Programme Manager

Responsibilities

• Delivering a portfolio of major and smaller projects which will vary through the year, working with others in the team on their design, delivery, and evaluation in line with our strategy.
• Ensuring these projects come in on time and on budget, and deliver the impact we are looking for.
• Working with the CAIF team to develop and improve our project management systems and processes (currently Asana, Google Workspace, Slack).
• Supporting team members to implement our project management standards and systems. This might include support with project scoping and initial set up; setting milestones; adapting processes so they are in line with the scale of the project; troubleshooting or pitching in to help keep things on track.
• Holding the overview of current projects, team availability and timelines, identifying bottlenecks and contributing to capacity planning.
• Owning CAIF’s progress tracking and contributing to our impact reporting.

Skillset

• Experience in leading different kinds of projects in areas relevant to CAIF (such as research, grantmaking, events, policy engagement, or learning programmes). We don’t mind where you have gained this experience: it could be in a company, non-profit, academic, government, or voluntary setting.
• Excellent people and stakeholder management skills: ability to understand people’s different working styles and to work collaboratively across the team and with external stakeholders.
• Confidence in using the full capabilities of systems such as Google Workspace, Asana, and Slack, and the ability to adapt systems to emerging needs.
• Efficiency mindset: able to simplify processes, and to suggest and implement automations where appropriate.
• Able to think ahead and see the big picture across all our projects to identify connected issues and capacity bottlenecks.
• Completer-finisher, with good attention to detail.
• The ability to quickly grasp a new context in our rapidly developing field.