Manager (or Senior Manager), Programs

About The Organization

The Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) is a nonprofit that conducts academic and applied research into sustainable finance and impact investing, and trains ultra-high-net-wealth investors, philanthropists, next-gen inheritors, and their advisors on evidence-backed frameworks for achieving greater—and more systemic—impact with their full range of capital. We envision a world where private wealth is a force for preserving and improving life for all—guided by evidence, collaboration, and a deep commitment to real-world impact.

Headquartered in Zurich with teams in Asia and the Americas, CSP has built a global network of 300+ alumni and helped mobilize up to $32 billion toward climate, environmental and social impact, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals over the past decade. Academic collaborators include MIT Sloan, Stanford PACS, and St. Gallen University.

This is a program management role at its core. We are looking for someone to take ownership of designing, launching, and running our next generation of applied wealth-holder programs in the Americas—carrying each one from concept to a well-run, repeatable annual program. Reporting to the Senior Director, Programs, you will own a portfolio of programs outright—responsible not only for their design and launch but for their full ongoing management once they are running: curriculum, operations, stakeholders, delivery, evaluation, and year-over-year improvement.

Over the next three years the candidate would grow that portfolio in the following ways:

• Own CSP's Investing Lab—complete its design, launch it (first cohort begins November 2026), and then run it on an ongoing basis. This is our alumni-only, live-portfolio experience in which participants conduct real due diligence and deploy real capital through a live impact fund and Investment Committee, with monthly sessions across the year.
• Launch an annual Family Office Program on the U.S. West Coast (likely San Francisco)—design it, launch it (2027), and run it each year, adapting CSP's peer-led, case-study-driven family office curriculum for a North American cohort. Note that this will be an expansion of the European Family Office program series that has successfully run in Germany and the UK over the last four years.
• Launch the Family Office Program to the East Coast (likely New York City) in 2028, running both editions on an ongoing basis thereafter.

These are not lecture courses. Both programs are practical, peer-led, and built around real cases, real stakes, and carefully recruited senior faculty. Your job is to manage them end to end—design and refine the curriculum, stand up the operations and partnerships that make them run, facilitate and orchestrate the experience, and improve them year over year. If you are energized by owning and running programs well rather than delivering someone else's curriculum, this role is for you.

• Lead the completion and design of the Investing Lab curriculum and participant journey, translating CSP research and frameworks into a live, experiential learning arc
• Design the West Coast Family Office program (2027) and its East Coast edition (2028), adapting CSP's existing global family office curriculum and case-study format for North American cohorts
• Build the instructional design for peer-based, case-driven adult learning—the opposite of slide-heavy lecture
• Translate research findings and real-world cases into credible, decision-useful program content
• Facilitate and orchestrate program live sessions—in person and online—guiding peer exchange, case discussion, and hands‑on work rather than delivering one‑way content, facilitating where appropriate and supporting subject matter experts in facilitation

• Own the day-to-day and year‑round running of each program once launched—the operating plan, timeline, budget, and execution
• Manage the senior faculty, speakers, and partners who make each program credible—impact-leading principals, family office CEOs, coaches, and academic partners
• Coordinate the moving parts unique to each program:…