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Get Access To All JobsABOUT TRIDENT UNITED WAY
For 80 years, Trident United Way has united our community to create access to opportunities for all our region’s residents to thrive. Together, with our Tri-County change-seekers, we’re mobilizing a movement to lift up all our neighbors and colleagues to break the cycle of financial instability. Our focus centers on ALICE® (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) households – families who make more than the Federal Poverty Level but don’t earn enough to cover the rising costs of living. As ALICE households continue to grow, we’re working on bold, community-rooted solutions to support families in getting ahead when it is harder today than ever before.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Chief of Staff serves as a strategic partner to the President & CEO and a central integrator across Trident United Way’s executive, governance, operational, and mission delivery priorities. This role ensures the organization is moving with clarity, discipline, accountability, and at the speed of the need as Trident United Way advances its single-issue focus on Family Financial Stability and its bold goal of uplifting 15,000 families out of poverty by 2035. The Chief of Staff owns the organization’s “Executive Operating System”, ensuring that strategy, people, governance, data, and execution are aligned. This position is not simply an administrative function….it is a high-trust leadership role designed to help the CEO remain externally focused while ensuring internal priorities are organized, the board is aligned, decisions are followed through, and the organization is operating with the rhythm, visibility, and accountability required for transformational growth.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Lead the Executive Operating System
- Manage the CEO’s executive cadence, including senior leadership meetings, decision forums, priority reviews, and follow-up systems.
- Ensure major organizational priorities are translated into clear work plans, owners, timelines, and accountability checkpoints.
- Track commitments made by the CEO and executive leadership team to ensure timely execution.
- Prepare CEO briefings, agendas, follow-up notes, and decision memos for high-priority internal and external meetings.
- Identify gaps, bottlenecks, and misalignment across departments and elevate issues before they slow progress.
- Serve as a confidential thought partner to the CEO on organizational strategy, leadership structure, internal priorities, and execution risks.
- Strengthen organizational discipline by ensuring major initiatives are executed fully and translated into measurable outcomes.
Strategy Integration - Ensure Trident United Way’s strategy is integrated across departments, programs, partnerships, revenue, communications, and operations.
- Ensure the organization remains focused on the highest-impact work and avoids fragmentation or mission drift.
- Support the CEO and senior leadership team in translating strategic priorities into executable organizational plans.
- Ensure alignment between Trident United Way’s single-issue focus, Family Financial Stability, and the work of all departments.
- Help connect major initiatives across the organization such as Family Coaching, Thrive@ programs, 211, ALICE@Work, Centers for Strong Families, public policy, resource development, and community partnerships.
- Track progress against strategic priorities and identify areas where teams need additional coordination, clarity, or support.
- Support cross-functional initiatives that require multiple departments to work together effectively.
- Prepare strategic updates for the CEO, senior leadership, board committees, funders, and key partners.
Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness
- Support the CEO in evaluating organizational structure, staffing needs, leadership capacity, and role clarity.
- Help ensure staffing plans align with Trident United Way’s strategic growth, especially around Family Coaching, Thrive@ programs, 211, data, and community-based service delivery.
- Partner with HR to foster a positive, mission-driven workplace culture while advancing leadership development, succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement efforts.
- Assist in developing clear internal communication around major organizational changes, staffing decisions, and strategic shifts.
- Support the onboarding and integration of senior leaders and key staff.
- Help identify culture, capacity, and workflow issues that may affect execution.
- Promote a high-accountability, high-trust internal culture focused on mission, clarity, and results.
Governance and Board Support
- Coordinate preparation for Board of Directors meetings, Executive Committee meetings, and key board committee meetings.
- Partner with the CEO, Board Chair, and senior leadership team to develop board agendas, materials, presentations, dashboards, and follow-up items.
- Ensure board materials are strategic, concise, accurate, and aligned with organizational priorities.
- Track board decisions, requests, governance commitments, and follow-up actions.
- Support the CEO in preparing talking points, updates, and strategic narratives for board and committee meetings.
- Help ensure board engagement is focused on strategy, influence, governance, and mission acceleration.
- Coordinate with staff leads supporting finance, governance, nominating, resource development, community impact, and other committees as needed.
Dashboard, Data, and Performance Management
- Develop and maintain an executive dashboard that tracks the organization’s key performance indicators.
- Coordinate with program, finance, revenue, marketing, 211, ALICE, and operations teams to gather accurate and timely data.
