Senior Manager

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Role: Senior Programme Manager, Europe

Type: Full-Time (40 hours/week)

Salary: UK: £76,440 – £88,200; Germany: €97,874 – €112,932; Spain: €88,982 – €102,672; France: €85,522 – €98,679; salary will be benchmarked to country if residing elsewhere in Europe

Who are we looking for?

As a Senior Programme Manager, you’ll be working closely with the rest of the team, spreading your time across client delivery, programme, research, and thought leadership. Senior Programme Managers across all CPI teams are expected to:

• Independently hold and manage strong and trusting client relationships
• Lead discrete projects and/or own work streams of larger projects and develop high-quality deliverables
• Drive analytical and intellectual depth in work products and proactively share our work with broader CPI teams
• Identify and proactively propose ideas around how we can work together more effectively as a team

More specifically for this role, we’re looking for someone who will take responsibility for leading an exciting engagement with a large philanthropic partner in the climate and the global development space. We have the opportunity to work with one of the biggest funders in this area to accelerate and amplify impact on carbon reduction, energy access and jobs through scaling the just energy transition globally. The programme involves:

• Developing a two year strategy which outlines the ambition, success measures and milestones
• Managing the implementation of this strategy and coordinating reviews and a reporting cycle
• Supporting with various climate action initiatives that are in this strategy, many of which will feature at COP28 and UNGA
• Leading stakeholder engagement and convenings with senior members of the foundation and external partners in the international political sphere
• Building relationships with key leaders within the foundation
• Working with a specialised strategic communications partner to ensure the storytelling of the work enables progress against the two year strategy

We are looking for a person to join our team that is passionate about, and has experience in advancing climate action on a global scale, and understands the global development context. This role requires superior programme management capabilities, skills in navigating complex programmes and building strategies that guide through complexity, experience in managing non profit secretariats, building engagements that meet client needs as well as feeding back learning into the organisation that helps us to further develop our offer and thinking around different learning partner approaches. This opportunity also requires being well versed in international politics and diplomacy, understanding key drivers that will support the international community in advancing meaningful actions against climate change. This role also involves someone who can shape the relationship with this philanthropic partner as we have an opportunity to work with them over the long run in the climate space in Europe, and globally, through this project as an entry point. We want this person to lead a team on this programme and use this opportunity to develop the portfolio for CPI Europe in the climate space, in collaboration with CPI’s global climate team who work across regions and steward our climate strategy. You can read more about our global climate strategy here.

Last and by no means least, we are looking for someone who champions our values at CPI and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. The person would be joining a small team of 22 people, all working on different programmes in service of CPI Europe’s strategy and so someone who builds relationships across CPIE and enjoys working in a startup environment – where we learn as we go and build the plane as we fly it – is needed.

Experience in the climate space and managing large programmes, with a client or partner, is required. Experience in the clean energy transition ecosystem and in the leadership space in climate action is advantageous. Experience in global development and international politics is an asset.

About the Centre for Public Impact (CPI)

At the Centre for Public Impact, we believe in the potential of government to bring about better outcomes for people. Yet, we have found that the systems, structures, and processes of government today are often not set up to respond to the complex challenges we face as a society. That’s why we have an emerging vision to reimagine government so that it works for everyone.

A global not-for-profit organisation founded by the Boston Consulting Group, we act as a learning partner for governments, public servants, and the diverse network of changemakers who are leading the charge to reimagine government. We work with them to hold space to collectively make sense of the complex challenges we face and drive meaningful change through learning and experimentation.

Since its founding in August 2020, CPI Europe has built a rich portfolio of programmes working with public sector organisations, governments, academic institutions, charities and foundations across Europe to explore how we can make government and philanthropy more effective and trusted to work for everyone. We have grown from a team of 7 to a team of 20 and have been expanding our work as a programme delivery organisation working directly with governments, philanthropies and organisations on the ground.

Our team supports our partners through our four pillars of action research and storytelling, capability building and transformation, convening public servants and supporting learning communities, and partnering to deliver impact. At CPIE, our culture is founded on the values and principles within our vision for government. So in everything we do we aim to be humble, open, empathetic, authentic, trusting and trustworthy, curious and to champion diversity and inclusion. We have experimented with different ways of living these values but in everything we do we aim to share power and devolve decision making to the person best placed to make the decision, challenge hierarchy, be strengths-based, and to support each other as much as we can. As a team, we care about each other as much as we care about the work we do, and are exploring ways to embed equity and inclusion into all of our programmatic work as well as our ways of being and working together as a team.

