RNIB, World Animal Protection, Find A Better Way and more announce their latest movers.

Chief executive

Lesley-Anne Alexander is set to retire as chief executive of the Royal National Institute of Blind People at some point later this year.

Alexander has been chief executive at RNIB for over 12 years. In her time at RNIB, Alexander has led on the creation of the RNIB group of charities and the development of the UK Vision Strategy.

She has not given any information about what she will do next, and the charity has not yet appointed a successor.

World Animal Protection has appointed Steve McIvor as its new permanent chief executive, following his tenure as acting chief executive and global director of programmes.

Prior to working with World Animal Protection, McIvor was deputy chief executive of compassion in world farming, where he ran the organisation’s corporate engagement programmes.

He was also previously a member of the executive board at the Body Shop International and was chief executive of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.

Iain Overton has been announced as the new executive director of Action on Armed Violence.

Overton replaces Steve Smith who is leaving the organisation after five years at the helm.

Overton takes up his new role today. Smith is taking on a new role as chief executive at the International Refugee Trust later in the month. 

Adam Garone, co-founder and chief executive of the Movember Foundation, is stepping down after 13 years. He is being replaced by Owen Sharpe, who has held the role of chief operating officer at the Movember Foundation since October 2015.

Sharpe was formerly chief executive at Prostate Cancer UK. Garone will be taking up a more ambassadorial role at the Movember Foundation. 

Landmine charity Find A Better Way has appointed Lou McGrath to the position of chief executive.

McGrath was previously chief executive of the Mine Advisory Group for over 14 years. Under his stewardship MAG’s annual income and landmine clearance programmes both grew.

McGrath was awarded an OBE in 2007 for his services to landmine clearance.

Sam Fanshawe has announced that she will leave the Marine Conservation Society in June 2016 having been chief executive at the organisation for 12 years.

Since Fanshawe joined the organisation in 2005, its income has more than tripled from £750,000 to £2.4m. It has also tripled in terms staff numbers.

The MCS board of trustees has already begun the process of finding Fanshawe’s successor.

Fundraising and communications

Tegan Jones has been appointed as director of fundraising at SSAFA, the armed forces charity.

Jones has more than 15 years of experience working in a variety of management positions within both the for and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining SSAFA, Jones was the head of fundraising at St John Ambulance.

He also worked for Blind Veterans UK, where he helped deliver a £7m capital works project whilst in the positon of group management of relationship fundraising.

Bowel Cancer UK has appointed Emma Macleod as its first ever Scotland fundraising manager.

Macleod joins Bowel Cancer UK’s Edinburgh-based Scotland office from the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland. Prior to that, she worked in Australia with the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Finance and operations

NCVO has announced that Charlotte Ravenscroft, its current head of policy and public services, will be leaving the umbrella body in the summer. NCVO has invited applicants to apply for the vacant position.

Ravenscroft, who has worked at NCVO for the last four years, will be established a public policy consultancy that will support the voluntary sector.

Before joining NCVO, Ravenscroft was UK policy manager at the Big Lottery Fund and also worked at the Department for Education.