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Chief Executive Officer, PROSPECTUS
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Founded in 1985, our client is a UK-based, faith-driven international humanitarian and development organisation.
The organisation works to serve communities affected by conflict, disasters, poverty, and inequality, providing both life-saving assistance and longer-term support to help build resilience and self-sufficiency. Delivering programmes across emergency response, sustainable livelihoods, health, education, and dignified housing, it operates through a global network of country offices, partners, and affiliates.
Our client is currently executing a phased organisational transformation designed to secure its long-term future and maximise its global impact. Guided by its core values of dignity, compassion, service, justice, and excellence, the organisation is strengthening its financial foundations and sharpening its organisational focus to respond effectively to a fast-changing global landscape.
Our client is seeking a Chief Executive Officer who combines values-driven leadership with strategic depth to lead the organisation forward with clarity, purpose, and conviction. The successful candidate will act as its chief ambassador, forging powerful strategic partnerships across government, institutional, and private sectors while promoting the impact of its work.
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Key priorities for the incoming CEO include embedding the organisation's recent transformation and securing long-term financial sustainability. You will refine and execute its long-term strategy, strengthening diversified income streams and forging powerful strategic partnerships. Crucially, you will be tasked with building and empowering a high-performing, values-led culture, cultivating a highly collaborative relationship with the Board of Trustees to drive robust governance and organisational impact.
Chief Executive Officer
Salary: Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
Location: London, with hybrid working
About You
We are seeking a leader who brings fresh thinking, is willing to challenge convention where needed, and possesses:
- Significant executive leadership experience driving complex organisational transformation and strategic change, ideally with exposure within the NGO, humanitarian, or international development sectors, though commercial leaders with highly transferable skills are actively encouraged to apply.
- Demonstrable success in securing financial sustainability, diversifying income streams, and driving innovative revenue generation or funding opportunities.
- Extensive experience acting as a senior ambassador, building powerful strategic partnerships with institutional donors, media, corporate partners, and other key external stakeholders.
- A strong grasp of robust governance, risk, and regulatory requirements, with the strategic agility to adapt quickly within a complex international operating environment.
- An understanding of faith-based values and principles relating to charity and social justice.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to direct, unite, and inspire multidisciplinary teams through periods of change.
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How to Apply
For further information, to access the appointment brief, and for how to apply for this opportunity, please click on the 'appointment brief' button located at the bottom of the advert on the Prospectus website.
If you have any queries or wish to have an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact our retained advisor via email with a copy of your CV.
Recruitment Timeline
- Deadline for applications: 9th August
- First interviews with Prospectus: w/c 17th and w/c 24th August
- First-stage interviews with the organisation (online): w/c 7th September
- Second-stage interviews with the organisation (in person): w/c 14th September
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