Steadman has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in the international development sector across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus. As Deputy CEO, he provides strategic, operational, and leadership support across the organisation, acts as a trusted advisor to the CEO and assumes full responsibility for the CEO's duties in their absence. He is a key member of the Global Executive Leadership Team, helping to shape the future of Project Yananai as it scales its mission across India, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Steadman is currently Senior Executive and Head of International Projects at Care for Children, where he works within the Executive Leadership Team to deliver the organisation's 2024–2026 strategy. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, he leads the scaling of international projects beyond Asia to include Africa, the Middle East, the South Caucasus, Central America, and the Caribbean. He engages and negotiates with senior government ministers across regional hubs to host Care for Children and promote care reform policies, establishes partnership agreements with organisations including Both Ends Believing and Trauma Free World, and liaises with the FCDO to advocate on the Global Care Reform Agenda. He develops regional hub strategies, designs hub structures, negotiates MOU agreements with country governments, monitors and evaluates hub performance, works with the fundraising team to increase donations from trusts and foundations, and recruits and manages Hub Managers and key staff.

Throughout his career, Steadman has overseen and grown a diverse portfolio of projects valued at over $35 million across more than 25 countries. As Head of Governance and Accountability at Plan International UK, he oversaw a combined project portfolio of 36 projects across 22 countries valued at over £35 million, growing the governance portfolio from £4 million to $25 million. He worked with the business development team and partnered with Christian Aid to successfully secure the £20 million FP2020 FCDO grant by leading the technical components of the bid, and participated in award and contract management meetings with FCDO. He also coordinated Plan UK's Policy, Gender and Economic Development teams to successfully influence FCDO's position paper on Governance for Growth, Stability and Inclusive Development, and commissioned research into governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings that contributed to UK policy briefing and programme strategy.

Earlier, as Head of Social Accountability at VSO International, Steadman worked within the Executive Leadership Team to develop the 2017–2021 organisational strategy and programme framework, "A Fair World for Everyone." He led the crafting and development of VSO's Volunteering for Development (VFD) model, facilitating various functions of the organisation to design the model and performance framework. He supported the development of the second Volunteering for Development Grant valued at £7 million, liaising with fundraising to secure the grant from FCDO, and accompanied the CEO to meet with the Shadow International Development team at the Houses of Parliament to influence Labour policy on volunteerism. He also established a Learning Partnership led by the Institute of Development Studies to review evidence from VSO's programme practice, and held matrix management responsibilities for 15 staff across the organisation.

Steadman's experience also includes senior consultancy roles with Steadman Noble Consultancies, where he worked with clients including Christian Aid UK, Plan International Germany, WEMOS Netherlands, World Vision/World Bank, VSO International, CARE International Netherlands, and the Commonwealth Secretariat. His work covered governance and rights programme evaluation in India and Zimbabwe, research and training on the Young Citizens Scorecard, implementation research on the Intersectional Community Scorecard, review of the Integrated Social Accountability Framework, learning papers on public financial management in Sierra Leone, budget tracking guides, and research on social norms and public authorities. Earlier in his career, he served as a Youth Policy Consultant at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Project Manager for the Jamaica Police Force Strategic Review at the Ministry of National Security in Jamaica, and Social Policy Prototype Coordinator in the Public Sector Reform Unit at the Office of the Prime Minister in Jamaica, where he coordinated a UK DFID-funded national youth policy project covering 37 communities.

Steadman holds a Master's Degree in International Development from the University of Sussex and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work (Special) with a focus on Social Policy and Community Development. His skills span project management, political economy analysis, social accountability, business development and pursuit, policy influencing, and problem-solving. He brings exceptional strategic thinking, outstanding communication and influencing skills, strong financial and commercial acumen, and high emotional intelligence, with a proven ability to lead through change and uncertainty.

At Project Yananai, Steadman partners with the CEO in the development and execution of the strategy and impact plans, drives cross-functional alignment across GELT divisions, provides strategic oversight and coordination across functions, represents Project Yananai at meetings with donors and partners, supports robust governance and risk management, along with mentoring and developing senior leaders across the global team.

Steadman is passionate about community-led development and breaking cycles of poverty and is committed to inspiring a culture of collaboration, accountability and innovation across Project Yananai's global team.