Director of Open Wing Alliance

As the Director of Open Wing Alliance (OWA), our global coalition working to end the abuse of chickens worldwide, you will be accountable for overseeing the coalition’s member support and recruitment strategies, managing member support staff, and publicly representing the OWA. This position reports directly to the Vice President of Global Programs. 

This is a full-time remote position. This position requires domestic and international travel, this is equivalent to approximately 3-6 trips per year. We are only able to consider applicants who reside in the United States or United Kingdom and whom possess work authorization in these countries.

We will be recording a Q&A video to answer questions about this role. Please submit your questions on this Google Form by Monday, August 7, 2023 at 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. A recording of the webinar will be posted here by Wednesday, August 9th, 2023. 

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop and execute member support strategies for the OWA coalition, including various events, training sessions, webinars, programs, and resources.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive recruitment, retention and growth strategy for the OWA coalition. 

• Oversee coalition operations and communications adapting and implementing effective internal and external communication protocol and structure as needed. 

• Manage the collection, organization, and maintenance of documentation and data on OWA member groups.

• Hire, manage, develop, and mentor the member support team, providing vision, leadership, coaching, training, and accountability.

• Lead the development of team meetings, goals, and metrics to evaluate success in member support.

• Foster positive relationships among member groups, mediating disagreements when necessary.

• Collaborate with the Development team on fundraising efforts by preparing updates, drafting proposals, and presenting to and meeting with donors.

• Assist the VP of Global with department-wide initiatives to improve internal communication and collaboration.

• Represent and speak on behalf of The Humane League and the Open Wing Alliance at international conferences and networking events.

• Other duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate will possess most, if not all the following qualities, skills, and characteristics:

• Experience: At least 7 years of experience in business leadership roles, operations and strategy with a minimum of 4 years experience with management of staff and team.

• Organization: Ability to use time, energy, resources, etc. in an effective way to achieve goals often prioritizing and reprioritizing to manage workload Able to oversee and structure complex projects, plan backward, and ensure quality end-products are delivered on or ahead of schedule.

• Inclusive Leadership & Management: Committed to diversity, equity and inclusion inviting diverse perspectives and creating an atmosphere where people feel their opinions and contributions matter. Leading with integrity and mutual respect and inspire trust and confidence with a wide range of people representing various backgrounds and levels of experience. Approaches work from a global perspective, keeping in mind the unique opportunities and challenges that arise as we work across so many cultural landscapes. You will supervise a team of highly determined staff members, appropriately structure jobs so that staff members can succeed, coach and develop staff members, and act from the perspective of an organizational leader that empowers their team. 

• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving: Capable of supporting and leading innovation in the department, look at consequences, implications, interdependencies, and indirect effects, all in both the short and longer-term. Look beyond the immediate goal or issue and with the greater context, not just the content of the moment with ability to think and act creatively in difficult situations. Ability to devise creative, pragmatic solutions and strong systems to help us move forward on difficult challenges and exercises excellent judgment in assessing trade-offs and finding strategic third way approaches or mitigations, and can prioritize solutions for maximum impact. 

• Effective Communication: You are able to convey information clearly, accurately, and appropriately to different audiences including staff, donors, volunteers and the public across various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, through verbal, written and nonverbal modes to ensure the intended message is understood. Ability to safeguard confidential information and perform with a high level of discretion, professionalism, and integrity. Must be able to anticipate, diffuse and resolve disagreements, confrontations, tensions and complaints in a practical and constructive manner in order to achieve results

• Tech-savvy: Comfort and proficiency with contemporary software applications. Able to quickly learn new software, including project management systems and CRM platforms.

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