Chief Strategy & Growth Officer (Volunteer)

Chief Strategy & Growth Officer (Volunteer)

PromiseStrategy | Enterprise Strategy, Growth, Innovation & Organizational Effectiveness

Organization: Mentor A Promise (MAP)

Location: Remote / Hybrid (NYC Collaboration as Needed)

Type: Volunteer Executive Leadership Role

Commitment: Approximately 5–10 Hours Per Week

Minimum Commitment: 6-Month Commitment Required

Reports To: Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Works Closely With: Board of Directors, Executive Leadership Team, Division Chiefs, Strategic Partners, Funders, Universities, Public Agencies, and Community Stakeholders

About Mentor A Promise

Mentor A Promise (MAP) is a New York City–based nonprofit organization supporting children, youth, and families experiencing housing instability through mentorship, literacy, education, social-emotional learning, creative expression, workforce development, technology innovation, and community-centered opportunity.

We believe every child carries a promise.

Our responsibility is to build the systems, relationships, opportunities, and pathways that help those promises thrive.

As MAP grows, our challenge is no longer simply delivering programs.

Our challenge is designing an organization capable of creating lasting, measurable, and scalable impact.

That is why this role exists.

About PromiseStrategy

PromiseStrategy serves as MAP's enterprise strategy and future-building function.

The division exists to help answer the most important questions facing the organization:

• Where should MAP be in five years?
• What opportunities should we pursue?
• What should we stop doing?
• What should we build next?
• What partnerships will create the greatest impact?
• How do we align mission, growth, people, systems, and resources?
• How do we ensure every major decision strengthens long-term impact?

PromiseStrategy exists to transform vision into execution and ambition into sustainable growth.

Role Overview

Mentor A Promise is seeking an exceptional Chief Strategy & Growth Officer (CSGO) to serve as a principal advisor to the Founder & CEO and one of the organization's most influential executive leaders.

The CSGO will help architect the future of Mentor A Promise.

This leader will oversee:

• Enterprise strategy
• Organizational growth
• Institutional effectiveness
• Strategic partnerships
• Innovation and new initiatives
• Expansion opportunities
• Cross-divisional alignment
• Long-range planning
• Organizational transformation

The Chief Strategy & Growth Officer serves as the connective tissue between vision and execution.

The role requires someone who can:

• Think like a strategist
• Analyze like a researcher
• Build like an entrepreneur
• Communicate like an executive
• Align like an operator
• Lead with the heart of MAP's mission

This is not simply a strategy role.

This is an institution-building role.

Core Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Organizational Direction

Lead the development and execution of:

• Annual strategic plans
• Three-year strategic roadmaps
• Five-year organizational vision plans
• Enterprise priorities
• Organizational objectives
• Strategic growth frameworks

Help ensure every major organizational decision supports long-term mission impact.

CEO Partnership & Executive Advisory Leadership

Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the Founder & CEO.

Support:

• Executive decision-making
• Organizational prioritization
• Opportunity assessment
• Risk evaluation
• Strategic communication
• Leadership alignment

Provide clear recommendations that balance mission, growth, sustainability, and execution.

Growth, Expansion & Opportunity Development

Lead evaluation of:

• Program expansion opportunities
• Geographic growth opportunities
• Strategic partnerships
• New initiatives and ventures
• Innovation opportunities
• Institutional investments
• Emerging service models

Build frameworks that help MAP determine:

• What to start
• What to scale
• What to improve
• What to sunset

Growth should be intentional, not accidental.

Organizational Effectiveness & Enterprise Alignment

Partner with executive leadership to:

• Strengthen cross-divisional collaboration
• Reduce duplication and inefficiencies
• Align priorities across divisions
• Improve decision-making systems
• Strengthen organizational coordination

Help ensure MAP functions as one integrated organization rather than a collection of independent teams.

Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development

Develop and strengthen relationships with:

• Schools
• Universities
• Foundations
• Government agencies
• Corporate partners
• Research institutions
• Nonprofit organizations
• Community-based organizations

Help position MAP as a trusted leader within the youth development and housing stability ecosystem.

