Interim Chief of Staff

Responsibilities

Strategic clarity and alignment

• Translate short conversations, voice notes, and half-formed directions into crisp memos, polished decks, and actionable roadmaps, fast and without hand-holding.
• Act as a trusted thought partner: sharpen ideas, stress-test assumptions, and help determine where the CEO’s attention is best directed each week.
• Support board preparation and strategic materials in coordination with the COO and relevant leads.
• Prepare high-quality briefing materials that frame decisions, highlight trade-offs, and synthesise complex information into clear options.
• Track progress against top-level priorities and surface emerging risks, tensions, or misalignment early.

Relationships and VIP management

• Maintain a living map of key relationships in partnership with the EA (funders, partners, government contacts, ecosystem figures) with context on who they are, what they care about, and how to nurture them.
• Brief the CEO before every significant interaction: who’s in the room, what they need, and what she should remember.
• Follow up where it matters and flag when a relationship needs attention before it needs repair oin meetings, identify opportunities to follow up, partner, share information with members of the team, or get additional clarity.

Design and creative production

• Bring genuine design sensibility to every CEO-associated output: events, presentations, website updates, and partner-facing materials.
• When representing the organisation at hosted events (whether dinners, convenings, or launches) you bring a considered aesthetic sensibility that reflects our standards.
• Translate ideas and concepts into tangible prototypes and visual outputs, using tools such as Canva, Figma, or equivalent design platforms.

Comms, narrative, and external presence

• Work with the Head of Comms to identify which conversations, stages, and global moments Current AI needs to be in, and prepare the CEO to show up well-prepared.
• Draft and structure talks, remarks, and key messages, with the judgement to know what resonates with each audience.
• Read the AI news cycle and surface what matters: policy shifts, ecosystem moves, events, moments worth reacting to or weighing in on.

Leadership team effectiveness

• Increase the CEO’s effectiveness by ensuring meetings, engagements, and commitments are purposeful, well-prepared, and followed through.
• Design and manage leadership team meetings to ensure clarity of decisions, accountability, and follow-through.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on strategic initiatives, working alongside the COO to ensure collaboration and effective communication.
• Lead select high-priority, cross-cutting projects that require CEO-level sponsorship but do not sit squarely within one function.
• Help codify decision-making norms and ways of working in partnership with the COO.
  Product and roadmap thinking.
• Build and maintain roadmaps for cross-cutting organisational priorities: not just tracking tasks, but understanding dependencies, sequencing, and trade-offs.
• Identify gaps, propose structures, and lead select high-priority initiatives that don’t sit cleanly inside any one function.

Skillset

• 7+ years of professional experience, including in a Chief of Staff position, management consultant, or a highly demanding strategic/operational role, preferably supporting a senior executive in a fast-paced environment.
• You write well and fast (in English and French): executive memos, briefing docs, talking points, internal comms.
• You have genuine design skills: not just “visual sense” but the ability to make things (decks, layouts, event concepts) that look and feel considered.
• You know how to use AI tools to move faster and produce better output (and you’re already doing this).
• Strong judgment about people and relationships — you know when to push, when to hold, and how to make someone feel genuinely valued.
• High discretion; strong initiative and comfort operating in ambiguous early stage environments.
• You’ve worked across cultures and are comfortable in international, multilingual environments.
• Proven experience in strategic planning, project management, and driving complex, cross-functional initiatives to completion.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills; able to quickly grasp complex issues and develop practical solutions.
• Strong interest for public interest AI.
• Strong proficiency with strategic and operational tools (e.g., Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, Airtable etc.)