Chief of Staff

Overview

POSITION: Chief of Staff

GREATER MSP TEAM: Executive Team

REPORTS TO: President and CEO

STATUS: Full Time, Exempt (Salaried)

SALARY RANGE: $175-$195K

GREATER MSP PARTNERSHIP

GREATER MSP is a cross-sector partnership of more than 300 leading businesses, cities, universities, counties, foundations, and community organizations. The mission of the GREATER MSP Partnership is to grow the economy of the 15-county Minneapolis-Saint Paul region and create economic opportunity for all residents of the region. To do this, our partnership is executing a comprehensive regional economic development strategy focused on growing jobs, talent, and capital across the region.

Learn more about GREATER MSP atermsp.org

Position Summary

The Chief of Staff (CoS) is a senior partner responsible for driving organizational effectiveness and operational excellence across the enterprise. Acting as a trusted extension of the CEO, the CoS works closely with the Executive Team to ensure seamless execution of top priorities, often representing the CEO in meetings, communications, and negotiations. This role serves as a force multiplier for leadership, operating at the intersection of strategy, operations, and impact often leading cross-functional initiatives, fostering collaboration, and translating the CEO’s vision into actionable outcomes.

Relationship-building is central to the role, with regular engagement across internal teams, external partners, investors, and board members.

The ideal candidate is a systems-oriented thinker with exceptional communication skills, political acumen, and the agility to navigate ambiguity in fast-paced, mission-driven environments. This individual brings thought partnership to executive decision-making, drives complex projects, and cultivates a culture of accountability, synergy and excellence.

Driving Partnership Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal team members, external partners, investors, and board members to foster trust, drive alignment, and influence key outcomes as the steward of the organizational strategic plan
• Serves as a key liaison to investors and partners to strengthen partnerships by facilitating dialogue and surfacing opportunities for collaboration and growth. Manages high-level partnership relations and negotiations in close alignment with the CEO, engaging senior investors and partners to secure mutually beneficial outcomes
• Leads public sector engagement and public affairs initiatives. Collaborates closely with the Enterprise Director of Talent, Inclusion, and Engagement to ensure alignment between external messaging and internal values, fostering partnerships that enhance the organization’s visibility, influence, and impact
• Plays a key role in Board engagement and maintaining Board transparency, fostering trust, and enabling informed decision-making at the governance level by partnering with the VP of Enterprise Strategy to coordinate clear, strategically aligned communications
• Leads updates to Board by laws in collaboration with executive leadership and legal advisors, with a focus on refining membership criteria and investor structure to reflect organizational affiliations and evolving governance needs
• Operates as the Board meeting producer, ensuring seamless coordination including scheduling, location planning, committee alignment, and logistics. Partners with EA to manage board calendaring, updates, reports and tailored presentations

Executive Support and Leadership

• Drives Executive Team effectiveness and collaboration focused on leadership priorities. Works in this pivotal role as an advisor and operational partner to integrate vision with actionable plans
• Strengthens leadership team cohesion and development by ensuring continuity and alignment. This includes leading Enterprise Strategy, Executive Team, and Executive Strategy meetings by curating agendas and driving follow-through on action items
• Leads the development and execution of the annual work plan, ensuring clear ownership of projects or initiatives and includes measurable outcomes. Oversee progress tracking and reporting to ensure accountability and inform data-driven decision making
• Leads and manages complex, cross-functional initiatives that align with enterprise goals—mobilizing team members, establishing clear objectives and timelines, and ensuring seamless execution.

Operational Excellence, Compliance & Organizational Success

• Provides financial oversight and performance monitoring, helps translate financial data into actionable insights for executive decision-making, and ensures budgetary discipline is maintained across the organization
• Oversees enterprise budget planning and development in close collaboration with the Controller, ensuring alignment with priorities and resource optimization across the organization ensuring financial plans support sustainable organizational goals
• Implement recommendations from the Finance & Audit Committee to reduce complexity and identify…