Chief of Staff - AVP

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About the role

To enable the success of senior executives by helping navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions, and deliver against their strategic objectives. The Chief of Staff office plays a central role in supporting senior executives, providing strategic, operational, and administrative leadership at the core of the organization. As a trusted advisor to Executive Committee members, this role delivers essential operational support, advances key strategic efforts, and helps leaders navigate complex, fast-moving organizational challenges with clarity and agility.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic support to senior executives, such as the CEO or other top-level leaders, including assistance in the development and execution of in-year and multi-year business strategy, research, and analysis to support decision-making, and act as delegate for the senior executive in specific situations.
• Manage colleague engagement planning in line with the strategic direction, including managing communication channels and ensuring effective coordination across different departments and teams.
• Oversee key projects and strategic initiatives on behalf of senior executives, ensuring projects are on track, monitoring progress, and providing regular updates to the executive team.
• Improve operational efficiency, alongside functional partners, within the organization by identifying areas for improvement, streamlining processes, and implementing best practices to enhance productivity and effectiveness.
• Develop performance reporting for key metrics that reinforce the strategic objectives of the division and support external commitments. Analyze and draw insights to drive performance.
• Assist in financial analysis and budget management, including financial planning, forecasting, cost management, and monitoring financial performance against targets.
• Support senior leadership in ensuring appropriate resourcing across the business/function, including planning and forecasting, partnering with HR to drive talent development and succession planning, identifying high-potential employees, and supporting leadership development and diversity initiatives.
• Provide support to the senior executive with risk and control oversight, escalation, crisis management, and risk mitigation, including developing contingency plans, coordinating responses to emergencies, and ensuring business continuity.
• Implement a robust governance framework to support the board of directors, executive forums, and governance committees through the preparation of board materials, organization of meetings, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• A clear focus on delivery and a sense of ownership, consistently driving work to completion while maintaining high standards.
• Energy and adaptability, responding constructively to change and sustaining momentum in a dynamic executive environment.
• The ability to build trusted relationships, communicate with confidence, and support effective decision-making.

Skills

• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize information, identify risks and opportunities, and provide leaders with clear and actionable insights.
• Effective communication and coordination skills, producing high-quality materials, managing workflows, and ensuring alignment across teams and priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with clarity and efficiency in a dynamic environment while meeting critical deadlines.
• Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives, coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes.
• For individual contributors: Lead collaborative assignments, guide team members through structured tasks, and identify new directions for projects by combining cross-functional methodologies.
• Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work closely related to other areas, understanding how they coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas to stay aligned with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, which may include sensitive or difficult content, to varied audiences.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Pay

Base salary range: $95,000 – $120,000. This range includes only base salary or base hourly rate and does not include other types of compensation or benefits.