Managing Director

Role Overview

• Lead the design and implementation of systems, processes, and culture that power Nura’s strategic growth and day-to-day effectiveness.
• Work with Meliore operational functions and teams to achieve collective delivery excellence, fostering alignment, collaboration, and efficiency.
• Build and lead a team with a focus on pragmatic execution, getting the right things done, quickly and well.
• Partner with the Executive Director, as part of the senior leadership team, on strategic and operational planning, ensuring that strategy, budgeting, and performance are deeply aligned.
• Hold operational accountability for financial oversight of Nura’s budget, financial reporting and financial view on strategy setting.
• Serve as a forward-thinking architect of Nura’s operational infrastructure, building capacities that enable global network expansion and agility.
• Rethink and reinvent systems and ways of working to meet the evolving needs of Nura and the global environment in which it operates.
• Lead the team through growth and change, fostering a culture that is resilient, adaptable, and continuously learning.
• Work with the Executive Director and Meliore leadership team to redesign and grow Nura’s governance mechanisms, including by sourcing and managing advisers with the full range of skills to match and enhance our strategy.
• Work with the Director of Partnerships to develop and maintain excellent funder engagement and reporting mechanisms.
• Collaborate with our Director of MEL to implement systems for monitoring, evaluation, and reporting, providing insights that drive continual improvement.
• Support the Movement/Ecosystem Director and wider Nura team to build a best-in-class community of learning and practice, aimed at sharing knowledge, upskilling and also sourcing the best ideas and insights from the global strategic communications ecosystem.
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, and empowered team culture that balances accountability with trust, safety, and innovation.
• Break down silos and outdated ways of working, encouraging collaboration and high performance across the team and wider Meliore network.
• Champion a culture of accountability and excellence across all levels of the organisation.

Requirements

• Senior leadership experience, with significant operational understanding across finance, HR, IT, legal and other operations-related key functions in mission-driven or complex global organisations.
• Track record in scaling operations, notably in terms of systems design and development, leading change, and building high-performing, distributed teams.
• Experience managing complex global networks and driving operational alignment across diverse teams and functions.
• Master integrator with excellent judgment, decisiveness, and the ability to pivot as needed.
• Exceptional communicator and relationship builder, with the ability to inspire trust and alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker with a builder’s mindset, with a willingness to roll up sleeves when needed.
• Calm, clear-headed, and solutions-oriented in the face of complexity and change.
• Fluency in written and spoken English, our working language;
• Deep commitment to climate action, social justice, democratic values, and systemic change.
• Embodies a collaborative, empowering leadership style, while balancing vision with pragmatism.

Benefits

• Be part of a remote-first, international network of professionals working on climate, energy and nature and work with a bunch of dynamic, culturally diverse individuals who combine their passion to make a difference with a rigorous and results-oriented approach to work.
• 6 offline days (with no calls or meetings) per year to focus on your work
• Reduced working time on Fridays during the Dry Season (summer)
• Access to our employee assistance program to support your mental health and personal development
• Supplementary paid business closure for end-of-year holidays
• Parental leave matched to 20 weeks for countries where regulation allows less than that
• Enjoy regular opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues around the world
• A full-time position with an employment or consultant contract, subject to location, for 12 months, with possible renewal after one year.