Global Chief Operations Officer – Charity & Impact

Collage; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working within European time-z

All travel and accommodation for THA

Learning and development support

Job summary

Happy Doggo, a global animal welfare charity, seeks a COO to unify strategy, governance, HR, IT and risk across UK, US and Thai operations. You will lead cross-entity projects and build scalable processes while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

The role requires senior leadership experience in international NGOs, with travel to Thailand quarterly and a proven ability to align policies and standards across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior leadership experience in operations or COO roles.
• Experience across multiple countries or legal entities.
• Strong governance, compliance and risk management.
• Experience with trustee boards is a plus.
• Ability to set up planning and performance frameworks (OKRs, KPIs, dashboards).
• Excellent project management and cross-stakeholder leadership.
• Experience managing teams of 20+ people.
• Right to work in the UK or EU.
• Background in animal welfare or international NGO.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, planning, performance measurement, governance, HR, IT.
• Lead major organisational projects like new entities and international locations.
• Ensure policy consistency and compliance across jurisdictions.
• Build cross-entity working arrangements and secondments.
• Travel to Thailand at least quarterly.
• Collaborate with CEO, CFO, MDs, boards.

Skills

Senior leadership

Strategy

Governance

Risk management

Project management

People management

Cross-country collaboration

Tech/IT tools

Travel readiness

Tools

Slack

Google Workspace

Xero

AI tools

Donorbox

Job description

Happy Doggo, a global animal welfare charity, seeks a COO to unify strategy, governance, HR, IT and risk across UK, US and Thai operations. You will lead cross-entity projects and build scalable processes while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.

The role requires senior leadership experience in international NGOs, with travel to Thailand quarterly and a proven ability to align policies and standards across jurisdictions.