The Opportunity
Leaders’ Quest (LQ) is looking for an experienced Program Manager to join our global team on a one year contract (with potential to extend) to deliver exceptional program offerings to our corporate and non-profit clients.
This role will work on a range of impact-driven and global programs, stewarding key relationships and conducting research and writing for program materials. The Program Manager is also responsible for coordinating with the client, the team and holding core responsibility around administration and logistics.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to work for a small, global organization with a big impact. We are a diverse and tightly-knit group of colleagues who value collaboration and innovation. Our culture is open, progressive, entrepreneurial and mission-driven. Our ideal candidate would be intellectually curious, a strong individual contributor who can also manage and motivate teams, with a hunger to get things done at a high standard.
This is an ideal role for someone seeking exposure to the world across a diversity of sectors and levels; ideal candidates would enjoy the rigor of working in the corporate sector, while having the flexibility and motivation of being mission-driven and entrepreneurial.
Who we are
We believe that in this decisive decade, we must redefine prosperity and what it means to thrive. Our purpose is to grow wise leaders for a regenerative future, now.
For over 20 years, Leaders’ Quest has cultivated leadership skills and the courage needed in a fast-changing environment. Through experiential design, we connect people from across contexts, sparking new ways of thinking and unlocking collaborative action. Our global network is made up of business leaders, philanthropists, expert practitioners, and grassroots organizers. We’ve delivered hundreds of programs for teams, companies, and organizations around the world.
What we do
- Leadership development – We help leaders and their teams develop the skills they need to foster trust, empathy, and creativity. We aspire to help organizations reconnect with values, chart new paths to future success, and pursue positive systems change.
- Sustainability – We work with organizations and their leaders to find the strategic opportunities around sustainability. We focus on interventions that help business, people, and the planet thrive.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) – Developing inclusive, culturally intelligent leaders is a critical strategic advantage in a fast-changing world. We design change processes that bring values to life and empower leaders to operationalize purpose and collaborate more productively.
- Collaboration – We work on extraordinary challenges that require cross-sector collaboration. Our alchemy is in bringing different worlds together to partner on something bigger — from confronting the climate crisis to bridging political and social divides.
The role
Support strategic project design, management and delivery
- Support team members and external client stakeholders to design and develop our programs (in-person and virtual).
- Create and execute project timeline and milestones, including developing and holding responsibility for a project budget.
- Manage supplier/vendor relationships, including supporting the negotiation of rates and agreements.
- Event management and on-the-ground logistics ensuring seamless execution across all suppliers/vendors, client and the team.
- Undertake research-based tasks and thinking laterally around global issues, e.g. innovation, sustainability, to produce proposals or supporting program materials.
Client and partner relations:
- Day-to-day liaison with the client’s team, working closely to ensure deliverables and smooth communication.
- Drafting and managing program communications, including usage of digital tools (e.g. Google websites/event management apps) to share information.
Project team management:
- Work with senior members of the LQ team (Directors, Partners, co-CEOs etc) and manage upwards, to ensure projects remain on track.
- Drive the timeline and overall management of a project, coordinating the team, ensuring everyone is aligned on roles and responsibilities.
- Scheduling team meetings, holding agendas, sharing notes and actions.
Internal responsibilities:
- Sharing learnings across the LQ organization and partnering with colleagues to evolve Leaders’ Quest.
- Potential line management responsibilities
A successful candidate will have:
- Thrives in an environment that demands comfort with ambiguity and flexibility.
- A fast working style, with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to multi-task and juggle multiple projects at once.
- Maintains rigorously high standards.
- Intellectual curiosity plus the ability to understand the complexity of the sectors in which we work, including how different parts of society operate together. Well-read and well informed.
- Emotional intelligence; demonstrates high levels of empathy and self-awareness, an interest in self-development and the ability to be comfortable with the uncomfortable.
- Strong desire to learn and to share learning with others.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Flexibility to lead and be led; equally happy to share responsibility, take direction, or take ownership.
- Ability to collaborate with colleagues across geographies and backgrounds. Enhanced interpersonal communications skills.
- Strong writing skills, and the ability to co-write effectively with others. A good eye for detail, grammar, format and design.
- Demonstrable alignment with LQ’s values: patient ambition, clear-eyed optimism and relentless generosity.
This position requires working from our office 2 days per week (central London or Manhattan).
Salary is based on local market rate and between £38K – £48K (London) or $75K – $95K (New York), based on experience.
To apply, please send a personalized cover letter or video (no longer than two minutes) and tailored CV (no longer than two pages) to ukjobs@leadersquest.org, indicating UK or US in the email title.
We will review applications on a rolling basis and disregard ALL applications that do not have a cover letter or video separately attached.
We are only able to consider applicants who have the right to work in the UK or the US.
Leaders’ Quest is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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