Sr. Director, Transformation Governance

Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls and the leading authority on their healthy development. Millions of Girl Scout alums across the country and the world have gone on to achieve incredible things and make a tremendous impact in fields ranging from public policy, medicine, journalism, and athletics to international relations, science, technology, art, and entertainment.

As a mission-driven organization, Girl Scouts of the USA champions girls as they explore their worlds, try new things, and develop the courage, confidence, and character to make the world a better place. From stargazing during a first overnight camping trip to building robots, navigating a rocky hiking trail, working together on a community project, and learning about the importance of environmental stewardship, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can unapologetically be themselves. As they rise to meet new challenges, they also discover the issues that matter most to them. Along the way, they learn the power of friendship, connection, and teamwork.

Girl Scouts are doers, innovators, problem-solvers, creators, and dreamers, and the GSUSA team is here to center, support, and inspire them, working with 111 local councils across the country and USA Girl Scouts Overseas to deliver our life-changing Girl Scout Leadership Experience.

The Strategy & Planning Community encompasses Strategic Planning, Transformation Execution, Analytics & Insights, and Property Strategy. The Transformation Execution team is a new team that we are standing up to oversee execution of our multi-year strategic transformation. The Transformation Execution Team will build out the program, project and change management methodology and tools, drive a robust and rigorous planning process, and coordinate activities with leaders and teams across the organization. The Transformation Execution team will provide oversight of the most critical initiatives to ensure a successfully executed transformation

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The Senior Director of Transformation Governance is accountable for defining, governing, and continuously improving the methodologies, standards, tools, and reporting practices that ensure disciplined, consistent execution of the transformation portfolio. This role is the steward of how the transformation portfolio operates-ensuring clarity, transparency, accountability, and alignment across all initiatives and workstreams.

In addition to methodology and reporting, this leader plays a critical role in portfolio governance, including initiative intake, prioritization facilitation, and communicating sequencing and approval decisions across stakeholders.

Establish standards, methodology and tools

Define and enforce transformation execution standards and methods
• Design and support consistent adoption of customized tools (e.g., initiative charters, business cases, roadmaps); refine as needed based on industry best-practices & internal feedback
• Define key tracking and reporting forums, associated cadences, participants, and tools to support exception-based reporting and transparency
• Define consistent standards for reporting at initiative, workstream and transformation levels
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date initiative dashboards in coordination with Strategy team
• Consolidate initiative-level reports into workstream and transformation-level reports, highlighting key issues, common risk themes and mitigation strategies, in consultation with Program Delivery team

Portfolio Governance & Prioritization

• Facilitate the transformation portfolio prioritization process, ensuring leaders have the data, criteria, and frameworks needed to make informed decisions. Portfolio prioritization should work to integrate cross team capacity assessments, ensuring recommendations reflect realistic delivery bandwidth across teams, communities, and workstreams.
• Lead or support initiative intake reviews, ensuring submissions meet transformation governance standards and include clear problem statements, value propositions, resourcing requirements, and dependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional assessment of new initiative proposals, ensuring alignment to strategic goals and capacity constraints. Communicate portfolio sequencing, approval decisions, and rationale to stakeholders across the organization in clear, actionable formats.
• Maintain a consolidated, transparent view of the transformation portfolio, including approved, pending, and deprioritized initiatives.
• Partner with Leadership Decision Makers, Finance, Strategy, and Program Delivery to ensure alignment between prioritization decisions, resources, and execution capacity

Team leadership & enablement

• Lead, coach, and develop a small, high performing Transformation Governance team while ensuring clarity of roles, strong performance management, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Set priorities, manage capacity, and allocate resources effectively across the governance and reporting functions to meet enterprise needs.
• Invest in team capability building through ongoing coaching, professional development, and exposure to cross-functional work.

Capability Building & Training

• Lead onboarding and capability development for Initiative Owners and Project Managers in transformation methodologies and tools.

• Provide coaching/mentorship to help teams adopt transformation methods effectively.

• Identify organization-wide skill gaps related to transformation execution and partner with Program Delivery and Talent & Culture to design targeted training programs.

• Share tools, templates, and best practices broadly across the enterprise.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Deep experience in transformation methodologies, program management, and governance.

• Demonstrated success designing and implementing enterprise PMO or transformation governance frameworks.

• Strong facilitation skills, especially in cross-functional prioritization and decision-making environments.

• Ability to design engaging learning experiences in a virtual and federated settings.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills-able to distill complex information into clear insights for senior and operational leaders.

• Coaching mindset with the ability to tailor support to different stakeholder groups.

• Promotes culture of empowerment while holding teams accountable

• Office 365 or similar suites
• Competency in PowerPoint or similar presentation software
• Competency in Microsoft Excel or similar software
• SharePoint
• Experience with Portfolio/Project Management systems

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Advanced degree preferred

• Minimum of 10+ years of progressively responsible experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder programs or enterprise transformations

• Experience in a federated environment strongly preferred

• Relevant certifications preferred (not required): PMP, PgMP

Compensation Range: Annual base salary range is between $109,000 - $180,000.

This represents the present low and high end of the pay range for this position. This pay range is only applicable to NYC Metro-based employees, on a hybrid schedule. Actual pay will vary based on various factors, including but not limited to experience.

Travel: Yes No

AAP/EEO Statement: GSUSA is an equal employment opportunity employer.

FEATURED BENEFITS:

What We Offer:

Girl Scouts is powered by people, and we encourage our team members to be their best selves in and out of the office. We place a high priority on flexibility and offer a competitive employee salary and benefits package that includes:

Paid Time Off:

GSUSA offers 20 days of paid time off, 2 floating holidays, as well as 9 workplace holidays per year. GSUSA staff also enjoy a paid holiday year-end office closure between Christmas and New Year's.

Other Benefits:

• Medical and Behavioral Health Coverage

• Plan options with individual and family coverage which includes wellness, hospitalization, and fertility assistance.
• Both plans include GSUSA partial subsidy of premium costs
• Dental and vision coverage

• Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) including Health, Dependent Care, and Limited FSA for those with Health Savings Accounts
• Company-paid life insurance
• Flexible work arrangements
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 401(K) with company match
• Short- and Long-Term Disability for salary continuation
• Health and Wellness Classes and Activities throughout the year

WORK ENVIRONMENT: This job operates in a professional office environment.

POSITION TYPE / EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK: This is a remote, full-time position. Days of work are Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.