Special Projects Lead

You’ll join our energetic five-person team at an exciting moment in CFI’s growth. In this role, you’ll take ownership of a diverse portfolio of high-priority work: helping design and scale programs capable of serving thousands of consultants per year through social impact career transitions; running and improving established programs and initiatives such as conference events, strategic partner events, and coworking weeks; and directly advising consultants navigating high-impact career decisions. You’ll work closely with leadership and be trusted to take ownership of projects from start to finish.

We’re looking for someone with a consulting background, strong alignment with our mission, and strong project management, communication, and stakeholder relations skills. The ideal candidate will thrive in a role that evolves frequently, involves both autonomous and collaborative work, and demands consistent, high-quality results in a remote environment.

This role is central to helping CFI scale, serve many more consultants, and run increasingly high-quality programs as the organization grows. We’re looking for someone who finds that prospect genuinely exciting.

Run and improve special projects and established programs (40-50%):

• Take ownership of well-established organisational initiatives, including coworking weeks, strategic partner events, conference events, and others.
• Collaborate with leadership to take on new special projects that advance our strategic priorities.
• Manage projects from start to finish, ensuring timely delivery, quality output, and continuous improvement.

• Help design and develop programs capable of supporting thousands of consultants per year through high-impact career transitions.
• Research program options and develop roadmaps, prototypes, and test runs.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including program participants, partner organizations, and advisors.

• Advise and support consultants through social impact career transitions, including career strategy, network introductions, and resource recommendations.
• Apply knowledge of consulting career paths and high-impact social good organisations (related to Effective Altruism and others) to provide relevant, personalised guidance.
• Contribute to the development of scalable career advising resources and tools.

Skills and experience:

• Project management: Experience clearly setting, communicating, delegating, and managing workstream goals, roles, and tasks. Experience with meeting facilitation, and ideally project-level budgeting, reporting, and risk mitigation.
• Communication: Ability to communicate complex reasoning and difficult topics in a clear, direct, and structured manner. Ability to adapt tone and level of detail in real-time for different audiences.
• Consulting background: Consulting or consulting internship experience at a major consulting firm. Understanding of different consultant skills, role types, and career paths, and how these transfer to high-impact roles.
• Stakeholder management: Experience identifying critical stakeholders and their needs, building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, and generating buy-in and understanding.
• Self-discipline and time management: Habit of clearly and proactively aligning goals, roles, and tasks with collaborators. Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively in a remote environment, and recognize when and how to best get live versus async input.

• Pursuit of truth: Habit of continuously searching for, listening to, and reflecting on alternate perspectives, approaches, and evidence before coming to conclusions. Openness to being wrong, a strong understanding of personal development needs and biases, and a habit of transparently communicating reasoning and uncertainties.
• High impact focus and principles: Familiarity with Effective Altruism principles and habit of considering counterfactual impact, tradeoffs, and evidence in decision-making.
• Continuous improvement: Habit of continuous learning and growth, embracing development needs, and taking ownership and responsibility for tasks, outcomes, successes, and areas for improvement.
• Entrepreneurial drive: Experience creating impactful solutions from scratch, getting things done, and persisting and adapting through setbacks in small organisations.
• A strong commitment to positive social impact and our values.

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