Managing Director (Head of Europe)
Remote working
£78,000 to £92,000 per annum (DOE) + benefits
Full time (flexible hours), permanent
Closing date: Friday 10th February (12pm)
£78,000 to £92,000 per annum (DOE) + benefits
Full time (flexible hours), permanent
Closing date: Friday 10th February (12pm)
Organisation:
International food sustainability NGO
International food sustainability NGO
Role:
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious globally focused organisation as its new Managing Director. In this post you will lead the team making Europe’s food system better for the planet, people, and animals. You’ll use your strategic, leadership and management skills to champion sustainable proteins in Europe and enable their top-performing team to achieve maximum impact.
Our client is working to advance plant-based and cultivated (grown from cells) meat, in order to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger, to antibiotic resistance and animal suffering.
Reporting to the Board, you will lead the organisation and its fantastic team. You will oversee the day-to-day work of the organisation, provide strategic leadership, and represent them to key stakeholders. You will benefit from – and contribute to – the mutual support, resources, and expertise of their global network of affiliate organisations.
In this key role you will:
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an ambitious globally focused organisation as its new Managing Director. In this post you will lead the team making Europe’s food system better for the planet, people, and animals. You’ll use your strategic, leadership and management skills to champion sustainable proteins in Europe and enable their top-performing team to achieve maximum impact.
Our client is working to advance plant-based and cultivated (grown from cells) meat, in order to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger, to antibiotic resistance and animal suffering.
Reporting to the Board, you will lead the organisation and its fantastic team. You will oversee the day-to-day work of the organisation, provide strategic leadership, and represent them to key stakeholders. You will benefit from – and contribute to – the mutual support, resources, and expertise of their global network of affiliate organisations.
In this key role you will:
- Lead the organisation, and take ultimate responsibility for the maximisation of outcomes and impact in pursuit of our mission to make plant-based, fermentation-made and cultivated meat delicious, affordable and accessible
- Manage the day-to-day work of the organisation, including overseeing and coordinating delegated programmatic functions
- Lead the in-house team, including line-managing, mentoring and coaching direct reports, developing talent, and taking ultimate responsibility for the performance, support and culture of the whole team
- Provide strategic leadership, including working with the team on strategic planning, annual and cyclical setting of Objectives and Key Results, prioritisation and evaluation of work, evaluating new ideas and opportunities, and ensuring all staff are engaged in tasks that are aligned with the organisation’s goals
- Work closely with global and European fundraising teams to help ensure that fundraising goals are achieved, and represent the organisation to donors and prospective supporters as required
- In collaboration with the Board, Strategic Advisor and staff team, oversee the development of new roles, and ensure that each role is filled by the strongest possible applicant, building a high-performing, diverse, pan-European team to advance their mission.
Candidate:
- A clear passion for the organisation’s philosophy and mission
- Outstanding strategic skills and abilities, including impact-focused prioritisation
- Outstanding leadership and management skills, including experience compassionately and successfully leading a team to deliver high impact (please note, this does not necessarily have to be at head-of-organisation level, but it must include an element of team or sub-team leadership – i.e. more than just one direct report)
- Exceptional analytical skills, and good judgement; the ability to absorb and process a range of types of information, understand the wide range of activities that the organisation undertakes, provide well-judged advice to members of our programmatic teams, and thoughtfully take difficult decisions about trade-offs and prioritisation across their work
- The ability to oversee the management of significant financial resources, including working with the Operations team to develop, track and report on budgets
- Excellent interpersonal skills, comfort and confidence with networking, and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to convincingly articulate and explain their mission and work, and represent the organisation through the media, and with programmatic stakeholders, and donors. You must have strong public speaking skills and the ability to select and convey the right tone and types of messages for a range of audiences and stakeholders
- Comfort working and managing a team remotely and in a growing organisation
- Enthusiasm, a strong work ethic and self-motivation; a sense of ownership and responsibility to drive outcomes
- An affinity with our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and with maintaining our welcoming and supportive culture
- The ability to travel within Europe and globally for Global Leadership Team retreats, Europe team retreats, donor meetings, speaking engagements, etc
- Strong knowledge of and/or experience in leading a nonprofit or other organisation (desirable)
- Familiarity with, or experience working in, the sustainable proteins sector in Europe (desirable)
- The ability to speak other major European languages (desirable).
To be considered for this role, please send of a copy of your CV to [email protected]
As specialist recruiters we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
As specialist recruiters we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.