Our Team
Natsayi Sithole
Natsayi Sithole is Chief Executive of Renaisi-TSIP, appointed in 2024. She ensures our work remains boundary pushing, equity-centred and inspires collective action across sectors to work towards thriving places. She leads the strategic direction, as well as the overall oversight and running of the organisation.
Natsayi has over a decade of experience in the social sector. Her background spans people and youth-centred programme design, funding systemic approaches, strategy, leadership, and organisational change.
Prior to Renaisi-TSIP, she held senior positions at Save the Children UK working on questions of institutional transformation as Chief of Staff and was involved in developing place-based initiatives to transform the early years for children in the UK as Head of Strategy & Accountability in their UK Impact team. This included the cradle to career initiative Children’s Communities, and the first pilot years of their five Early Learning Communities in Margate, Sheffield, Tower Hamlets, and Cardiff. She has specific expertise in philanthropy and collective impact models for place-based systems change and has worked on cross-sector partnerships bringing together corporations, philanthropy, and the public sector.
She also has experience as an intersectional feminist community organiser, is a certified coach, and trained Deep Democracy facilitator.
She believes that collective impact, people-powered, and community-owned approaches are essential to achieving sustainable and just change for communities.
She is Chair of the Advisory Council at ALAMEDA, a UK and Brazil-based research institute connecting social struggles with the gatekeepers of intellectual production. She is also Trustee at The Difference, an education charity championing school inclusion.
Specialisms
- Charity strategy, programme design, innovation
- Philanthropy and the non-profit funding ecosystem, including the role of power and participatory approaches
- Organisational strategy, culture, governance, and alternative modes of organising
