Permanent Chief Executive Jobs

Fundraising Development Manager

The Bike Project (TBP) is looking for a Fundraising Development Manager. This role will focus on gaining support from both corporate partners and major donors alongside line managing the Fundraising Executive. 

This is a key growth area for TBP, the post holder will have the opportunity to make the role their own leading their own income stream whilst being supported by the Head of Fundraising and CEO. The Bike Project has an entrepreneurial culture born out of our online and physical bike shop which raises considerable income on an annual basis. We are now keen to grow our trading further through developing a new bike servicing model. This role will lead the development and roll out of this service alongside developing traditional corporate partnerships and relationships with major donors.

Being a small charity, we work in an agile manner which allows for creative ideas to flourish and new ideas to be implemented quickly. We hold donation sessions weekly out of our London and Birmingham workshops, so there is opportunity to see the impact of your work first hand.

As a team member at the Bike Project you’ll enjoy a fantastic benefits package, including extended family leave, a standard holiday allowance starting at 25 days and increasing with each year of service, access to the Reward Hub, and an Employee Assistance Program. 

We ask that the post holder commits to work at least two days per week from our office, workshop or shop or attending meetings.

We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled, and global majority candidates, and those who have personal experience of being a refugee or the asylum system. 

The Bike Project’s mission is simple – to match up refugees without the means or money to travel, with the thousands of abandoned or unwanted bikes in the UK.   

People seeking asylum are forced to live off less than £9 per day and those lucky enough to get refugee status still face high unemployment and isolation. A bike links people to essential services, including foodbanks and legal advice, as well as the local community. 

Closing date Tuesday 11th of June at 11pm. Interivews scheduled for Wednesday 19th June.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Finance to lead our financial operations. This critical role will oversee all aspects of financial management, ensuring our charity continues to operate efficiently and effectively while maintaining the highest standards of financial integrity.

You will play a key role in our committed, enthusiastic, and supportive Senior Leadership Team and enjoy a challenging role which brings great job satisfaction.

This is an exciting opportunity to build on the charity’s existing successes, developing strength and sustainability to underpin services that that bring a voice hope and change, for Sussex people helping them to live healthy and fulfilling lives.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee financial planning, budgeting, reporting, and forecasting; manage financial risks, investments, and reserves.
• Lead and manage the finance team, ensuring the development and implementation of financial policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Provide financial guidance to the CEO, SLT, Trustees, and stakeholders; attend and present at key meetings.
• Manage financial administration including banking, payroll, tax returns, annual accounts, audit, and continuous process improvements.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA or equivalent).
• Have an understanding of the charity environment and wider landscape.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal skills and team working.
• Have a positive attitude.
• Can plan and prioritise own and others’ work to set deadlines, with good time management skills.

We welcome informal conversations prior to receiving written applications, please call us to discuss the role with our current Head of Finance.

Closing date: 5pm on Monday, 17th June 2024.

Interview date: To be confirmed.

White Ribbon UK is the leading UK organisation working to prevent men’s violence against women and girls by showing what men can do to promote equality and create a culture where women live free from violence. We reach many thousands of people a year, but we can’t do any of this without passionate and highly effective people working within our team.

As Finance Manager you will be a key advisor to the Chief Executive and Trustees, providing professional insights into financial matters to support strategic decision making, playing a key role in the development of sustainable funding, and ensuring alignment with White Ribbon UK’s Vision, Mission, and Values.

You will be a highly skilled and experienced Finance Manager to oversee all financial aspects of White Ribbon UK, including our trading subsidiary, who is able to work in a solo role. You will manage the financial operations of the organisation, ensuring compliance and efficiency in our financial processes and provide a comprehensive and compliant financial management, accounting, and administration service to maintain and develop the financial health of White Ribbon UK. Our current annual turnover is around £410,000 and we are ambitious to grow over the next five years. We manage our finances and payroll in-house, using QuickBooks accounting system.

About the role

(For further details regarding the role and specific qualifications required, please consult the Job Description.)

Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) strives for a fairer and more sustainable world by working with frontline Indigenous Peoples and other communities in the fight against tropical deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change.

We are looking for a Head of Operations & Compliance to join our growing team, offering a unique opportunity to contribute to a unique values-led, solutions-orientated organisation.

Reporting directly to the Executive Director and serving as a vital member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), you'll oversee regulatory compliance, optimise internal and operational systems, manage risks, execute operational plans, and embody our organisational values. This multifaceted role encompasses leadership, strategy, and staff management, as well as an awareness of the needs of a small but growing charity.

Person specifications

We seek a dynamic individual with a minimum of five years of senior operations/compliance experience, demonstrating strategic thinking, strong governance and regulatory knowledge, and operational leadership and management skills.

Candidates should possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, exhibit multitasking and strong organisational abilities, demonstrate adaptability and proactive problem-solving skills, and pay meticulous attention to detail.

We encourage all interested candidates to apply, even if they believe they may not fully meet all the requirements. Applicants are encouraged to elaborate on their suitability for the role in their cover letter.

Title: Cultural Strategist
Reports to: CEO
Location: London, Victoria (hybrid working)
Salary: £80k - £90k

We will consider part-time applications for a minimum of 3 days a week.

Exciting opportunity for an imaginative, insightful, creative, and visionary leader to steer a thrilling new phase of our work.

The Emergence Trust (currently known as The JJ Charitable Trust) was founded in 1992 by Julian Sainsbury. A part of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, the Trust works with organisations to tackle deep rooted systems within education, economics, and culture (values, beliefs and narratives) to help catalyse a fundamental paradigm shift towards a truly sustainable future.

The Trust has a history of supporting environmental and educational initiatives, supporting social and community experimentation around regenerative and circular economies, and improving the effectiveness of literacy teaching for children with learning difficulties. The focus of our Trust is evolving and shifting to have a more all-encompassing focus on culture and the role that it plays in addressing the major challenges of our time, including the deeper human roots of our nature and climate crises.

In this role you will have the opportunity to catalyse change for a truly sustainable future, being responsible for collaborating on strategy and implementation with the Trustee board and alongside colleagues, but with large degrees of autonomy. This is a unique opportunity to meaningfully address the climate and nature crisis, whilst utilising your creative abilities and professional experience, and a chance to guide and steer cultural conversations as part of a supportive and collaborative team.

You will be an accomplished generalist, likely with a media background, but you could be an experienced editor, commissioner, advertising creative, philanthropy professional, academic, curator, publisher, or experienced social innovator.

With an instinctive drive to discover, cultivate and connect emerging people, ideas, practices, systems, and organisations, you will be experienced in business development, strategic thinking and managing initiatives that create new forms of meaning or deliver meaningful change.

How to Apply

If you have a passion for wanting to contribute to a more equitable, sustainable, and regenerative future, please click on "Apply" at the top to download a candidate pack.

For the first round of applications candidates are asked to submit their CV alongside a 1-2 minute video recording telling us about yourself and why this role interests you. Please send CVs and videos to the email address on Page 9 of Candidate Pack.

Director of Finance and Resources

Together for Mental Wellbeing

£87,550

Full-time, permanent

London and remote

Together for Mental Wellbeing is the UK’s oldest mental health charity. Since 1879, we have believed that people experiencing mental distress have the right to live the life they choose and determine their own future.

We offer a wide variety of support services and the people we work alongside are at the heart of everything we do. We currently work with around 5,000 adults every month via 70 projects throughout England, but we aspire to reach many more people through our five year strategy.

Having just launched our new strategy for 2024-2029, we are excited about our future, and through the fantastic commitment and dedication of everyone who works at Together, we will achieve our vision of continuing to be a recognized charity leader in its field delivering high quality mental health, wellbeing and support services. 

