Project Manager - Leading with Courage and Curiosity - Summary Description
Location: The successful candidate will ideally be based in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) or North America regions, with possibility of living elsewhere with sufficient experience in either of these regions. The candidate will work remotely.
Deadline: 12th Dec, 2025
About URI: Founded in the year 2000, The United Religions Initiative (URI) is the world’s largest grassroots interfaith network with over 1,200 organizations and thousands of individual members in more than 113 countries. The Purpose of URI is threefold: to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. URI is a non-religious, non-political, non-partisan, non-profit, bridge-building organization. For more information, please visit www.URI.org.
Job Summary:
URI seeks to hire a Project Manager for a 1 year contract to manage the day-to-day implementation of the Project titled “Spiritual and Religious Communities Cultivate Curiosity and Courage in the face of Threatening Differences”, which is a specific donor-funded project.
The aim of the project is to strengthen and investigate how religious communities cultivate virtues of curiosity and courage across threatening religious and polarizing cultural differences and how these virtues are used to cultivate collaborations in a pluralist society.
We will do this through the design, implementation and assessment of the URI Leadership Development Pathway: “Leading with Curiosity and Courage: URI’s PPPs in Practice” as well as the completion of the design of our 2025-2030 implementation and assessment plan for the cultivation of URI Regional Collaborative Action Hubs. (See Full Project Executive Summary Here)
The Project Manager will manage the day-to-day implementation of the project, including facilitating and coordinating the design and facilitation teams, the program implementation teams, and the follow-up teams. They will be the second point of contact with the donor.
More specifically 1) they will be responsible for leading the curriculum design team and consolidating content to generate the completed curriculum, facilitator guide, and training materials. 2) They will help lead and facilitate the regional recruitment, registration, facilitation, and program follow-up teams. They will contribute as a curriculum designer and facilitator both to the facilitation of the programs online and on location as needed and to the design of the impact assessment process. 3) They will manage and help produce the final Toolkit and investigative reports. They will support the development of the multi-year project proposal to first refine and then expand this program and investigation to all 8 URI regions.
This position is designed to supplement the Growth Learning and Impact Team to implement the specific Grant Project. The Project Manager will work with regional staff throughout the network, under the supervision of The Project Director. The Project Manager upholds and models the Preamble, Purpose and Principles stated in the URI Charter (see https://uri.org/what-we-do/charter). The Project Manager reports to the Project Director, as part of the Growth Learning and Impact Team.
Please read carefully the COMPLETE JOB DESCRIPTION HERE.
Language: The contractor needs to be fluent in English. Preference may be given to candidates who are also proficient in additional languages, especially Arabic in the MENA context.
Application Process: To apply, please complete this entire form below, answering the questions provided and uploading your resume by end of day Friday 12 December, 2025.