Salary: £90,000 - £100,000

Our pupils, students and staff are talented, unique and diverse, and we need a dynamic leader to join our Executive Senior Leadership Team in the rewarding and multi-faceted role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). 

Orchard Hill College, based across six college centres, and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, comprising 15 academies, together form Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire.

The uniqueness of OHC&AT is that it is fully representative of all designations of special educational needs and disabilities. Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including Autistic Spectrum Disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.

The COO will be responsible for improving the business capability, effectiveness and overall efficiency of OHC&AT service areas to support the education and wellbeing of our pupils and students.  Immediate priorities include the delivery of an ambitious estate strategy with five live Free School projects, significant funded building projects and an ICT strategy that meets the expectations of its users whilst providing value for money. 

Please visit our website for further details of the role and information about our organisation. You will be redirected to apply via the online application process on our TES landing page.

Closing date: Monday 8th March at 5pm

Interviews: w/c 15th March

Orchard Hill College & Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Please note that CV applications will not be considered.

The Lighthouse London a thriving charismatic church on Finchley Road, London NW3 is looking to recruit a Chief Operations Officer

1. Qualified accountant with management experience
2. A practicing Christian with a passion for the vision of the Lighthouse, and desire to improve its work and impact. 
3. Proven track record in linking financial information with business needs

The Lighthouse is looking for a finance and operations professional to be a proactive partner for the Senior Pastor, Chairman of The Lighthouse Community Trust, providing regular updates on the financial position and prospects and working with them on strategy and decision-making

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ISWAN is a leading international seafarers’ welfare NGO that promotes the welfare of seafarers worldwide. Our current CEO is retiring in May 2021, and we are looking for a new leader to take the organisation to its next stage. With offices in the UK, India, and the Philippines, ISWAN runs a range of programmes and services that improve the physical and mental wellbeing of seafarers worldwide. The main programme is SeafarerHelp, the free and confidential twenty four hour helpline for seafarers and their families. Over recent years ISWAN has developed a widely respected programme that seeks to improve the mental wellbeing of seafarers. ISWAN is a membership organisation with members from shipping companies, unions, insurers, welfare agencies, and governments.

Responsible for twenty two staff the role requires the ability to develop constructive partnerships with a range of different organisations, including funders, in the maritime world. The role will also require working closely with the board of trustees.

We are looking for a creative, collaborative, and inspiring individual. We need the new CEO to lead and shape ISWAN’s strategic direction. The successful candidate will have experience in service delivery, fundraising and business development, marketing and communications; corporate governance; finance and, ideally, knowledge of seafarers and shipping.

We promote a working environment in which diversity is recognised, valued and encouraged. We are committed to principles of fairness and mutual respect where everyone accepts the concept of individual responsibility. Our policies seek to ensure job applicants and employees are treated fairly and without favour or prejudice.  We are committed to applying this throughout all areas of employment. 

Application by letter (strictly no more than 800 words) and CV (strictly no more than 3 A4 pages) 

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.

The Claudia Jones Organisation (CJO) is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced person to lead the Charity.

CJO is an African Caribbean Women and Families charity with over 38 years’ experience of providing services in the London Borough of Hackney and surrounding boroughs. We work primarily to eliminate the worst aspects of poverty and deprivation within our community. We use a multifaceted approach, with a strong focus on improving life chances, addressing gender-based violence and providing therapeutic interventions. Our work has never been more important.

Please download and review the Executive Director - Job Description (available under 'Additional documents') to determine your interest in and suitability for the position.

Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. 145,000 people in the UK have Parkinson’s, and there is no cure - yet.

We are part of a demanding and caring community and their needs drive the support, services, information and advice that we deliver.

We are working at pace to harness the rapid advancements in technology and medical science to improve our services, and develop new treatments that slow, stop or reverse Parkinson’s and manage its symptoms and side effects.

Our Chief Executive of 15 years is stepping down, creating an opportunity for an exceptional leader who has the passion, ambition and drive to make a difference for the 1 million people, including loved ones, affected by this relentless condition.

For more information, please contact our recruitment partner, Odgers Berndtson who are managing this vacancy on behalf of Parkinson’s UK.

Chief Executive Officer 
£130,000 per annum 

Flexible location – with regular travel to Chesterfield and London

We are Versus Arthritis.

We’re the 18 million people with arthritis and related conditions across the UK.

Together, we’re working to achieve a world where no one is limited by the pain, isolation and fatigue that arthritis can cause. Our galvanised community shapes government policy, invests in cutting-edge research, and ensures that every person with arthritis, no matter where they live in the UK, has access to the support and services they need to live well.  

You are a bold, inspiring, visible CEO who can help us grow.

