Director, Transformation Integration and Adaptation

Internal Job Title: Transformation Integration and Adaptation Enabler
External Job Title: Director, Transformation Integration and Adaptation
Heifer International is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
About Heifer International
Heifer International is a global nonprofit dedicated to partnering with smallholder farmers to sustainably address hunger and poverty in their communities while caring for the Earth. Since 1944, we have helped more than 52 million families around the world break the cycle of poverty. We operate in 19 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Americas, including the U.S., working with small-scale farmers to achieve living incomes and ensuring that they have adequate food, housing, and other essential resources to lead decent and dignified lives.
Our Values
At Heifer, our work and culture are grounded in our twelve Cornerstones and six Cultural Guiding Principles, which reflect our deep commitment to dignity, fairness, and impact. These values shape how we lead, collaborate, and grow as an organization. We believe in Passing on the Gift, accountability, caring for one another, sustainability, gender and social inclusion, and environmental stewardship. We prioritize full participation, open communication, and continuous learning rooted in self-awareness and human-centered leadership. Together, we foster a culture of belonging and shared purpose that drives meaningful, lasting change in the communities we serve.
The Organizational Context: A Global Ecosystem in Transformation
Heifer is transforming toward an agile, adaptive, farmer-centered, locally led, and globally connected network organization. Over the past several years, the transformation journey has focused on redefining our Program Model, exploring and experimenting with an emerging operating logic, evolving our thinking about the Business Model, and grounding our shared values and ways of working in the 12 Cornerstones.
Heifer is now moving from a predominantly design-focused phase toward shared language, experimentation, learning, and activation. The transformation spans multiple interdependent streams, including the Program Model, Operating Model , Business Model, Culture and Cornerstones, governance, experimentation and activation all emerging as a Regenerative Network Organization (RNO).
As this work becomes increasingly distributed across countries, networks, ecosystems, functions and capabilities, transformation can no longer depend on a small central team to make change happen. Heifer is intentionally building the capability to transform itself: enabling people across the organization to experiment, learn, adapt, make decisions and activate the emerging model in context.
This role is an amazing opportunity to contribute to a locally led, globally connected organization, being a member of a mission-aligned team, and the chance to reshape one of the world’s most respected development organizations. You will join a collaborative team that has the courage to be vulnerable on their way to building trust. You will receive proper support and onboarding to catch up with the transformation journey and support your journey towards belonging.
Role Contribution
This role, reporting to the Transformation Steward (Executive Transformation Officer), is broader than project coordination and narrower than executive transformation stewardship. The Director/Sr. Director, Transformation Integration develops the whole-system picture with Country Teams, Catalysts, and those closest to the work, and shares useful insights and support back with them. The role also provides durable integration and transformation adaptation and advancement capability, connecting distributed transformation work without centralizing ownership of it.
This role does not own transformation activities or project-manage them in the traditional sense. It creates the connective mechanisms that allow Heifer’s transformation to work as one system: seeing the whole, connecting interdependencies, sequencing work, sensing progress and organizational load, enabling decisions and integrating transformation activities, and translating learning into adaptation.
The role maintains an integrated, evidence-informed view of Heifer’s transformation and helps the organization move from design to activation without fragmentation, duplication or overload. The Senior Director makes dependencies, progress, risks, organizational capacity and implications visible so that the role and appropriate stewardship bodies and capability owners can co-create solutions.