Title: Chief Executive Officer
Specifications: Permanent - Full time (37.5 hours)
Salary: Competitive salary
Location: Remote - UK based
Closing date: 3 August 2025

Cochrane is a globally recognized leader in evidence-based healthcare. For over 30 years, we have been committed to producing trusted health evidence that informs decisions, improves outcomes, and supports better health for all.

We now seek an outstanding Chief Executive Officer to lead the organization into its next phase of growth and impact.

Reporting directly to the Chair of the Governing Board, the CEO will provide inspirational, values-driven leadership to the Central Executive Team and across Cochrane’s global community. This is a pivotal appointment that will shape the strategic direction of a high-profile international charity at a time of significant opportunity and transformation.

As CEO, you will be responsible for delivering Cochrane’s strategy, ensuring strong operational and financial stewardship, and further enhancing Cochrane’s reputation and influence across the global health ecosystem.

You will be the organization's most senior ambassador—building strategic partnerships, cultivating stakeholder engagement, and advancing Cochrane’s mission at the highest levels, including with governments, funders, the World Health Organization and other multilateral partners.

To be successful in this role we are looking for:

• A credible and confident leader with experience operating at executive or CEO level, ideally within an international, scientific, healthcare, or a related context.
• A proven track record of strategic leadership in complex organizations, including experience of organizational development, financial oversight, and leading high-performing teams.
• Strong scientific or health sector knowledge with the personal authority to represent Cochrane globally.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, you will be adept at engaging stakeholders across sectors, cultures, and disciplines.

Above all, you will demonstrate a deep personal commitment to Cochrane’s values and the vital role that high-quality evidence plays in improving health worldwide. This is a unique opportunity to lead a globally respected organization making a tangible difference to people's lives.

If you share our commitment to global health equity, evidence-based practice, and collaborative leadership, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Cochrane is a Disability Confident employer. If you have a disability and would like to be considered under our Disability Confident Scheme, please let us know in your covering letter. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application, we encourage you to tell us.