You will help us grow our influence so that we can make an even bigger impact now and sustain our work in the future. You will bring an innovative, creative leadership approach to support our leadership team at a pivotal time in our organisation’s history, and you will help us invigorate our operations and empower us all to achieve a national impact. You will help us reach farther, support more people, and achieve our vision of a world free of the pain of arthritis.

Are you ready to join in with the push against arthritis?

For more information and to apply, click on the HOW TO APPLY link.

Closing date: 11:59pm on Monday 8 March 2021. 

Chief Executive Officer

Salary: £45 – £50,000 per annuum

Hours: 35

Contract: Full time (but will consider part-time, flexible hours and job share)

Annual leave: 30 days

Pension: 5.6%

We are recruiting a new CEO to join our team.

We are a vibrant, forward thinking law centre co-located in Hammersmith Library. We have a strong reputation locally and nationally for providing people in need with legal advice and representation and campaigning on access to justice issues.

The law centre was established in November 1979 to assist those most vulnerable and disadvantaged to access their legal rights, to promote social inclusion and reduce homelessness and poverty. These goals still remain at the core of our vision to uphold equality and social justice.

We have a 40-year history of providing an excellent service to the community. Our patron is Lady Hale, retired president of the Supreme Court.

Closing date for applications is 5pm on the 20th March 2021

West Silvertown Foundation is a community led organisation based in London’s Royal Docks, seeking to create a vibrant and connected community where everyone has the chance to thrive. We manage two community centres, delivering a range of activities from under fives work to a youth project and adult social groups. We work closely with a wide range of partners, including local schools, the Royal Docks team, and other local third sector organisations.

We are looking for a Chief Executive Officer to lead West Silvertown Foundation through an exciting time as we expand our youth services, secure new premises, and redevelop our main community centre.

The successful applicant will be passionate about bringing diverse communities together. They will be able to work on high level leadership tasks, but will also be able to converse with community members. They will be part of a busy, bustling community office, with a cross section of the community coming in throughout the day.

The main responsibilities of the successful applicant will be:

• Leadership: To provide clear leadership and convey the organisations vision to all staff and volunteers.
• Governance: To support the effective governance of WSF through the administration of legal & statutory obligations and regular trustees meetings.
• Operations: To oversee the operational management of WSF, ensuring excellent service delivery across all WSF projects, activities and services.
• Strategic development: To lead the strategic development of WSF in line with its aims and objectives, values, ethos and policies.
• Building development: Provide support on the redevelopment of Britannia Village Hall
• Partnership working: To act as an ambassador for WSF, representing our work to stakeholders and developing fruitful partnerships.
• Finances: Work to oversee WSF’s financial management, ensuring a healthy overall financial position.  Develop the long term financial sustainability of the organisation, maximising earned income and securing funding from statutory and non-statutory sources.

If you relish a challenge, are keen to make a positive difference to people’s lives and contribute at the heart of a diverse community in London’s Royal Docks then we would love to hear from you. Please download the full Job Description and Person Specification for more information.

We want to hear from all interested candidates, and to be considered for the position we strongly recommend submitting a detailed covering letter along with your CV, outlining why you're right for the role.

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This leadership role requires a highly competent, driven and hands-on individual to provide strategic, communications and operational support for this small but leading national charity at an exciting stage in its development. Key to this will be ensuring that any of the 16 million people living with high blood pressure in the UK have easy access to the best and most up to date information and medical advice.

Our vision is for everyone to know their blood pressure numbers in the same way they know their height or weight and take steps to keep them healthy, both now and in the future.

Responsible for developing the charity’s business plan and securing funding to deliver and sustain it, you will inspire and manage a small but committed team and work comfortably with our Board of Trustees (many of which are the authority on blood pressure management and research).  

The ideal candidate will demonstrate vision and creativity, as well as the skills and hands-on experience in senior management and fundraising. As an inspiring leader, you will build strong relationships with our supporters, donors, stakeholders and the media whilst ensuring that the charity is the number one ‘go to’ to help lower the nation's blood pressure and prevent stroke and heart disease. 

With unemployment expected to reach new highs and millions already out of work, creating employment and supporting business has never been more crucial. The Work Avenue Foundation (Work Avenue) provides people in the Jewish community with essential lifelong skills to support themselves and their families by helping people into work and supporting the building of sustainable businesses.

Work Avenue helps people to achieve financial independence, with a focus on dignity. In the past year, as well as adapting to deliver our services virtually, we have complimented our key services of Employment and Business Support with new programs to ensure more people in our community can access wider training programs, to empower them to secure employment.

Chief Executive Officer

Work Avenue

Finchley, London

Circa £100,000

We are looking for an inspirational leader to grow Work Avenue to its next level of impact. Working closely with the Board and building on our strong reputation, the CEO will review the current landscape and identify new opportunities to ensure we can reach and support more members of our community. This will include developing our networks with businesses to create win:win solutions to current employment challenges. In addition, the CEO will develop and maintain our relationships with donors and supporters, ensure we continue to deliver sustainable income and build our profile within Anglo-Jewry. They will also provide the leadership and resources for our passionate team, enabling them to achieve the best in their roles.

