Senior Engagement Manager, Scenarios Advisory

Role Description

As Senior Engagement Manager, Scenarios Advisory, you will lead customized scenarios engagements with senior partners across government, philanthropy, international organizations, and business. You will turn ambiguous, high-stakes questions into structured engagements: scoping the problem, designing the process, managing the client relationship, facilitating senior rooms, and producing clear, decision-relevant outputs.

This is not a conventional consulting-pyramid role. We are looking for experienced project leaders who can run engagements end-to-end, supported by Windfall leadership and a shared delivery platform: research, communications, event production, operations, and a network of external experts.

Responsibilities

• Lead customized scenarios engagements from scoping through delivery and follow-up.
• Work with senior partners to clarify their strategic questions and define what success looks like.
• Design scenario processes for different institutional contexts, including governments, cities, philanthropic foundations, international organizations, and businesses.
• Facilitate senior-level workshops and working sessions.
• Translate complex material on AI capabilities, labour markets, economics, institutions, and policy into clear, usable frameworks.
• Produce high-quality written outputs, including briefing materials, workshop decks, synthesis notes, strategic memos, and partner updates.
• Manage client and partner relationships with judgement, responsiveness, and credibility.
• Coordinate across Windfall leadership, researchers, facilitators, communications, operations, event producers, and external experts.
• Help develop Windfall’s scenarios methodology, templates, and delivery infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategy consulting or a related field.
• Experience at Project Leader/Engagement Manager level, or above.
• Track record leading complex client or partner engagements end-to-end.
• Excellent problem-structuring, writing, synthesis, and presentation skills.
• Experience producing client-ready materials such as strategy decks, briefing notes, memos, reports, or executive presentations.
• Strong facilitation skills, especially with senior or expert audiences.
• Credibility across at least some of the following domains: AI, economics, labour markets, public policy, philanthropy, corporate strategy, scenario planning, or institutional strategy.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, remote, international team.
• Willingness to travel internationally.

Process

• Application review: We review applications on a rolling basis, but will prioritize applications submitted before June 12th.
• Screening interview (20 minutes).
• Live exercise interview (approximately 45 minutes). You'll receive a prompt 48 hours in advance. This is not a take-home exercise; it's simply a scenario we'd like you to think through ahead of time and come prepared to discuss.
• Final interview (approximately 45 minutes).
• Reference Check.
• The starting date will be determined together with the successful applicant.