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Harris Hill are delighted to be working exclusively with this National Charitable Charity to recruit their new Deputy Director - Corporate Services & Strategic Finance. (Hybrid)
Deputy Director - Corporate Services & Strategic Finance:
- Position: Permanent
- Location: Central London / Home Working
- Salary: £66,000pa - £71000pa, plus £3.300 London Weighting
- Hybrid working: 1 days a week is required at their offices in Central London.
- Working pattern: Flexible working hours.
- Team structure: The role has responsibility for two Heads of Service, with a wider team of 12 colleagues reporting through them.
Role Purpose:
To support the strategic leadership of the organisation's financial strategy, governance, and corporate services, ensuring robust financial management, regulatory compliance, and effective organisational systems that enable delivery of the charity's mission.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Financial Leadership
- Lead the development and delivery of the organisation's financial strategy, ensuring long-term sustainability.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and scenario planning.
- Provide high-quality financial insight to the Board, and senior leadership.
- Ensure compliance with Charity SORP, financial regulations, and audit requirements.
- Lead relationships with auditors, investment managers, and financial partners.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Maintain robust governance frameworks aligned with charity and company law.
- Lead organisational risk management, including financial, operational, and regulatory risks.
- Ensure compliance with GDPR, safeguarding, procurement, and funder requirements.
- Support the Board, Committee of Audit, Risk & Finance, and other governance bodies with timely reporting.
Corporate Services & Organisational Systems
- Oversee finance, governance, data, procurement, and corporate systems functions.
- Drive continuous improvement in organisational processes, systems, and controls.
- Lead contract negotiation and management with suppliers, funders, and partners.
- Ensure effective use of CRM, finance systems, and digital tools.
Leadership & Culture
- Provide inspirational leadership to multi-disciplinary teams.
- Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and high performance.
- Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion across the organisation.
- Act as a strategic partner.
External Engagement
- Represent the organisation with regulators, funders, partners, and sector bodies.
- Contribute to policy development and sector-wide initiatives where relevant.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications & Experience
- Degree-level education and a recognised senior management qualification, or equivalent professional experience.
- Demonstrable understanding of financial regulations, compliance, and reporting with significant experience leading financial strategy in a complex organisation.
- Strong understanding and significant senior experience of company/charity/regulated sector governance and compliance frameworks and the ability to ensure organisational adherence
- Significant experience overseeing financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, audit, and long-term financial modelling.
- Experience in commercial, funder, and supplier contract negotiation, including risk assessment and performance management.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial and data insights to support organisational decision-making.
- Experience working directly with Boards and Committees, providing high-quality strategic insight and assurance.
- Demonstrated ability to lead organisational improvement, systems development, and process optimisation across multiple functions.
Desirable Qualifications & Experience
- A formal accounting qualification (CCAB or equivalent).
- Knowledge of Charities SORP and charity accounting principles.
- Ability to integrate finance, data, and governance into a coherent organisational assurance framework.
- Political and current-affairs awareness relevant to the charity and public-sector landscape.
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Nb. for full information on this role please read both attachments: Job Pack and Job Description
Summary
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled individual to serve as Coordinator, leading the mission of Street Pastors in Kingston. The ideal candidate for this role will be a person of integrity who is able to demonstrate experience and potential in leadership of Christian outreach and mission. They should have experience leading and managing volunteers in a relevant context. They should possess effective organisational and communication skills and demonstrate a passion for building and sustaining partnerships around community outreach.
Context
Kingston Street Pastors is a churches initiative which has been operating since 2006 deploying Christian volunteers in the town centre in the night time to Care, Listen and Help. We enjoy excellent relationships with key stakeholders in Kingston’s night time economy including our local council, police and businesses. Within the wider Street Pastors movement we have made significant contributions over the years to develop policy and practice and have worked closely with neighbouring Street Pastors initiatives and with the Ascension Trust. For governance purposes Kingston Street Pastors operates as an affiliated project of Oxygen, a Kingston based youth work charity.
Our key strategic priorities are to maintain and build on the positive relationships we have with our local council, the police and businesses in the night time economy, taking advantage of opportunities for collaboration, accessing funding and other forms of support. We are perennially focused on the recruitment of new volunteers to serve as Street Pastors and Prayer Pastors to sustain and grow our capacity to deploy teams to the streets.
About the Role
This role has a Genuine Occupational Requirement for the post holder to be a practicing Christian (as outlined by 2010 Equality Act, Section 9)
Our new Coordinator will work closely with the Street Pastors Deputy Coordinator, leading the regular operations of Kingston Street Pastors and the deployment of teams while also overseeing the strategic development of the initiative in response to emerging needs and opportunities.
Applicants should have people skills and demonstrate an ability to solve problems using a range of creative solutions including working with volunteers or using technology in new ways. The ideal candidate will have an ability to work flexibly and manage their time and resource effectively amidst competing priorities.
A strong applicant will also be able to demonstrate the following:
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A good understanding of the work and ethos of Street Pastors and how this resonates with your approach to Christian mission.
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A passion for the role the Church plays in our local community and an ecumenical ethos which is appreciative of a diversity of Christian traditions.
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The ability to partner with key stakeholders in the community to increase the resources, reach and depth of charitable projects.
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A high level of proficiency in project management with competent administrative and IT skills.
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A good understanding of the night time economy, its users and key stakeholders.
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Experience and skills in charity/ church project leadership with specific reference to the recruitment, development and management of volunteers.
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An understanding of monitoring and reporting on the impact of charitable work.
Relevant experience in fields such as youth work, homelessness support, drug and alcohol services and promotion of community safety are also highly desirable.
This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check and suitable references including at least one reference from a church minister.
To apply for this role please provide your CV and write a cover letter of no more than 1500 words (or up to 2 pages) explaining why you are interested in the role and how your skills, attributes and experience make you a suitable candidate. Please ensure that your covering letter addresses the criteria both in the attached Coordinator Job Pack and the Coordinator Job Description.
