Director of Global Strategic Partnerships

About MSI

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has around 10,000 team members working in 36 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

MSI needs an experienced and ambitious strategic partnerships leader to establish our new Global Strategic Partnerships team. Building on significant success with our existing strategic funder partners, they will deepen those partnerships and add at least 1-2 additional strategic funding partnerships by 2030. They will play a key role in advancing MSI’s brand and reputation through the lens of our high impact relationships – positioning MSI as one of the lead go-to INGOs for partners looking for audacious, bold, sector - shaping innovators and acting as a public advocate on the reasons why MSI is highly valued in this way.

MSI’s high-performing team has successfully grown relationships and funding portfolios with 2-3 large, impact-focused foundation funders, who collectively contribute £50m+/year to MSI’s donor funding and view MSI as their SRHR partner of choice. We are looking for a dynamic leader with a deep understanding of impact-focused funding, extensive connections across the social impact landscape and a track record of growing strategic funding partnerships with large, complex and highly engaged funders at the £10m+/year level, who can take MSI’s strategic funding partnerships to the next level, positioning MSI for growth and mission impact in a rapidly evolving funding landscape. Aligned with MSI’s own blended social business delivery model, new strategic partners may come from a range of sectors including foundations, corporates, donor advised funds or public-private initiatives.

About You

For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.

This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.

Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.

We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.

We seek exceptional communicators who are self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:

• Deep understanding of social impact funder priorities and ways of working, especially those focused on maximising impact at scale.
• Proven ability to network, engage and co-create new high impact global partnerships at the highest level.
• Ability to work confidently across teams to accelerate delivery of priority, cross-cutting initiatives that meet the needs of strategic funders/corporate partners.
• Excellent communication skills - excellent verbal and written English communication skills and ability to organize and present information in a compelling way for a social impact leadership audience
• Strategic thinker with evidenced ability to influence funder future direction and maximise the alignment of funder and MSI strategies
• Strong coaching and capacity building skills

To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:

• Experience of securing and leading durable strategic funder partnerships at the £10m+ level
• Extensive network amongst international social impact funders and implementers
• Experience of leading and motivating high-performing teams
• Experience of working for or in partnership with a service delivery social impact organisation (the successful candidate may have worked on the funder side or implementer side)
• Excellent communication skills, including significant flair in written communication and a strong understanding of visual modelling and graphical representation of ideas. You will demonstrate the ability to shape responses to technically complex problems and ideas, whilst also being able to simply summarize the core concept/s.

Formal education/qualification

• No formal educational requirement, qualification through experience is sufficient for the role

Please see the job description here

Location: London, UK (minimum of 2 days per week in the office), or any country where MSI operates

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday for UK based candidates

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £80,700 - £100,000 per annum commensurate with experience + bonus + benefits for UK based candidates.

For candidates based in a different MSI country, the salary will be banded within the local national context.

Salary band: BG 12

Closing date: 18th November 2026 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.