Projects Leader

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**Location**:Singapore (full-time)

**Salary**: SGD $57,000 - $60,000 per annum pro rata, depending on level of experience

**Flexible working**: We offer a fully flexible working environment

**Annual leave**: 25 days of annual leave per annum, plus 3 additional days over Christmas

**Benefits**: Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

We are seeking a highly motivated Projects Leader to join our programme Delivery Team.

We are a non-profit social enterprise working with purpose to develop leaders who can cross cultural, institutional, and social boundaries, all so that people can work better together despite our differences. We are an organization founded on strong social purpose and we live this continuously through our work. An important part of our values is to support diverse talent and as part of that our commitment is to ensuring that people from under-represented backgrounds have places on our programmes.

Our Projects Leader will be responsible for ensuring our diverse teams across international locations deliver our leadership development programmes to the highest possible quality. You and the teams you work with will also be tasked with securing a large number of pro-bono speakers for our programmes.

**Responsibilities**:

- Oversee our leadership development programmes in the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring quality and consistency of customer experience
- Create and deliver clear and timely project plans
- Source and brief a balanced range of speakers for our programmes
- Provide regular progress reports to clients, both internal and external, adapting to their needs
- Deliver programmes, both online and in-person (depending on your previous experience, this may be in either a facilitation or an event management role)
- Gather feedback and ensure this is actioned and incorporated into future programmes

To do this you will collaborate with Common Purpose colleagues globally (across different time zones, locations and teams), using systems and networks appropriately, efficiently and transparently.

**Requirements**:

- At least 3 years of experience managing multiple projects at a time (ideally in similar industries eg Higher Education, leadership or teaching, but all relevant experience will be considered)
- Be able to demonstrate your ability to lead teams (direct line management experience is desirable but not essential)
- Be able to demonstrate how you have delivered successfully in a fast-paced environment, dealing with shifting deadlines and requirements
- Knowledge of how to build and nurture networks of people (previous experience of sourcing pro-bono speakers for events is desirable but not essential)
- Experience of managing stakeholders and their expectations - both internal and external
- Strong commitment to the mission and values of the non-profit sector

**All applicants must also**:

- Have excellent written English, oral communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable interacting on the phone/video calls and in-person
- Be able and willing to travel for short periods of time (when restrictions allow) and at short notice and outside of normal working hours
- Be confident and proficient in the use of MS Office and Zoom (and ideally, project planning tools)