Project Manager, CI3 Leadership Series

5 Openings | Volunteer Leadership Role | Ottawa / Hybrid

Company Description

CI3 Inc. is a leadership development and professional advancement platform that helps capable professionals, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders move from execution to strategic influence and lasting impact.

CI3 creates structured spaces where individuals can build visibility, strengthen executive presence, develop leadership confidence, expand networks, and participate in meaningful leadership conversations. Its work includes keynote events, Leadership Circles, professional development programs, coaching, mentorship, advisory services, community experiences, and applied leadership development.

CI3 is committed to building leadership infrastructure in Canada by connecting dialogue, research, community, executive learning, and practical leadership development.

Role Description

CI3 is inviting expressions of interest for 5 Project Manager roles to support the planning and delivery of the CI3 Annual Leadership Series.

This is a volunteer leadership role designed for individuals who want to contribute meaningfully to a growing leadership platform while gaining practical experience in project management, event planning, stakeholder coordination, community engagement, and leadership programming.

The CI3 Annual Leadership Series includes three flagship editions:

• Future of Leadership: Exploring what leadership will require in a changing world.
• The Global Career: Helping professionals thrive across industries, cultures, borders, and systems of influence.
• Beyond the Competence Trap: Exploring why capable people get stuck and how they move from execution to visibility, trust, and leadership impact.

Project Managers will support one of the core workstreams required to plan and deliver these events. Responsibilities may include coordinating timelines, tracking action items, supporting speakers or authors, helping with sponsor and partner engagement, supporting event communications, coordinating logistics, improving participant experience, and helping ensure that CI3 events are delivered with professionalism, clarity, and impact.

This role is ideal for people who are organized, reliable, thoughtful, collaborative, and interested in leadership development, professional advancement, community building, entrepreneurship, books, ideas, and meaningful event experiences.

Available Workstream Areas

Selected Project Managers will be aligned to one of the following workstreams:

1. Program and Experience

Supports event structure, participant journey, Leadership Circles, agenda flow, speaker experience, and the overall quality of the summit experience.

2. Authors, Speakers, and Faculty

Supports coordination with speakers, authors, moderators, facilitators, and faculty contributors, including bios, headshots, communication, and briefing materials.

3. Sponsorship and Partnerships

Supports sponsor outreach, partner tracking, community access support, sponsor recognition, and relationship follow-up.

4. Marketing and Communications

Supports event promotion, LinkedIn content, email communication, speaker and author announcements, registration visibility, and community engagement.

5. Operations and Event Delivery

Supports venue coordination, registration, room setup, signage, supplies, author tables, book-signing flow, volunteer coordination, and event-day delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Depending on the assigned workstream, responsibilities may include:

• Supporting the planning and delivery of CI3’s annual leadership events
• Coordinating project timelines, milestones, and action items
• Tracking workstream tasks and following up on deliverables
• Supporting communication with speakers, authors, partners, sponsors, volunteers, and participants
• Helping coordinate event logistics, including venue, registration, materials, signage, and room setup
• Supporting the delivery of Leadership Circles and participant experience activities
• Helping prepare planning documents, status updates, checklists, and follow-up notes
• Identifying risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies early
• Supporting post-event feedback collection, lessons learned, and continuous improvement
• Representing CI3 with professionalism, reliability, and care

What You Gain

Although this is an unpaid volunteer leadership role, it is designed to provide meaningful professional value.

Selected Project Managers will gain:

• Practical project management and event delivery experience
• Experience supporting a growing leadership development platform
• Exposure to speakers, authors, entrepreneurs, professionals, partners, and community leaders
• Opportunity to build a stronger leadership and community engagement portfolio
• Experience working across programming, sponsorship, communications, logistics, stakeholder coordination, and event delivery
• Visibility within the CI3 professional community
• Professional recognition for contribution
• Potential LinkedIn recommendation or reference based on contribution and performance
• Opportunity to strengthen professional networks across sectors
• A chance to contribute to leadership development, professional advancement, and community impact in Canada

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will bring some combination of the following:

• Project management skills, including the ability to coordinate tasks, timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to follow up, keep work moving, and help resolve bottlenecks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort working with diverse professionals, speakers, authors, partners, and volunteers
• Interest in leadership development, professional advancement, community building, entrepreneurship, or events
• Experience in event planning, program coordination, communications, sponsorship, operations, or stakeholder engagement is an asset
• Experience with tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Canva, Trello, Asana, Monday.com, or similar platforms is an asset
• Post-secondary education in project management, business, communications, leadership, or a related field is helpful, but not required
• Reliability, maturity, discretion, and a collaborative mindset are essential

Commitment

This is a longer-term volunteer leadership role supporting CI3’s annual event cycle.

Initial commitment: 12 months

Location: Ottawa / Hybrid

Event presence: In-person availability may be required for selected CI3 events

Time commitment: Variable depending on event cycle and assigned workstream

Planning activity will increase closer to each major CI3 event.

How to Apply

If you are interested in being considered, please send an email to: charles.igwe@ci3pro.ca

In your email, please include:

• Your full name
• Your LinkedIn profile
• A brief note on why you are interested
• The workstream area that interests you most
• Any relevant experience in project management, event planning, communications, sponsorship, operations, community building, or leadership programming

Selected individuals will be contacted for a follow-up conversation.