As our Director of Finance and Resources, you will play a critical leadership role in the ongoing transformation and financial sustainability of Together, ensuring the conditions for our future success. You will be a key advisor to the Chief Executive, the treasurer Trustee and the Board of Trustees in delivering our ambitions for the future, developing and driving innovative, up-to-date and well-planned corporate solutions that shape our Finance, ICT and estates and property management. 

An experienced and qualified senior finance professional with strategic and operational level expertise, you will be a collaborative and inclusive leader, who will work across your functions and beyond to leverage the overall performance of the organisation. You will have significant experience of driving change and building, motivating and inspiring teams. You will be a rigorous, clear thinker who acts with integrity, personally promotes equality, diversity and inclusion and who understands that people who use our services are at the heart of everything we do.

We have a firm commitment to empowering a culture of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging at Together for the people we work alongside in our services and for our workforce of staff and volunteers. We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as having a disability and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. 

Closing date: Monday 10th June

First interviews: Week beginning 17th June

Final interviews Friday 28th June

BACKGROUND

The Helen Bamber Foundation (HBF) is a pioneering Human Rights charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers who are the survivors of trafficking and torture, including gender-based and ‘honour-based’ violence. From our offices we provide specialist medical consultation, therapeutic care, legal protection and practical support to survivors of human rights violations by helping men, women and children heal the emotional and physical damage they have suffered through torture, trafficking or other forms of cruelty.  We also take the learning from our work to develop partnerships to increase survivors’ access to services, and use the learning generated by our clients and partners to drive system change.

Since August 2020, Asylum Aid has been part of the Helen Bamber Foundation Group. Asylum Aid operates as an independent charity, led by its own Executive Director within the group structure.  For over thirty years, Asylum Aid has been providing legal representation to some of the most vulnerable people seeking asylum. It has built an expert service, delivering vital and life-saving services in some of the most complex legal cases, with a particular speciality working with unaccompanied children, survivors of trafficking, torture or other forms of human cruelty, and stateless people. In this role you will support both charities alongside the Operations Manager.

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

As the facilities coordinator, you will be responsible for maintaining a secure and well-functioning work environment in our building. You will be responsible for performing regular building safety and security checks, maintaining the office and ensuring the office is tidy each day you are present.  There is the possibility that this role will be increased to full time in the future.

HBF currently has an office in Camden and will be relocating to Old Street in September-October 2024.  And Asylum Aid has an office in Westminster which will be in use until at least the end of the year. In this role you will therefore be responsible for the conducting necessary tasks to facilitate the moves and the smooth transitions to the new office.

You will be managed by the Operations Manager and work closely with the Finance and Facilities Assistant as well as the Client Services Leads, Asylum Aid’s Legal Team Administrator, and the Executive Director of Asylum Aid to provide coordination and maintenance of the office facilities.

Please note that the successful candidate will already have the right to work in the UK and will be offered the job subject to suitable references and a DBS check. If appointment, you will be required to give your consent to HBF to receive regular updates on your criminal records status throughout your employment. We particularly welcome applications from those from Black, Asian, Minority-Ethnic, refugee and migrant backgrounds. We regret that we can only respond to applicants who make it to the interview stage. No agencies please.

Please submit an up-to-date CV and a short covering letter outlining how your skills and experience match the listed duties, responsibilities and person specification by 5pm on Friday 7th June. First interviews will be held in the week commencing 10th of June,2024.

Head of Commercial Services

Salary: £52,000 per annum, with competitive benefits package, and potential for ‘on-target earnings’, linked to performance
Contract: Permanent 
Reports to: CEO
Hours: Full time (40 hours per week including one hour lunch break each day) 
Start date: As soon as possible after 1st September 2024 (start date flexible but organisational need is from September)
Location: Home-based (travel costs paid for meetings) 

Job Description
Waterwise is looking for a Head of Commercial Services. This is a new permanent role on our Senior Leadership Team, reporting to the CEO and specifically designed to deliver against the next phase of Waterwise’s journey – increasing our reach and impact on water efficiency both within and beyond the water sector. You’ll be leading and broadening our commercial offer, helping us drive even greater impact in water efficiency, and the income to support it, across the UK. You’ll refine our proposition and pricing of existing services, seeking opportunities to cross-sell additional services to existing audiences, as well as broadening our reach, engaging with completely new audiences and developing and shaping new commercial services aligned to new customer needs. You will have strong experience at senior level in driving commercial impact for good, and everything this involves in terms of income, growth, commercial strategy and delivery, and risk management. You’ll be working closely with our Board, and reporting to the CEO and the Board on finance and risk.

