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Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Director-General

United Kingdom
2406-068L

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank. Its mission is to inform, influence and enhance public debate on a safer and more stable world. RUSI is a research-led institute, producing independent, practical, and innovative analysis to address today’s complex challenges.

RUSI undertakes research, encourages debate and brings opinion-formers together for events on a wide range of issues with the aim of contributing to a safer UK and a more secure, equitable and stable world. The Institute is proud of its history and Royal patronage. At the same time, it is committed to expanding its role in assessing emerging threats to national and economic security and the impact of disruptive new technologies.

RUSI is currently seeking a new Director-General who will provide leadership, drive the strategy for the future and crucially be responsible for the delivery of this. Reporting to the Chair and the Board of Trustees the successful candidate will build on the considerable success of recent years, sustain the respectful and integrity-focused culture of RUSI, and identify new opportunities to apply its insights in a rapidly changing security environment. This is a rare opportunity to lead an organisation which informs policy and public debate at the highest level.

The new Director-General will have a proven capacity for inspirational leadership of an organisation with a significant public profile in a relevant field. Qualified candidates will be effective at communicating to a wide range of audiences. They will have a track record of international relationship building at the highest levels of government and business. They will combine this with a keen commercial sense, strong fundraising skills, and a sound instinct for where RUSI can continue to make a distinctive contribution.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on August 13^th 2024.

At RUSI you will be appreciated and valued. Our stakeholders, transactions, and projects are international and diverse, so we work hard to create inclusive teams that support our efforts and each other. RUSI welcomes applications from all candidates.

RUSI has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to advise on this appointment. For further information on the position and additional details on qualifications, requirements, and how to apply, please review the Position Specification below.

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Financial Conduct Authority
Director of Infrastructure & Exchanges

London, Edinburgh, or Leeds
P2406-031L

At the FCA, we’re creating a fair and more resilient financial system. We’re establishing more transparent relationships between financial services and their customers, building trust in financial markets and protecting vulnerable consumers.

The work of the Supervision, Policy and Competition (SPC) division has a significant impact on UK and international wholesale markets and UK consumers. We use a range of regulatory tools to ensure firms have the interests of their clients and the integrity of the market at the heart of how they run their business. This includes setting the standards we expect firms to meet, exploring and analysing identified risks within firms in our sectors through firm specific and multi-firm work as well as developing greater insight on market risk, informed by data and horizon scanning activities.

Now is an exciting time to join the FCA as we are engaged in a programme of significant regulatory reform which will set standards for UK wholesale markets for years to come.

The FCA are looking to appoint a talented and influential Director to lead the Infrastructure & Exchanges Directorate and play a key leadership role within the Supervision, Policy and Competition Division, and wider FCA, as we transform into a more innovative, adaptive, and assertive regulator.

The Director of Infrastructure & Exchanges is an important senior leadership role which has significant influence in UK financial markets. In addition to leading a directorate of over 100 people, covering three departments, the role holder will work alongside the Director Leadership Team within the SPC Division, and report directly to the Executive Director of Markets and International.

Infrastructure & Exchanges (I&E) is a key area of focus for the FCA, and the Directorate is responsible for ensuring the integrity of a key part of the UK wholesale market. This includes the policy and supervision of trading venues, primary markets, secondary markets, post-trade providers, benchmark providers, credit/ESG ratings providers, securitisation markets and regulated covered bonds. In addition, the Director will be responsible for wholesale cross-market conduct issues, such as market abuse and short selling and they will lead on market analysis and risk identification across wholesale financial markets. The role is expected to work closely with other UK regulatory partners, trade bodies and other third parties to help determine and communicate trends, forward views and gauge the horizon of risks in the market.

The FCA has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to advise on this appointment. For further information about the position and additional details on qualifications, requirements, flexible working arrangements, terms and conditions of service and how to apply, please review the Position Specification below.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 29^th July 2024.

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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Vice President, Chief Risk Officer

London, United Kingdom
P2404-013L

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD, the Bank) seeks to appoint a new Vice President & Chief Risk Officer (CRO). The VP CRO will report directly to the President and will play a critical role in the leadership of the EBRD as a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Risk Committee, and with oversight of a Vice Presidency which comprises teams focused on Risk Management, Environment and Sustainability, and Procurement, Policy and Advisory. S/he will be a proven and strategic risk leader with an exceptional ability to provide an appropriate level of challenge to and act as the ‘risk conscience’ of the Bank on all strategic and commercial matters.

The EBRD, which has global membership, is active operationally in about 40 countries and territories across Europe, Central Asia and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, supporting them in realising their potential as market-oriented economies. The EBRD invests in excess of €10 billion each year in project financing for banks, industries, and businesses. It is an active investor in strategic sectors fostering sustainable long-term growth and a pioneer in Green and Climate Finance. The Bank’s investments and policy work contribute to transition resilience, market integration, and tackling critical global and regional challenges including the war on Ukraine and the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The term of appointment is for a fixed-term of four years.

EBRD has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to assist with this appointment. For further information on the position and additional details on qualifications, requirements, and how to apply, please review the Position Specification below.

The closing date for applications is 23:59 21^st July 2024.

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The END Fund
Chief Executive Officer

London, Nairobi and NYC
2406-019L

The END Fund is appointing a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2024.

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), a group of parasitic and bacterial diseases, affect the lives of over 1.7 billion individuals, causing problems such as chronic pain, disfigurement, malnutrition, cognitive impairment, stunted growth, blindness, and death. NTDs are diseases of poverty—they exist today in only the world’s most vulnerable communities.

