Careers & Institutional Builders

Build institutions that
actually deliver.

The Capacity Institute is building a multidisciplinary institution focused on execution systems, institutional capability, and operational governance. We seek individuals capable of working across research, diagnostics, systems analysis, institutional reform, and execution intelligence.

Who We Seek Open Positions Early Career
Analytical Integrity
Rigorous, honest inquiry in all work
Execution Discipline
We practice what we study
Systems Thinking
Problems understood as systems
Institutional Responsibility
Long-term orientation in all decisions
Collaborative Intelligence
Ideas strengthen through dialogue
Institutional Imagination
Building what doesn't yet exist
Desired Profiles

Who We Seek

The Institute seeks people capable of operating across both conceptual and operational domains — thinkers who can also build.

Institutional Thinkers

People who understand how institutions work, why they fail, and what makes them effective — with the intellectual depth to develop original frameworks.

Systems Analysts

Specialists capable of mapping complex institutional dynamics, identifying execution failure patterns, and building diagnostic tools.

Operational Strategists

Practitioners who can translate analytical work into operational systems — designing delivery architecture and execution frameworks.

Policy Researchers

Researchers who understand the gap between policy design and implementation — and can analyse why that gap exists and how to close it.

Organisational Designers

People who build institutional systems — from delivery unit architecture to coordination frameworks to performance monitoring systems.

Data & Intelligence Specialists

Analysts capable of building institutional analytics, execution metrics, systems modelling, and visual intelligence for complex institutional environments.

What We Look For

Core Qualities

Intellectual Curiosity
A genuine desire to understand how institutional systems work — and why they so often don't.
Systems Thinking Ability
The capacity to see institutions as interconnected systems rather than isolated problems.
Operational Discipline
The ability to sustain focused execution — not just generate ideas, but follow them through.
Analytical Clarity
Precision in thought and communication — the ability to make complex institutional dynamics legible.
Institutional Imagination
The capacity to envision institutional systems that do not yet exist — and to help build them.
Strategic Judgement
The ability to navigate complexity, prioritise effectively, and make sound decisions under uncertainty.

Our Institutional Objective

To build one of the world's strongest teams focused on execution systems and institutional performance.

The Capacity Institute is not a conventional organisation. We are building a new kind of institution focused on a field that is still emerging.

That requires people capable of combining intellectual seriousness with operational discipline — thinkers who can build, and builders who can think.

The Institute values

Intellectual seriousness Analytical rigour Operational thinking Systems discipline Institutional imagination Long-term orientation
Where We Work

Practice & Research Areas

The Institute operates across research, diagnostics, operational practice, executive education, and institutional intelligence.

Research & Analysis

Research & Analytical Talent

Developing deep analytical work on execution systems and institutional performance across state, corporate, and development environments.

State capacity research
Institutional coordination analysis
Delivery systems research
Operational governance studies
Operational Practice

Execution Practice Professionals

Practitioners with experience in operational execution systems across government, corporate, development, and infrastructure environments.

Delivery systems reform
Coordination architecture design
Execution diagnostics
Institutional transformation
Data & Intelligence

Data, Intelligence & Systems Analysis

Building sophisticated institutional intelligence and execution diagnostics systems for the Observatory and NCIx programmes.

Institutional analytics
Execution metrics and modelling
Visual systems analysis
Data architecture
Global Fellows & Affiliates

Global Fellows & Affiliates

The Institute collaborates with scholars, practitioners, and institutional leaders globally through its fellowship and affiliate programme.

Governance systems
Institutional reform
State capability research
Organisational execution
Early Career

Early Career & Emerging Leaders

The Institute seeks to develop the next generation of thinkers and practitioners focused on institutional execution systems.

Programme 01
Research Internships

Immersive research placements working directly on the Institute's analytical programmes — including the NCIx and state capacity research initiatives.

Programme 02
Systems Analysis Training

Structured development in execution systems thinking, institutional diagnostics, and operational governance analysis.

Programme 03
Applied Governance Research

Hands-on exposure to how execution systems function across government, corporate, and development institutional environments.

Current Openings

Open Positions

No open positions listed at this time.

We welcome speculative applications from exceptional candidates. Send your CV and a brief note on your interest in execution systems to info@the-capacity-institute.org

We are building one of the world's leading institutions focused on execution systems — and we are looking for people who want to build it with us.