GoodCompany
Deputy Executive Director (gn)
Details zur Position
| Hybrid
Ort | Hybrid
bedeutet, dass der Job teils an einem festen Standort und teils remote ausgeführt werden kann.
vor 15 Stunden
Vollzeit
Deutsch
Anstellungsart: Festanstellung
Berufserfahrung: > 5 Jahre
Unternehmensorganisation, Management & Beratung
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Berghof Foundation Operations GmbH
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Intro
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 (gn)
will ensure that planning, systems, and colleagues are aligned for performance, delivering measurable outcomes across global programmes and organisational functions. We are looking for someone to start as soon as possible. The position will be based in Berlin.
Aufgaben
Key Objectives
- Operationalise strategy by aligning programme goals, operating models, and resource deployment with the organisation's 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 organisation’s 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 organisation’s profile, credibility, and relationships with key partners and donors.
Risk Management & Resilience
- 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.
Anforderungen
Your knowledge, experience and 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.
Benefits
What you can expect from us
- Highly engaged colleagues & international network
- Very relevant and challenging purpose
- Flexible working hours
- 30 days of vacation
Bewerbungsprozess
Application procedure
Please submit your CV and cover letter as well as references (letters or contact information) by the 3rd 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.

GoodCompany
Berghof Foundation Operations GmbH
Hilf uns dabei, die Welt etwas besser zu machen!
Berghof Foundation Operations GmbH
Die Berghof Foundation ist eine private und unabhängige Nichtregierungsorganisation. Sie unterstützt engagierte Menschen, Konfliktparteien und Institutionen in ihren Bemühungen, nachhaltigen Frieden zu schaffen. Die Berghof Foundation wurde 1971 über eine Stiftung von Professor Georg Zundel ins Leben gerufen und ist heute eine gemeinnützige GmbH. Seitdem bündelt die Organisation ihre Erfahrungen und Kompetenzen in den Bereichen Friedensforschung, Friedenspädagogik und Friedensförderung.
Die daraus resultierenden Aktivitäten orientieren sich an dem Leitmotiv „Creating Space for Conflict Transformation“ und werden von einem engagierten und multinationalen Team durchgeführt, das in enger Kooperation mit Partnern auf der ganzen Welt arbeitet.
Ein internationales Kuratorium unterstützt die inhaltliche und strategische Entwicklung der Organisation. Die Berghof Foundation hat ihren Hauptsitz in Berlin und eine Zweigstelle in Tübingen sowie einzelne Projektbüros im Ausland.
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