Chief Operating Officer

SickKids Foundation•Toronto, ON

15h•CA$300,000 - CA$340,000•Hybrid

About The Position

SickKids Foundation, a prominent charitable organization with over 50 years of experience, is the largest charitable funder of child health research, learning, and care in Canada. Last year, they raised over $200 million and invest in national and international initiatives to benefit children globally. As the fundraising partner for The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the Foundation supports Precision Child Health (PCH), aiming to personalize medicine for each child. SickKids Foundation is dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture through equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in its policies and practices, creating a safe and positive work environment. They are seeking a transformative leader to join them as Chief Operating Officer (COO) to help build an empowered, engaged, and future-ready foundation where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Public Administration, Law, Human Resources, or a related field.
CPA designation is considered a strong asset.
Progressive senior leadership experience overseeing multiple corporate functions within a complex organization.
Experience working with Boards of Directors and supporting governance processes at a senior executive level.
Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, strategic initiatives, and enterprise-wide change.
Experience within healthcare, healthcare philanthropy, not-for-profit, charitable, public sector, or similarly complex stakeholder environments is strongly preferred.
Ability to deploy financial and organizational data to inform strategy and decision-making.
Demonstrated ability to foster collaborative, inclusive, and employee-centered workplace practices.
Strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities.
Strong digital acumen; deploying technology, AI, and other tools to augment work outputs and instill a technology-first approach to streamline operational processes.

Nice To Haves

CPA designation

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic partner to the President & CEO in advancing organizational priorities, performance, and long-term impact.
Provide enterprise-wide leadership that promotes operational excellence, accountability, collaboration, and innovation.
Identify opportunities to leverage cross-functional capabilities to capitalize on Foundation strengths and/or to address organizational challenges and ensure alignment of organizational resources, capabilities, and structures to strategic objectives.
Develop and implement an effective and streamlined decision making process for the Foundation to foster clarity, agility, and strong governance.
Influence and/or lead executive leadership discussions, strategic initiatives, and organizational transformation efforts.
Build, develop, and maintain effective and mutually beneficial partnerships with key stakeholders within SickKids Hospital and the Foundation to facilitate ongoing awareness and support to raise funds.
Serve as the primary executive lead supporting the Board of Directors and Board Committees.
Partner closely with the Board Chair, Committee Chairs, CEO, and executive leaders to ensure effective governance practices.
Oversee board planning, meeting management, agenda development, materials preparation, and governance processes.
Ensure the Board receives high-quality information, insights, and recommendations to support strategic decision-making.
Advise the CEO and Board on governance matters, emerging risks, regulatory considerations, and organizational implications.
Support the CEO and Board in identifying and cultivating prospective leadership candidates for Board and Committee roles.
In collaboration with the CEO, operationalize the multi-year strategic planning process including goals and objective-setting, annual operating plans and budgets, and ongoing reporting for the organization.
Oversee the short and long-term enterprise strategic planning processes and support organizational strategy execution.
Drive organizational transformation initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.
Foster innovation and the adoption of new approaches, technologies, and operating models that enhance organizational effectiveness and impact.
Monitor external trends and emerging opportunities relevant to healthcare philanthropy and the broader charitable sector.
Provide executive oversight of financial strategy, planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, investments, and financial controls.
Ensure strong financial stewardship and effective allocation of resources in support of mission impact.
Monitor organizational performance and financial sustainability through meaningful metrics and reporting.
Partner with finance leadership to identify opportunities for operational efficiencies and long-term value creation.
Champion a values-driven, inclusive, and high-performing organizational culture.
Provide oversight of talent strategy, leadership development, workforce planning, succession planning, and employee engagement.
Support leaders in building organizational capability and fostering accountability and performance excellence.
Oversee enterprise risk management, legal affairs, compliance, and organizational policies.
Ensure appropriate frameworks are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate strategic, operational, financial, and reputational risks.
Advise executive leadership and the Board on key risk considerations and emerging issues.
Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, regulations, governance standards, and charitable sector requirements.
Provide executive oversight of granting operations to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, established outcomes, and governance requirements.
Work closely with hospital executive leadership to ensure that fundraising and granting activities are aligned with fundraising priorities of the Hospital and support the evolution of granting practices, processes, and measurement frameworks to deliver upon them.
Ensure appropriate stewardship, accountability, and effectiveness across granting activities.
Oversee the strategic direction of donor experience and donor care functions in alignment with our Donor Promise commitments.
Ensure exceptional stewardship practices that strengthen donor engagement, trust, and long-term relationships.
Support a culture of service excellence and continuous improvement across donor-facing operations.
Develop, lead, attract, inspire, and mentor a diverse, high-performing team to ensure that the mission and core values of SickKids Foundation are put into practice.
Establish clear expectations, accountability frameworks, and performance measures to deliver functional and business unit outcomes.
Empower functional Operations leaders to create and execute functional strategic plans, while providing senior-level strategic guidance, coaching, and oversight and ensuring appropriate resources to deliver.
Accountable for the employee experience within Operations, fostering a culture of continuous learning, psychological safety, accountability to results, and change agility.