Regional Director, Europe AT Centre for Public Impact

• Grade: Regional Director (Europe)
• Type: Full-Time (37.5 hours/week)
• Term: Indefinite (permanent)
• Location: CPI is remote-first, meaning that we support candidates to live wherever they live. This role would require geographic residency within Europe.
• Salary: Our salaries are benchmarked to the country of residence, please find our scales for 2024 here. To counter pay inequity, salaries at CPI are non-negotiable. If you reside in a country not mentioned in our salary scale, please refer to our ‘salary and benefits’ section below.
• Reports to: Executive Director
• Closing: Jan 3, 2023, 23:59 GMT

About the Centre for Public Impact

At the Centre for Public Impact (CPI), we believe in the potential of governments to bring about better outcomes for people. We are a global not-for-profit organisation, founded by the Boston Consulting Group, that serves as a learning partner for governments, public sector leaders, and the diverse network of changemakers leading the charge to reimagine government. We work with them to hold space to collectively make sense of the complex challenges we face and drive meaningful change through learning and experimentation. CPI currently operates in 4 regions of the world, all stewarding CPI’s mission in different geographies: Europe, Asia, Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand and North America.

CPI Europe (CPIE) was founded in August 2020 and has built a rich portfolio of programmes working with public sector organisations, governments, academic institutions, charities and philanthropy organisations across Europe to explore how we can make government more effective and trustworthy. We work in 20+ European countries, supporting a diverse network of changemakers and through these partnerships, have supported leaders with issue areas ranging from digital and urban transformation and climate action to leadership practice and Collective Imagination methods and leveraged Human Learning Systems approaches. We have also grown from a team of 7 to 20 and have been expanding our work as a programme delivery organisation working directly with governments, philanthropies and organisations on the ground. Our team at CPIE supports people to work in relational ways, recognising the inherent complexity of seeking to improve outcomes for people.

As a learning partner, CPI Europe supports leaders with:

• action research and storytelling for systems change;
• developing leadership capability in learning, experimentation and collaboration;
• supporting leaders to create cultures of learning and experimentation in their organisations
• convening public servants and supporting learning communities within and across sectors; and
• partnering to deliver impact through public sector innovation and stronger relationships with communities.

Who are we looking for?

Modern leadership comes in many diverse forms. It is no longer solely rooted in traditional job titles, socioeconomic privilege, or educational prestige, but also within the legitimacy of our lived experiences and our connectedness with our communities. At CPI, we strive to work with humility as well as boldness of vision, adopt a learning posture, practise curiosity and deep reflection in our day-to-day work, and prioritise relationships just as much as we prioritise strategy and impact. We value humanity and humour and camaraderie and risk-taking as much as excellence. We seek a leader who guides our team with care and bravery in opening up space for challenging conversations and rigorously advances equity in our work and ways of being, who pushes us to be better at showing up for one another and for our mission of reimagining government so that it works for everyone.

Core Responsibilities

• Visionary, Strategic, and Programmatic Impact and Thought Leadership
  • Works with the CPIE team to set its strategic vision, including objectives, learning goals and other measures to steward the overall direction of our work at CPIE.
  • Connects the vision of CPIE to the overarching CPI vision and mission.
  • Co-creates a vision for CPIE’s commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and guides the CPIE team in creating values-aligned programmatic impact.
  • Provides thought leadership for the CPIE team and across CPI more generally as we seek to establish and grow our presence in this region.
  • Represents CPIE with internal and external partners.
  • Serves on CPI’s Directors Learning Circle and is accountable to the CPIE Board and updates to the CPI Global Board and other regional boards as required.
• Partnership Development and Relationship Management
  • Cultivates and grows relationships with prospective and current partners (government, philanthropic, and community-based, among others) and effectively manages relationships with existing partners and funders.
  • Brings and/or builds networks with other organisations doing similar values-aligned work
  • Leads new project opportunities, in partnership with CPIE programme Directors, ensuring that work is advancing our mission, and that our partners and stakeholders are satisfied with our overall engagement.
  • Stewards overall business development strategy and pipeline, overseeing CPIE’s total portfolio of projects and preparing proposals/responding to RFPs (Request for Proposal) where required.
• People Development and Management
  • Collaborates and actively seeks to share power and practise co-powering decision-making processes, innovating where necessary, with other members of the CPIE and CPI teams.
  • Proactively cultivates relationships with other regional directors, global directors, staff, and all others at CPI and Board of Trustees as required.
  • Takes responsibility for supporting the professional development of CPIE staff, including providing corrective feedback to direct reports when necessary.
  • Stays connected to the work of CPI’s other regional and programmatic teams to support cross-team learning and collaboration where appropriate.
• Fundraising and Fund Development
  • Ensures financial sustainability of CPIE, balancing diversified funding sources, achieving financial goals, and defining our financial strategy for achieving both short- and long-term programmatic goals.
  • Maintains financial transparency and works with Global Hub’s Finance team to ensure accurate financial reporting within CPIE.
  • Ensures that CPIE’s overall portfolio of work and funding sources align with our broader CPI financial and strategic goals.
• Communications and Public Relations
  • Liaises with funders, representing CPIE and its impact in the field.
  • Acts as a spokesperson and advocate for CPIE when needed, communicating effectively about the vision, impact, and learning of our work on the ground, including producing and/or contributing to public-facing communications (blogs, podcasts, events, etc.)
  • Collaborates with our Storytelling and Communications staff to tell the story of CPI’s partnerships and learning in action.
• Organisational Development
  • Leads the CPIE Stewardship team (consisting of Programme Directors and Senior Managers), which stewards CPIE’s strategy, programmes, finances and people.
  • Effectively communicates CPIE’s priorities and impact within/outside the organisation.
  • Champions and proactively stewards CPI’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in programmatic work and ways of being as a team.
  • Shares knowledge and learning freely, both for successes and for mistakes.
  • Proactively collaborates with our people and culture team to support the CPIE team’s well-being, growth, and team culture, as well as the processes needed to create a sense of clarity, consistency, and belonging for all team members.
  • Proactively collaborates with our finance and operations team to support the CPIE team’s operating model, organisational structure, and infrastructure needs.