- Ensure dashboards connect activity to outcomes, especially around Family Coaching, Thrive@ programs, 211 utilization, ALICE families served, revenue growth, donor engagement, volunteerism, and operational capacity.
- Help translate data into actionable insights for leadership and board decision-making.
- Monitor progress against annual goals, strategic plan milestones, and CEO priorities.
- Identify areas where the organization lacks useful data and help build systems to close those gaps.
- Advance a culture of data-driven decision-making focused on learning, accountability, and speed of execution.
COMPETENCIES
Strategic Execution & Organizational Effectiveness
- Strong strategic thinking and execution discipline.
- Ability to translate complex information into clear decisions and next steps.
Executive Communication
- Strong writing, briefing, and presentation development skills.
- High emotional intelligence, discretion, and judgment.
Project Management
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the larger mission.
- Facility with data, dashboards, performance metrics, and accountability systems.
Mission Alignment
- Commitment to Trident United Way’s mission of uniting the Tri-County to uplift families out of poverty.
- Strong understanding of nonprofit leadership, governance, fundraising, and community impact.
Stakeholder Influence and Engagement
- Ability to lead through influence rather than authority.
- Comfort working closely with a CEO, senior leadership team, and board members.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education & Experience
- Minimum of 7 to 10 years of progressively responsible leadership experience.
- Experience in nonprofit leadership, executive administration, strategy, operations, governance, HR, consulting, philanthropy, and/or public-sector leadership.
- Demonstrated experience supporting executive-level decision-making.
- Experience working with boards of directors or senior governing bodies.
- Strong understanding of performance management systems, dashboards, and cross-functional project execution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to work with confidential information and sensitive organizational matters.
MEASURES OF SUCCESS
- Executive meetings are disciplined, purposeful, and result in clear accountability and next steps.
- Trident United Way is operating with greater clarity, speed, and accountability.
- Strategic priorities are visible across the organization, actively monitored, and progressing against established timelines.
- Board and committee materials are timely, strategic, and decision-ready.
- The CEO is better positioned to focus externally on community leadership, partnerships, fundraising, advocacy, and strategic growth.
- Internal teams understand priorities, ownership, and expectations.
- Organizational dashboards provide useful insight into mission, revenue, operations, and risk.
- HR and organizational effectiveness efforts are aligned with growth.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF JOB
- This job requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects, within the office setting and relating to the position.
- Must frequently use typical office equipment.
- Stationary at the desk most of the time.
- Communicates with constituents, clients, and/or partners by phone and in person.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
This is a hybrid position. Primarily works in a climate-controlled office-based setting. The opportunity to work remotely 2 days a week is available.
Please Note: Requirements, skills, and abilities described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Title VI: NO PERSON in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participating in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
ABOUT TRIDENT UNITED WAY
For 80 years, Trident United Way has united our community to create access to opportunities for all our region’s residents to thrive. Together, with our Tri-County change-seekers, we’re mobilizing a movement to lift up all our neighbors and colleagues to break the cycle of financial instability. Our focus centers on ALICE® (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) households – families who make more than the Federal Poverty Level but don’t earn enough to cover the rising costs of living. As ALICE households continue to grow, we’re working on bold, community-rooted solutions to support families in getting ahead when it is harder today than ever before.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Chief of Staff serves as a strategic partner to the President & CEO and a central integrator across Trident United Way’s executive, governance, operational, and mission delivery priorities. This role ensures the organization is moving with clarity, discipline, accountability, and at the speed of the need as Trident United Way advances its single-issue focus on Family Financial Stability and its bold goal of uplifting 15,000 families out of poverty by 2035. The Chief of Staff owns the organization’s “Executive Operating System”, ensuring that strategy, people, governance, data, and execution are aligned. This position is not simply an administrative function….it is a high-trust leadership role designed to help the CEO remain externally focused while ensuring internal priorities are organized, the board is aligned, decisions are followed through, and the organization is operating with the rhythm, visibility, and accountability required for transformational growth.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Lead the Executive Operating System
- Manage the CEO’s executive cadence, including senior leadership meetings, decision forums, priority reviews, and follow-up systems.
- Ensure major organizational priorities are translated into clear work plans, owners, timelines, and accountability checkpoints.
- Track commitments made by the CEO and executive leadership team to ensure timely execution.
