Executive, International Development (2-year FTC)

Job Title: Executive, International Development (2-year FTC)

Reporting to (Job Title): Director, International Development

Objective of role:

• To support the effective implementation of project delivery activities across TheCityUK International portfolio, and project coordination. The post holder will support/coordinate project activities, maintain delivery and financial records, support donor reporting and monitor progress against agreed outputs, milestones and budgets.

• To contribute to research and coordination of business development activities in building a pipeline of international development projects.

Closing Date: Midnight on 25 November 2026

We reserve the right to close an advert early if we identify suitable candidates.

First Round Interviews: w/c 30 November 2026

Key Activities & Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day project delivery and take responsibility for agreed activities and work packages across a portfolio of projects.

• Provide support for the delivery of projects, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and comply with the client contract. This might include producing briefings, organising meetings, taking minutes, preparing agendas and drafting papers.

• Support the development of workplans, logframes, etc., including change requests, ensuring that approvals are formally recorded.

• Support tracking expenditure, forecast updates, invoices and monitor and track for any variances

• Engage and communicate with a range of project stakeholders and TheCityUK members from the UK’s leading financial and professional services.

• Manage day-to-day relationships with delivery members/partners and the internal team(s) and build solid understanding of delivery needs and timelines across projects.

• Support duty of care and travel planning for team members travelling to country and for inward visits from project beneficiaries such as representatives from foreign Governments, regulators, and industry

• Lead knowledge and lessons learned sharing and disseminate project activities internally and externally, including generating monthly updates and progress reports for donors and stakeholders

• Conduct research to inform project delivery.

• Support business development efforts undertaking targeted research and coordinate contributions to proposals to develop a pipeline of new international development projects with the UK Government, other foreign governments and international financial institutions such as the World Bank.

• Keep up to date with relevant policy and geopolitical developments and provide analysis of the implications for TheCityUK International’s international development work.

• Work with the Director, International Development, Manager, International Development and Corporate Communications team, and others on the production of key pieces of advocacy and thought-leadership products. This can involve drafting responses to government consultations and parliamentary inquiries, knowledge sharing amongst other teams across TheCityUK including thematic and geographical leads, etc.

• Ensure that TheCityUK International’s international development activity is aligned with all other organisational priorities including TheCityUK’s international strategy and wider policy and public affairs objectives.

Other Duties:

• Partner with key industry stakeholders including trade associations, promotional bodies, business councils, chambers of commerce and other commercial organisations (both domestic and international) to deliver agreed outcomes.

• Provide briefings for colleagues and members ahead of major delegations and events relating to managed projects.

• Provide support in strengthening policies, procedures, and management tools for project implementation.

• Support the management of a portfolio of donors, keep track of their strategic and funding priorities and opportunities for engagement, and feed these into country resource mobilisation plans.

• Keep up to date with relevant policy developments and provide analysis of the implications for TheCityUK International’s international development work.

• Support the organisation’s goals and values.

• Any other duties commensurate the role, as requested by the Director, International Development.

Key Relationships & Interfaces

Internal:

• TheCityUK’s Leadership Team: Executive Team (ExCo) and Senior Management Group (SMG)

• TheCityUK International’s International development team

• International, Policy and Public Affairs Team

• Corporate Communications and Marketing Team

• Member Insight Team

• Economics and Research Team.

External:

• Senior representatives in across TheCityUK membership

• HMG (FCDO, BSIT, BII, HMT) and other bi- and multi-lateral organisations

• Key financial and related professional services stakeholders in EMDEs

• Project Stakeholders

• Key industry bodies and individuals

• The City of London Corporation

• Government, diplomatic missions, regulators and other key stakeholders in the UK and host countries.

• Other donors such as UNDP, ADB, WB, IFC, EBRD, etc.

Person Specification

Essential:

• Passion for international development and the role of financial and related professional services

• Experience of supporting or coordinating projects, programmes or contracts, with examples of delivering agreed activities to deadlines and within budget

• Highly organised and focused self-starter who can further a policy and advocacy agenda, prioritise tasks, and pay attention to detail when executing them.

• Understanding and interest in financial services, trade and investment, and public policy both internationally and in the UK.

• Experience in delivering projects in private sector development, economic growth, and financial services industry.

• Understanding project implementation requirements and specifications.

• Ability to prioritise, plan and organise workflow to tight timeframes, handle multiple tasks and be flexible with changing priorities.

• Proven ability to resolve problems, anticipate barriers and create practical solutions.

• Demonstrated attention to detail ensuring quality standards and value for money are maintained.

• Experience maintaining budgets, expenditure records or comparable financial information.

• Strong administrative and organisational skills.

• Strong research, writing and drafting skills.

• Strong verbal communications skills to be able to communicate persuasively.

• IT competency in spreadsheets, document preparation and shared information-systems (Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), SharePoint, etc.).

Desirable:

• Experience of donor-funded international development or technical-assistance projects.

• Familiarity with donor reporting, contractual requirements and value for money.

• An understanding of membership and/or trade organisations.

• Commercial outlook and ability to deliver value-added outcomes for members and donors.

• A relevant project-management qualification or equivalent structured training (e.g PRINCE2 and APM PMQ)

• Experience working in diverse cultural environments.

• Experience working for a membership and/or trade organisation and engaging with a broad range of interlocutors across government, industry, civil society, press and academia.

• Experience in economic development, financial-sector development, governance or institutional capacity building.

• Foreign language skills.

Values at TheCityUK International

These core set of values are essential for effective performance in our company and provides a common purpose as to how we deliver our work on a daily basis.

• We create value

• We embrace excellence

• We empower each other

• We act with agility

• We work as one team

To find out more about our values and the standards of behaviour, please visit our webpage www.thecityuk.com/careers/

About TheCityUK International

TheCityUK International Ltd is a subsidiary of TheCityUK Ltd. A reference to Group Company within this agreement includes the Company, TheCityUK Ltd, its subsidiaries or holding companies from time to time and any subsidiary of any holding company from time to time.

TheCityUK is the industry-led body representing UK-based financial and related professional services. We champion and support the success of the ecosystem, and thereby our members, promoting policies in the UK and internationally that drive competitiveness, support job creation and enable long-term economic growth. The industry contributes over 12% of the UK’s total economic output and employs almost 2.5 million people – with two thirds of these jobs outside London across the country’s regions and nations. It pays more corporation tax than any other sector and is the largest net exporting industry. The industry plays an important role in enabling the transition to net zero and driving economic growth across the wider economy through its provision of capital, investment, professional advice and insurance. It also makes a real difference to people in their daily lives, helping them save for the future, buy a home, invest in a business and manage risk.

Equal Opportunity

TheCityUK is committed to equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or gender.

We are proud to be a disability confident committed employer and, as such, all disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job as set out in the job description and person specification will be guaranteed an interview. Please advise at application stage or discuss in more detail at careers@thecityuk.com