For full job description, person specification and details, download the candidate pack.

About Us
Waterwise is the leading independent voice in the UK for using water wisely, for the benefit of people and the planet. Our vision is that water is used wisely every day, everywhere, by everyone. We are the UK’s conscience on water efficiency, on behalf of people and the planet, and are experts in water efficiency policy, regulation, research, behaviour and campaigns. We are a happy and growing team, and our staff survey reflects that the CEO’s number 1 priority is staff wellbeing – followed in second place of course by water efficiency, our mission. 

Benefits
This is a home-working position with travel for meetings. Our competitive non-financial benefits package includes the Four Day Week – 80% of contracted hours for 100% of contracted pay (we don’t work on Fridays). Other benefits at Waterwise include homeworking; a positive, values-based environment and inclusive culture where it feels safe for employees to say ‘no’ on grounds of workload; death in service benefit at x2 of salary; paid chartered and professional memberships; individual and team training budgets; maternity leave and adoption leave beyond statutory; and sickness pay beyond statutory.

Our Values
At Waterwise, we’re committed to driving equity and preventing discrimination at work and in the work we do. We know that simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We want to create an inclusive environment within Waterwise and in our work and events, where everyone can contribute their best and develop to their full potential. We celebrate and value how different everyone is, and we work hard to ensure everyone is treated with dignity and respect. This aligns with our ‘People’ value that we will prioritise staff wellbeing, and will be an inclusive, kind and positive team.

You can read our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statement on our website.

We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for everyone.If you are interested in applying for a role with us and think you may need some additionalsupport or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch.

For this role we particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Waterwise’s workforce. These include people from the global majority, LGBTQI+ people, and men.

Challenge Partners is seeking a purpose-led sales leader to deliver a crucial strand of our ambitious strategy to benefit 500,000 pupils each year by 2027.

Applications from our growth target regions - North West, North East, Yorkshire and Humber, and the Midlands - are strongly encouraged, but not essential. Weekly term-time office days in London are a requirement of the role, but we would consider reduced office days for a successful candidate based in one of these target regions.

Challenge Partners is an England-wide education charity with a mission to reduce educational inequality and improve the life chances of all children. We do this by delivering programmes and networks to boost school improvement, leadership development, and pupil progress.

By leading our sales and marketing, you will deliver a crucial strand of our exciting strategy to enhance and extend Challenge Partners to benefit 500,000 pupils each year by 2027. Reporting to the Chief Executive, your main objective will be to drive sales to increase the number of new schools and trusts joining Challenge Partners. You will also devise and lead marketing campaigns to build our brand and profile.

You will be the sales and marketing expert in the organisation, with good commercial sense and sensitivity to the sector. You will be able to design, execute and monitor impactful campaigns to help us reach new schools and trusts.  You will have the personal credibility to win the confidence of school and trust leaders and the tenacity to convert interest into sales personally and through your small team.

You will be a strong and highly-skilled communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop and strengthen new and existing relationships.  As a confident public speaker, you will engage and inspire audiences of school and trust leaders.  As a senior leader you will have a track record of building, managing and developing high-performing teams and play an important role on our Leadership Team in steering the organisation and upholding our culture.

We are a small, but diverse and dynamic team. We expect everyone in the central team to get stuck in, so you will need to be comfortable to both set the strategy and ‘do the do’ in the functions you oversee.

All employees at Challenge Partners will be subject to an enhanced DBS check as part of our commitment to safeguarding. 