- Prepare CEO briefings, agendas, follow-up notes, and decision memos for high-priority internal and external meetings.
- Identify gaps, bottlenecks, and misalignment across departments and elevate issues before they slow progress.
- Serve as a confidential thought partner to the CEO on organizational strategy, leadership structure, internal priorities, and execution risks.
- Strengthen organizational discipline by ensuring major initiatives are executed fully and translated into measurable outcomes.
Strategy Integration - Ensure Trident United Way’s strategy is integrated across departments, programs, partnerships, revenue, communications, and operations.
- Ensure the organization remains focused on the highest-impact work and avoids fragmentation or mission drift.
- Support the CEO and senior leadership team in translating strategic priorities into executable organizational plans.
- Ensure alignment between Trident United Way’s single-issue focus, Family Financial Stability, and the work of all departments.
- Help connect major initiatives across the organization such as Family Coaching, Thrive@ programs, 211, ALICE@Work, Centers for Strong Families, public policy, resource development, and community partnerships.
- Track progress against strategic priorities and identify areas where teams need additional coordination, clarity, or support.
- Support cross-functional initiatives that require multiple departments to work together effectively.
- Prepare strategic updates for the CEO, senior leadership, board committees, funders, and key partners.
Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness
- Support the CEO in evaluating organizational structure, staffing needs, leadership capacity, and role clarity.
- Help ensure staffing plans align with Trident United Way’s strategic growth, especially around Family Coaching, Thrive@ programs, 211, data, and community-based service delivery.
- Partner with HR to foster a positive, mission-driven workplace culture while advancing leadership development, succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement efforts.
- Assist in developing clear internal communication around major organizational changes, staffing decisions, and strategic shifts.
- Support the onboarding and integration of senior leaders and key staff.
- Help identify culture, capacity, and workflow issues that may affect execution.
- Promote a high-accountability, high-trust internal culture focused on mission, clarity, and results.
Governance and Board Support
- Coordinate preparation for Board of Directors meetings, Executive Committee meetings, and key board committee meetings.
- Partner with the CEO, Board Chair, and senior leadership team to develop board agendas, materials, presentations, dashboards, and follow-up items.
- Ensure board materials are strategic, concise, accurate, and aligned with organizational priorities.
- Track board decisions, requests, governance commitments, and follow-up actions.
- Support the CEO in preparing talking points, updates, and strategic narratives for board and committee meetings.
- Help ensure board engagement is focused on strategy, influence, governance, and mission acceleration.
- Coordinate with staff leads supporting finance, governance, nominating, resource development, community impact, and other committees as needed.
Dashboard, Data, and Performance Management
- Develop and maintain an executive dashboard that tracks the organization’s key performance indicators.
- Coordinate with program, finance, revenue, marketing, 211, ALICE, and operations teams to gather accurate and timely data.
- Ensure dashboards connect activity to outcomes, especially around Family Coaching, Thrive@ programs, 211 utilization, ALICE families served, revenue growth, donor engagement, volunteerism, and operational capacity.
- Help translate data into actionable insights for leadership and board decision-making.
- Monitor progress against annual goals, strategic plan milestones, and CEO priorities.
- Identify areas where the organization lacks useful data and help build systems to close those gaps.
- Advance a culture of data-driven decision-making focused on learning, accountability, and speed of execution.
COMPETENCIES
Strategic Execution & Organizational Effectiveness
- Strong strategic thinking and execution discipline.
- Ability to translate complex information into clear decisions and next steps.
Executive Communication
- Strong writing, briefing, and presentation development skills.
- High emotional intelligence, discretion, and judgment.
Project Management
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities without losing sight of the larger mission.
- Facility with data, dashboards, performance metrics, and accountability systems.
Mission Alignment
- Commitment to Trident United Way’s mission of uniting the Tri-County to uplift families out of poverty.
- Strong understanding of nonprofit leadership, governance, fundraising, and community impact.
Stakeholder Influence and Engagement
- Ability to lead through influence rather than authority.
- Comfort working closely with a CEO, senior leadership team, and board members.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education & Experience
- Minimum of 7 to 10 years of progressively responsible leadership experience.
- Experience in nonprofit leadership, executive administration, strategy, operations, governance, HR, consulting, philanthropy, and/or public-sector leadership.
- Demonstrated experience supporting executive-level decision-making.
