Mary's Meals
Charity • Education • Social Impact
Mary's Meals is a charitable organization focused on providing life-changing school meals to children living in some of the world's poorest communities. The organization operates in 16 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Mary's Meals aims to encourage education by offering the promise of a nutritious meal to hungry children, thereby helping them to focus and participate in class. Every day, Mary's Meals serves over 2. 4 million children worldwide. The organization relies on donations to fund its global school feeding program, keeping running costs low to maximize impact. They involve volunteers and regular donors to maintain and expand their mission.
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2002
🤲 Charity
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
Director of Governance and Risk
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November 27
Mary's Meals
Charity • Education • Social Impact
Mary's Meals is a charitable organization focused on providing life-changing school meals to children living in some of the world's poorest communities. The organization operates in 16 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Mary's Meals aims to encourage education by offering the promise of a nutritious meal to hungry children, thereby helping them to focus and participate in class. Every day, Mary's Meals serves over 2. 4 million children worldwide. The organization relies on donations to fund its global school feeding program, keeping running costs low to maximize impact. They involve volunteers and regular donors to maintain and expand their mission.
201 - 500 employees
Founded 2002
🤲 Charity
📚 Education
🌍 Social Impact
📋 Description
• Provide strategic leadership across risk, legal, governance, security, support services and assurance, ensuring that the organisation operates with integrity, confidence, and compliance across all countries in which we work. • Lead talented, multi-disciplinary teams across Risk, Security, Audit, Legal and Support Services, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture and ensuring that every part of the organisation is equipped to manage risk and safeguard the people and communities we serve. • Lead our governance, risk, and assurance strategy to ensure all activity underpins organisational goals and supports Mary’s Meals’ mission. • Embed a culture of risk awareness and compliance across the global network, enabling leaders and teams to make confident, values-driven decisions. • Oversee legal, regulatory, and corporate governance frameworks, ensuring policies, procedures, and reporting systems are robust, up-to-date, and fit for purpose. • Provide strategic oversight of security, crisis management, and insurance arrangements, keeping our people, assets, and operations safe. • Support our Board and senior leadership teams, delivering clear advice and ensuring the highest standards of governance and due diligence. • Lead, inspire, and develop high-performing teams, fostering engagement, empowerment, and continuous improvement across the directorate. • Work in a highly collaborative way to understand organisational challenges and demonstrate impact.
🎯 Requirements
• Significant senior leadership experience in governance, risk, legal, or audit in an international context, ideally from an NGO or complex global organisation. • Proven ability to operate effectively across culturally diverse, networked environments. • Expertise in risk management is essential, but experience in legal frameworks, corporate governance, audit or security would be beneficial. • Outstanding communication and influencing skills, with the ability to inspire confidence and trust at all levels of the organisation. • A practical, solutions-focused approach combined with strategic vision and sound judgement. • A track record of building, leading, and motivating multi-disciplinary teams in a collaborative, values-driven culture. • A deep alignment with the mission and values of Mary’s Meals.
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