Job Description

Location London

Status 12 month fixed term contract

Reports to: Chief Revenue Officer

Job purpose

The Revenue Strategy and Operations Partner enables the effective delivery of the CRO’s principal accountabilities during a period of revenue system transition, organisational change, and elevated governance sensitivity. By providing executive integration, coordination, and delivery support across complex, cross revenue portfolio and foundation initiatives, the role strengthens the effectiveness of the CRO function and supports sustained focus on strategic leadership, senior external relationships, Trustee confidence, and long term revenue generation.

The role is explicitly time limited and delivery focused, aligned to a period of system design, stabilisation, and transition to a permanent revenue operating model.

Purpose

To provide support to the Chief Revenue Officer, ensuring effective execution of the Foundation’s multi stakeholder funding strategy and the smooth functioning of the CRO office during 2026. A core focus of the role is supporting governance sensitive, cross Foundation initiatives, while the permanent revenue leadership structure is being embedded.

Principal accountabilities:

Enabling delivery of the multi stakeholder funding strategy

• Support the CRO in the design, sequencing, and execution of the multi stakeholder funding strategy across jurisdictions, stewardship, earned revenue, and philanthropic and transition funding.
• Track interdependencies, risks, and decision points, escalating issues with clear options and recommendations.

Supporting the Managing Director and Trustee engagement

• Support preparation for engagement with Trustees and senior leadership on revenue related matters, including briefing papers, presentations, and decision documents.
• Coordinate inputs across Finance, FP&A, Legal, Communications, and revenue teams to ensure materials are accurate, consistent, and decision ready.
• Track actions and follow ups arising from Trustee and Management Team discussions.

Supporting leadership of global revenue activities

• Act as a central coordination point between the CRO and Directors responsible for jurisdictions, market stewardship, earned revenue, and fundraising.
• Support alignment across revenue teams, ensuring clarity of priorities, sequencing, and interfaces.
• Facilitate cross functional working where initiatives cut across organisational boundaries.

Delivery of priority projects

• Provide hands on coordination and delivery support to priority revenue projects in 2026. Priority projects are expected to span cross-portfolio initiatives across jurisdictions, market stewardship, earned revenue, and philanthropic/transition funding, particularly where governance sequencing and cross-functional delivery are required.
• Support governance sensitive sequencing and decision making across complex initiatives.

Agenda, workflow, and executive effectiveness

• Proactively manage the CRO’s agenda to ensure focus on highest value priorities.
• Prepare decision ready briefing materials ahead of key meetings.
• Commission, synthesise, and quality assure inputs from across the organisation.
• Act as a trusted sounding board on complex or ambiguous issues.

Experience and Capabilities

Essential

• Experience in a similar role where your have senior advisory, strategy, or operations role supporting executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross cutting initiatives in matrixed, international organisations.
• Experience preparing materials for Boards or Trustees.
• Strong understanding of funding models, institutional financing, or revenue systems.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• High levels of judgement, discretion, and confidence in governance sensitive environments.
• Highly proactive and adaptable; able to anticipate issues, operate in ambiguity and shifting priorities, and keep governance-sensitive initiatives moving to deadlines.
• Handles highly confidential information with discretion and appropriate information barriers.

Desirable

• Experience in public interest, not for profit, or standards based organisations.
• Exposure to financial reporting, sustainability, or global policy ecosystems.
• Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures.

Role Characteristics

• Acts as an extension of the CRO internally. This is an individual contributor role with no direct line management responsibility.
• High trust, high discretion role.
• Explicitly time limited and aligned to a period of revenue system transition and stabilisation.

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

Application Closing Date: 31st March 2026

Please note that while we have a closing date for this application, we reserve the right to interview candidates and potentially close the role early should we find a suitable candidate.

About us

At the IFRS Foundation, we believe better information leads to better decisions. We set financial reporting standards that enable companies to meet the evolving information needs of the global capital markets. United by our purpose to foster trust, growth and long-term financial stability in the global economy, we engage in challenging, meaningful work every day—across all our areas of expertise.

If you share our passion for this mission, we want to hear from you.

Diverse perspectives. International expertise.

Working for our global organisation offers many benefits, including:

• rewarding work that serves the public interest;
• engagement with diverse international experts;
• inclusive and collaborative teams;
• intellectually challenging projects;
• flexible working arrangements;
• numerous areas of specialisation; and
• opportunities for professional growth and development.

Diversity and inclusion are seen as key strengths of our organisation. These qualities are essential for us to engage with and meet the needs of our varied global stakeholders, and they are part of what makes the IFRS Foundation a great place to work.

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