Open Wing Alliance Associate Director of Europe

WHO WE ARE

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.

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

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.

As the Associate Director of OWA Europe, you will lead the strategic development and execution of our OWA work in Europe, manage and develop regional staff, and strengthen the effectiveness and alignment of OWA member organizations. You will play a key role in expanding OWA’s presence and impact, supporting coordinated corporate campaigns, and ensuring regional efforts contribute to broader organizational goals that ultimately result in real change for animals.

This position requires a strong understanding of corporate campaigning or coalition-based advocacy, as well as the ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across diverse cultural and regional contexts. You will work closely with internal teams and OWA members to align on priorities, evaluate progress, and drive coordinated action to end the abuse of chickens across Europe. This position reports to the Director of Open Wing Alliance.

This is a full-time, remote position. To leverage a global talent pool, this position is open to candidates in the following countries: Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, or the United Kingdom. The successful candidate must be authorized to work in and reside within one of these specified countries whilst undertaking this role. Please submit applications and all supporting documents in English. As English is THL’s primary organizational language, an intermediate level of English proficiency is required. THL defines this as the ability to ‘handle most situations likely to arise’ and ‘interact with native speakers with a degree of fluency that makes interaction possible.’ Candidates may be asked to undertake an English proficiency test as part of the recruitment process. Those who go on to work with THL are able to use the built-in translation features available in all of THL's primary tools to support their work, if desired. To the extent permitted by law, in order to enable collaboration with other global team members, you may be required to work occasional hours outside of 9am - 5pm, depending on your time zone. This position requires domestic and international travel, equivalent to 6 or more trips per year.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership & Management 

• 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.

Strategy

• 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.

Coalition & Stakeholder Engagement

• 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.

Program Oversight & Operations

• 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. 

Cross-functional Collaboration & Communication

• 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

In addition to the above essential job duties, other duties may be assigned as business needs arise. These may include non-essential, marginal job duties.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 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.

Please submit your application by Monday June 1, 2026 at 11:59 pm BST. If you are experiencing technical issues, please contact careers@thehumaneleague.org. All application questions and materials need to be submitted here through the application submission form; we do not accept applications through our careers email.

Hiring Timeline Details

Once your application has been reviewed, you will be notified via email with further details on the status of your application. If a candidate is moved forward, the interview process will be as follows:

• Work Simulation Exercise (completed remotely)
• First Interview (via video call)
• Second Interview (via video call)

For full details of our recruitment process please review this document.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual compensation range for this role is:

• 1,025,871Kč - 1,253,842Kč for candidates based in Czechia
• kr.587,613 - kr.715,974 for candidates based in Denmark
• €33,285 - €40,556 for candidates based in Estonia
• €53,913 - €65,691 for candidates based in Finland
• Ft1,112,547 - Ft1,355,585 for candidates based in Hungary
• €64,490 - €78,578 for candidates based in Ireland
• €41,990 - €62,980 for candidates based in Italy
• €68,278 - €83,193 for candidates based in the Netherlands
• kr743,929 - kr906,437 for candidates based in Norway
• zł142,251 - zł173,327 for candidates based in Poland
• €34,743 - €42,333 for candidates based in Portugal
• kr544,275 - kr663,166 for candidates based in Sweden
• £49,886 - £60,784 for candidates based in the United Kingdom

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. This work is time consuming and involves a cost to THL. Therefore, when expanding into a country for the first time, we only undertake this work towards the end of the recruitment process, when we know where our ideal candidate is based. In addition, we have adopted a no negotiation policy for salaries. To determine a job's level, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including a job's size and complexity, required experience, knowledge, and/or skills, internal comparability, and market data. Candidates whose experience places them at step 5 or above of their job level within our compensation structure will be awarded a “Senior” title designation. These practices are aligned with our organizational values and will help us ensure we maintain clear, consistent, and transparent HR processes.

THL offers a unique and competitive benefits package. Each country will be provided with benefits that are applicable and relative to the location they are in. Therefore, your exact benefits package will be shared with you at the time of offer. However, as an idea, some of the benefits that are currently offered to our global team are:

• Unlimited paid time off
• The last Friday of every month off as a THL ‘Public Holiday’ called ‘Mend Your Heart Friday’
• Enhanced sick pay
• Generous bereavement leave
• Generous personal emergency leave 
• Sabbatical leave
• Enhanced parental leave
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement contributions
• Internet allowance

For candidates outside the United States, The Humane League will not be your direct employer. The successful candidate will enter an employment agreement with a local Employer of Record with whom The Humane League partners.

Equal Employment Opportunity

THL is an equal opportunity organization. THL does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected classifications, including but not limited to race, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religious creed or belief, physical or mental disability, marital or familial status, legally protected medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or any other status or classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. THL is committed to the importance of non-discriminatory practices within the nonprofit sector, as well as all workplace environments, and strongly encourages all interested candidates to apply.

Accommodations

The Humane League is committed to fully supporting all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, THL provides reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities throughout the hiring process and when working with THL if hired. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the People team at accommodations@thehumaneleague.org to initiate the interactive process. 

AI Policy

Original work and thought are essential in the hiring process and allow us to evaluate you based on your own skills and competency. Therefore, the use of artificial intelligence (ChatGPT, Gemini, Rytr, Google Assistant, etc) to generate responses is strictly prohibited. By submitting this application you agree to comply with our AI Policy. Violations of this policy in any part of the recruitment process will result in being dismissed from consideration. If you need a reasonable accommodation to this policy, please see above for more information.

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