Associate Program Manager - Paid Internship

The Synergist is looking for an **Associate Program Manager** under a paid internship contract to support high-impact, multi-stakeholder programs tackling complex societal challenges. **About The Synergist** Synergist is a social venture that addresses a growing need to collectively face societal issues by addressing broken or inefficient systems and accelerating societal (co-)impact. We believe we can solve the most urgent societal issues collectively, and we are bringing our model to make this happen by inviting all change agents to approach our world differently. Our world, our societies, and our lives as we know them face critical and escalating challenges. Many of these are complex, deeply entrenched, and urgent, and they can’t be solved in isolation. A bigger approach is required to tackle these with the impact and durability needed. This approach requires coherent bridging between strong efforts of the past and next-generation strategies, between a broad range of sectors and stakeholders, and towards a movement of synergies between people, minds, and strategies. To address this need, we built a social venture designed to collectively tackle societal issues by addressing broken or inefficient systems together and thereby accelerating societal (co-)impact. To this end, The Synergist acts as an independent, neutral backbone and incubator. We bring together the right people, organizations, and institutions globally. We foster an organized, safe, and collaborative environment that enables collective impact by co-defining a shared vision, goals, and strategies with members; establishing and maintaining a transparent and balanced governance structure; coordinating and driving activities, and bringing to life concrete projects and solutions that have been shaped with and complemented by a broad stakeholder group. This is what we call ‘leading from behind’. * The origin story of the Synergist by Nicholas Brooke * Co-creation and collective intelligence in practice (Patient Engagement Open Forum) **Your role** The Program Management team is responsible for driving the Synergist programs on a day-to day-basis, including setting the long and mid-term program strategy, designing and executing program activities, mobilizing internal team members and external stakeholders, and developing competencies and new opportunities. As an Associate Program Manager, you will support and provide scalability to the Program Managers and Program Directors, with an emphasis on helping to ensure that the day-to-day activities run smoothly on time and to a high-quality standard. This means a variety of things from purely project management responsibilities to participating and delivering tasks, organizing meetings and logistics, engaging with partners and collaborators and handling other project work. The Associate Program Manager acts as the main user of The Synergist’s program specific online platforms ensuring high quality of usability, engagement and content.