Advocacy or Policy Part-time

Research Director - Global Governance and Security Centre

Chatham House

Posted

Jan 06, 2026

Location

UK

Type

Part-time

Compensation

$161000 - $161000

Mission

What you will drive

Research Director - Global Governance and Security Centre

About

The Research Director - Global Governance and Security Centre will provide intellectual leadership on research work and detailed commentary on reports, expert comments, and convening of individual programmes.

Responsibilities

  • Offer intellectual leadership on research work and detailed commentary on reports, expert comments, and convening of individual programmes
  • Line manage programme directors and act as a leader of Chatham House through the Executive Leadership Team and research directors' meetings
  • Ensure the centre hits its budget through financial planning and management

Requirements

Benefits

About the Company

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Impact

The difference you'll make

This role increases the depth and reach of Chatham House's work in areas crucial to improving international relations in pursuit of a secure, prosperous, sustainable, and just world.

Profile

What makes you a great fit

Required skills and experience:

  • A substantial body of influential, policy-relevant work with demonstrated impact
  • Experience developing and leading teams, embedding positive cultural change
  • Proven success in fundraising and grant proposal development
  • The ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences, including high-level policymakers
  • A track record of financial planning and management
  • Gravitas to operate at the highest international levels

Benefits

What's in it for you

Benefits include approximately 37 days annual leave (including public holidays and Chatham House closure days), pension salary exchange, employee assistance programme, parental leave, flexible working, and other benefits designed to suit your lifestyle, all in a professional, engaging, and intellectually stimulating environment.

Salary: £120,000 per year.

About

Inside Chatham House

Chatham House is a policy institute based in London known for rigour and vigorous independence with a reputation built on more than a century of convening, research, and proposals to solve the world's most intractable problems. Their mission is to help improve international relations in pursuit of a secure, prosperous, sustainable, and just world.