Right to Play is seeking an experienced CEO with an innovative spirit and a proven track record of global leadership.

The successful candidate will have experience managing complex governance structures and maintaining a balance between international and national entity governance.

They will be strong on resource mobilization, and have experience developing successful revenue strategies that respond to different and changing contexts and realities.

The incumbent will have experience in one or more of the following areas: government, high net worth, legacy, and/ or corporate fundraising.

The incumbent will work with fund development across the organization to build funding strategies for the future. The incumbent will bring with them ability to balance innovation and a track record of enabling strong processes and compliance.

They will bring a strong orientation to partnership-building, an understanding of localization trends, and an ability to advance Right To Play’s localization strategy.

They will have the ability to broker new business and drive change internally and externally.

The incumbent will have a proven track record of building a global organizational culture that drives trust and loyalty.

They will be comfortable in the role of brand ambassador and bring with them experience in and an orientation towards thought leadership and profileraising.

The individual will be up to date and understand the world and the change currently happening within it; helping to forge a pathway for Right To Play for the future.

Key Competencies

• Strategy and vision: Envisions the future organization and can develop pathways to achieve it.

• Collaboration: Proven relationship-building skills and ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a wide variety of partners and donors.

• Growth mindset: Lifelong learner with capacity to grasp trends and emerging contexts.

• Leadership: Strong leadership and team spirit and an industry thought leader and innovator helping to shape the future.

• Integrity: Creates and promotes ethical practices internally and in all partnerships and coalitions.

• Communication: Excellent oral and written communication, representation, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills with f luent written and spoken English.

• Education: University educated, preferably with Master’s qualification in business, international development or a related discipline.

• Experience: Minimum five years’ experience at an executive level in an organization of similar size and comparable levels of international complexity.

• Sector knowledge: Understanding of international development and humanitarian aid sectors and current trends.

• Change management: Strong demonstrable experience of leadership capacity, including leading change management processes and innovation while retaining organizational effectiveness.

• Program knowledge: Knowledge of the issues children, communities and staff experience in contexts where RTP delivers its programs. Knowledgeable about play-based learning and its impact in child development.

• Board management experience: Significant experience working directly with a Board of Trustees

• External representation: Extensive experience of networking and influencing at the top level of governments, donors, foundations, corporations or academia

• Government relations: Knowledge of how government works and the ability to maneuver through political and bureaucratic structures well – can position RTP as a value add to political agendas