Programme Manager (Governance in Family Firms)

About the role

Pearl Initiative is looking for a Programme Manager to lead its Governance in Family Firms Programme in the GCC region. The role builds the organisation's thought leadership and impact in strengthening family businesses, supporting next-generation leaders, and advancing corporate governance, ethical and strategic decision-making, transparency, disclosure and innovation. It also covers business development, revenue generation and fundraising, and ensures compliant delivery of projects and contracts.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and run the programme, collaborating with experts, consultants and partners, and co-create a communications strategy including social media and email campaigns.
• Build a business development strategy, manage an annual market engagement calendar, define funding targets, explore new revenue streams and negotiate funding agreements and partnership contracts.
• Run community-building activities such as workshops, convenings, online forums and networking events, and represent the organisation at events.
• Manage research, executive education, capacity-building and convening projects, with clear scope, plans, tracking and reporting, and oversee teams and third parties with cost control.
• Produce bi-lingual content (op-eds, articles, white papers, research reports, position papers), engage on LinkedIn and Twitter, and build relationships with journalists and analysts.
• Mentor the programme team, give performance feedback and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment.
• Define quarterly and yearly impact metrics and KPIs, run surveys and feedback analysis, build an impact baseline, prepare impact reports and contribute to the annual report.
• Use technology and attend training workshops on project management, impact management, storytelling and writing.

Required profile

• A master's degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Corporate Psychology, Business Conflict Management or the social sciences, with proven expertise and strong analytical skills.
• Additional certifications in project management (the text is cut off).
• A strategic, detail-oriented and relationship-driven leader able to design and implement high-impact programming.