Programme Manager (Governance in Family Firms)

Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Programmatic development and innovation
• Lead the design, development, and execution of the Governance in Family Firms programme, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and strategic objectives.
• Continuously innovate and enhance the programme offering, identifying opportunities for improvement and greater impact in family firm governance.
• Develop and implement programme strategies that address emerging trends and challenges faced by family businesses, ensuring relevance and long-term sustainability.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts, external consultants, and partners to co-create high-quality programme content and deliverables.
• Identify synergies between the programme and other organisational initiatives to drive greater impact across multiple sectors.
• Co-create a strategic communications strategy, including priority social media channels and email campaigning, for the programme.
• Business development, community enablement, and financial sustainability
• Develop and execute a business development and market stakeholders’ engagement strategy by identifying key target markets, potential funding sources, and partnership opportunities.
• Manage an annual market engagement calendar.
• Co-define funding targets to cover programmatic costs and work towards reserving longer-term working capital to ensure the financial sustainability of the programme.
• Explore and develop new revenue streams for the programme to diversify funding and enhance financial sustainability.
• Develop and lead community-building initiatives, such as workshops, convenings, online forums, and networking events, to facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration, and relationship development.
• Represent the organisation by actively participating in relevant events, building new relationships with potential partners and collaborators, and promoting the organisation's programmes.
• Lead the development of compelling proposals that effectively communicate the value proposition of programmes to potential funders and partners, highlighting impact, sustainability, and strategic alignment with their objectives.
• Negotiate and finalise funding agreements and partnership contracts.
• Projects management and contracts compliance
• Manage the design, execution, and timely high-quality delivery of collaborative needs-based projects and flagship initiatives, focused on research, executive education, capacity-building, and convenings.
• Adopt best practices in project management across all projects and initiatives, defining clear project scopes, developing detailed project plans, assigning roles and responsibilities, and implementing robust tracking and reporting.
• Manage programme teams and insourced third parties to ensure high accountability, strong performance, and preemptive risk management.
• Oversee the successful execution and delivery of all projects in line with contractual obligations, project timelines, and quality standards.
• Run projects and initiatives with careful cost control and resource allocation to support efforts to achieve financial sustainability with long-term working capital.
• Proactively communicate project and initiative updates to clients, partners, and internal stakeholders with timely reports on progress, challenges, and successes.
• Expertise development and thought leadership
• Identify, study, and learn from market needs and pain points through research and stakeholder engagement to identify strategic opportunities for impact and growth.
• Lead the development of market-driven solutions by translating identified market needs and pain points into actionable programme initiatives.
• Curate and convene the programme’