Global nonprofit delivering surgical care and training across low-resource settings
Operation Smile operates across 11 countries with a dual mission: delivering cleft surgeries and building local surgical capacity through training and research. Their tech stack reflects a nonprofit in transition—Blackbaud CRM dominates fundraising and donor management, but they're actively adopting Salesforce and Paycom while wrestling with fragmented patient data. The hiring mix is marketing-heavy (10 roles), which aligns with their fundraising dependency, but ongoing projects around master patient database consolidation and workflow automation signal internal pressure to move from spreadsheet-driven operations toward integrated systems.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Information Officer
Operation Smile is a global nonprofit founded in 1982, headquartered in Virginia Beach and operating in 11 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America. They deliver cleft surgeries and comprehensive care—including speech and nutrition programs—while training local medical teams and health systems to sustain surgical capacity independently. With 501–1,000 employees and 38 active open roles, the organization runs a distributed model: clinical teams deliver care on-site, local staff manage training and program adaptation, and US-based teams oversee strategy, fundraising, compliance, and logistics. Revenue depends on donations and grants; operational complexity spans patient care coordination, international logistics, regulatory compliance, and donor management across multiple jurisdictions.
Blackbaud CRM and Raiser's Edge for donor and fundraising operations; Dataverse, SharePoint, and Monday.com for internal workflows; REDCap for clinical data; Zoom for remote coordination; Navan and SAP Concur for travel and expense management. Actively adopting Salesforce and Paycom.
Across 11 countries: United States, Philippines, Colombia, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Mozambique, Dominican Republic, Thailand, Spain, and Rwanda.
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