How You Will Make an Impact

Build the Systems That Elevate Instiglio’s Impact (60%): You will architect and drive the next generation of Instiglio’s organizational backbone:

AI Integration & Digital Transformation

• Lead the design, piloting, and scaling of AI tools that enhance decision-making, team productivity, and service delivery.
• Drive organizational AI adoption, capability-building, and change management.
• Translate emerging AI opportunities into practical workflows, operating model shifts, and strategic advantages.

Impact Management Systems (with the CIO)

• Strengthen how we measure organizational performance, learning, and results.
• Design and refine frameworks, tools, and processes that clarify goals, drive alignment, and enable strategic decision-making.

Partnerships Development Systems

• Build systems that enhance how Instiglio grows and stewards partnerships across donors, governments, and the private sector.
• Develop processes that support pipeline visibility, strategic engagement, and institutional partnerships.

Internal Operating Model Evolution

• Lead the integration of AI across our operational systems, piloting and scaling tools that boost productivity and decision-making.
• Drive process redesign across people systems, workflows, governance rhythms, and collaboration structures.

Change Management Leadership & Transformation 

• Drive end-to-end change processes: diagnosing issues, designing solutions, preparing teams, ensuring adoption, and measuring results.
• Act as the integrator across teams, ensuring transformation efforts are coherent, sequenced, and embedded in practice.

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves Execution

This is not a strategy-only role. You will personally:

• Build tools
• Draft frameworks
• Run project management
• Facilitate alignment
• Troubleshoot operational fires
• Ensure implementation sticks
• You are responsible for seeing things through from idea to execution to sustained adoption.

Serve as Chief of Staff to the CEO (40%): You will enable the CEO to focus on the highest-value priorities and operate at maximum leverage:

Strategic Leadership Support

• Structure and prepare CEO engagements with senior leadership, board members, key partners, and external stakeholders.
• Ensure the CEO’s priorities are clearly communicated, resourced, and executed across the organization.

Leadership Rhythm & Governance

• Oversee decision-making cycles across the CEO, Senior Leadership Team, and Board:
• Design agendas
• Synthesize insights
• Prepare materials
• Ensure follow-through

Interface Management

• Manage the flow of information between the CEO and senior leaders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and productive collaboration.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner behind major organizational decisions and conversations.

Strategic Projects

• Lead CEO-sponsored special initiatives — especially those at the intersection of strategy, transformation, and systems-building.

Who You Are 

Experience

• ~10 years of relevant experience in:
• Organizational transformation & change management
• AI or technology implementation in organizations
• Systems-building in high-growth or complex environments
• Management consulting, public sector reform, or international development
• Working closely with senior executives on strategy + execution
• Designing and scaling operating models, decision systems, and workflows