Engagement Manager at Cenfri

Job description

Requirements

• You are a curious, intellectual and creative thinker, interested in achieving impact beyond yourself, and you have a sustained interest in solving real world problems.
• You have the patience to pursue impact over time by generating, sharing and applying insights.
• You aspire to be wise rather than clever, and you enjoy an adventurous and entrepreneurial environment where you can balance work and life.
• You bring inspiration and inspired points of view from diverse sources to help your teams and clients imagine new opportunities.
• Having a curious mind, you naturally make connections between diverse fields and industries.
• As a strategic thinker, you can synthesise specific insights and stories into impactful, well-articulated outputs.
• You enjoy managing complex projects that deliver on objectives.
• Being highly collaborative, you appreciate and learn from the perspectives of those who have different backgrounds and skills.
• You are excited by the opportunity to develop the skills of junior team members and to build a strong organisation that can deliver on its vision.

Qualifications

• A minimum of five to eight years’ experience working in financial services, financial inclusion or a related field
• Excellent strategic thinking and superlative verbal and written communication skills, along with fluency and confidence in inspiring teammates and clients
• Experience in research and project design to solve problems while developing and empowering junior team members, including proposal development, budgeting, resource management and talent management
• Demonstrated ability to work flexibly and efficiently, exercising a balance between research rigor and nimble, project management
• An ability to meet the demands of multiple clients simultaneously, balancing speed with quality and accuracy
• A high comfort level in working within a self-directed culture and navigating ambiguity
• A proven appetite for experimentation (While you have facility in a range of research methods, you are inventive and you value great inspiration over dogmatic adherence to process.)
• A Master’s degree or similar qualification in economics, law, policy, development or related areas