Global Campaigns and Special Projects Manager, Global Affairs

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities across multiple policy initiatives and special projects, tracking progress, surfacing risks, and helping ensure successful execution.
• Partner closely with the VP of Global Policy and cross-functional leadership to support proactive global initiatives and external engagement strategies.
• Support the planning, coordination, and execution of international policy campaigns, executive engagements, convenings, partnerships, and strategic external moments.
• Help develop and maintain integrated planning systems across campaigns and special projects, including timelines, stakeholder trackers, milestones, briefing materials, and execution workflows.
• Help develop operating rhythms and follow through across distributed teams to help ensure priorities and projects are aligned across time zones, functions, and regional priorities.
• Work across functions to help coordinate initiatives, facilitate communication, and support alignment among key stakeholders.
• Prepare high-quality briefing materials, strategic updates, presentations, talking points, and stakeholder materials for senior internal and external audiences.
• Help identify emerging geopolitical, policy, reputational, and ecosystem developments and translate them into actionable execution plans and engagement opportunities.
• Build lightweight systems and processes that improve coordination, accountability, operational visibility, and campaign execution across a complex global portfolio.
• Develop and leverage AI-enabled workflows and tools to strengthen organizational effectiveness, project management, and information synthesis.
• Serve as a trusted operational and strategic partner on sensitive and high-priority initiatives across the Global Affairs organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in program management, strategic initiatives, operations, partnerships, public affairs, consulting, policy, communications, or related fields in highly dynamic, rapidly evolving, and cross-functional environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders across functions, geographies, and time zones.
• Strong operational instincts and exceptional organizational skills, with experience building systems that improve execution across complex portfolios.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level briefings, memos, presentations, and stakeholder materials.
• Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to manage sensitive or high-visibility workstreams.
• Demonstrated interest in the intersection of technology, geopolitics, policy, partnerships, communications, and public engagement.
• Familiarity with AI policy, emerging technologies, digital regulation, or global public affairs environments is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with AI tools and demonstrated ability to apply AI capabilities to operational workflows, coordination, research, and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving, and high-growth environments with a strong bias toward action.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with AI policy, emerging technologies, digital regulation, or global public affairs environments.