Position Requirements, Skills and Experience:

To advance our purpose of reimagining government so that it works for everyone, CPI seeks to attract and support a diversity of backgrounds, experience, talent and thought. For this reason, we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes candidates who have previously found it hard to be considered for other positions based on their qualifications, disabilities, personal background or life events. If you would like to apply for the position but see a barrier to joining us, please apply, and we will work with you to find a solution. You can also read our full Diversity Equity and Inclusion Policy here.

We strongly encourage people to apply even if you don’t have all the skills and characteristics listed below. We will be happy to receive applications from candidates who already have some of these qualities and are willing to grow in others.

We’re looking for a seasoned and humbly bold leader who is/has:

• 12+ years of experience, with increasing leadership responsibility, in any or combination of the following areas: social impact, not-for-profit, working with/in government, policy work, and/or community mobilisation and organising.
• Passionate about CPI’s vision for reimagining government, public impact, social innovation, and government legitimacy, particularly at the local level.
• Commitment to cultivating a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace, with an aptitude for working effectively across areas of difference.
• Deep understanding of the diversity of the government and civil society ecosystem in Europe and the UK.
• Demonstrated knowledge of systems thinking and/or complexity theory.
• Strong skills in strategic planning, financial management, fundraising, storytelling and communications, people management, and non-profit operations and regulations.
• Able to lead an overall financial strategy emphasising diversity and sustainability, exploring intentional growth where it makes sense and is mission-aligned
• Excellent team leadership and interpersonal skills with a track record of developing people, building partnerships, and influencing senior-level stakeholders.
• Emotionally intelligent, self-reflective, with a commitment to continuous learning, listening and personal development.
• Able to thrive with diverse responsibilities – able to attend to multiple objectives simultaneously.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and the complexity of our work, where anything is possible but often not known in advance.

Salary and Benefits

At the Centre for Public Impact, we are committed to countering pay inequality and recently completed a global compensation benchmarking process to ensure that we’re paying our staff fairly and well for the roles that they hold and therefore, salaries are non-negotiable. Salary rises with experience, which includes work experience, educational experience, and lived experience equally.

We currently have staff based in the UK, Germany, Spain, France, and Sweden, and we have the organisational infrastructure established to also hire staff who are based in Switzerland. CPI is open to hiring staff outside of the countries listed here, and you are encouraged to apply regardless of your country of residence in Europe; however, if you are successful in advancing in your candidacy and live in a location other than those listed here, we want be transparent that we may need to extend our hiring process timeline to allow CPI to assess our ability to expand our infrastructure further to support candidates who may live elsewhere. This means that we warmly welcome your application, and that our timelines will necessarily be more emergent (including the ability to provide transparent salary data for additional country contexts) based on the review of your application and the outcomes of the interview process.

CPI Europe offers comprehensive benefits to its employees, including medicash and a range of high-quality health plans for individuals; €1500 (or currency equivalent) per year in dedicated professional development funds; generous paid leave with a minimum of 25 days off and no maximum cap under our Flexibility with Responsibility policy and public holidays; paid parental leave and extended illness leave; and a year-end organisation-wide closure.