In order to continue to develop and provide the best possible service for our community, we seek a creative and innovative individual with inspirational leadership experience and a track record of developing organisations to excel, from developing external opportunities to maintaining support for staff. Our new CEO will have worked within or alongside business and will be able to develop new opportunities within the business community. They will also bring experience of building and maintaining a breadth of stakeholder relationships, including funders, and a track record of raising an organisation's profile. As a credible and adaptable leader, the incoming CEO will be a strong communicator and a supportive leader who is able to juggle multiple priorities and the aspiration of a small team with large ambitions.

To download the candidate information pack and for further details on how to apply please download this on the Prospectus website.

If having reviewed the candidate information pack you have any questions, please contact Anna Gardet or Roberta Giubilini at Prospectus with a copy of your CV.

Deadline for applications: Tuesday 6th April 2021

Interviews with Prospectus: 12-15th April 2021

Interviews with Work Avenue: 21st April 2021

Refugee Action has supported refugees and people seeking asylum since 1981.  We work with people who have survived war and persecution, following their arrival in the UK. We help them to obtain the support they need to live with dignity. Then we empower them to build safe, happy and productive lives in the UK.

Our vision is that refugees and people seeking asylum will be welcome in the UK. They will get justice, live free of poverty and be able to successfully rebuild their lives.

Chief Executive

Refugee Action

Can be based in London, Manchester, Bradford, Liverpool or Birmingham. Flexible working requests and job share applications welcome.

£72,000 - £76,000 plus London weighting

We work to achieve our vision through working collaboratively with local and national partners to provide front-line services, campaigning to tackle the root cause of problems faced by refugees and people seeking asylum, and working to connect and support other organisations so we are stronger as a sector. 

This is a unique opportunity for an inclusive, courageous, collaborative leader to work with a highly talented and committed board and staff team to develop and drive Refugee Action forward with passion and humility. You will bring a track record of successful leadership in securing systemic change, through campaigns, services and / or capacity building.   We are keen to attract candidates with lived experience as a refugee or person seeking asylum.

Deadline for applications:  Monday 22nd March

To learn more about this unique opportunity, and to find out how to apply, please read the full appointment brief, on the Prospectus website, which can be reached by clicking on the “Apply on Website” Button.

Job title: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Contract: Permanent, full time
Salary: 50,000 p.a.
Location: Teddington (currently remote working)

Absolute Support Leading Light (ASLL) aspires to provide support within independent living settings for adults with learning disabilities or a mental health condition. We currently support 13 adults with learning disabilities who live in three shared houses in the London Borough of Richmond. We also provide support to adults living in their own homes within the community.

ASLL is committed to ensuring that our clients become and remain valued members of their community. We promote self-esteem and empower our young adults by advocating team spirit and camaraderie. We pride ourselves on finding creative pathways to enable our clients to live the lives of their choice. Our focus on a holistic, person centred working approach is essential to the support we provide.

ASLL is seeking a new CEO who will be responsible for ensuring that the charity continues to achieve its primary objective of providing the people in its care with the opportunity to lead independent and fulfilling lives.

Key responsibilities:
- Act as an ambassador for the charity and an advocate for the client group through building strong relationships with key stakeholders including but not limited to, clients, parents, trustees, local authority partners and the CQC.
- Responsible, along with the board of trustees, for the development of the charity s strategy, determining overall direction and developing plans which ensure that the charity s objectives are operationalised.
- Lead, manage and motivate employees to ensure they deliver high quality and supportive care and development for the charity s clients.
- Measure and monitor performance against CQC standards to ensure client provision meets acceptable quality standards.

As well as a passion for the work of Absolute Support, the successful candidate will have experience of:
- Proven experience as CEO or senior manager in the social care sector.
- Experience of financial management and control, including budget setting and reviews.
- Proven experience in developing strategic plans in the care and charitable sector.
- Understanding of the Social Model of Disability and the Medical Model of Disability and their appropriate application.
- Experience of working with adults with learning disabilities/mental health conditions is preferred

If you would like to receive an Information Pack for this role with details on how to apply, or for an informal conversation, please contact Nick Shanks at [email protected] with your number and suitable times to speak.

Please note: responding to this advertisement will not in itself be considered an application. We will need a CV and a supporting statement addressing the full person specification in the information pack.

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 10th March 21

About The Lord’s Taverners

The Lord’s Taverners is the UK’s leading youth cricket and disability sports charity. It breaks down barriers and empowers disadvantaged and disabled young people to fulfil their potential and build life skills. Founded in 1950, the Charity has a proud history supported by its members and stars from the world of sport and entertainment.

