Senior Program Manager, Consulting Group

 At the heart of SecondMuse lies the fundamental strategy: Drive Impact. This guiding principle is ingrained in every decision, both as individuals and collectively as a company. It reflects our identity, our purpose, and the unique value we deliver to our clients. Our commitment to driving impact shapes our strategic approach and is mirrored in our diverse offerings. These offerings are designed to foster just economies, powered by community-driven solutions with a focus on generating substantial economic, social, and environmental benefits. Our services range from consulting, aimed at catalyzing long-term impact through innovative projects and building strategic relationships, to Entrepreneurial Support, facilitating opportunities for entrepreneurs at various stages of their journey. Further, we are engaged in economy-building initiatives that catalyze systemic changes and economic transformation across sectors.  We have organized innovation programs in over 100 countries and 250 cities, sourcing solutions from every corner of the world. Each program has challenged our teams to develop targeted approaches to find, and then support, visionary leaders with a diverse range of experiences, motivations, and cultures.

The Opportunity

We believe that great talent thrives in fast-paced, high-performing, learning-oriented, and collaborative work environments. Embracing SecondMuse's core values of contributing to an open, inclusive, and joyful culture makes it easy to have our work centered around authentic relationships, which we believe are at the heart of unlocking human potential.

The North America Business Unit (NA BU) is a dynamic team spanning North America and working on a suite of thriving, long standing impactful bodies of work. The Business Unit includes NASA’s Space Apps Challenge and Collective to a Wellbeing Economy Building initiative anchored by Headstream to a Climate Economy Building initiative anchored by For Climate Tech. This Senior Project Manager role will be part of the Consulting Group team within the North America Business Unit, where we connect with new clients, explore new problems, build community and / or capacity as part of our work to build economies that are good for people and the planet. 

The Consulting Group executes projects with government, corporate and foundation clients in the areas of Research, Design, Strategy and Pilot Implementation. The work of this group involves developing insights, strategies and solutions that lead to social, environmental and economic impact, as well as pilots for future scalable programs and solutions. This dynamic team requires business development expertise to build and manage business opportunities aligned with consulting strategy, and also requires program management expertise to manage consulting projects and support the delivery of our current and future offerings. 

While this role sits within the Consulting Group, it collaborates with and supports programs across the Business Unit as skills, capacity and needs require. This position will report directly to the Senior Director of Consulting within the North America Business Unit and will work in collaboration with the Senior Vice President of the North America Business Unit, the broader consulting team, the Director of Operations of the North America Business Unit, and the SecondMuse Business Development Team.

Core Competencies

You will embody the following core competencies which will set you up for success in this role: 

• Strategic and operations vision paired with high-level executive function.
• Ability to manage complex and diverse client, partner, and team relationships.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration under stress and across sectors.
• Cross-cultural competency with flexibility in content areas, time zones, project types, and cultures.
• Familiarity and passion for co-design (human-centered design) to communicate, operationalize, and sell design services.
• Ability to manage multiple, distinct projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and collaborate effectively across SecondMuse departments.
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving organizational practices.
• Fluent in using tools such as Miro, Slack, and Google Workspace to support consulting operations and collaboration.
• Fluency in Spanish is preferred, but not required.

Core Functions 

The primary tasks and activities that you will carry out are:

• Manage sourcing and growth of business development opportunities, including business relationships, network building, RFPs, renewals, and proposal development in alignment with the SecondMuse consulting offering and strategy .
• Lead and support concept development and client stewardship to ad