Open Wing Alliance Associate Director of EuropeVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• Mission Alignment and Experience: 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.
• Global Perspective: Approaches work with a global perspective, taking diverse experiences into consideration and building relationships with stakeholders across many different cultures, languages, and political systems. Identifies and evaluates the global implications of team tasks and projects, prioritizing alignment with global campaign objectives.
• Leadership and Management : 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.
• Problem Solving : Addresses multi-faceted regional and coalition challenges by analyzing situations, synthesizing information, and making informed decisions. Balances regional context with global priorities, guides teams and partners toward effective solutions, and ensures decisions support strategic goals and maximize results.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration : Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain trust-based relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders. Experience navigating complex partnerships, facilitating collaboration, and addressing challenges constructively.
• Organization and Program Management : Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple regional initiatives, campaigns, and member support efforts simultaneously. Manages high-priority initiatives across the European region, setting clear priorities and ensuring resources are focused on the highest-impact opportunities. Supports team members in managing workloads and meeting key deadlines.
• Strategic Thinking : Ability to develop and lead the execution of regional strategies within a global coalition. Skilled in setting regional priorities, evaluating trade-offs, and making informed decisions on campaign focus, member support, and resource allocation in alignment with organizational goals.
• Initiative, Adaptability and Ownership : Demonstrates a high level of ownership in driving regional work forward, proactively identifying opportunities and addressing challenges. Navigates ambiguity and changing circumstances across diverse regional contexts, adapting strategies and approaches as needed while guiding the team through complexity and uncertainty to maintain progress. Takes initiative to improve systems, strengthen coalition effectiveness, and advance campaign and OWA goals.
• Communication : Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey strategies, priorities, and expectations to a global network of partners. Experience facilitating cross-regional discussions, delivering presentations, and ensuring alignment across internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Data Analysis : Experience using data and performance insights to assess the effectiveness of regional campaigns, coalition activities, and member engagement. Ability to define success metrics, track progress across multiple countries or workstreams, analyze trends, and apply insights to improve strategy and execution.

What you’ll do

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of regional staff (two direct reports), setting clear goals, monitoring performance, and providing ongoing coaching and feedback.
• 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, using data and insights to refine approaches and improve outcomes.
• Identify emerging opportunities, risks, trends in the European corporate campaigning and advocacy landscapes. Stay up to date on the wider European animal movement progress, e.g. political developments.
• 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.
• Delivers information as required for reporting on work to date for the Development team and external reports
• 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

About the position

The Humane League (THL) is a global nonprofit ending the abuse of animals raised for food. THL fosters a high-energy culture of teamwork and mission-driven problem solving, and we have earned recognition as Top Charity from Animal Charity Evaluators for all of their rating periods. Over the past few years, we’ve grown to a staff of 100+ talented individuals dispersed around the world. At THL, how animals are treated in the food system is at the forefront of our everyday work. We welcome all mission-aligned candidates to apply, no matter where you are in your journey to end the abuse of animals raised for food. The Open Wing Alliance (OWA), a program of The Humane League, is a global coalition of approximately 80 animal protection organizations across 70+ countries united in a common goal: to end the abuse of chickens worldwide. For the past several years, we have focused our efforts on eliminating battery cages by securing cage-free policies from major retailers, restaurants, and manufacturers, and in Europe many groups are now working to secure commitments for chickens bred for meat. OWA groups share tactics, support and resources to secure meaningful wins for animals, specializing in institutional campaigning that can be tailored to our members’ unique circumstances and challenges.

Benefits

• At The Humane League, we believe in maintaining a fair and nondiscriminatory work environment. As part of our commitment to transparency, we have implemented a job architecture framework, which levels all of our roles according to size and complexity, as well as a compensation step system, which allows us to determine fair salaries for all. We also look at market data for each country that we operate in, to allow us to create specific salary bands per country.