VP, Innovation, Learning & Strategy

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Job title: VP, Innovation, Learning & Strategy

Based in: New York (hybrid)

The salary range for this role is between $228,000 - $268,000. This range is inclusive of a performance-based bonus, which is based on both team and individual performance, and is paid out annually. Our salary ranges are determined by location, work experience, and the role.

To apply, please send the English version of your resume and cover letter to careers. If your background aligns with our needs, a member of our team will be in touch.

About the Tent Partnership for Refugees:

With more and more refugees displaced around the world for longer periods of time, businesses play a critical role in helping refugees integrate economically in their new communities. The Tent Partnership for Refugees was launched in 2016 by Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO and founder of Chobani – a multibillion dollar food company in the U.S. – to mobilize leading businesses to help connect refugees to work.

Today, Tent is a global network of over 500 major companies committed to hiring, training, and mentoring refugees. Find out more t.org.

About the role:

The Vice President for Innovation, Learning & Strategy (ILS) is responsible for proposing and driving Tent’s global strategy for how companies hire refugees at scale, while ensuring that execution, learning, processes, products, and performance continually improve to maximize impact and optimize resource allocation.

In addition to directly driving the strategic planning process, this role leads five core areas:

• Data & Insights
• Research & Publishing
• Delivery Support
• Partnership Development Support

• Lead Tent’s annual and multi-year strategic planning processes, including annual KPI-setting.
• Drive alignment across teams and countries, ensuring priorities are clear and decisions are made based on evidence.
• Support the CEO in preparing board materials and strategic communications, ensuring that data and priorities are presented clearly to drive decision making.

• Set the strategic direction, data architecture, and governance standards for Tent, ensuring high-quality data, dashboards, and reporting across the organization.
• Define and build KPIs, impact models, and performance frameworks, and ensure they are applied consistently to enable organizational learning and evidence-based decision‑making.
• Translate trends, risks, and insights from internal and external data into strategic recommendations for leadership, resource allocation, and planning.

• Set the team agenda and priorities, commissioning high-quality polling, business cases, and resources that enable companies to hire refugees at scale.
• Oversee the development of resources (e.g., playbooks, frameworks, legal guidance, and other materials), ensuring they are practical, data‑driven, and aligned with Tent’s mission, and company and country needs.
• Ensure that insights emerging from company tactics are captured, organized, and translated into scalable resources and publications.
• Ensure findings are communicated clearly and persuasively through strategic publications, presentations, and external‑facing materials.

• Provide strategic leadership for Tent’s hiring programs, ensuring delivery models are effective, scalable, consistently implemented, and measured across countries.
• Set strategic direction for mentoring and training programs that enable and accelerate the hiring of refugees at scale.
• Oversee operational guidance, tools, and internal consulting capacity that support country teams and priority companies to progress from interest to hiring.
• Ensure surge support, playbooks, and problem‑solving mechanisms are available to unblock bottlenecks and accelerate results in key countries.
• Strengthen coordination and knowledge‑sharing across teams so successful delivery models and lessons are replicated quickly and efficiently via working groups.
• Oversee the development and expansion of Tent’s digital platforms and tools, ensuring they enable scalable sourcing and hiring pathways.
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