Innovation, Research & Future Opportunities

Lead environmental scanning and future-focused planning involving:

• Education trends
• Youth development innovations
• Housing instability research
• Public policy developments
• Technology advancements
• Workforce trends
• Philanthropic trends
• Emerging nonprofit practices

Help ensure MAP remains adaptive, forward-looking, and positioned for future opportunities.

Data, Impact & Strategic Performance

Partner with PromiseMeasure to:

• Define enterprise KPIs
• Develop executive dashboards
• Measure strategic progress
• Evaluate organizational effectiveness
• Monitor long-term outcomes
• Support evidence-based decision-making

Help connect strategy to measurable impact.

Board & Governance Strategy Support

Support the Board of Directors through:

• Strategic planning retreats
• Board reports
• Growth and opportunity assessments
• Long-term planning discussions
• Organizational effectiveness reviews

Help strengthen strategic governance and institutional stewardship.

First-Year Priorities

Within the first year, the Chief Strategy & Growth Officer will help:

• Develop MAP's enterprise-wide strategic roadmap
• Establish a formal strategic planning framework
• Build organizational KPI and dashboard systems
• Launch enterprise decision-making frameworks
• Evaluate growth and expansion opportunities
• Strengthen executive leadership alignment
• Build a strategic partnership portfolio
• Create MAP's innovation and opportunity pipeline
• Support long-term sustainability planning

Success Measures

Success in this role includes:

• Stronger organizational alignment
• Increased strategic clarity
• Sustainable organizational growth
• Improved executive decision-making
• Increased cross-divisional collaboration
• Strong strategic partnerships
• Better allocation of organizational resources
• Increased long-term sustainability
• Stronger impact measurement systems
• Greater organizational effectiveness

Qualifications

We welcome candidates from diverse executive, nonprofit, consulting, public policy, philanthropy, education, and social-impact backgrounds.

Helpful experience may include:

• Strategic planning
• Organizational development
• Executive leadership
• Management consulting
• Nonprofit leadership
• Systems change initiatives
• Innovation strategy
• Public policy
• Research and evaluation
• Partnership development

Strong candidates often demonstrate:

• Executive-level strategic thinking
• Exceptional systems thinking
• Strong communication and facilitation skills
• Research and analytical expertise
• Organizational leadership experience
• Ability to align vision with execution
• Strong judgment and decision-making

Advanced education or equivalent executive experience is highly valued.

Why This Role Matters

Organizations rarely fail because they lack passion.

They often struggle because they lack alignment, focus, prioritization, and long-term strategy.

The Chief Strategy & Growth Officer helps ensure that Mentor A Promise grows intentionally, strategically, and sustainably.

This role helps transform ideas into initiatives, initiatives into systems, and systems into lasting impact.

The future of MAP will not be shaped by chance.

It will be shaped by strategy.

What You'll Gain

• Executive leadership experience helping shape the future of a growing nonprofit organization
• Opportunity to work directly with the Founder, Board, and Executive Leadership Team
• Experience leading strategy, growth, innovation, and organizational effectiveness initiatives
• Meaningful impact supporting children, youth, and families experiencing housing instability
• Professional references and letters of recommendation
• The opportunity to help build one of the most innovative youth-serving organizations in New York City

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply directly through Idealist and submit:

• Resume or CV
• Brief statement of interest
• Relevant leadership, strategy, consulting, research, or organizational development experience

Please share experience involving:

• Strategic planning
• Organizational growth
• Executive leadership
• Innovation
• Partnership development
• Systems change
• Nonprofit or social-impact work

Help architect the future of Mentor A Promise.

Because great organizations do not simply react to change.

They anticipate it.

Shape it.

And use it to create greater opportunity for the communities they serve.

This role holds the pieces together.

From vision to growth to execution—help ensure every opportunity advances the mission before it is pursued.

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with our organization. At this time, volunteer opportunities are limited to individuals based in the United States due to legal, safeguarding, data-privacy, and programmatic requirements. We appreciate your interest in our mission and your understanding of these constraints.