Deputy Executive Director (all genders)
Deputy Executive Director (all genders)
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13-07-2025
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Purpose of the Role
The Deputy Executive Director (all genders) is a key member of the Executive Team and the primary strategic partner to the Executive Director. This role ensures the organisation operates at peak performance by driving strategic alignment optimising delivery and enabling seamless cross-functional collaboration to achieve ambitious outcomes.
This is a high-impact leadership position that blends strategic oversight with operational excellence. The Deputy Executive Director will ensure that planning systems and colleagues are aligned for performance delivering measurable outcomes across global programmes and organisational are looking for someone to start as soon as possible. The position will be based in Berlin.
Key Objectives
Strategic Leadership & Delivery
Team Oversight & Internal Integration
Programme Delivery & Organisational Effectiveness
Fundraising & Communications
The Deputy Executive Director (all genders) is a key member of the Executive Team and the primary strategic partner to the Executive Director. This role ensures the organisation operates at peak performance by driving strategic alignment optimising delivery and enabling seamless cross-functional collaboration to achieve ambitious outcomes.
This is a high-impact leadership position that blends strategic oversight with operational excellence. The Deputy Executive Director will ensure that planning systems and colleagues are aligned for performance delivering measurable outcomes across global programmes and organisational are looking for someone to start as soon as possible. The position will be based in Berlin.
Key Objectives
- Operationalise strategy by aligning programme goals operating models and resource deployment with the organisations long-term strategic direction.
- Maximise team and organisational performance by strengthening leadership capabilities driving efficiency and instilling a culture of high accountability and results.
- Deliver high-quality output through robust systems for planning adaptive execution and results-based performance management.
- Mitigate risk and ensure compliance to protect organisational integrity support operational continuity and enable scalable sustainable growth.
Strategic Leadership & Delivery
- As a member of the Executive Team contribute to the organisations strategy development and implementation.
- Translate strategic priorities into clear actionable operational plans.
- Shape organisational structure systems and culture to maximise impact agility and strategic alignment.
Team Oversight & Internal Integration
- Jointly with the Executive Director oversee department heads across core functions ensuring ownership accountability and delivery.
- Foster cross-team collaboration coherence and continuous learning to build a high-performing adaptive and aligned organisation. Lead organisational planning and resource allocation aligning capacity with priorities.
Programme Delivery & Organisational Effectiveness
- Ensure the effective and timely delivery of high-quality global programmes.
- Strengthen systems for planning reporting and performance tracking.
- Embed adaptive learning feedback loops and results-based management across all levels.
Fundraising & Communications
- Provide strategic oversight on resource mobilisation efforts ensuring alignment with long-term organisational goals and sustainability.
- Work closely with fundraising and communications leads to ensure structures are in place to maintain coherent purpose-driven messaging across channels.
- Support efforts to strengthen the organisations profile credibility and relationships with key partners and donors.
- Lead strategic and operational risk management to safeguard organisational integrity.
- Ensure full compliance with donor legal and ethical standards across functions.
- Guide preparedness and response in complex and rapidly evolving environments.
Your knowledge experience & skills
- 10 years of senior leadership experience.
- Strong track record in people-centric cross-functional leadership and delivery.
- Proven track record of driving cross-functional execution delivering measurable results and scaling impact.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate programmes operations and systems to enable effective collaboration and execution across teams.
- Excellent communicator and people leader with adaptive management skills.
- Fluent in English and proficient in German other languages are an asset.
What you can expect from us
- Highly engaged colleagues & international network
- Very relevant and challenging purpose
- Flexible working hours
- 30 days of vacation
Application procedure
Please submit your CV and cover letter as well as references (letters or contact information) by the3rd of September 2025.
We welcome diversity and are happy to receive applications from people regardless of their ethnic social and national origin gender religion age disability sexual orientation and marital status.
We welcome diversity and are happy to receive applications from people regardless of their ethnic social and national origin gender religion age disability sexual orientation and marital status.
About us
The Berghof Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation supporting people in conflict in their efforts to achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Headquartered in Berlin the organisation is run by a diverse team and works with local partners around the world.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
Key Skills
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