- Experience working with boards of directors or senior governing bodies.
- Strong understanding of performance management systems, dashboards, and cross-functional project execution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to work with confidential information and sensitive organizational matters.
MEASURES OF SUCCESS
- Executive meetings are disciplined, purposeful, and result in clear accountability and next steps.
- Trident United Way is operating with greater clarity, speed, and accountability.
- Strategic priorities are visible across the organization, actively monitored, and progressing against established timelines.
- Board and committee materials are timely, strategic, and decision-ready.
- The CEO is better positioned to focus externally on community leadership, partnerships, fundraising, advocacy, and strategic growth.
- Internal teams understand priorities, ownership, and expectations.
- Organizational dashboards provide useful insight into mission, revenue, operations, and risk.
- HR and organizational effectiveness efforts are aligned with growth.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF JOB
- This job requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects, within the office setting and relating to the position.
- Must frequently use typical office equipment.
- Stationary at the desk most of the time.
- Communicates with constituents, clients, and/or partners by phone and in person.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
This is a hybrid position. Primarily works in a climate-controlled office-based setting. The opportunity to work remotely 2 days a week is available.
Please Note: Requirements, skills, and abilities described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Title VI: NO PERSON in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participating in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Chief Of Staff
Document your specialty occupation case early
Chief of Staff is not an USCIS-recognized specialty occupation by default. Pull your O*NET profile for General and Operations Managers and build a written argument showing your specific role requires a bachelor's degree in a directly related field.
Target companies with H-1B LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to filter Chief of Staff openings by employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for this or closely related executive-support titles. Prior LCA filings signal an employer already understands the specialty occupation documentation requirement.
Clarify scope before the offer letter is drafted
Ask hiring managers whether the role is generalist operations or tied to a specific function like product, finance, or legal. A functionally scoped Chief of Staff is easier to frame as a specialty occupation requiring a specific degree field.
Verify the prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Run the SOC code for your specific role through OFLC Wage Search at the Level II or III wage tier. Chief of Staff positions often map to senior management codes, and the certified LCA wage sets your floor, not just a benchmark.
Confirm the employer's H-1B filing attorney handles niche executive roles
Some corporate immigration teams only process high-volume technical roles. Ask directly whether they have experience filing H-1B petitions for non-engineering executive titles, since a Chief of Staff petition requires a different specialty occupation narrative than a software engineer filing.
Time your transfer using the 60-day portability window
If you're changing employers into a Chief of Staff role, USCIS allows you to begin work once the new I-129 is filed, not after approval. File before your current employer's authorization ends to stay within the 60-day grace period.
H-1B Visa Chief Of Staff: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Chief of Staff role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but it's not automatic. USCIS requires proof that the position normally requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field. A Chief of Staff role tied to a defined function, such as legal operations, finance, or product strategy, is easier to qualify than a generalist role. Your employer's petition must document why a specific degree field is necessary for the duties performed.
Which industries most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Chief of Staff positions?
Technology companies, investment firms, healthcare systems, and late-stage startups file the most H-1B LCAs for Chief of Staff titles. These sectors tend to define the role around a specific functional expertise, which strengthens the specialty occupation argument. You can browse open Chief of Staff roles with verified sponsorship history on Migrate Mate to narrow your search by industry.
Can my employer file an H-1B petition for a Chief of Staff role without premium processing?
Yes, but standard processing through USCIS currently runs several months, which creates risk if you're transferring from another employer or working against an OPT expiration. For a role like Chief of Staff, where the specialty occupation argument requires thorough documentation, many employers opt for premium processing to get a faster adjudication decision and reduce uncertainty on both sides.
What SOC code should my employer use when filing the LCA for a Chief of Staff role?
Most Chief of Staff positions are filed under SOC 11-1021 (General and Operations Managers) or 11-9199 (Managers, All Other), depending on the functional scope of the role. The SOC code determines the prevailing wage level your employer must certify, so verify the correct mapping against the actual job duties through the OFLC Wage Search before the LCA is submitted to DOL.
Does switching to a Chief of Staff role count as a material change requiring an amended H-1B petition?
If you're already on H-1B and your employer promotes you to Chief of Staff from a different title, USCIS may require an amended petition if the duties, location, or wage level change materially. Changes to job duties that alter the specialty occupation basis almost always trigger an amendment. Confirm with your employer's immigration counsel before the title change takes effect.