Chief Executive Officer

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

For more information and to apply for this role, please find our application pack and application form at . Applications will not be accepted in any other format.

Interviews will be held on Friday 14th March 2025.

Scope of role:

The post holder will be highly motivated, professional and passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of local people through:

• Leading on income generation for the charity focusing on grant fundraising, both institutional and private, major donor fundraising and corporate partnerships. Our average annual income is £450,000.
• Working in partnership with the organisation’s Service Manager, Board of Trustees and user led steering group to develop and deliver the aims and objectives of the organisation, driving key priorities based on assessments of community needs.
• Leading the organisation to devise and deliver an ambitious new strategic plan.
• Sustain and where possible increase funding levels to maintain existing service provision, ensuring services continue to demonstrate high quality, responsive and efficient services that are delivered in line with local needs and within allocated resources.
• Work closely with the Service Manager and Board of Trustees on the development and transformation of new services, ensuring the organisation continues to respond effectively to the future environment within which it will operate.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement of outcomes for local people.
• Respect, support, contribute to and take personal responsibility for implementing the organisational ethos and commitment to inclusivity, diversity and equality of opportunity across the organisation for staff and service users.
• To perform duties to standards required by the organisation in accordance with quality assurance.
• Facilitate and attend meetings as required to meet the needs of the organisation and delivery of services.
• Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development.

Strategy and leadership:

• With the Service Manager, develop organisational strategic and operational plans, embracing new ways of working and ensuring plans are based on robust methodologies and evidence.
• Ensure all services meet sector best practice benchmarks, organisational targets, and performance targets.
• Analyse and interpret complex data such as service activity, demand and capacity data, finance or performance data, present findings and produce reports in order to inform planning decisions.
• Embed a culture of efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, sustainability and value for money for all service delivery and organisational responsibilities.
• Provide leadership and motivation and encourage a positive team-working environment for The Centre Place team.
• Create and implement an appropriate fundraising strategy focusing on the key income areas of earned income through training and consultancy, grants, major donors and corporate partnerships.
• Build relationships with existing and new major donors to secure funding for the organisation.
• Create a pipeline of appropriate grants and write funding applications to grant makers both statutory and private, ensuring compliance with legislative, organisational and contractual obligations.
• Manage grants and commissioning contracts ensuring services are delivered to set specifications, performance targets are met and reports submitted on time.
• Build relationships with existing and new corporate partners to secure funding and other support for the organisation.
• Work with the staff team and Treasurer to produce financial projections and reports relating to the charity’s income and expenditure.

Operations management:

• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the organisation, with the support of the Service Manager, in line with the established operational plan and organisational objectives.
• Analyse performance against all relevant indicators and compile quarterly data reports to reflect this.
• Present performance reports to the Board of Trustees on a quarterly basis including undeliverable or mitigation data.
• With some support from the staff team and Treasurer, take responsibility for managing organisational finances, ensuring that realistic budgets are set and that income/expenditure is regularly monitored and remedies enacted.

Staff management:

• Contribute to an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued and each staff member is able to contribute, promote and uphold equality through everyday actions.
• Manage, motivate and develop the Service Manager and indirectly the rest of The Centre Place team, to ensure that they are able to deliver the aims and responsibilities of the organisation.
• Effectively lead and manage the Service Manager and support them to manage a team of 9 staff and 6 volunteers, through the appropriate allocation of responsibilities and workload, day to day staff management, facilitating regular supervision, annual development reviews and team meetings.
• Work with the Service Manager and Management Committee on the recruitment of staff and where necessary processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters.
• Oversee clear lines of accountability for staff in the delivery of organisational objectives and targets.
• Oversee the Service Manager in ensuring that staff are compliant, fully trained and knowledgeable in relation to organisational policies and procedures and their individual requirements within these.
• Oversee the Service Manager in maintaining accurate records of all staff annual and sickness leave and information provided for payroll purposes.

Governance, policy and procedural:

• With support from the Service Manager and Board of Trustees, ensure all policies and procedures are implemented throughout the organisation and inform operational and delivery methodology.
• Oversee the Service Manager and work with the Board of Trustees, to ensure excellent safeguarding throughout the organisation.
• With support from the Service Manager and Board of Trustees, ensure compliance with General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018.
• With support from the Service Manager and Management Committee (Board of Trustees), ensure all policies and procedures are reviewed periodically and devise new Policies and Procedures in line with organisational development where appropriate.
• Work with the Board of Trustees to ensure the charity is well governed in line with Charity Commission guidelines.
• Oversee compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and all other relevant legislation, that risk assessments, annual health and safety risk reviews are undertaken, reviewed and documented on an annual basis.

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant senior management experience at an equivalent level to this role within the charity sector.
• Demonstrable experience of successfully securing and sustaining funding streams, in particular relationship fundraising and grant writing including commissioning contracts.
• Experience of a strategic review and planning process.
• Experience of report writing, managing budgets and finances in-line with contractual obligations.
• Experience of collaborative working across disciplines and organisational boundaries working with a range of stakeholders.
• Experience of line management of at least one other person.
• Experience of prioritising workload and working to set time parameters.
• Experience of handling confidential information.
• Demonstrable understanding of the management of third sector organisations.
• Demonstrable knowledge of evidence-based approaches to decision making.
• Knowledge and delivery of effective governance / accountability systems to secure quality, performance and value for money.

Skills and Competencies: (Essential)

• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to engage effectively with all.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with a wide range of stakeholders; including ability to manage conflict as required.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and autonomously as required, without the need for close supervision or support.
• A confident communicator, both verbally and in writing. Ability to write clearly, emotively and persuasively.
• Demonstrated ability to plan over short, medium and long term and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make recommendations.
• Financial management skills.
• Ability to form and maintain good working relationships with staff, partners and key stakeholders.
• Ability to work within a highly emotive atmosphere, while maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times.
• Ability to keep accurate and complete records consistent with best practice policies and procedures.
• Ability to organise time and balance conflicting priorities.
• IT literacy. Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly.
• Ability to relate to a diverse population.
• Ability to be flexible, responsive and agile, adapting to a rapidly changing environment.
• Demonstrable appreciation and acknowledgment of the range and complexities of diversity; self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers; cultural competence – cultural sensitivity and awareness.
• Demonstrable respect of diversity and value of individual difference.
• Champions for inclusivity and the fair and appropriate treatment of all people regardless of ethnicity, religious, belief, gender identity, age, ability, sexual orientation, appearance or position.
• Proactively seeks to reduce inequalities of disadvantaged groups and acts to raise awareness of the benefits of diversity and build active commitment to ensure equality of opportunity.

Seniority level

Executive

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Business Development and Sales

#J-18808-Ljbffr