We’re hiring!
Programme Manager
(Impactful Policy Careers Accelerator)
Location: Remote
Open to candidates residing in Europe
Hours: Full-time
Salary: €48,000/year
Application deadline: 22nd September
We will host a Q&A on 17th September at 6pm CET. If you want to know more about the role, what it’s like to work with us, and learn more about our culture, you can register for the Q&A here.
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 the cohort 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 Programme 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 Animal Welfare cohort in March 2026, whilst planning research and design for the Global Health cohort in July 2026
Title: Programme Manager (Impactful Policy Careers Accelerator)
Reports to: Programme Director
Role Purpose:
The Programme Manager will lead the end-to-end delivery of the Impactful Policy Career Accelerator, ensuring it is strategically designed, operationally smooth, and impactful for participants, alumni, and stakeholders. This role blends project management, stakeholder engagement, curriculum design, and community building.
Key Responsibilities
Research & 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.
Consolidate insights and map potential areas of EU Impact to inform programme scope
Record, transcribe, and track interviews; produce insight summaries.
Build and maintain strategic relationships with SMEs, advisors, and alumni.
Programme Design, Management & Recruitment
Programme design: Partner with the Programme Director to set learning outcomes and theory of change; build application processes, assessments, scoring rubrics, and automations.
Recruitment & selection: Run end-to-end candidate recruitment, including assessments, shortlisting, interviews, communications, and data management.
Programme management: Maintain master project timeline with milestones. Provide Marketing with strategy, key messages, and tone guidance.
Curriculum & Facilitator Management
Identify thematic areas and learning resources.
Recruit, brief, and coordinate SMEs (including contracts, schedules, and checks
Facilitate team-building sessions and group energisers for increased cohort bonding.
Draft and monitor programme budget; align spend with priorities.
Research venues, travel, and logistics with Ops; adapt reimbursement policies.
Prepare participant resources, schedules, and pre-programme orientation (Zoom meet-ups, icebreakers).
Coordinate behind-the-scenes logistics on-site and troubleshoot participant issues.
Logistics & Operations
Build and sustain alumni communities via events, mentoring, updates, and scholarships;
Collect and analyse feedback through surveys; producing programme report with lessons learned.
Post-Programme & Alumni Engagement
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).
• Excellent organisational skills (trackers, budgets, timelines, logistics).
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Confidence facilitating groups and liaising with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage data, assessments, and feedback systematically.
• Strategic thinker who can translate goals into operational plans.
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Desirable
• Background or familiarity with European policy, global health, or related sectors.
• Experience with alumni or community management.
• Experience managing recruitment/selection processes.
• Exposure to curriculum design or adult learning.
• Comfort with AI tools, automation, and assessment technologies.
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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.
Generous and flexible self-managed time off policy, 20 days per year is the organisation minimum.
Encouragement and support to spend at least 5% of paid time on training and development, and a $500 professional development budget.
A clear compensation policy with opportunities for progression.
Application process
Step 1
Fill out the application questions below
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 end of October 2025.
Join us on 17th September at 6pm CET for a Q&A about this role (optional). We’ll cover the role, what it’s like to work with us, and our culture. The session will be recorded and added to this page once completed.