Its programmes support some of the most marginalised and at-risk young people in the UK using sport and recreation to build links between communities and encouraging groups to play sport together.  These programmes include Super 1s, Table Cricket, Wicketz and Sports Kit Recycling.

The Role:

The Lord’s Taverners (LT) is currently seeking to recruit a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to drive the charity forwards. Accountable to the Chair and Board of Trustees, the new CEO will be responsible for the successful delivery of the LT’s strategic objectives and goals. The new CEO will be a transformational leader who will implement organisational and cultural change that result in the LT’s being viewed as a centre of excellence in all that it does.

Role Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Chair, Board and Executive Team to ensure the successful delivery of the LT’s five-year vision and strategy.
• Transform working practices within the LT; overseeing a period of significant change management, ensuring that best practice processes and procedures are implemented.
• Act publicly as an ambassador and figurehead for LT, engaging with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including: members, beneficiaries, employees, government, the media etc.
• Work closely with existing and future funding partners to ensure the long-term financial security of the charity.
• Be a credible leader for LT, by embodying the organisation’s values, ambitions and commitment to ensure the charity is a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organisation.

The Candidate:

Skills:

• Exceptional leadership skills, capable of inspiring, growing and developing a team through a period of transformation.
• Outstanding operational skillset, efficiency with finite resources and the ability to successfully lead a process of change management.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering results in a fast-paced and pressured environment.
• Strong knowledge of best practice in terms of EDI and experience of driving this through an organisation.
• Excellent communication skills - a strong presenter, articulate and good on their feet.

Personality:

• Highly motivated, possesses natural gravitas and leads by example.
• Strong emotional intelligence and an ability to work effectively with a diverse range of contributors and stakeholders.
• Logical and good under pressure, capable of juggling multiple demands at the same time.
• Invested in the professional development of LT employees and contributors.
• Ethical, culturally sensitive, and fully committed to LT’s mission.

How to apply:

The Lord’s Taverners recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We particularly encourage applications from disabled candidates, female candidates and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as these groups are underrepresented in leadership positions throughout the charity sector.

To apply, please send an up-to-date CV, Covering Letter (which expresses your motivation for the role and highlights your relevant experience) and Diversity Monitoring Form.

Please note that the closing date for applications is 12pm on Thursday 4th March 2021.

The Lord's Taverners is a Disability Confident Committed and an equal opportunities employer.

The Jane Goodall Institute UK (JGI UK) seeks to inform and empower people of all ages to learn about the problems facing our planet and to become involved in supporting our core programmes to provide solutions. Building on 60 years of research at Gombe in western Tanzania, programmes for conservation, education, captive primate welfare and the legacy of an icon, you will be joining a global community where individual actions combine to create global impact.

The CEO will lead the transformation of the organisational culture of JGI UK as part of a global community of JGIs:

1. We are a global family with a common purpose

2. We act locally but think globally

3. We are responsive, active communicators

4. We are committed to collaboration

5. We are solutions-focused

Job Description: Chief Executive – The Jane Goodall Institute UK

• Location: Home based (but commutable to London)
• Competitive Salary (pro rata option available)
• Hours negotiable
• Accountable to the Board of Trustees of the Jane Goodall Institute UK

CEO Role:

The Jane Goodall Institute UK seeks a passionate and enthusiastic Chief Executive Officer to lead the charity. Animals, People, and the Environment. That is who and what we care deeply about. If your passions align with this, then we invite you apply to join our team. 

We’re looking for a transformational leader to help us fulfil our promise for a better world to communities in the UK and across the globe. As CEO, you will be an engaging and capable champion using your exceptional management and public speaking abilities to ensure we deliver on our strategic objectives and make a tangible impact in line with our charitable purposes. Working closely with an engaged Staff and Board of Trustees, you will make things happen by creating and executing strategic initiatives that expand programs and services in the UK and around the world.

With your visionary talent, you will lead us forward to achieve our fiduciary and financial commitments while embracing unshakeable ethics. You will be in charge of developing our fundraising strategy and focus on creating partnerships with both corporates and non-profit organisations that will contribute to fundraising goals. You will lead the communications with donors as well as our marketing and digital communication strategy.

The Person:

As a transformational leader, you understand how to affect positive societal change. In addition, you:

• Are recognized for building relationships in multi-stakeholder environments
• Have delivered results to other global organizations, combining the best of charitable, public and private sector approaches with insightful leadership experience
• Bring an immediate knowledge of charities, evidence of life-long learning, excellence in communication, political acuity, and a network of contacts
• Have a strong branding and digital marketing / communication experience for well-established brands 
• Are experienced in managing funding programs, business development and sponsorship strategies for large charities or organisations
• Have an in-depth appreciation of organization governance will ensure a trusting and meaningful partnership with the Board of Trustees