropriate responses.
• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.
• Collaborate with senior leaders by preparing quarterly strategic workshops and enabling cross‑functional strategic point‑of‑view discussions that inform executive decision‑making, supporting revenue teams in advancing an agreed strategic intent or vision.
• Identify, define, and sequence strategic work, managing a portfolio of initiatives as they enter the annual planning cycle in alignment with executive direction. Build, maintain, and refresh a rolling three‑year strategy and roadmap that reflects executive‑approved direction across core and growth initiatives, ensuring alignment between long‑term strategy and near‑term priorities.
• Lead the annual planning cycle, orchestrating planning processes and decision inputs in partnership with the Chief Marketing Officer, Vice President of Strategy Integration & Execution, the CMO Leadership Team, and other stakeholders to translate long‑term goals into executable priorities.
• Cultivate mechanisms that drive transparency and healthy discussions, operating within an agreed decision‑making and governance framework. Partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure follow‑through on sequencing, escalation, and course correction as needed.
• Lead the development of strategic data, metrics, dashboards, tools, and artifacts to support executive performance monitoring and strategic decision‑making, proactively partnering with analytical and business intelligence teams across the ministry.
• Leverage senior‑level expertise to accomplish objectives such as initiating learning, presenting research on industry best practices, driving informed innovative thinking to influence ministry improvements, managing budgets, monitoring activities, and providing leadership to other staff members.

What do you bring?

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; MBA preferred.
• Ten years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in revenue or growth strategy within a large global organization.
• Project Management experience, required. PMI certification is preferred.
• PMIS systems (Workfront, Smartsheet, etc.) proficiency, including experience with project management information systems for tracking, reporting, and execution.
• Strategy & Planning Certification preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of a normal schedule.

Why work here?

• The mission: Join a team committed to releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
• Our benefits: Enjoy generous paid time off, a 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short‑term professional counseling, and more.
• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.