Managing Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Belgium.

📋 Description

• Oversee the design and execution of systems, processes, and culture that drive Nura’s strategic growth and daily operational effectiveness.

• Collaborate with Meliore operational functions and teams to ensure collective delivery excellence, promoting alignment, teamwork, and efficiency.

• Build and lead a team focused on practical execution, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently and effectively.

• Partner with the Executive Director as part of the senior leadership team to engage in strategic and operational planning, ensuring that strategy, budgeting, and performance are closely aligned.

• Maintain operational accountability for Nura’s budget, financial reporting, and the financial perspective on strategy formulation.

• Act as a forward-thinking architect for Nura’s operational framework, developing capabilities that support global network expansion and agility.

• Innovate and transform systems and work methodologies to adapt to the evolving needs of Nura and its global operational context.

• Guide the team through periods of growth and change, nurturing a culture that is resilient, adaptable, and committed to continuous learning.

• Collaborate with the Executive Director and Meliore leadership team to enhance Nura’s governance structures, including sourcing and managing advisors with a diverse skill set that aligns with our strategy.

• Work alongside the Director of Partnerships to create and uphold outstanding funder engagement and reporting systems.

• Partner with our Director of MEL to establish systems for monitoring, evaluation, and reporting, delivering insights that fuel ongoing improvement.

• Assist the Movement/Ecosystem Director and the wider Nura team in creating a premier community of learning and practice, focused on knowledge sharing, skill enhancement, and sourcing innovative ideas from the global strategic communications ecosystem.

• Cultivate a healthy, inclusive, and empowered team culture that balances accountability with trust, safety, and innovation.

• Eliminate silos and outdated practices, promoting collaboration and high performance throughout the team and the broader Meliore network.

• Advocate for a culture of accountability and excellence at every level of the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive senior leadership experience, with a strong operational grasp of finance, HR, IT, legal, and other key functions in mission-driven or complex global organizations.

• Proven track record in scaling operations, particularly in systems design and development, leading change initiatives, and building high-performing, distributed teams.

• Experience in managing complex global networks and fostering operational alignment across various teams and functions.

• Master integrator with exceptional judgment, decisiveness, and the ability to adapt as necessary.

• Outstanding communicator and relationship builder, capable of inspiring trust and alignment among diverse stakeholders.

• Strategic thinker with a builder’s mindset, willing to engage hands-on when required.

• Composed, clear-headed, and solutions-oriented in the face of complexity and change.

• Proficiency in both written and spoken English, our working language.

• Deep dedication to climate action, social justice, democratic values, and systemic change.

• Exemplifies a collaborative and empowering leadership style, while balancing vision with practical considerations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Join a remote-first, international network of professionals dedicated to climate, energy, and nature, working alongside dynamic, culturally diverse individuals who merge their passion for making a difference with a rigorous, results-oriented work ethic.

• Enjoy six offline days (with no calls or meetings) per year to concentrate on your work.

• Benefit from reduced working hours on Fridays during the Dry Season (summer).

• Access our employee assistance program to support your mental health and personal growth.

• Enjoy supplementary paid business closure for end-of-year holidays.

• Receive parental leave matched to 20 weeks in countries where regulations allow for less.

• Take advantage of regular opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues worldwide.

• Full-time position with either an employment or consultant contract, depending on location, for a duration of 12 months, with potential for renewal after one year.