Job Description
About The DO
The DO is a global organization dedicated to accelerating the transformation of leading businesses towards the new economy. We train leaders and talents in executive leadership, innovation and sustainability programs. And we build global accelerators for planet-positive impact entrepreneurs together with our worldwide community.
We are home to:
The DO School, empowering people with our ‘learning by doing’ approach
The DO Catalyst, partnering with organizations on their purposeful transformation.
About the role
As Program Lead Large Scale Training Programs, you will lead project team(s) and will act as the main connector between The DO and our partners with responsibility for the project with a focus on the design, implementation, and scaling of large-scale training programs. You will facilitate and manage internal and external stakeholders and provide strategic direction and content know-how.
You will own…
- Scaling, managing, and delivering a global online training program for 2000+ participants.
- Iterating training design and overseeing production of new assets with external experts.
- Ensuring learner success through communication, session planning, and community moderation.
- Streamlining training processes and technical infrastructures.
- Establishing and maintaining quality standards across the program while fostering strong, collaborative relationships with partners.
- Managing external stakeholders and facilitating communication between teams.
- Handling ad-hoc partner requests and preparing materials for stakeholders.
- Leading the project team, including staff planning and coordination.
- Overseeing project tracking and controlling with finance and operations teams.
… and develop
World-leading learning journeys and training programs with a special focus on scalable online learning programs that combine on-demand content and life facilitation
Experiential and operational excellence in design and delivery
You will work closely with the…
The DO team and members on projects
External business stakeholders
Our internal Brand Marketing & Communications team
Freelancers, contractors, and external experts
This is what you can expect…
In the first month, you will complete your onboarding, learn the nuts & bolts of The DO Programs, and get to know the team.
After three months,you will have taken over the program and stakeholder management for your program(s) and started to run the internal and external regular meetings. Moreover, you then have become the main contact point for team members, are in process of establishing the internal and external routines that allow you to run the project and establishing yourself as key contact for our partner.
After six months, you will have established a smooth workflow between stakeholders and will be in full swing designing, managing and delivering your program with guidance and in collaboration with your team and will also manage some stakeholders on the partner side independently and as the main point of contact for training-related questions.
After one year, you will be fully at ease in your role as a Program Lead Large Scale Learning Programs and will have started to look at your impact beyond immediate tasks, e.g., in terms of business development and starting to build new and improved programs with additional partners.
About you
To thrive and grow in this role, you will likely be:
- Designed and facilitated high-quality training programs
- Purpose-driven and passionate about developing people
- Excellent interpersonal skills, adept at managing upwards, fostering productive atmospheres, and building relationships with empathy, openness, and flexibility.
- Entrepreneurial and proactive in program development and growth, taking responsibility for accounts.
- Skilled in complex program management, leading multi-stakeholder teams with budget and timeline responsibilities, adaptable to changing circumstances.
- Diligent in workflow implementation, communication, documentation, and budget tracking.
- Proficient communicator, adept at conveying vision, strategy, and brand stories to various stakeholders.
- Strong facilitator and relationship builder, capable of mediating and building trust in fast-paced, international organizations
- Fluent in German and English (verbal and written)
Ideally, you might also have …
- Experience or interest in online learning
- Experience in selecting, onboarding, and implementing technology solutions or providers to support program delivery.
- Managed a wide range of stakeholders, including mid-to senior-level
- Co-created projects involving internal and external stakeholder
This profile draws on our experience of people who have been successful in this role in the past. We warmly encourage you to apply if you feel your experience and skills equip you for this job but are not listed here!
The DO is an inclusive organization and explicitly welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds, whether that’s ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, disability or alternative professional paths.
Why join the DO?
We are a purposeful organization with a global reach working to make an impact, where purpose, passion and your ideas matter. You will work with an entrepreneurial, creative and international team as well as a global community of purposeful DOers from over 100 countries
We offer a competitive salary, benefits, team-building activities, professional development opportunities and flexible work modalities
Benefits include:
- 30 days of paid leave annually (based on a five-day working week)
- Personal development budget + 2 extra days of paid leave for personal development per year
- Team development budget
- Company pension scheme ("Betriebliche Altersvorsorge")
- Possibility for mobile work (up to 50% of the working time)
- Possibility for remote work, also outside of Germany, for up to six weeks in total annually
- Regular team offsites, team events and parties