At CPI Europe, our developing programme areas of strength are in:

• AI and digital transformation
• Urban transformation
• Climate action
• Collective imagination practice
• Global development

Core Responsibilities

Personal Development & Commitment to Continuous Learning:

• Able to take a balcony view of systems in order to innovate and improve over time
• Engages in regular self-reflection to identify strengths, areas for improvement, and personal goals to understand and get curious about their leadership archetype and its influence on their team.
• Able to navigate ambiguity, assess feasibility, and operate within constraints
• Engages in reflective practice by critically evaluating experiences, projects, and outcomes. Identifying lessons learned, strengths, and areas for improvement, and using these insights to enhance future performance and contribute to organisational effectiveness.
• Actively seeks out learning opportunities and proactively acquire new knowledge and skills to stay up-to-date in a rapidly changing public sector landscape.

People Development:

• Uses knowledge of programmatic work, teams, and role to influence our culture and strategy
• Helps others to manage the emotional impact of change
• Demonstrating the ability to coach and mentor employees, providing guidance, feedback, and support to help them develop their skills, overcome challenges, and achieve their full potential.
• Implements performance management processes that are fair, transparent, and objective.
• Create an environment that fosters ownership, innovation, and accountability, allowing individuals and teams to contribute their best work and grow in their capabilities.
• Effectively managing conflicts within teams, fostering open communication, and facilitating collaboration.
• Create a culture of consistent feedback with the team, encouraging their professional development, and actively seeking feedback to improve their own leadership practices.

DEIB & Collaborative Working:

• Able to facilitate inclusive conversations on difficult concepts
• Able to identify and address inequities and choose appropriate interventions to create environments, policies, and practices to ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and fairness (read our full DEIB policy here)
• Dedicates time to learning about DEIB and how it informs our mission to embrace, integrate, and adapt to different cultural styles
• Demonstrates empathy for government and the communities they serve to advance DEIB within systems that government influence
• Able to demonstrate emotional intelligence to recognize others’ emotions and perspectives and take them into account
• Ensures programme design approach and team operating norms & plans ongoingly embed DEIB
• Cultivates a healthy team culture by addressing inequitable group dynamics, seeking to understand how decisions will impact different team members and facilitating transparent decision-making processes
• Creates an inclusive team dynamic that celebrates ways of being, doing, and thinking other than one’s own

Thought Partnership & Business Development:

• Identifies new opportunities to grow CPI regional and team’s business and influence, including identifying how to expand or scale the programmes they manage where appropriate
• Proactively plans to expand business, influence, and programmes
• Embraces change and proposes more effective ways of working
• Builds and strengthens partnerships with key partners, holding and creating lead relationships

Structured Thinking, Organisation, and Programme Management:

• Able to lead projects independently and confidently.
• Managing partner and other relationships or more complicated or novel scopes as it comes to the scope of the partnership or the moving parts of the work. This might include managing multiple projects at once.
• Serves as primary contract creator along with Internal Operations.
• Manages complex tasks, individuals, and partners’ feedback exceptionally

Qualifications:

• At least 6 – 16 years of relevant professional experience. CPI welcomes a breadth of experience including, impact, policy, consulting, teaching, social work, or other service-oriented environments
• Exceptional project management skills
• Ability to lead senior strategic relationships with clients or funders
• Excellent skills in working with high profile people, deep knowledge in international politics and experience in international negotiations and working through diplomatic channels
• Demonstrated ability to outline and implement advocacy and influence strategies on a global scale
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience interacting effectively with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively and manage internal relationships and external senior-level stakeholder relationships
• Experience in the climate action space, advancing climate action on a global scale
• Experience working in the Global South is an advantage.

Salary, Benefits and How To Apply

In addition to a competitive salary as mentioned above, CPI Europe offers comprehensive benefits to its employees including a range of high-quality health, dental, and vision plans for staff based on their country of residence; $1,500 per year in dedicated professional development funds; minimum paid time off of 25 days with no cap under the Flexibility with Responsibility policy; paid parental leave and extended illness leave; and a year-end organisation-wide closure.

We are a remote-first workplace and anticipate this position will require approximately 10-20% domestic and international travel.

To advance our purpose of reimagining government so that it works for everyone, CPI seeks to attract and support a diversity of backgrounds, experience, talent and thought. For this reason, we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes candidates that have previously found it hard to be considered for other positions on the basis of their qualifications, disabilities, personal background or life events. If you would like to apply for the position but see a barrier to joining us, please do apply and we will work with you to find a solution. You can also read our full Diversity Equity and Inclusion Policy here.