Associate Director – Europe
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Associate Director leading the Open Wing Alliance's strategic efforts for animal advocacy across Europe. Focus on managing regional staff and coordinating campaigns for animal welfare.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of regional staff (two direct reports)
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture that supports professional development and accountability
- Establish strong team structures, workflows, and performance expectations to ensure effective delivery of regional goals
- Develop and lead the execution of OWA’s strategy across Europe, ensuring alignment with global priorities and organizational goals
- Translate coalition-wide goals into clear regional plans, setting priorities, allocating resources, and ensuring effective execution across the region and subregions
- Guide decision-making on regional campaign priorities, member support, and resource allocation
- Oversee grant decisions in OWA Europe, ensuring funds are allocated to the most impactful areas
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of OWA Europe’s regional strategies and initiatives
- Identify emerging opportunities, risks, trends in the European corporate campaigning and advocacy landscapes
- Build and maintain strong relationships with member organizations, advising on campaign strategy and supporting coordination across countries and regions
- Foster alignment and collaboration among member groups, addressing challenges and facilitating effective coordination when needed
- Oversee regional program delivery, ensuring effective coordination of campaigns, member support, and coalition initiatives
- Support the development and implementation of systems, processes, and tools that improve coordination, communication and effectiveness across the region
- Collaborate closely with leadership and internal teams to ensure alignment on regional work with broader organizational strategy
- Contribute to organizational reporting, providing updates on regional progress, challenges and outcomes
- Represent The Humane League and the Open Wing Alliance in the Europe region at conferences, events, and external meetings
- Support knowledge sharing across regions by identifying and disseminating best practices and lessons learned
Requirements:
- A commitment to THL’s mission to end the abuse of animals raised for good, and an understanding of or interest in animal advocacy, corporate campaigns, or coalition-based work
- Strong understanding of and experience with corporate campaigning or coalition-based advocacy, as well as the ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across diverse cultural and regional contexts
- Approaches work with a global perspective, taking diverse experiences into consideration and building relationships with stakeholders across many different cultures, languages, and political systems
- Demonstrated experience managing and developing teams, including setting clear objectives, monitoring performance, and providing actionable feedback
- Ability to lead geographically dispersed staff, support their professional growth, and ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of OWA member support and regional initiatives
- Addresses multi-faceted regional and coalition challenges by analyzing situations, synthesizing information, and making informed decisions
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain trust-based relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple regional initiatives, campaigns, and member support efforts simultaneously
- Ability to develop and lead the execution of regional strategies within a global coalition
- Demonstrates a high level of ownership in driving regional work forward, proactively identifying opportunities and addressing challenges
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey strategies, priorities, and expectations to a global network of partners
- Experience using data and performance insights to assess the effectiveness of regional campaigns, coalition activities, and member engagement
Benefits:
- Unlimited paid time off
- The last Friday of every month off as a THL ‘Public Holiday’ called ‘Mend Your Heart Friday’
- Enhanced sick pay
- Generous bereavement leave
- Generous personal emergency leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement contributions
- Internet allowance
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