Senior Manager, Women & Girls’ Equality (6 month contract)

About the Opportunity 

The CGI Women & Girls’ Equality team applies the CGI approach to mobilize partners in the CGI community to advance efforts to support gender equity around the world, with a focus on full economic, social, and civic participation.

CGI is looking to bring on a Senior Manager, Women & Girls’ Equality (project-based employee) to support the continuing expansion of this community and its efforts. Responsibilities include communication, outreach, and recruitment of current and prospective partner organizations to attend CGI’s Annual Meeting; 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); helping define and structure related onsite working sessions; and identifying opportunities to amplify the work and approaches of Women & Girls’ Equality community members.

Strong candidates for this role will have a combination of some sales and relationship cultivation and management experience, as well as a strong background in international development, global affairs, or social impact with a focus on gender equity. Candidates will have excellent project and event skills, 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 is a six-month opportunity, with the potential to extend beyond that initial commitment.

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. 
• 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 including project management, content expertise, and copy-editing/writing. 

Manage events and programming to facilitate recruitment and community building and to advance Commitment to Action development