We’re hiring!
Operations and Learning Manager
(Impactful Policy Careers Accelerator)
Location: Remote
Open to candidates residing in Europe, with the ability to travel to Brussels twice a year.
Hours: Full-time
Salary: €48,000/year
Application deadline: 23rd February
Summary
Impactful Policy Careers is a new programme, incubated through Animal Advocacy Careers, designed to accelerate change in Global Health, Animal Welfare, and Food System Transformation by helping mission-aligned professionals move into critical policy and decision-making roles in Europe. Following the success of our pilot in March 2025, where over 50% of aspiring EU Policy Professionals successfully pivoted into potentially very high-impact policy traineeships, internships, or full-time roles, we have secured funding to expand to two cohorts in 2026.
The programme brings together talented early- and mid-career professionals for an intensive one-week in-person experience that includes expert-led learning, practical skills, and community building along with ongoing community support and pre- & post-cohort online curriculum.
We are seeking a high-agency Operations & Learning Manager who combines detail-oriented operational excellence with strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills. This person will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the upcoming Global Health cohort in September 2026 and future animal welfare cohorts.
Important: Please note that we would ideally like the candidate to be available in Brussels during the upcoming animal welfare cohort this March, to be onboarded and to facilitate optimal knowledge transfer from the existing research and learning lead.
Title: Operations and Learning Manager(Impactful Policy Careers Accelerator)
Reports to: Programme Director
Role Purpose:
The Operations & Learning Manager will work closely with the programme & pathways manager to co-lead the end-to-end delivery of the Impactful Policy Career Accelerator.
As a team, you will ensure the programme is strategically designed, operationally smooth, and impactful for participants, alumni, and stakeholders. This role blends project and event management, stakeholder engagement, curriculum design, and community building.
Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder Engagement for expansion into Global Health Policy
Conduct Subject Matter Expert (SME) and stakeholder interviews to inform the global health policy cohort; expand network through referrals.
Build and maintain strategic relationships with GHD SMEs, advisors, and alumni.
Programme Management & Recruitment
Recruitment & selection: Co-run end-to-end candidate recruitment, including assessments, shortlisting, interviews, communications, and data management.
Programme management: Maintain the master project timeline with milestones. Provide Marketing with strategy, key messages, and tone guidance. Co-creation of Agenda/Curriculum.
Curriculum & Facilitator Management
Maintain an up to date programme budget; align all spending with this and programme priorities.
Own the logistics and payments for all vendors, venues & participant travel.
Prepare participant resources, schedules, and pre-programme orientation (Zoom meet-ups, icebreakers).
Manage all participant communications from recruitment to pre-programme onboarding.
Coordinate behind-the-scenes logistics on-site and troubleshoot participant issues.
Logistics & Operations
Recruit, brief, and coordinate speakers for in person week.
Own quality assurance of external speakers and workshops, ensuring all sessions are targeted, engaging, and aligned with learning objectives
Alumni Engagement
Lead alumni engagement for peer-to-peer learning: webinars, cross-cohort meetups, knowledge-sharing resources.
Build and sustain alumni communities via events, mentoring, and job updates.
Collect and analyse feedback through surveys, producing programme reports with lessons learned.
About Impactful Policy Careers
We envision a world where exceptional, mission-driven talent is the driving force behind policy-making, creating a powerful ecosystem of changemakers in critical positions, and accelerating progress toward a better world.
Ideal Candidate Profile
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Essential
• Proven project/programme management experience (complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives).
• Demonstrated ability to work across diverse tasks, balancing rapid operational responses with longer-term project work.
• Excellent organisational and people skills (trackers, budgets, timelines, logistics).
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Confidence facilitating groups and liaising with senior stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker who can translate goals into operational plans.
• A fair understanding of the current Global Health & Development discourse in EU politics.
• Experience with cloud-based working and online project-management tools & softwares. -
Desirable
• Experience with stakeholder, alumni or community management.
• Experience managing recruitment/selection processes.
• Experience in operations or event management.
• A fair understanding of the European Union, its institutions and political system and/or of the current Animal Welfare or Food Systems discourse in EU politics.
• Exposure to curriculum design or adult learning.
• Ability to manage data, assessments, and feedback systematically.
• Comfort with AI tools, automation, and assessment technologies.
• Basic knowledge of French or Flemish
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Personal Qualities
• High ownership and accountability; can run a programme end-to-end.
• Detail-oriented and able to step back and see the strategic picture.
• Organised and self-directed, with a strong sense of ownership.
• Resourceful, proactive, and solution-oriented.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to build trust with participants, SMEs, and partners.
• Resilient under pressure; calm during event delivery.
• Mission-driven with genuine alignment to impact-focused work.
Benefits to you
An opportunity to contribute to the development of an exciting early-stage project.
An independent and supportive working culture where we value and encourage high agency and autonomy.
Fully remote work environment and team.
Encouragement and support to spend at least 5% of paid time on training and development, and a $500 professional development budget.
Application process
Step 1
Fill out the application questions below (deadline: 23rd February)
Step 2
Top candidates are invited to a screening interview
Step 3
Top candidates will be invited to complete up to 3 hours of work tasks.
Step 4
Top candidates will be invited to take part in a final interview
Step 5
We will make a final decision and notify all remaining applicants.
We intend to make a final offer by the middle of March 2026.