Term: Fixed Term - 12 months (with the possibility of extension)

Type: Full-Time

When: We’re looking for candidates who are available to start late August 2022 / early September

Reports to: CPI Europe Director and a CPI Europe Programme Manager, but within a flat structured organisation that champions a culture of freedom and responsibility

About the Centre for Public Impact (CPI)

CPI is a not-for-profit founded by the Boston Consulting Group. ​​We work with governments, public servants, and other changemakers to reimagine government, and turn ideas into action so that government works for everyone.

We are a small organisation, and just over six years old, but already our global footprint is expansive and we partner with some of the biggest names in government, academia, and public sector innovation in the world. As well as the Europe team, we have a team in Australia/ New Zealand and North America, and a very new team (of two) in India. We are all supported by the Global Hub team who provides operational and communication support across the regions.

Our values: 

• courageous - we have the courage to speak the truth, to challenge without fear, and tackle the difficult questions

• respectful - we respect differences, we seek to understand them and we look out for one another

• optimistic - we are positive about what we and governments can do for our societies

• inclusive - we are non partisan, we work together and seek ideas and solutions across the divides

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 that have previously found it hard to be considered for other positions on the basis of 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 do apply and we will work with you to find a solution. You can also read our full Diversity Equity and Inclusion Policy here.

About CPI Europe

CPI Europe (CPIE) was established in January 2020. We are a team of seven (and growing!) and over the last 2 and half years have been working hard to build a presence, develop strong relationships, and secure a pipeline of work across the UK and Europe. In line with CPI’s mission and vision for government, CPI Europe has been exploring what that means in different European public institutions. Our initial discovery phase has led us to support changemakers to bring about a transformation in public management practice and we believe this transformation in public management practice is necessary for our vision for government to be realised. Currently, CPI Europe’s programme portfolio is built around three core objectives:

• CPIE is helping public institutions reimagine and strengthen relationships between government, communities, and the planet.

• CPIE is helping to ensure that public services are redesigned so that relationships are prioritised and people's needs are put first

• CPIE is working with organisations to ensure they have the tools and frameworks needed to optimise for learning and build learning environments.

Most of the team is based in London, but we are looking for candidates to join us from anywhere across the UK. As we are still in start-up mode, we need someone who is willing to work across the full spectrum of tasks - from administrative work to blue-sky thinking. Most importantly we are refining our approach as Learning Partners and seek individuals who have experience working with partners to build their learning, adaptation, and experimentation muscles so that we can ensure the long-term success and sustainability of our work. 

How we work

At CPIE, our culture is founded on the values and principles within our vision for government. So in everything we do we aim to be humble, open, empathetic, authentic, trusting and trustworthy, curious and to champion diversity and inclusion. We have experimented with different ways of living these values but in everything we do we aim to share power and devolve decision making to the person best placed to make the decision, challenge hierarchy, be strength based, and to support  each other as much as we can. 

What you’ll be doing

As an Associate in the CPIE team, you’ll be working closely with the rest of the team, spreading your time across client delivery, programs and research. Our work is a blend of thinking and doing - we spend part of our time developing and sharing new ideas, and part of our time working with partner organisations to apply these ideas in practice. If you want to get a better sense of what we do, you can visit our CPI Europe landing page.

Associates across all CPI Regional teams are expected to:

• Support the management of strong and trusting client relationships

• Support discrete projects and/or own workstreams of larger projects and develop high-quality deliverables

• Drive analytical and intellectual depth in work products and proactively share our work with broader CPI teams

• Identify and support ideas around how we can work together more effectively as a team

As we grow our engagement as Learning Partners we will require superior programme management capabilities and skills in navigating complex programmes to support engagements that meet client needs as well as feeding back learning into the organisation that helps us to further develop our offer and thinking around different learning partner approaches. 

We expect applicants for this role will have 1-3 years of work experience.

The person we’re looking for will:

• Be passionate about CPI’s vision for reimagining government and support the team to develop work products and deliverables for external stakeholders, including drafting products, seeking out feedback, and iterating in a way that improves quality while building skills

• Be comfortable contributing to and leading research projects, running programs, as well as projects which incorporate both research and programmatic elements (which most do!)

• Have excellent interpersonal skills, including feeling confident building new relationships

• Have strong organisational skills and experience with balancing competing priorities

• Be willing to take initiative and work autonomously.

• Be curious and eager to learn. Be comfortable with ambiguity and the complexity of our work, where anything is possible but not always known in advance

• Feel excited about working in a startup environment and with a very small team. Working in an  international organisation and be willing to make the effort needed to build relationships and stay connected with colleagues in different timezones

• Be willing to stretch beyond the comfort zone to the growth zone

• Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and in ways that look quite different to a 9am-5pm style of job

• Have excellent written and communication skills.

We are using Applied in order to debias our hiring process and ensure that we are shortlisting candidates based on their skills. Your application will be anonymised for review. Although we ask for your CV, it will not be looked at until further down the process.

If you have any questions about this position or for information, please contact recruitment@centreforpublicimpact.org.