Challenge Partners is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion and we are working towards a goal where our team fully reflects the diversity and difference in lived experiences. We strongly encourage applications from under-represented groups including: people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, and those with disabilities.

Strictly no agencies.

Job purpose:

 The role has two distinct areas of responsibility:

  Provide administrative and logistical support for the smooth running of the London office (70%). Administrative assistance for the general operations of the Trustees, including coordination of Board meetings (30%), although this may vary on a day-to-day basis.

This role requires a candidate who is well-organised, adaptable, and proactive. Strong administrative, numeracy, communication, and IT skills and proficiency in using the Microsoft Office suite, including SharePoint and our organisational Intranet, are essential.

 Most importantly, they’ll be team players willing to learn and bring a positive, enthusiastic attitude with a proactive, can-do approach.

Roles and responsibilities:

Office Administration and logistical support (70%)

· Proactively ensure that the office functions well and efficiently, maintaining office equipment and stocks of office supplies within budget.

· Act as the primary contact for visitors and phone inquiries. Manage the general inquiries email inbox and other shared email accounts.

· Be the main point of contact for office maintenance, security, and building management. Communicate with the landlord to promptly and efficiently address any related issues.

· Ensure office procedures are kept up-to-date and communicated to staff.

· Coordinate the preparation and production of business cards and ID cards for staff

· Develop and uphold Saferworld (UK)’s list of trusted suppliers, regularly reviewing and adjusting as necessary in alignment with Saferworld’s procurement policy.

· Add, update and maintain the UK Asset online asset register

· Identify opportunities to improve administrative systems and processes and proactively collaborate to redesign them.

· Collaborate closely with the Global People and Operations teams and ICT to assist in the onboarding and offboarding processes for new staff in our London office.

· Plan staff events, including annual summer and winter socials.

· Assist with renewing global insurance policies and provide administrative support for handling claims, including coordinating with staff and the insurance claims team as necessary.

· Coordinate with the IT team to set up new employees, ensuring the provision of company IT equipment aligns with internal policies.

· Provide administrative support to staff when visiting the UK, including providing visa support letters and making travel bookings in the UK for visiting staff and partners.

· Provide support with the organisational Travel Management Company (TMC), including setting up staff profiles and offering booking guidance.

· Monitor staff travel plans for ICT equipment movement.

· Manage Saferworld's organisational contacts database, including contact import, tagging, and deduplication, in compliance with UK GDPR legislation.

· Maintain an organised and effective filing structure within the internal SharePoint sites where relevant

Management team administrative support (30%)

· Provide administrative support to the Chief Executive Officer when required.

· Assist in preparing and coordinating management team, UK and Saferworld Europe Board meetings, and other committee and leadership meetings. This includes handling documentation, logistical arrangements, ICT setup for remote participation, and supporting travel bookings and expense claims.

· Manage the global Saferworld calendar, ensuring everyone is informed of events and meetings as necessary.

· Undertake miscellaneous tasks as requested by the CEO, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability to support organisational needs effectively.

You will be part of a small team providing close support (2 days) to the Managing Director and setting up and leading organisational and management systems for the wider office at the Peterborough Cultural Alliance (PCA) (3 days). Whilst preference is for one person to hold this as a full-time role, the role can be divided across two post holders as part-time roles too.

Responsibilities will include using your skills and experiences to understand how to build systems, support the team in using them and leading from the front in managing both strategic administrative objectives of building an office that is fit for purpose and modelling a supportive and collaborative culture.

You will also be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day management of emails, filing, bookings and will ensure financial administrative tasks are completed in good time, helping to build a highly efficient and responsive reputation of the PCA office. Supporting the Managing Director to ensure diaries, itineraries, reservations and other tasks related to the smooth running of the office are key to success in this role. 

For clarity, whilst Nene Park Trust will be your employer, your work will be that of the Peterborough Cultural Alliance. 

This is a full-time position, working 37.5 hours a week. 

