Office of the Co-Presidents - Chief of Staff - Senior Director

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Job Description

This position provides strategic and operational support to the Co-President, helping translate vision into actionable plans and ensuring alignment and execution across the Single-Family and Multifamily divisions, Marketing, and the broader enterprise. The role serves as a central coordinator for priorities, decisions, and follow-through, enabling the Co-President to focus on the organization’s highest-impact initiatives.

 

This position will be actively managing priorities, supporting execution across the business lines and with Marketing, preparing the Co-President for key internal and external engagements—including interactions with the Board of Directors and FHFA—and ensuring follow-through on resulting decisions and actions. The role also provides strategic counsel and execution support on enterprise initiatives and emerging priorities.

Executive Office Leadership:

• Ensure effective coordination of priorities, decision-making, and execution.
• Manage the Co-President’s time and focus to ensure attention to the organization’s highest impact on strategic priorities.
• Track progress on strategic initiatives and provide regular updates to the Co-President.
• Ensure follow-through on key decisions and action items across the organization.
• Coordinate and facilitate executive meetings and ensure preparation of high-quality briefing materials.
• Serve as a proxy for the Co-President in appropriate meetings and engagements.
• Serve as a liaison between the Co-President and senior leaders, teams, and key stakeholders.
• Identify and address operational barriers to effective execution.

 

Executive Engagement & Stakeholder Preparation

• Prepare the Co-President for internal and external engagements, including Board of Directors and FHFA interactions.
• Develop briefing materials, talking points, and strategic context to support effective decision-making and communication.
• Ensure the Co-President is equipped with clear insights, relevant context, and strategic framing for key discussions.
• Coordinate and track follow-up actions resulting from executive engagements.

 

Strategic Advisory & Special Initiatives​:

• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to the Co-President.
• Lead special projects and priority initiatives on behalf of the Co-President.
• Oversee third-party engagements sponsored directly by the Co-President.
• Coordinate responses to requests from the CEO, Board of Directors, FHFA, and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment with Fannie Mae policies, governance standards, and risk management expectations.
• Partner with risk, compliance, and regulatory teams to ensure appropriate communication and escalation of issues.
• Engage with FHFA conservators and regulators as appropriate.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experiences:

• 8 years related experience.
• Experience managing multiple projects with focus on prioritization.
• Able to make connections across distinct projects, teams, or workstreams to pull together people, insights, or opportunities.
• Proactivity – think ahead, anticipate needs
• Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills; able to influence and negotiate at all levels of an organization.
• Professional courage, willingness to challenge the status quo or leaders in an appropriate way to affect positive change and/or to make timely decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated ability to compose correspondence, draft materials and presentations, and proof-read at the executive level.  
• Self-starter with reputation as a strategic thinker. Is forward thinking, flexible, and adept at planning and execution.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including an ability to build rapport and adapt style to various audiences to establish and maintain trusting relationships at all levels across the division and enterprise.
• Sound judgment, able to handle conflict professionally, maintain confidentiality, and act with discretion.
• Strong MS Office, Adobe, SharePoint, and calendaring and scheduling tool skills.
• Initiative, strategic mindset, partner

Desired Experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Prior people management or people leadership experience.
• Prior experience facilitating enterprise-wide communications plans.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment effectively; can quickly assess situations and environments, identify opportunities and propose a course of action.
• Comfortable adding value behind the scenes to help colleagues succeed.
• Ability to work at both tactical and strategic levels.

Qualifications

Education:

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For most roles, employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at their designated office location. In-office work cadence is determined by your manager. Proximity within a reasonable commute to your designated office location is preferred unless the job is noted as open to remote.

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The hiring range for this role is set forth below. Final salaries will generally vary within that range based on factors that include but are not limited to, skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications. This position is eligible to participate in a Fannie Mae incentive program (subject to the terms of the program). As part of our comprehensive benefits package, Fannie Mae offers a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being. See more here.

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