Pallium India invites applications to the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Reports to: Board of Trustees
About the Role :
Pallium India is seeking an exceptional executive leader and institution builder to serve as Chief ExecutiveOfficer (CEO). The CEO will lead Pallium India through its next phase of growth, ensuring the organizationbecomes an increasingly strong, professional, and sustainable institution—built to thrive for generations—while remaining steadfast in its core mission of relieving suffering and upholding human dignity.
Six Core Accountabilities:
- Mission & Strategic Leadership: Translate the Board’s vision into a focused strategy; ensure purposeful growth without mission drift.
- Institution Building: Develop the governance, structures, and processes required to ensure long-term resilience and independence from any single leader.
- Organisational Performance: Integrate clinical, education, advocacy, and research operations under a unified strategy with high standards of accountability.
- People & Leadership: Build a high-performing senior leadership team, foster distributed leadership, champion a culture of compassion, collaboration, and high performance.
- Financial Sustainability & Resource Mobilisation: Build a financially resilient, ethically independent organization; cultivate strategic donor and government relationships.
- External Leadership & Influence: Serve as principal ambassador nationally and internationally; shape policy and advance palliative care integration into healthcare systems.
- Significant senior leadership experience in healthcare, public health, social impact, or a comparable mission-driven organization.
- Proven track record leading a complex, multidisciplinary organization through growth, transformation,or institutional strengthening.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with Boards, government bodies, donors, and strategic partners.
- Hands-on experience in financial management, team development, and building scalable operational systems.
- Systems Thinker
- Connects programs, finances, policy, and health systems to solve root-cause organizational challenges.
- Institution Builder
- Thinks beyond immediate results to establish enduring systems, governance, and leadership depth.
- Collaborative Leader
- Builds trust, listens deeply, and drives consensus across diverse professional disciplines. Compassionate & Accountable
- Balances high standards and tough decisions with fairness, dignity, and high emotional intelligence.
- High integrity and personal credibility.
- Humility and emotional intelligence.
- Excellent judgement and decision-making ability.
- Courage to take difficult decisions when required.
- Strong communicator and relationship builder.
- Ability to inspire and align people around a shared purpose.
- Resilient, adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Strong commitment to public service, equity and human dignity.
- Low ego and high institutional orientation.
The successful CEO will leave Pallium India:
- More institutionally mature.
- More financially resilient.
- Stronger in leadership depth.
- Clearer in strategy and accountability.
- More influential nationally and internationally.
- and, above all, equally strong in its mission, values and culture.
The measure of the CEO’s success is therefore not simply how much Pallium grows, but whether Pallium
becomes a stronger, more sustainable and more independent institution while remaining true to
why it exists.
Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV and cover letter to: [email protected]
In case of queries, write to: [email protected]
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