About Us
Mary’s Meals is a global movement dedicated to ensuring every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education, currently reaching 3 million children. Mary’s Meals Malawi runs the organization's largest school feeding program, working with schools and community volunteers.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Country Director, with a 'dotted line' to the MMI Director of Finance and Procurement, the Head of Services will provide effective and inspirational leadership to the Mary’s Meals Services team in Malawi. This hands-on role involves leading and developing an internal team across Finance, security and risk management, procurement, governance and legal, and IT. The Head of Services is accountable for ensuring that all finance and operations functions operate to the highest standards, with robust systems, processes, and controls diligently adhered to across the entire programme. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), this role also ensures the implementation of the wider programme strategy.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- CCAB qualified, or equivalent, with significant post-qualification experience.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience.
- Senior-level strategic thinker with proven experience in developing and delivering strategy in a complex environment.
- Experience in leading finance and operations functions, and leading, engaging, and motivating teams.
- Well-developed individual and team leadership, management, and coaching skills with extensive team management experience.
- Advanced interpersonal skills, with a solid track record in persuading and influencing others.
- Proven ability to lead a team to drive and consolidate change and influence behaviors.
- Good skills in conflict resolution/problem solving, teamwork, crisis management, influencing, collaborative relationships, and coaching.
- Able to work well with people of different cultures and nationalities.
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word and Excel.
- Able to work on own initiative, prioritize work to deadlines, and pay attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas and information to a range of audiences and stakeholders.
- Extensive experience of budget and financial management and implementation of internal control frameworks.
- Able to apply judgment, creativity, and flexibility to generate new and innovative ideas and approaches and to solve complex problems.
- Ability to identify, analyze, and take action to effectively manage risk to meet strategic objectives.
- Experience working in a matrix structure.
- Experience of negotiating and influencing across all levels and building relationships and partnerships.
- Strong track record of developing and implementing strategy and policy.
- Experience of managing conflict and sensitive issues and achieving positive outcomes.
- Experience of developing, monitoring, and reporting against agreed strategy, delivering strategic priorities within strict timelines.
- Experience of working in a charity or not-for-profit organization.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should apply via the Workable application link: https://apply.workable.com/j/5F1FE11488. Hard copy applications will NOT be accepted. The deadline for receipt of applications is Wednesday, 22nd April 2026. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. For full job descriptions, please visit www.marysmeals.org. Mary's Meals is committed to safeguarding and conducts rigorous background checks.