The genesis of the END Fund was a desire to see all people liberated of these diseases. It was founded with an ambitious mission: to eliminate the six most prevalent NTDs by 2030.

The END Fund is the leading philanthropic investment vehicle of its type, and it accomplishes its mission in partnership with local communities. Specifically, the END Fund fundraises from individuals, businesses, governments and other philanthropies which share a commitment to allocating and investing resources at the grassroots level where they have maximal impact; advocating for innovative, integrated, and cost-effective NTD programmes; and facilitating the public and private sector engagement required to eliminate diseases of poverty. The organisation has raised over US$500 million, which has been used to disburse over 1.23 billion NTD treatments, train over 3.77 million healthcare workers, and perform nearly 70,000 surgeries in the past decade alone.

Above all, the successful candidate will share the END Fund’s conviction and passion for improving the lives of individuals by eliminating NTDs. Prospective candidates must be able to drive fundraising and resource allocation and to be the critical interlocutor with donors and delivery partners. As well as being a powerful and effective ambassador and advocate for the organisation, the CEO will oversee the implementation and evaluation of programmes to ensure the greatest impact and effectiveness in disease elimination. They will also bring experience of leading change in complex and internationally distributed organisations, with an intense focus on demonstrable impact. They will bring an authentic respect for, and a contextual understanding of, the affected communities, as well as the skill to harness that knowledge in raising resources and achieving key objectives.

The END Fund has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to assist with this appointment. For further information about the position and additional details on qualifications, requirements, terms and conditions of service and how to apply, please review the Position Specification below.

The closing date for applications is 17^th July 2024.

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Competition and Markets Authority
Senior Director – Technology and Digital

Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester
P2405-019L

The Competition and Markets Authority is the UK’s principal competition and consumer protection authority. We help people, businesses and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. We adopt an integrated approach to our work, selecting those tools we believe will achieve maximum positive impact for people and the UK economy.

It is our job to ensure that markets work well and that consumers get a fair deal. We have a vital role to play in relation to many important challenges facing the UK, including improving productivity and economic growth, mitigating cost of living pressures, as well as addressing the power of large digital firms and the potentially unprecedented opportunities and risks of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence. We must understand how new technologies are reshaping markets and the implications for consumers and competition, as well as exploit all the same technological advances internally to maximise our operational efficiency and effectiveness.

In this context, the CMA has established a new Executive Directorate for Data, Technology, and Insight which consolidates our capability and expertise across these areas of growing importance. It brings together colleagues with an exciting mix of complementary skills and expertise, spanning strategic, business and financial analysis, data science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), data engineering, technology insight, behavioural science, eDiscovery and digital forensics, as well as core technology systems, infrastructure, services, digital products and tooling.

The Senior Director – Technology and Digital will lead on all aspects of technology for the CMA. This includes technology strategy, systems, infrastructure, data, digital products, IT services, and cyber security. They will build on our solid foundations in these areas and ensure that the CMA’s systems and capabilities meet the demands of a complex, evolving operation now and in the future. Together with the Senior Director for Strategic Insight, Analytics and AI, they will co-lead the CMA’s digital transformation, ensuring that data, digital, analytics and AI can be leveraged impactfully across the organisation, whether to streamline operations, get ahead of potential harms to consumers and competition, or enhance our insight, analysis, and evidence to inform CMA decisions – all enabled by close collaboration with other areas of the organisation and underpinned by the right systems, infrastructure, security, and tooling.

The CMA has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to advise on this appointment. For further information about the position and additional details on qualifications, requirements, terms and conditions of service and how to apply, please review the Position Specification below.

The closing date for applications is 23:55 on Monday 15^th July 2024.

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Competition and Markets Authority
Senior Director – Strategic Insight, Analytics and AI

Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester
P2406-066L

The Competition and Markets Authority is the UK’s principal competition and consumer protection authority. We help people, businesses and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. We adopt an integrated approach to our work, selecting those tools we believe will achieve maximum positive impact for people and the UK economy.

It is our job to ensure that markets work well and that consumers get a fair deal. We have a vital role to play in relation to many important challenges facing the UK, including improving productivity and economic growth, mitigating cost of living pressures, as well as addressing the power of large digital firms and the potentially unprecedented opportunities and risks of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence. We must understand how new technologies are reshaping markets and the implications for consumers and competition, as well as exploit all the same technological advances internally to maximise our operational efficiency and effectiveness.

In this context, the CMA has established a new Executive Directorate for Data, Technology, and Insight which consolidates our capability and expertise across these areas of growing importance. It brings together colleagues with an exciting mix of complementary skills and expertise, spanning strategic, business and financial analysis, data science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), data engineering, technology insight, behavioural science, eDiscovery and digital forensics, as well as core technology systems, infrastructure, services, digital products and tooling.

The Senior Director - Strategic Insight, Analytics and AI will oversee a novel, highly interdisciplinary programme of analysis, ensuring this continues to evolve and provide timely, impactful insight and evidence to shape and inform the CMA’s work across its full mandate. The directorate’s analytical teams work closely with all frontline areas of the CMA. They drive horizon scanning and thought leadership on emerging technologies and their implications (e.g. AI and Online Choice Architecture), produce novel, data-driven insight to shape the CMA’s case pipeline and prioritisation, and deliver robust advice and evidence on live investigations, including all major digital cases. This Senior Director will also co-lead the CMA’s digital transformation, working in close partnership with the Senior Director for Technology and Digital.

The CMA has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to advise on this appointment. For further information about the position and additional details on qualifications, requirements, terms and conditions of service and how to apply, please review the Position Specification below.

The closing date for applications is 23:55 on Monday 15^th July 2024.

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