CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER - UNCLASSIFIED

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER - UNCLASSIFIED

Salary

$131,718.00 Annually

Location

Nevada

Job Type

Unclassified Full-Time

Job Number

2026-03135

Department

NDE - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Opening Date

07/21/2026

Closing Date

Continuous

FLSA

Exempt

Bargaining Unit

N/A

Max Number of Applicants

50

Salary Grade

Not Assigned

Full Physical Address of Position (City, State, Zip)

Carson City or Las Vegas, NV

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• THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE*

Job Summary

The Chief Strategy Officer serves as a strategic partner and trusted confidant to the State Superintendent, helping translate the Superintendents vision into measurable outcomes for students, educators, and communities across Nevada. This is a senior advisory role operating at the strategic core of the agency. This role requires sound judgment, deep organizational awareness, and the ability to provide a balanced, cross-agency perspective across complex organizational and stakeholder dynamics. The Chief Strategy Officer is responsible for driving alignment across the agency; strengthening internal systems and operations; supporting the Superintendent's communications and engagement with the state legislature as well as keyboards, commissions, and councils; and ensuring the effective execution of the Nevada Department of Education's priorities and initiatives.

The Chief Strategy Officer leads agency-wide coordination, performance management, and executive operations, enabling NDE to operate with clarity, urgency, and coherence in service of its strategic priorities. This role is also responsible for building the internal operating systems that translate strategy into execution and measurable results. Critically, this role is designed to free the Superintendent to focus on the highest-priority decisions and relationships by ensuring information flows well, follow-through happens without prompting, and challenges are surfaced early enough to be addressed proactively.

Essential Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience in strategic planning, performance management, public policy, or organizational leadership, with at least three (3) years in a supervisory or management capacity, ideally in a complex, multi-stakeholder public-sector or mission-driven environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in education, public policy, business administration, public administration, or a closely related field is preferred.
• Experience in public sector or large governmental organizations.
• Knowledge of state education systems, public agency governance and legislative processes, enterprise performance management, and organizational change management.

Job Duties

1. Executive Leadership & Agency Coordination

• Leadership Convenings: Lead the planning, facilitation, and follow-through for the Superintendent's Cabinet, Director meetings, and cross-functional leadership convenings.
• Strategic Advising: Serve as a thought partner to the Superintendent on strategy, sequencing, and decision-making using synthesized, cross-agency perspectives.
• Strategic Communications: Support the Superintendent in communicating strategically, effectively, and consistently across internal and external settings.
• Relationships & Culture: Support board, legislative, and key external relationships while driving a high-performance, accountable culture.

2. Strategy Execution & Performance Management

• System Building & Execution: Build and execute management systems to track progress on strategic priorities and major initiatives using regular review cycles, performance dashboards, and escalation pathways.
• Organizational Systems & Decision-Making: Improve organizational systems and decision-making processes to reduce bottlenecks, support division goal setting, and ensure data-driven execution across teams.
• Proactive Follow-Through: Serve as a force multiplier by anticipating information needs, coordinating follow-through, and ensuring priorities are consistently translated into action.

3. Boards, Commissions, & Legislative Affairs

• Governance Oversight: Oversee the coordination and management of processes related to the State Board of Education, NDE-connected commissions, councils, advisory bodies, and legislative engagement.
• Operations & Alignment: Ensure high-quality agenda development, materials preparation, and meeting execution that align board and commission work with agency priorities.
• Partner Engagement: Support the Superintendent in building productive working relationships with board members and legislative partners, ensuring engagement is well-coordinated, well-prepared, and reflective of agency priorities.

4. Enterprise Systems & Operations

• Strategic & Operational Alignment: Align enterprise operations with the Departments strategic priorities across current portfolio functions (policy and communications) and potential expanded shared services (technology, HR, facilities).
• Efficiency & Improvement: Lead cross-agency operational improvements, strengthen service delivery, reduce duplication, and recommend system redesigns or consolidations to support overall agency performance.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

We are looking for someone who:

• Has prior experience in a chief of staff, senior policy, strategy, or executive advisory role in government, education, or a comparably complex organization
• Brings strong organizational awareness: able to quickly develop deep knowledge of an agencys people, priorities, and stakeholder landscape and translate that knowledge into better-coordinated, better-informed decision-making
• Demonstrates sound judgment and discretion, including being comfortable synthesizing competing perspectives and offering candid, balanced counsel to senior leaders
• Communicates with clarity and impact, both in writing and in high-stakes verbal settings
• Is a strong project manager who follows through consistently and holds others to the same standard
• Brings emotional intelligence and interpersonal range: equally effective building trust with a classroom teacher, a division director, or a state legislator
• Is deeply motivated by the mission of public education and by delivering results for students and communities across Nevada

The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages.

Please send direct Inquiries or correspondence to the recruiter listed on this announcement.

Benefits include:

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees' Benefits Program (PEBP).

• Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.

• Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.

• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.

• Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency. For more information on how PERS service may impact Social Security benefits, visit the SSA publication.

• Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program.

• No Nevada state income tax.

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.

• Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of "standard" or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.

Additional benefits may apply to employees covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), depending on their designated bargaining unit. For more information, visit the Labor Relations Unit (LRU).

For more details about your rights and responsibilities as a State of Nevada employee, please review the State of Nevada Employee Handbook (PDF).

• State Holidays The holiday schedule for State employees is established by the Legislature.

The following are legal holidays:

January 1.............................................. New Years Day

Third Monday in January.................. Martin Luther King, Jr.s Birthday

Third Monday in February................ Washington's Birthday

Last Monday in May........................... Memorial Day

June 19................................................ Juneteenth Day

July 4.................................................... Independence Day

First Monday in September.............. Labor Day

Last Friday in October....................... Nevada Day

November 11........................................ Veterans Day

Fourth Thursday in November........ Thanksgiving Day

Friday following the Fourth Thursday in November...................... Family Day

December 25........................................ Christmas Day

When January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11, or December 25 falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed legal holiday. If these days fall on Sunday, the following Monday is the observed holiday. Eligibility for holiday pay is covered by the provisions of NAC 284.255

Employer State of Nevada (NV)

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See Above for Posting Location, Nevada, 89701

Website https://nvjobs.nv.gov