Chief of Staff

Androscoggin-Bank; Lewiston (ME); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Holiday pay

401k match

Full benefits package

Parental leave

Volunteer time

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Androscoggin Bank is seeking a Chief of Staff to act as strategic coordinator and trusted proxy for the CEO, COO, and leadership team. You will translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, ensure disciplined follow-through, and improve information flow across business lines.

This role supports enterprise reporting, integration workstreams, and cross-functional initiatives, with a focus on data-driven decision making and efficient workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or equivalent executive, operational, project management, banking, or financial services experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives, leading cross-functional initiatives, managing complex projects, or operating in a strategy, operations, integration, or enterprise planning role.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex information and convert it into clear executive level written materials, meeting content, and actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for Board, executive, leadership, officer, employee, and cross-functional audiences.
• High degree of organizational discipline, follow-through, discretion, sound judgment, and comfort operating in environments with ambiguity, urgency, and multiple competing priorities.
• Familiarity with EOS Traction, strategic planning practices, performance scorecards, project management disciplines, or integration management is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the CEO, COO, and senior leadership team by helping prepare for key meetings, leadership forums, Board discussions, and enterprise-wide communications.
• Develop clear agendas, presentations, talking points, follow-up summaries, and communication materials that support alignment, decision-making, and accountability.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and measures of success.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives and integration workstreams to ensure progress, reduce duplication, identify risks, and support timely execution.
• Compile business line updates and performance information into concise, executive-ready reports, dashboards, scorecards, and progress summaries.
• Partner with leaders across the organization to identify trends, surface barriers, escape issues, and recommend practical solutions.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic planning

Project management

Executive support

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree / equivalent

Job description

Androscoggin Bank, a local community leader and certified B-Corp is looking to hire a Chief of Staff that will serve as a strategic coordinator, trusted proxy, and accountability partner to the CEO, COO, and leadership team. In this capacity, the Chief of Staff is expected to operate with the authority and judgment necessary to help carry out the organization’s annually defined strategic priorities, ensuring that executive direction is translated into clear action, appropriate follow-through, and coordinated execution across business lines. This role is designed to strengthen organizational execution by converting strategic priorities into clear operating plans, ensuring disciplined follow-through, and improving the flow of information, decisions, and communication throughout the organization. The Chief of Staff will play a central role in supporting the organization’s communication cadence, enterprise reporting, integration workstreams, and execution of key cross functional initiatives.

Additional Responsibilities Include:

• Support the CEO, COO, and senior leadership team by helping prepare for key meetings, leadership forums, Board discussions, and enterprise-wide communications.
• Develop clear agendas, presentations, talking points, follow-up summaries, and communication materials that support alignment, decision-making, and accountability.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and measures of success.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives and integration workstreams to ensure progress, reduce duplication, identify risks, and support timely execution.
• Compile business line updates and performance information into concise, executive-ready reports, dashboards, scorecards, and progress summaries.
• Partner with leaders across the organization to identify trends, surface barriers, escape issues, and recommend practical solutions.
• Maintain follow-up discipline by documenting decisions, tracking commitments, and ensuring accountability across leadership meetings and strategic initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, leverage AI-enabled tools and automation, and support more efficient workflows and data-driven decision-making.
• Conduct research, market analysis, due diligence, and feasibility assessments to support new business ideas, organizational changes, and enterprise-level decisions.
• Prepare briefing materials, business cases, recommendations, and implementation plans that turn complex information into practical next steps.
• Provide high-level executive support on sensitive assignments, special projects, and cross-functional priorities with discretion, urgency, and professionalism.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or equivalent executive, operational, project management, banking, or financial services experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives, leading cross-functional initiatives, managing complex projects, or operating in a strategy, operations, integration, or enterprise planning role.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex information and convert it into clear executive level written materials, meeting content, and actionable recommendations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for Board, executive, leadership, officer, employee, and cross-functional audiences.
• High degree of organizational discipline, follow-through, discretion, sound judgment, and comfort operating in environments with ambiguity, urgency, and multiple competing priorities.
• Familiarity with EOS Traction, strategic planning practices, performance scorecards, project management disciplines, or integration management is strongly preferred.

This position carries great benefits, including paid time off, holiday pay, 401k participation with a generous match (we put money in your 401k even if you don't!), and access to Androscoggin Bank's full insurance benefit package (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability). Androscoggin Bank offers paid parental leave to our employees, which grants new mothers and fathers six weeks of full pay! We also provide paid volunteer time to all employees.

Hoping you could advance your career and your education? We can help. Androscoggin Bank is committed to supporting employee development, and employee benefits include tuition and education reimbursement.

Do you wish you could be more involved and connected in your company, beyond the level of your department? Androscoggin Bank offers that to you. Project teams, committees, events, in-house education, and more. It's an amazing place to work.

And, you get to work with some of the smartest, most dedicated, heart-felt people you will ever meet!

We are deeply proud that Androscoggin Bank recently achieved B Corp Certification.This means we'll continue to use profit to power our purpose, rather than serving as the purpose itself. We'll serve the best interests of our clients, our employees and our communities, while also honoring our environment. Learn more about it here - https://www.androscogginbank.com/bcorp/

Androscoggin Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, including gender identity and gender expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information or veteran status.

EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled

This position has an intended hiring range of $120,000-$150,000 a year depending on skills, experience, and other qualifications.

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