Executive Director, CEO Initiatives
Job in
New York City, Richmond County, New York, USA
Listed on 2026-02-02
Listing for:
College Board
Full Time, Per diem
position Listed on 2026-02-02
Job specializations:
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Management
General Management, Program / Project Manager, Operations Manager, Healthcare Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Executive Director, CEO Initiatives
College Board - Office of the CEO
Location: This is a hybrid role and requires the candidate to be on-site at our New York office at a minimum of every Tuesday and Wednesday, with additional in-person work as needed.
Role Type
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This is a full-time position
About the Team
The Office of the CEO is a small, close-knit team that operates at the center of College Board, enabling the organization's daily execution, long-term strategy, and leadership culture. The team includes the CEO, President, and Chief of Staff and works in close partnership with senior leaders across the 1,900-person organization. We operate with urgency, sound judgment, and a high bar for quality.
Our work is focused on ensuring clarity of direction, disciplined execution, and effective leadership at the highest levels of the organization.
About the Opportunity
The Executive Director, CEO Initiatives serves as the CEO's deputy and is responsible for translating enterprise priorities into focused, effective CEO leadership, informed by internal context, external realities, and emerging opportunities. The role orchestrates the CEO's day-to-day engagements, decisions, and follow-through with discipline and intent-ensuring the CEO's time and attention advance the organization's agenda while strengthening the College Board's external reputation, influence, and future positioning.
The Executive Director reports to the Chief of Staff, with a dotted-line relationship to the CEO. In close partnership, the Chief of Staff and Executive Director ensure that the CEO's daily decisions and engagements reinforce long-term strategy, leadership expectations, and enterprise priorities. The Chief of Staff stewards enterprise priorities, leadership rhythms, and execution discipline; the Executive Director ensures those are reflected in the CEO's daily decisions, engagements, and leadership signals, while feeding external insights and emerging opportunities back to shape future work.
As the CEO's primary day-to-day partner and first point of contact on strategic, operational, and external matters, the Executive Director operates with delegated authority to drive decisions, direction, and follow-through-bringing speed, judgment, and integration across internal leadership and external engagement. The Executive Director manages a team of three in support of the CEO.
The ideal candidate brings strong judgment, deep experience working with senior leaders, and a demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, high-stakes environments. They are externally oriented, highly organized, and able to translate strategy into action through others. This role requires comfort supervising senior leaders, shaping strategy in real time with the CEO, and ensuring disciplined execution across multiple fronts.
Responsibilities include:
Direct CEO Support (40%)
- Strategic advisor and problem solver. Act as a primary thought partner to the CEO on strategic, operational, and reputational matters, particularly when the CEO is directly engaged. Help frame issues, develop options, pressure-test thinking, and recommend paths forward.
- Senior leadership supervision and direction. Directly supervise senior leaders reporting into the CEO's office, including SVPs and their VP and Executive Director teams across Communications and Marketing, Government Relations and Policy, External Relations, Sales, Higher Education, Membership, and Advocacy. Set priorities, drive decisions, and hold leaders accountable for execution aligned to CEO direction.
- CEO preparation and focus. Ensure the CEO is consistently prepared, well-briefed, and focused on the most consequential decisions, conversations, and external engagements. Shape agendas, pre-reads, and framing so the CEO's time is spent on the highest-value work.
- CEO proxy and integrator. Represent the CEO in meetings and decision-making as appropriate, ensuring that direction given, decisions made, and commitments taken on reinforce enterprise priorities, leadership expectations, and the College Board's external credibility-coordinating closely with the Chief of Staff.
- Meeting and workflow orchestration. Staff CEO meetings, senior leader syncs, and priority forums to ensure clear objectives, productive discussion, and strong follow-through. Track decisions, risks, and interdependencies and ensure momentum continues after the meeting ends.
- Systematic management of external engagement. Oversee the CEO's external engagement portfolio across education, policy, philanthropy, higher education, government, business, and the faith-based community. Ensure outreach looks beyond siloes, advances the organization's strategic priorities, strengthens key relationships over time, and reinforces the enterprise narrative. Partner with the Chief of Staff to ensure external commitments accelerate and inform the organization's agenda.
- Measurement and impact assessment. Develop and maintain a disciplined approach to…
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