The Corporate Strategy & Development Department drives CDAC's annual planning cycle, aligning strategy, workplans, risk, and budget. You will partner departments to run the annual planning cycle endtoend using a datadriven, evidencebased approach, support governance through policy development and Board/Committee secretariat work and drive organisation development initiatives such as capacity building and productivity improvements across CDAC.
What You Will Work On
Strategy & Performance Tracking
- Conduct and drive annual planning cycle, consolidating a clear portfolio of initiatives with outputs, outcomes, milestones, risks, budget, and resourcing.
- Analyse internal and external data to inform strategy, prioritisation, resource allocation, and risk identification.
- Run mid-year and year end reviews build and maintain a balanced scorecard and dashboards to track results vs targets (timeline, outputs and outcomes).
- Facilitate deep dives with stakeholders recommend keep/accelerate/stop/intervene decisions and reallocate resources to priorities.
- Prepare strategy and decision papers for Senior Management and the Board.
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- Maintain and enhance the ERM framework and risk policy embed risk into strategy, project gates, and budget trade-offs.
- Facilitate risk assessments at enterprise, departmental, and workplan levels.
- Maintain the enterprise risk register and track mitigation actions.
Governance & Board Secretariat
- Serve as secretariat to the Board and/or relevant Committees where required. Support forward planning, prepare agendas, papers, minutes, track and follow through on action items.
- Maintain and strengthen governance policies (e.g., whistleblowing), ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements (e.g., Charities Act), industry codes and best practices (e.g., Code of Governance for Charities and IPCs).
Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement
- Engage internal/external stakeholders (e.g., department heads, programme leads, partners, agencies) to inform strategy and secure buy-in.
- Drive change management for key initiatives (e.g., internal communications, training, AI adoption etc.).
Requirements
- A degree in relevant field with at least 3 years of relevant experience in strategic planning, committee/board governance support, data protection, analytics, policy governance, enterprise risk and compliance. Candidates with relevant training and experience in 3 or more of the areas listed are encouraged to apply.
- Prior experience in non-profit, public sector, social services and healthcare is preferred. Candidates from other sectors with relevant skills and experience are also encouraged to apply.
- Proven ability to drive annual strategic planning and review cadences (mid-year and year-end) with integrated risk and budget alignment.
- Experience ii using logic model or Theory of Change to frame strategy, output, outcome and impact.
- Good Track record at producing Board/Committee/Senior Management papers.
- Proficient in MS Office suite of applications.
- Experience in Salesforce CRM, data extraction, analysis and dashboarding (e.g. Power BI) will be advantageous though not mandatory.
- Strategic thinking, excellent writing, synthesis, facilitation and stakeholder engagement.
