Manager, Leadership Curriculum & Learning

Organization Description

Vital Voices Global Partnership is a leading international non-profit organization. We invest in women leaders who are tackling the world’s greatest challenges - from gender-based violence to the climate crisis, economic inequities, and more. We are "venture catalysts", identifying leaders with a daring vision for change and partnering with them to make that vision a reality. What sets Vital Voices apart is that we make long-term, holistic investments in leaders with bold ideas for change - providing them connections, capacity, a network of their peers, financial support, and visibility for their work.

We have provided early support for leaders who went on to become Nobel Peace Laureates, US Youth Poet Laureates, Prime Ministers, award winning innovators and breakthrough social entrepreneurs. Over the past 27 years, we have directly invested in more than 47,000 change-makers across 188 countries, who in turn have improved the lives of millions of people in their communities and countries.

Vital Voices’ staff is headquartered in Washington, DC. In the coming years we have a bold vision to dramatically scale our impact. In early 2022, we opened the first ever Global Headquarters for Women's Leadership, a 30,000+ sq. ft. historic building just blocks from the White House on 16th Street. It is a hub of activity, events, and collaborations - bringing together women leaders and their allies to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.

Vital Voices invests in women leaders taking on the world’s greatest challenges and accelerates collective action towards an equitable and sustainable world.

The Manager, Leadership Curriculum & Learning is responsible for the strategy, development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the organization’s program leadership curriculum. This role ensures the curriculum remains evidence-based, human-centered, gender-responsive, culturally relevant, impactful, and consistently delivered across the organization’s portfolio of leadership programs.

Working closely with program teams, facilitators, and impact measurement staff, the Manager oversees curriculum quality, learning outcomes, facilitator readiness, and knowledge management.

This position is based in Washington, DC with the option of a hybrid work schedule. Remote candidates are not being considered.

• Serve as the organization’s primary steward of the leadership curriculum and learning framework.
• Maintain curriculum standards, learning objectives, competencies, design principles, and quality assurance processes.
• Develop and manage the curriculum roadmap and annual review process.
• Maintain version control and curriculum documentation.

• Review and update curriculum based on research, participant feedback, facilitator observations, and evaluation findings.
• Apply design thinking and human-centered design approaches, test new concepts, and refine learning experiences.
• Integrate emerging research and best practices in leadership development, adult learning, and women's leadership.
• Develop new modules, learning activities, case studies, and participant resources.
• Introduce improvements that strengthen participant engagement and learning outcomes.

• Partner with program teams to adapt curriculum for different audiences, geographies, cultures, and delivery models.
• Ensure curriculummaintainsconsistency while allowing contextualization.
• Apply a gender-responsive and intersectional lens to curriculum development and adaptation.
• Support integration across virtual, hybrid, and in-person learning experiences.

• Manage learning outcomes and success indicators.
• Partner with impact measurement staff to develop curriculum-specific evaluation tools.
• Analyze learning data and participant outcomes.
• Produce recommendations to strengthen curriculum effectiveness.

• Lead program staff training and preparation and ensure organizational awareness and alignment.
• Lead facilitator onboarding and curriculum orientation.
• Coordinate…