Senior Manager - Organization Development

About the role

Hands-on practitioner. System builder.

You will lead delivery of OD work across two formats: client consulting assignments, and cohort programmes that strengthen many institutions at once.

Our OD work is growing on both fronts. We run client diagnostics and engagements for development-sector organisations. We also deliver cohort programmes such as the Emerging Leaders Program, and we are building multi-year institutional strengthening programmes for locally rooted climate organisations across Asia and the Global South.

You will make this work excellent in the room and repeatable at scale, building the systems, tools and team that let the practice double.

What you will do:

1. Lead client OD engagements

• Scope and run diagnostics and strategy, structure, leadership and culture engagements for development-sector and climate organisations.

• Facilitate senior conversations with founders, CEOs and boards, and turn findings into a plan the client acts on.

• Own quality, timelines and client relationships, and spot follow-on work.

2. Design and run cohort programmes

• Design multi-month cohorts: session arc, pre-reads, faculty and coaches, evaluation.

• Run cohort operations end to end, from participant journeys to progress tracking.

• Report to funders on outcomes, not only activity, and shape differentiated support for organisations at different stages of maturity.

3. Build OD products and knowledge

• Turn engagement learning into reusable diagnostics, benchmarks, toolkits and frameworks.

• Work with the OD Atlas and product teams to make our OD knowledge a platform, using AI tools where they raise quality and speed.

• Contribute to proposals, concept notes and thought leadership that win new work.

4. Grow people and standards

• Coach associates and bring them into engagements as part of their growth path.

• Help build the practice's delivery standards, templates and review rhythm.

What success looks like, twelve months in

• Clients who come back. Engagements you led land on time, and clients can name the change that followed.

• A cohort that delivers. At least one programme you designed or ran shows outcomes against targets agreed at the start.

• Tools in use. Reusable diagnostics and frameworks are used across engagements and feed the OD platform.

• A stronger team. Associates you coach take on more and lead parts of engagements.

• New work won. You have helped win new OD work for the practice.

What you bring

• At least 8 years in organisational development, institutional strengthening, leadership development or management consulting, including at least 4 years leading engagements or programmes from scoping to results.

• Experience designing and delivering a cohort or multi-session programme, with evidence of what changed for participants and their organisations.

• Strong diagnostic skills: you can enter a messy organisation, find what drives its performance, and explain it simply to a founder or board.

• Skill facilitating senior and sensitive conversations, with presence and credibility in the room.

• Working knowledge of how civil society, philanthropic or climate organisations operate, including founder-led institutions, grant cycles and funder reporting.

• Excellent written and spoken English, with sharp, outcome-focused writing.

• A relevant degree or equivalent experience.

It helps if you have

• Experience in a re-grantor, accelerator, fellowship or capacity-building programme.

• Experience turning your methods into tools, frameworks or digital products, and comfort using AI tools in your work.

• Experience coaching and growing junior consultants.

• Fluency in Hindi or another South or Southeast Asian language.

• Lived experience in the sectors and communities we serve.

How you work

You think in outcomes, not activity. You bring a point of view, speak up when something is not working, and hold yourself to measurable results. You move fast, keep high standards on quality, and enjoy building something new inside a growing practice.

This is a Delhi-based role, with 4 days a week in the office. The role entails travelling for work every alternate month around India and South East Asia.

How to apply

Send your CV and a one-page note on an OD engagement or programme you led, and what changed as a result, to aastha@climateasia.org by 14 December 2026.

Equal opportunity

Climate Asia is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all genders, backgrounds, abilities and communities, and we select on skills, experience and potential.