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Leicester Dance Theatre Ltd (LDT) trading as Aakash Odedra Company is looking for a Chair of the Board. Our new Chair will have leadership experience and be passionate about the performing arts. LDT is an organisation firmly rooted in its local community but with an international reputation for creating and commissioning boundary-pushing and award-winning dance works using the British-Asian experience.
As the new Chair of LDT, you will have:
- A passion for dance and Leicester
- The experience and commitment to lead the Board as we refine and develop the strategic direction of the organisation
- Experience building relationships with multiple stakeholders whilst articulating our values, relevance, maintaining and promoting our reputation
In leading our Board you will:
- Ensure that we meet our responsibilities for effective and focused governance
- Enable the Board to provide professional and constructive challenge
- Support the Executive and Artistic Directors in the delivery of our organisational goals
You will play an essential part in creating the environment for our organisation to flourish. This will mean that your leadership of the Board both in meetings and otherwise will set the tone of our communication and support our Executive Team in the delivery of our work.
We anticipate the time commitment will be two days per month on average and whilst the role is unpaid, expenses can be claimed. Further details are included in the Candidate Pack.
Board meetings are being held remotely at the moment, but we hope that you will be able to join us for meetings in Leicester in due course.
We believe that diversity in organisations leads to better decision making and want our Board to be representative of the communities we serve. LDT strives to be an inclusive organisation that welcomes Board members from a wide variety of backgrounds. We positively encourage and welcome applications by people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people who identify as D/deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent.
We hope you will consider joining us.
Closing date for applications: 5.00 p.m. Thursday the 9th December 2021
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Action Homeless are committed to ending the cycle of homeless and ensuring everyone has a decent and safe place to call home. Our mission is to ensure that no one has to sleep rough on the street in our City. We are passionate about ending street homelessness, and empowering people to achieve higher living standards and quality of life.
We are looking for people with experience of working with vulnerable adults and providing housing related support, as well having experience of managing a small staff team. You may already be in the homeless sector, or have experience working with adults in challenging situations and leading teams, and have transferable skills and competencies which we are looking for.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation that is working towards reducing rough sleeping, and ending cycles of homelessness in Leicester, supporting people to access suitable crisis and longer-term accommodation.
As a Service Team Manager you will:
- Be responsible for the day to day management of one of our projects
- Be responsible for a small staff team ensuring they have the necessary support, supervision and training required for their roles
- Be responsible for and the reporting of the projects outcomes
- Liaise with other agencies and ensure the project provides a safe and secure environment
- Need to work flexibly and on occasion unsocial hours as our services operate 365 days a year
To be successful you will need to have:
- An understanding of working with people experiencing homelessness or vulnerable adults and supporting them to access services.
- Experience of working within a housing related support environment and leading a team
- Management experience
- Excellent organisation and time management skills in order to remain strongly outcome focused and meet the projects requires with resources.
- A commitment to working in a challenging environment with the ability to be highly flexible throughout the working day.
- Good communication skills and confidence when representing Action Homeless to external organisations and forming strong working relationships with partners; being able to challenge them when required.
- Strong IT skills with the ability use online recording systems, client management systems, Excel, and Word, using all forms of technology.
While most of your time will be spent working office hours Monday-Friday, the role does require flexibility to include supporting your teams, who will work across the services, as they work on rotas, which include some early morning and late-night shifts, and weekend working. Being able to move across the City quickly and efficiently is essential for this post and a clean drivers’ license would be preferable, due to the locations of our properties on taking part in our on-call and emergency response system out of hours.
As well as a great working environment, we also offer:
- Support to develop your case working skills and specialist knowledge.
- Extensive training and personal development opportunities
- Employee Pension scheme where Employee contributions are matched by the Employer up to 5%
- Generous benefits such as; annual leave, sick leave, compassionate leave, time off for dependants and death in service benefit.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.