You will be expected to maintain all existing relationships with grantees, as well as manage funding calls, applications, legal and financial elements, and reporting.  You will have a strong understanding of research, a can-do attitude, and the appetite to work in a small, dynamic organisation.

You will be educated to degree level or above in health sciences, life sciences or with equivalent relevant experience. With experience of developing, monitoring, reporting and delivering multiple projects simultaneously, you will also be able to communicate complex scientific concepts in a clear and accessible way and be able to plan, budget and monitor grant award expenditure and be comfortable taking decisions and responsibility.

If you have strong research experience (in a research environment in academia, the charitable sector, or similar), enjoy working in a small team and are proactive, organised, rigorous and like variety, then please do get in touch!

We are looking to recruit a Director of Finance and Resources to join our team based in London. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of circa £95,000 per annum.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Museum’s leadership team as our Director of Finance and Resources. The successful candidate will play a critical leadership role in the ongoing transformation and financial resilience of the Museum. A strategic senior finance leader, you will be a key adviser to our Chief Executive, our Audit, Resources and Risk Committee, and our Board of Trustees in delivering our ambitious Strategy 2030. You will also drive innovative strategies to develop our HR, Estates and IT priorities. 

An experienced senior finance professional, you will lead our multidisciplinary resources team and colleagues across the organisation to develop and improve the Museum’s performance. You will share our pledge to reduce our carbon emissions and our deep-seated commitments to equity, diversity and inclusion.

We are proud to be a National Museum, sharing globally important stories, while rooted in our communities. Our great people are essential to our visitors-first ethos and we offer a generous package of benefits including excellent holiday entitlement and hybrid working opportunities.

The Royal Air Force Museum is a National Museum, a Government non-departmental public body (NDPB) and a registered charity, with a vision to inspire everyone with the RAF story – the people who shape it and its place in our lives.

We have two public sites in London and the Midlands and are funded through government Grant in Aid and self-generated income from fundraising and our trading company.

Closing date for applications: Monday 17th June 2024 (by 10.00am).

Selection and interview day will take place (in person) on: Wednesday 3rd July 2024.

If you think you have what it takes and want to be part of this exciting journey, please click apply now to be re-directed to our jobs page where you can access the application method and details for the Director of Finance and Resources role. Join us in delivering our purpose and achieving our vision, ensuring that the Royal Air Force’s story continues to enrich and inspire current and future generations. We would love to hear from you.

Operations Director

We are looking for an Operations Director that can help lead Lifecentral Church to grow to the next level. James Clear in ‘Atomic Habits’ states “You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems” and we are recruiting for an operations director who can build teams, systems and structures that will result in us achieving the goal of helping more people find and follow Jesus. 

Lifecentral Church is growing at a rapid rate, we are engaging with, reaching, baptising, serving, supporting and discipling more and more people. We have momentum. In order to sustain that momentum and grow from 1000 people to 2000 people we need structures and systems that can sustain the growth and prepare us for the future. 

In Acts 6, we read about a crucial moment for the early church when they had momentum. The apostles needed some help in delivering the mission they are all called to. They needed godly leadership to work alongside them and use their unique gifting to help achieve the vision. They needed an effective structure to deliver the mission and ensure that everyone is released to carry out their unique roles and as a result of that ‘the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly.’ This is the heartbeat behind the Operations Director role at Lifecentral Church. You are the person who oversees the operational life of Lifecentral, its organisational structures and support systems, helping to turn vision and strategy into reality

If this sounds like you, please download the application pack and send your cv and covering letter in to our HR Partners, Cornerstone Resources, by clicking apply now. This role closes on 19th June 2024.

About Lifecentral Church

Lifecentral Church is an ELIM Church based in Halesowen, West Midlands. We are growing rapidly with 1000 people gathering across our sites each Sunday. Our main locations are in Halesowen and Hagley with microsites in Cleobury Mortimer and Bromsgrove as well as our Online Campus.

Location:  Lifecentral Church, Little Cornbow, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 3AJ
Contract:  Permanent,  Full time
Salary: £30,000

Closing date 17-06-2024

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