Chief of Staff

Role Overview

Responsibilities

**Strategic Planning & Operating Cadence **

· Drive annual and quarterly planning process, translating leadership priorities into clear initiatives, objectives, and execution plans

• Build leadership agendas, meeting and operations cadence including preparation materials, notes, and follow-up actions
• Coordinate and execute quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and offsites, including development of materials and tracking of outcomes
• Maintain decision logs, action trackers, and ownership alignment to ensure follow-through across leadership priorities

Cross-Functional Execution & Program Management

• Drive cross-functional initiatives spanning development, engineering, operations, and commercial teams
• Build and maintain integrated initiative trackers (milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, owners)
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive resolution plans with accountable owners and timelines

**Performance Management, Reporting & Analytics **

• Partner with functional leaders to define and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and performance tracking tools
• Produce weekly and monthly executive updates, business reviews, and leadership/board-ready materials
• Conduct targeted analysis (portfolio prioritization, resource planning, scenario modeling) and translate findings into clear recommendations and decision frameworks

Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Communications

• Serve as a central liaison across teams to align priorities, timelines, and deliverables
• Coordinate cross-functional communications, ensuring consistent messaging and timely escalation of issues
• Represent senior leadership in meetings as needed, capturing outcomes and clear execution of next steps
• Develop executive-level communications, presentations, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders

**Governance, Risk & Decision Support **

• Maintain decision logs, risk/issue registers, and action trackers with clear ownership and due dates
• Ensure materials are complete, accurate, and decision-ready for leadership review

Organization Enablement & Operational Improvement

• Support organizational scaling through operating model clarity, role definition, and onboarding coordination
• Drive process improvement initiatives, including standardization of reporting, meeting governance, and documentation practices

Requirements

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 8+ years of experience in energy, infrastructure, corporate strategy, consulting, or program management
• Experience supporting senior executives and driving cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment
• Strong understanding of energy, power, or infrastructure business models and lifecycle (development through operations)
• Proven ability to drive execution across cross-functional teams and manage complex, multi-threaded initiatives
• Strong program management capability, including building trackers, dashboards, and structured reporting outputs
• Strategic and analytical ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear recommendations and executive-ready materials
• Financial and commercial acumen to support business cases, prioritization, and trade-off decisions
• Exceptional communication skills, including drafting executive communications and facilitating senior-level discussions

Benefits

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.