Manager, Women & Girls’ Equality

About the Opportunity 

Building on track record of embedding and advancing action that promotes equality for women and girls globally, the Clinton Foundation is hiring a new Manager, Women & Girls’ Equality at CGI.  

The Manager will play a key role in managing the team’s efforts both internally and externally. This role is charged with building and stewarding relationships with a community of domestic and international organizations committed to advancing gender equity efforts around the world; fostering and supporting a portfolio of Commitments to Action (also known as CTAs, these are new, specific, and measurable projects undertaken by partners in CGI’s community); managing relevant events and programming; and leading the team’s internal coordination across CGI and the Clinton Foundation. 

Strong candidates for this role will have a strong background in international development, global affairs, or social impact with a focus on gender equity. Candidates will have excellent project and relationship management experience, and an intuition for bringing different people together to forge partnerships. Candidates will have a global perspective, a large professional network, and be excited to engage in challenges facing a diverse set of constituencies in the U.S. and around the world.  

This position will report directly to the Director, Women & Girls’ Equality while working collaboratively across various CGI and Clinton Foundation teams on systems and processes. 

Core Responsibilities  

Help develop, grow, and manage of a diverse community of organizations focused on advancing progress for women and girls:  

• Proactively build and manage a pipeline of target organizations to join the CGI network and attend CGI events, including potential commitment makers, paying ticket holders, sponsors, and more. Examples of target organizations include Fortune 500 companies, large philanthropic institutions, innovators, impactful nonprofits, and other organizations focused on gender equity.  

• Manage existing CGI partnerships and relationships related to advancing gender equity, including collaboratively across teams. 

• Support CGI and broader Clinton Foundation colleagues via relevant programming to recruit sponsors and partner internally to support paid ticket recruitment for the CGI Annual Meeting. 

• When appropriate, partner with the CGI Community Growth and Clinton Foundation development team to support sponsorship proposals or other asks to help sustain the work of CGI. 

Support development and management of Commitments to Action (CTAs): 

• Develop a portfolio of CTAs focused on specific gender equity solutions: gender lens investing, combatting GBV and child marriage, the gender-climate nexus, advancing women’s health, improving education, workforce, and economic advancement opportunities for women and girls, empowering full civic and political participation, etc. 

• Help support and/or manage ongoing, existing CTAs through relationship management with commitment-makers, including but not limited to facilitating introductions and connections, identifying opportunities to engage CTA makers and amplify their work through events, social media, and more. Also handles overseeing commitment-maker participation in the CGI community through year-round programming and the CGI Annual Meeting. 

• In addition to relationship management, a critical component of Commitment to Action development includes supporting the development of a written Commitment to Action, which requires skills