Chief of Staff

Company Profile 

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally-native, data-empowered solutions.  Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team.  Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.  

Overview 

The Chief of Staff is a strategy and execution partner to a senior business leader of a power company, with direct accountability for driving operating cadence, cross-functional alignment, and delivery of key initiatives. This is a hands-on, execution role that blends strategic thinking with day-to-day program management, requiring ownership of deliverables, tracking mechanisms, and executive-level communications. The role ensures that priorities are translated into actionable plans, decisions are clearly documented, and initiatives progress with discipline and accountability across teams. This is a 3-6 month contract consulting role with the potential to be temp-hire for the right candidate. This role will start as a 1099 consultant. This is a remote role and candidates may travel once a month. All qualified candidates must live and be authorized to work in the United States without requiring any visa sponsorship or transfer.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Operating Cadence

• Drive annual and quarterly planning process, translating leadership priorities into clear initiatives, objectives, and execution plans

• Build leadership agendas, meeting and operations cadence including preparation materials, notes, and follow-up actions
• Coordinate and execute quarterly business reviews, strategy sessions, and offsites, including development of materials and tracking of outcomes
• Maintain decision logs, action trackers, and ownership alignment to ensure follow-through across leadership priorities

Cross-Functional Execution & Program Management

• Drive cross-functional initiatives spanning development, engineering, operations, and commercial teams
• Build and maintain integrated initiative trackers (milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, owners)
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and drive resolution plans with accountable owners and timelines

Performance Management, Reporting & Analytics

• Partner with functional leaders to define and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and performance tracking tools
• Produce weekly and monthly executive updates, business reviews, and leadership/board-ready materials
• Conduct targeted analysis (portfolio prioritization, resource planning, scenario modeling) and translate findings into clear recommendations and decision frameworks

Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Communications

• Serve as a central liaison across teams to align priorities, timelines, and deliverables
• Coordinate cross-functional communications, ensuring consistent messaging and timely escalation of issues
• Represent senior leadership in meetings as needed, capturing outcomes and clear execution of next steps
• Develop executive-level communications, presentations, and briefing materials for internal and external stakeholders

Governance, Risk & Decision Support

• Maintain decision logs, risk/issue registers, and action trackers with clear ownership and due dates
• Ensure materials are complete, accurate, and decision-ready for leadership review

Organization Enablement & Operational Improvement

• Support organizational scaling through operating model clarity, role definition, and onboarding coordination
• Drive process improvement initiatives, including standardization of reporting, meeting governance, and documentation practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in leadership roles in the power, energy, or related infrastructure industries in a project/program management, strategic advising or consulting role
• Experience supporting senior executives and driving cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment is required

• Strong understanding of energy, power, or infrastructure business models and lifecycle (development through operations)
• Proven ability to drive execution across cross-functional teams and manage complex, multi-threaded initiatives
• Strong program management capability, including building trackers, dashboards, and structured reporting outputs
• Strategic and analytical ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear recommendations and executive-ready materials
• Financial and commercial acumen to support business cases, prioritization, and trade-off decisions
• Exceptional communication skills, including drafting executive communications and facilitating senior-level discussions
• Must be comfortable with both strategic and tactical role driving daily execution of business deliverables
• Must be able to juggle competing priorities and adapt as necessary
• Strong MS PowerPoint deck building and presentation skills
• Proven knowledge of MS Excel and the ability to produce executive level reporting as needed

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.