International Development
International Development is centred around the pursuit of a better world for all humanity through the elimination of poverty, discrimination, and injustice. International Development is a key part of the heart of Red Sea’s International Search work, seeking to implement long-term solutions by helping developing countries create the necessary capacity needed to provide sustainable solutions to their challenges.
At Red Sea, we align our work in International Development with the United Nations Sustainable Development goals, finding and empowering leaders to reduce poverty and hunger, promoting good health and wellbeing, improving global education for all, eliminating inequality, harnessing affordable and clean energy, promoting economic growth, sustainable community, promoting peace and justice and work to care for our planet.
We do this through working with partners across the United Nations and inter-governmental organisations, private sector, corporate, individual, and institutional philanthropy, foundations and trusts, and the INGO and civil society sector.
We have experience recruiting development leadership across the Global South and leadership in the Global North, at C-Suite, Regional and Country/ grassroots level. We have worked across East, West and Southern Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America in development and humanitarian aid, education, sanitation, health, economic empowerment, sustainability, and gender equality.
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
Relevant Consultants
Tim Wingrove
Managing Director
Tim Wingrove is the founder and Managing Director of Red Sea Executive Search. He has been working in INGO search at Executive level for the last 10 years, and has recruited across Africa, Asia, Europe and the America’s. Clients include the likes of Oxfam International, Amnesty International, Plan International, WWF, Gain, Care International, ActionAid International, Practical Action, Sightsavers, Tearfund, Marie…
Gareth Griffiths
Senior Partner
Gareth has an extensive background in recruitment going back 20 years and working in several different sectors from Pepsico and G4S to the NHS and the care home industry. For the past 5 and a half years, he has led global resourcing for Plan International and Marie Stopes International, sourcing senior candidates from all over the world…
Javier Cantera
Principal Consultant Europe and Latin America
Javier has worked in global development and humanitarian operations for more than 15 years, primarily for Oxfam Spain and Oxfam International. He has worked in more than 20 countries in Africa and Latin America, resourcing talent, fostering leadership and developing organizational and individual capacity.
Khetsiwe Dlamini
Senior Advisor, Africa
Khetsiwe has 30 years international development experience which spans across all continents and several sectors. She has worked in managerial roles for the IFC, the World Bank and most recently the United Nations as the Chief of Staff at UN Woman. Khetsiwe is a qualified global business leader and has a Doctorate in Business Leadership as well as a Masters in Business Administration, amongst other qualifications.
Sheerin Dariani
Associate Researcher
Sheerin brings her ethos of creating value for partners, experience in international development and humanitarian relief and cultural understanding of the Middle East and North Africa to our executive search services in this region. With 15 years of experience in communications, corporate responsibility, fundraising and philanthropy, Sheerin has worked for corporate communication agencies…
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