Smithbucklin, a 650-person, employee-owned professional services company with more than 70 years of success serving the association market, is looking for a Chief Operating Officer in our Washington, DC office to serve our client WERC.
Our Work Environment
Smithbucklin empowers associations and communities that enrich society and move industries, fields, and professions forward. Working together, we help organizations reimagine solutions to nurture growth, advance missions, and increase reach and impact. With expert capabilities propelled by talent, versatility, and creativity, we help associations achieve their greatest potential. Our mission is to achieve the missions of the client organizations we serve and provide uncompromised stewardship for their long-term prosperity. The work environment is collaborative, with teams organized through a matrix of skill levels and expertise. The company is 100% employee owned.
WERC (formerly Worldwide ERC), the global talent mobility industry’s premier trade organization, seeks a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to partner with the CEO and staff team to lead the organization into an exciting future.
WERC enables and empowers talent everywhere. As the voice of the global talent mobility industry, we provide connection, education, research, certification, and advocacy to our diverse community of more than 4,000 professionals and the organizations they represent.
For businesses and professionals involved in managing, facilitating, or enabling employee movement—encompassing the fields of human resources, real estate, immigration and tax services, law, technology, and others—WERC provides information, education, and networking opportunities so they can exchange knowledge and expertise to advance, grow, and navigate the complexities and challenges of mobilizing talent throughout the world.
The Chief Operating Officer will have the exciting opportunity to support and extend WERC’s mission, vision, and strategy as the organization leads the global talent mobility industry into the future.
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Where Do You Fit?
Smithbucklin will offer you countless opportunities to develop transferrable skills, acquire meaningful knowledge and gain rich experiences at an accelerated pace. By working collaboratively with smart, ambitious, multi-talented, genuine and hardworking colleagues, you will build meaningful, deep and enduring relationships that will serve you well throughout your career, regardless of your chosen path. In addition, as a 100 percent employee-owned company, Smithbucklin offers all of our people – regardless of position or compensation – an equal chance to experience the fulfillment and reap the benefits of ownership. As owners, our employees control the destiny of Smithbucklin and are unified in the goal of building a great, enduring company.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At Smithbucklin, Equal Employment Opportunity is our commitment and goal. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other protected status designated by federal, state or local law. Applicants are encouraged to confidentially self-identify when applying. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a reference and background investigation based on position.
Smithbucklin will not sponsor applicants for work visas and as a precondition of employment, you must be authorized to work in the United States permanently.
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