About the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
The BMW Foundation promotes responsible leadership and inspires leaders worldwide to work towards a peaceful, just, and sustainable future. Through its activities, the BMW Foundation aims to advance the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The Foundation has launched the RESPOND program to foster and scale solutions to the most pressing social, environmental, and economic
challenges of our time.
We are looking to hire a Program Manager (f/m/d) in the area of RESPOND to join the Foundation’s Munich office starting March 2022.
About RESPOND
RESPOND promotes responsible leadership at the intersection of sustainability, business, and innovation. We believe that we, together with entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, policymakers, and visionaries, can contribute to a new, more just and sustainable economy. Through RESPOND, we are putting into action our expertise and networks in the fields of innovation, technology, and sustainability in different ways. Our RESPOND Accelerator (www.respond-accelerator.com) is one of several instruments advancing our mission to promote and scale innovative solutions to the most urgent social, ecological, and economic challenges of our time.
Your tasks – What you will contribute
- You will help plan and realize RESPOND event formats.
- You will be involved in the conceptual design of international RESPOND events and will prepare the ideal framework for communicating our topics to our target group at the interface of sustainability, innovation, and business.
- You will identify and approach qualified participants and speakers and create thematic briefings.
- You will work closely with our interdisciplinary team in Munich and Berlin.
- You will grow our network in the ecosystem and build partnerships to further our mission.
Your profile – What we are looking for
- You are a team player eager to work with a global network. You have a strong alignment with the mission of RESPOND.
- You have one to three years of working experience in project management and event planning as well as strong communication skills.
- You had previous experiences with the fields of sustainability, technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, systems thinking, and you are interested in all topics around Tech for Good.
- You are strongly motivated to advance the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda and its core messages.
- You are proficient in both German and English and love working in an international environment.
- You enjoy co-creating spaces for reflection, inspiration, learning, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration – with our partners, members of our network, and colleagues across teams.
- You have strong project management and organizational skills, and you are able to work autonomously, reliably, and in a hands-on and quality-oriented way.
Our offer – What you can expect
- A dynamic, international, and interdisciplinary team that works towards a peaceful, just, and sustainable future in keeping with the UN 2030 Agenda.
- The possibility to advance meaningful projects, and to challenge and pitch your own views and projects.
- An appreciative corporate culture, lots of responsibility, leeway, and variety, and the opportunity for individualized professional and personal development.
- A full-time job with flexible working hours, options for home office, and 30 vacation days per year.
- A 24-month contract with the intention of turning it into a permanent contract at the end of this period. (Please note that we will not be able to cover relocation expenses.)
- A unique workspace in the BMW Foundation’s Munich office on Prater Island, in the heart of the city.
Are you interested?
If all of the above resonates with you, please send your full application (cover letter, CV, references) no later than January 9 to Stefanie Leiendecker at hr-bfhq@bmw-foundation.org. In your cover email, please specify your salary expectations and earliest possible starting date.
Responsible Leadership also means working towards equality. Therefore, the BMW Foundation explicitly welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, nationality, racial or ethnic origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity. Where qualifications are equal, preference will be given to people with severe disabilities.
To protect against coronavirus, job interviews will be partly conducted by video.
For more information about the Foundation and its activities, please visit our website http://bmw-foundation.org.
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