Senior Manager/Manager

Education

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Public Policy, Economics, Business, Development Studies, or related fields.
  

Languages

• Excellent fluency in English (written and verbal).
  
• French or Spanish is a plus
  

Experience

• A strong strategy consulting background is required — typically 3+ years at a top-tier or leading strategy firm (MBB, a Big Four strategy practice, or a specialized development strategy firm) — paired with meaningful exposure to international development.
  
• Significant total professional experience: typically 9+ years for Manager, 11+ for Senior Manager, and we welcome candidates whose experience exceeds these thresholds.
  
• Demonstrated experience working with or inside multilateral and bilateral institutions, large philanthropies, or global development organizations.
  
• A track record of leading multi-stakeholder, multi-country engagements from problem structuring through implementation.
  
• Experience designing strategic initiatives or large-scale programs — not just advising on them.
  
• Exposure to results-based financing, performance management, or impact measurement is highly desirable.
  

Specifically, you will:

• Own high-impact partnerships: Take full ownership of multi-year engagements with MDBs, bilaterals, and philanthropies — from problem structuring through implementation. Diagnose how institutions invest and manage performance, structure the strategic options, and build the analytical case for the recommended path. Translate sophisticated analysis into clear recommendations that senior decision-makers can act on.
  
• Structure and pressure-test innovation bets: Take ambiguous, frontier problems — from AI-enabled tools for government reformers to new financing mechanisms for climate outcomes — and structure them into testable hypotheses and workable pilots.
  
• Manage complex stakeholder environments: Build trusted relationships with senior counterparts in governments, development agencies, and philanthropic organizations. Navigate multi-stakeholder dynamics with confidence, knowing when to push, when to listen, and how to build coalitions for change.
  
• Lead teams and delivery: Manage multidisciplinary teams across workstreams, geographies, and time zones. Own budgets, timelines, and the quality bar of every deliverable — and develop the people around you.
  
• Contribute to thought leadership: Help shape Instiglio’s intellectual contributions in results-based financing, performance management, and global partnership strategy, feeding into a growing body of work that influences policy and practice globally.