Head of Programmes

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £64.6k - £71k / year

⏰ Full Time

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The Humane League UK

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

🤲 Charity

Food & Beverage • Consulting • Charity

The Humane League UK is a UK-based animal welfare charity and campaign organisation dedicated to ending the abuse of animals raised for food. It runs advocacy and training programs, collaborates with other nonprofits, and focuses on strategic campaigns, inclusion, staff wellbeing, and remote operations to support its mission.

📋 Description

• Set the direction and lead THL UK’s programmes strategy, translating the Theory of Change into plans, targets, budgets and impact evaluations • Share responsibility for organisation-wide strategy, culture and resourcing as a Senior Leadership Team member • Make resource-allocation decisions across workflows for maximum impact • Build a culture of ownership, constructive challenge, innovation and experimentation • Oversee joined-up corporate and public campaigns across corporate relations, public affairs and Communications • Oversee influencing of UK and devolved governments, parliamentarians and regulators • Sign off campaign targets, escalation strategies, and legal and reputational risk assessments • Support ambitious targets to attract and mobilise supporters and volunteers • Set and monitor programme goals and success measures • Oversee gathering, sharing and tracking of company and industry insights • Commission research and investigations • Build routines for evaluating work and sharing lessons across teams • Support the Development team with funding needs, budgets, cases for support, impact measurement and donor/funder engagement • Line manage programme managers/leads and build an inclusive, collaborative, high-performing team • Manage the Programmes budget • Collaborate with THL US/global, Open Wing Alliance partners and other allies • Act as a senior spokesperson with media, industry, coalitions and the wider movement • Attend conferences, events, protests and in-person team workshops as required • Contribute to an inclusive workplace and a stronger animal protection movement

🎯 Requirements

• Right to live and work in the UK • Fluent in spoken and written English • Commitment to The Humane League UK’s mission to end the abuse of animals raised for food • Strong track record of planning and overseeing campaigns combining corporate, political and public pressure • Experience using a theory of change and evidence to decide which lever to pull and when • Experience turning strategy into well-run programmes, including setting objectives, plans and budgets, tracking delivery and risk, and using monitoring, evaluation and learning to show impact • Experience leading and line-managing others • Experience building trust with and negotiating with senior people in business and/or government • Confident public speaking, including on camera • Comfortable with pressure campaigning and leading public campaign actions • Leadership and management qualifications are desirable • Knowledge of farmed animal welfare, the UK food industry or UK and devolved policy is desirable • Experience in senior campaigning, public affairs, lobbying or influencing, engaging or working with large food/FMCG companies or an adjacent industry, or MEAL is desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• A fully remote work environment and team (all equipment is provided) • A 4 day working week (30 hours over Monday to Thursday for full time staff) • A pro rata share of 20 days leave plus 8 days for bank holidays that can be used at a time of your choice • Flexible working hours • A workplace pension • An annual learning and development budget • Support for mental and physical wellbeing • £25 per month reimbursement towards home working costs • Plant-based meals at all events and workshops

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