About Kick It Out:

Kick It Out (KIO) advocates on behalf of under-represented and minority communities in football, working to increase their representation in every area of the game - from grassroots to the Premier League, from the pitch to the side-lines and from the stands to the boardroom. KIO does everything in its power to eliminate discrimination, educate, and mentor a new generation of people in the sport.

The Role:

Accountable to the Chair and Board, KIO’s new Chief Executive Officer will be responsible for the successful delivery of KIO’s strategic objectives and goals. They will ensure the organisation remains at the forefront of combating all forms of discrimination in football and ensuring the sport is truly inclusive for all.

KIO is currently undergoing a long-term transformation, which requires a Chief Executive Officer who can lead in this context. A change agent with the commercial acumen for substantive and sustainable funding development, as well as the leadership skills necessary to instil a high-performance work culture whilst KIO digitises, extends, and enhances its internal processes and external operations.

Responsibilities Include:

• Partnering with the Chair, Board and Executive Team to ensure the successful delivery of KIO’s five-year vision and strategy.
• Transforming working practices within KIO, with responsibility for the organisation becoming insight led, as well as more data and technology centric.
• Developing relationships with key funding partners (the FA, the EFL, the Premier League and the Professional Footballers Association), whilst also building ties with prospective and future funding partners to meet KIO’s ambitious plans to expand its impact.
• Being a credible leader for KIO, by embodying the organisation’s values through a genuine commitment to, understanding of, and fluency in equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with key industry stakeholders: including, but not limited to, funding partners, professional football clubs, players, former players, officials, grass roots football, fans, the media, etc.

The Candidate:

Skills:

• Exceptional leadership skills, capable of inspiring, growing and developing a team through a period of significant transformation.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering results in a fast-paced, sensitive and high-pressured environment.
• A thorough knowledge of, and empathy with, issues that affect KIO, with an understanding of sport and its role for the betterment of society.
• Digitally savvy with an appreciation of how technology can be utilised effectively to improve organisational performance, as well as deliver communication strategies, campaigns and plans.
• Outstanding operational skillset, efficiency with finite resources and the ability to successfully lead a process of change management.

Personality:

• Highly motivated, has presence and leads by example.
• Strong emotional intelligence and low ego, with capability, as well as credibility, to develop positive working relationships with all stakeholders.
• A coaching style that will support the professional development of KIO employees and the evolution of the organisation’s working practices.
• Logical and good under pressure, with the ability to juggle multiple demands at the same time.
• Culturally sensitive and fully committed to KIO’s mission.

To apply, please click Apply and email a comprehensive CV (setting out career history, responsibilities & achievements) and a Covering Letter (a maximum of two sides of A4, which express your motivation for the role and highlight your relevant experience).

Please see attached Kick It Out’s Equal Opportunity Form. We ask applicants to complete this form to assist us in checking that our recruitment methods conform to equal opportunity guidelines but filling in this form is voluntary. The information will not be used as part of the shortlisting or selection process.

KIO recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds, and we are committed to honouring the FA’s Football Leadership Diversity Code in this recruitment process.

Please note that the closing date for applications is 12pm on Wednesday 9th December 2020.

If you have not heard back from Savannah Group by 18th December 2020, please assume unfortunately that your application has not been successful.

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This is a new post, formed at an exciting time of targeted growth for the organisation to meet an increasing demand for services, and the successful applicant will lead and develop clinical practice. The post will combine expert practice development, staff development and supervision in one role. It is designed to build up practice skills and expertise, and to support all staff through case supervision and training. The appointed person will ensure operational staff are working safely, within Safety Net’s agreed framework and model, holding case accountability. 

We are looking for someone who has extensive service or other management experience, and a therapeutic qualification. You will hold a small caseload, alongside supporting, developing, and providing clinical case management for a team of specialist trauma-informed practitioners and therapists.

Closing date: noon Monday 16th November 2020, we will hold an awareness raising morning on the 25th November 2020, and interviews to be held week commencing 30th November 2020.

Part-time Marketing Officer

Salary: £11,173 - £12,751 per annum.

(Flexible Location)

Hours: 18.5 hours per week

Duration – Fixed term until 31st January 2023

This is an externally funded post (National Lottery Heritage Fund)

FSC wants to create a world where everyone feels connected to the environment so they can enjoy the benefits it gives and make choices that help protect it. We offer a range of field studies courses to visiting groups across our centres based all over the UK in stunning locations.

We are looking for enthusiastic marketers, with broad experience across all aspects of marketing to join us. We’re looking for creative people, educated to degree level, with a good understanding of environmental issues, experienced in a range of digital marketing tools with strong writing skills. You will be working on-site at one of our beautiful locations, with possible options for home working, as part of a small, welcoming, and committed team.

Using your creative talents, you will –

• Develop marketing campaigns for the FSC that raise awareness of FSC, drive engagement and generate new customers
• Create content that showcases the best of what FSC has to offer our customers
• Help us raise the profile of FSC in new and existing markets

To be successful in this role you should demonstrate:

• A positive and passionate work attitude
• A desire to show pride in all aspects of their work
• A flexible approach with a willingness to adapt to changes
• An ability to work using your own initiative both independently and as a competent, effective team member
• An ability to work under pressure and prioritise work to meet tight deadlines
• Always treating others with courtesy, dignity and respect
• A commitment and contribution to improving FSC’s environmental performance
• A committed and proactive approach to personal development; motivated to learn new skills and overcome new challenges

If you are interested in joining an internationally respected organisation where there are brilliant opportunities for informal and formal self-development, training, and learning and where you will be engaging wide audiences in a range of marketing activities, developing your career in marketing and working with a busy marketing team to enthuse people of all ages about the natural world and helping to protect it, 

Application Closing date -  12 noon on Thursday 26th November 2020.

Interviews will be scheduled between the 7th and 10th December 2020, with shortlisted applicants being contacted by email.