Program Lead, Ppf Academy

**Position Title**: Program Lead, PPF Academy **Term**: Permanent Full-time **Reports to**: Executive Director, PPF Academy and Action Canada Fellowship **Effective**:Immediately **Language**: Fluently bilingual French and English **Location**: Hybrid, Ottawa-based **Number of Positions Available**: 1 **Make better policy learning happen.** The Public Policy Forum’s Academy designs practical, non-partisan learning that helps public servants and policy leaders deliver for Canadians. As Program Lead, you’ll build and run high-quality programs—from curriculum design to delivery—working with policymakers, practitioners, academics and Indigenous partners across the country. **Your initial portfolio** will include the **Policy Leadership Program**, **AI Policy Compass**, **AI Advantage**, and **Managing Canada’s Interests under Trump 2.0**. The portfolio evolves with PPF priorities; you’ll help shape what comes next. **What you’ll do**: **Project & Program Management** - Own end-to-end delivery: scheduling, workplans, timelines, budgets, run sheets, vendor/contract management, and managing day-of delivery. - Work closely with program partners to ensure effective planning and delivery. **Communications and Marketing** - Plan and execute public marketing and individual outreach campaigns to sell seats for programs. - Conduct market assessments to differentiate from competition and identify gaps in the market. **Learning Design & Delivery** - Develop curricula, agendas, teaching scripts and slide decks grounded in adult-learning principles - this applies to existing programs and for the development of brand new programs. - Facilitate workshops and small-group sessions. - Build evaluation loops and report outcomes (participant feedback, learning objectives, impact). - Track trends and map experts/decision-makers across sectors to inform program content. **Operations & Administration** - Develop Academy plan with team. Contribute to quarterly and annual OKRs for the Academy. - Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures for Program Lead responsibilities. **What you bring (must-haves)**: - Post-secondary degree in a relevant field (e.g., education, public administration, political science) and 3+ years managing programs end-to-end in a policy, public sector, NGO, or learning environment. - Fluently bilingual (English/French), written and spoken. - Demonstrated curriculum/agenda design, facilitation, and event delivery experience. - Strong project management skills (budgets, contracts, timelines); comfort with ambiguity and deadlines. - Relationship building with senior stakeholders and partners; sound judgment and discretion. - Tools: O365; virtual events (Zoom/Teams); spreadsheets for budgeting; basic CRM/LMS familiarity, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey. - Initiative, reliability and strong collaboration skills. **Nice to have**: - Experience with Canadian public service contexts and/or policy. - Exposure to AI policy or tech-for-public-good learning programs. **About PPF** Established in 1987, the Public Policy Forum is a non-profit organization and charity that works with all orders of government, particularly the public service, as well as the private sector, trade unions, post-secondary institutions, foundations, NGOs and Indigenous groups to improve policy outcomes for Canadians. As a non-partisan, member-based organization, we work from “inclusion to conclusion," by convening discussions of emerging and established thinkers, doers and deciders on fundamental policy issues (inclusion) and by identifying fresh policy options and paths forward (conclusion). The Public Policy Forum researches and convenes around topical public policy challenges as well as celebrating great contributions to policy and public service at our testimonial dinners. We believe policy choices and execution directly impact the quality of life of Canadians. Our motto is Good Policy, Better Canada. **DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION** In our early years, inclusion entailed gathering government, business, labour and civil society in the same room. Today, the proposition is far more ambitious. As much as possible, we aim to incorporate a broader cross-section of participants and contributors - reflecting factors such as identity and geography - in our research, convening and learning processes. PPF recognizes the existence of systemic racism in Canada. We are firmly committed to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and social justice for all communities. We subscribe to the 50-30 Challenge and seek to live our core belief that good policy makes for a better Canada. We recognize there is more progress to be made and that good policy outcomes for everyone mark the ultimate measure of a successful society. As Canada’s think tank about tomorrow, we take our responsibility seriously to use our work to illuminate inclusive and diverse policy pathways. - We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only those