Chief Operating Officer

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Malala Fund

Hybrid
  • Career category: Business development, Finance, Monitoring & Evaluation /MEAL
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 10+ years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: USD 210,200 USD-USD 237,200 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Location: United States 
Child protection/ Children’s rights Education
The Executive Team provides enterprise-wide leadership and strategic direction for Malala Fund. Working with the CEO, the team aligns priorities, resources, and action across functions and geographies. As a globally distributed leadership team, the Executive Team brings diverse perspectives and expertise to strengthen organisational performance, navigate complexity and risk, and ensure Malala Fund has the people, systems, and capacity to deliver its mission sustainably.

What does this position do?
As our Chief Operating Officer, you’ll serve as the CEO’s principal operating partner, leading key functions and ensuring Malala Fund has the people, systems, resources, and capacity to deliver its strategy effectively and sustainably.As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you’ll work across functions and geographies to align priorities, strengthen organisational planning, navigate complexity and risk, and turn strategy into coordinated action. You’ll bring strong judgement, analytical thinking, and collaborative leadership to help Malala Fund operate with clarity, discipline, and ambition.

What you bring to us and the role!
  • 15+ years of progressive senior leadership experience spanning operations, finance and enterprise management, including experience translating organisational strategy into multi-year and annual operating plans. 
  • Previous experience leading operations and/or finance in a global and similarly sized or larger organization, and experience in leading operations in the Global South. 
  • Demonstrated enterprise operating leadership across several enabling functions, with substantial responsibility for finance and operations and experience translating strategy into multi-year and annual execution plans.
  • Strong financial strategy and stewardship, including budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, resource trade-offs, controls, audit oversight and Board-level financial communication.
  • Meaningful senior-level experience working in or alongside advocacy, policy influence, grantmaking or systems-change organisations or portfolios, with the ability to understand how evidence and learning should inform mission strategy without imposing direct-service measurement models.
  • Exceptional team and people management skills; deep commitment to and belief in developing others, with an ability to influence, inspire trust, and motivate others to achieve objectives, both internally and externally.
  • Strong analytic and strategic-thinking skills with a demonstrated ability to create, implement, and monitor complex initiatives, and translate those plans into goals and concrete strategies.
  • A record of leading organisational transition, growth, restructuring or periods of financial pressure while maintaining trust, delivery and clear communication.
  • Experience overseeing enterprise risk, compliance and organisational resilience systems, with sufficient safeguarding judgement to provide effective executive oversight of organisational safeguarding responsibilities
  • Impeccable cross-cultural sensitivity, diplomacy, communicative skills, and discretion.
  • A creative, open, and innovative mind energetically searching for new solutions. 
  • Operates with managerial courage, a high EQ, and low ego. 
  • Communicates the why behind decisions and processes, ensuring that diverse constituencies are engaged effectively and in an ongoing manner. English fluency.
  • Ability and willingness to travel regularly to Malala Fund offices and countries of operation, including the U.S., U.K., Nigeria and Pakistan

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