Closing date: 30 Sep 2026 HEKS/EPER has over 1500 permanent employees. The organisation is active at 24 locations in Switzerland and in 35 countries worldwide with 290 programs and projects worth around CHF 144 million. In 2024, HEKS/EPER reached around 16 million people with its work. HEKS/EPER pursues the vision of a just world where the dignity of everyone is respected, peace reigns, and the natural environment is preserved. The aim is a systemic change at a social, economic and political level. HEKS/EPER is doing its part to improve the living conditions of people in Switzerland and around the world, to promote their rights, raise awareness and mobilise to this end. Lived diversity - inclusion is important to us: We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age or sexual orientation. For our Global Cooperation (GC) division at the head office in Zurich, we are looking for an experienced, strategically minded and inspiring leader to take up this key position as soon as possible or by agreement: Head of Global Cooperation (80–100%) Your main responsibilities: Member of the Executive Board In this role you carry overall responsibility for HEKS/EPER's international work – strategically, operationally, financially and in terms of leadership. Together with your Deputy, you lead the division across its working domains (development cooperation, humanitarian aid, church cooperation, and development policy), position HEKS/EPER in the international arena and shape our international programme in line with our overall strategy. Leadership, culture and organisational steering Provide strategic leadership to the Global Cooperation division, ensuring organizational effectiveness, long-term impact and alignment with HEKS/EPER’s overall strategy as member of the Executive Board Lead the division in close cooperation with the Deputy Head of Global Cooperation, being accountable for strategic leadership, organisational performance and strategic development and alignment Lead, develop and recruit Heads of Programmes and Team Leaders, in close partnership with HR, promoting a professional, caring and participative leadership culture Lead change management processes, ensure agility and proactively steer the division through shifting disruptive political, societal, funding and security contexts Strengthen collaboration within and across divisions as well as partners on local, national and international level Programme management Forward- thinking strategic development and implementation of the HEKS/EPER international programme in its complementary working domains Responsibility for the compliance of all programmes and processes with HEKS/EPER standards, and for efficient instruments as well as implementation and governance structures Representation, networking and fundraising Representation to institutional donors, including the SDC, and membership in relevant national and international executive networks (Alliance Sud, ACT All