Sr. Director, Transformation Governance

Girl Scouts of the USA

1d • $109,000 - $180,000 • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director