• Grade: Regional Director (Asia)

• Type: Full-Time (40 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 South Asia (preference for residency in India) with flexibility about the exact location.

• Salary: If based in India, the salary range is ₹56,00,000 - ₹70,00,000 per annum (mapped to years of experience). If based elsewhere in South Asia, CPI will need to benchmark the salary to this specific location and share this information with candidates during the recruitment process.

• Reports to: Executive Director

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, who serve as a learning partner for governments, public sector leaders, and the diverse network of changemakers who are leading the charge to reimagine government so that it 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. Other than our team in India, we have teams in Australia/ New Zealand,  North America and Europe. We are all supported by the Global Hub team who provide people & culture, operational and communication support across the regions.

Our Values:

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

Who are we looking for?

We seek a Regional Director who is energised by building something new, and who is excited by the idea of growing and supporting a team that is ambitious, leaderful, and excited to help create a vision for CPI Asia. We encourage our staff to work with humility, adopt a learning posture, practice reflection and prioritise relationships just as much as they prioritise setting a vision and strategy for the work we do on the ground, and we are looking for a leader who can embody these skills and practices as they assume what will be a new role for CPI and our work in this region.

We recognise that the process of reimagining government is incomplete without understanding the problem - the many tangible as well as invisible ways in which historically oppressed groups face discrimination and systemic violence or indifference from our public structures and systems. We seek a Regional Director for Asia who holds deep knowledge of these forms of oppression (within and outside of South Asia) and also understands how privilege influences people’s access to justice and equity. For CPI, ‘DEIB’ isn’t just a good-to-have buzzword; it is, in fact, core to our ways of working and being in this world and in this work. We seek teammates who reflect on their own lived experiences in society - the privileges they have been accorded and the ways in which they have been harmed by structural injustice.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Visionary, Strategic, and Programmatic Impact and Thought Leadership

  • Works with the CPI Asia team to set the strategic vision for CPI Asia (CPIA), including objectives, key results, learning goals and other measures to drive the overall direction of our work at CPI Asia.

  • Connects the vision of CPIA to the overarching CPI vision and mission.

  • Guides the CPIA team in its programmatic impact, in keeping with CPI’s mission and our commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB)

  • Provides thought leadership for the CPIA team and across CPI more generally as we seek to establish and grow our presence in this region

  • Represents CPIA with internal and external partners. Serves on CPI’s Global Strategy and Impact Committee and our Directors Learning Circle.

  • Provides reports to the CPIA Board and updates to the CPI Swiss Board and other regional boards as required.

• Partnership Development and Relationship Management

  • Cultivates relationships with prospective partners (government, philanthropic, and community-based, among others) and effectively manages relationships with existing partners and funders.

  • Stays connected to other organisations doing similar values-aligned  work

  • Leads new project opportunities and ensures that CPIA delivers on its commitments on programmatic work

  • Ensures that work is delivered at a high standard, and that our partners and stakeholders are satisfied with our overall engagement.

  • Drives overall business development strategy and pipeline, overseeing CPIA’s total portfolio of projects and preparing proposals/responding to RFPs (Request for Proposal) where required. 

• People Development and Management

  • Collaborates and is aligned with the idea of sharing power/co-powering decisions about our work with other members of the CPIA and CPI teams

  • Proactively cultivates relationships with other regional directors, Global Hub staff, all others at CPI and Board of Directors as required

  • Takes responsibility for supporting the professional development of CPIA staff, including providing corrective feedback 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 CPI Asia, 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 CPIA

  • Ensures that CPIA’s overall portfolio of work and sources of funding are aligned with our broader CPI financial and strategic goals.

• Communications and Public Relations

  • Liaises with funders, representing CPIA and its impact in the field.

  • Acts as a spokesperson for CPIA when needed, communicating effectively about the vision, impact, and learnings 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 learnings in action.

• Organisational Development

  • Effectively communicates about CPIA’s priorities and impact within/outside of the organisation.

  • Champions and stewards CPI’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).

  • Shares knowledge and learnings freely, both for successes and for mistakes.

  • Proactively collaborates with our people and culture team to support the CPIA 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 CPIA team’s operating model, organisational structure, and infrastructure needs.

Position Requirements, Skills and Experience:

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

We’re looking for someone who is/has:

• Passionate about CPI’s vision for reimagining government and contextualising this vision for India, South Asia, and eventually across Asia.

• 12+ years of experience of social impact, not-for-profit, working with/in the government, global development, and/or policy work, including people with experience in community mobilisation and organising

• Passion for public impact and social innovation, particularly at the local level

• Is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and feels excited about the idea of working in startup environment and with a small team

• Knowledge of how systems of oppression work around (but not limited to) caste, class, gender, sexuality, religion, race and ability in South Asia

• Demonstrated knowledge of systems thinking and/or complexity theory 

• Committed to cultivating a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace, with an aptitude for working effectively across areas of difference

• Humble and self-reflective, with a commitment to one’s own continuous learning and growth

• Entrepreneurially minded, with a passion for continuous learning

• Excellent managerial and interpersonal skills with a track record of developing people and partnerships

• Relational, and able to build trust quickly with internal and external stakeholders

• Able to communicate effectively and manage senior-level stakeholder relationships

• Able to thrive with a diverse portfolio of responsibilities - able to attend to multiple objectives simultaneously

• Growth-oriented, and able to drive an overall financial strategy with an emphasis on diversity and sustainability

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

Note: As this is a new position that will be building out an expanded vision and presence for this region, we anticipate that up to 30% local, regional, and international travel could be required for this role, at least in the first year. We remain open to negotiating the overall travel requirements with the successful applicant as part of this recruitment process.

We are using Applied in order to reduce bias in our hiring process and ensure that we are shortlisting candidates based on their skills and ideas. Please note that we do not ask for a cover letter and instead, the application requires four paragraph-length answers. Your application will be anonymized for review. Although we ask for your CV, it will not be looked at until further down the process. Please apply by April 28, 2023.