CAFOD is looking for a strategic and collaborative leader to shape how digital, data and technology enable our mission, strengthen supporter engagement, and build a resilient, future-ready organisation.
The Role
You’ll lead our DDaT Solutions function, working across the organisation to design and deliver high-impact, cost-effective technology and data solutions. You’ll oversee multidisciplinary teams spanning business analysis, digital and business solutions, and data & insight—while managing key suppliers, budgets, and delivery priorities.
As a senior adviser to the Executive Team, you’ll play a critical role in setting direction, balancing innovation with stability, and ensuring technology investments deliver real value.
What You’ll Do
- Shape and deliver CAFOD’s digital, data and technology strategy
- Lead enterprise platforms, data, and solution design to support organisational goals
- Drive transformation programmes and ensure value from technology investments
- Advise senior leaders on priorities, risks, and opportunities (including AI and automation)
- Strengthen governance, data quality, and risk management
- Build high-performing teams and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
What You’ll Bring
- Experience leading large-scale digital, data or technology functions
- Strong track record delivering technology-enabled change
- Ability to balance innovation with security, resilience, and value for money
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including at the executive level
- Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams
The full job description is available on CAFOD's careers page
CAFOD is a welcoming, supportive workplace committed to a safe, inclusive culture where everyone is respected. CAFOD will make reasonable adjustments at every stage of the recruitment process to ensure candidates with disabilities or individual needs are fully supported.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
CAFOD is the official Catholic aid agency for England and Wales tackling poverty and injustice across the world.
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Using Anonymous Recruitment
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Leukaemia UK – Our Charity
We are a ‘small but mighty’ charity with one big ambition: to stop leukaemia devastating lives. Despite decades of incredible progress, only half of leukaemia patients live longer than five years after their diagnosis. We won't stop until we change this.
We accelerate progress through the life-changing research, awareness and advocacy that matter most to people affected by leukaemia, doing everything we can to make sure that the next person with leukaemia has the best possible experience of diagnosis, treatment and care.
We are looking for an experienced, driven and resourceful Head of HR and Operations, reporting to our Director of Finance and Resources. The role brings together delegated leadership for HR, Governance, Operations (Facilities, H&S, IT) and Risk management, working within the strategic direction set by the Director of Finance and Resources and CEO. We are transitioning from a historically outsourced HR model to a strengthened, inhouse HR and Operations function, to support delivery of our new five-year strategy.
Team
We are a close-knit team, who are all passionate about Leukaemia UK and putting those affected by the disease at the heart of everything we do. We are all focused on ‘keeping it real’ with pragmatic, practical solutions, as well as ensuring that our charity gets the funding it needs to continue to help those diagnosed with leukaemia.
As a small organisation with just over 30 employees, every role counts. We have ambitious plans and we rely on individuals being self-starters, resilient and working at pace to maximise our collective impact. We may not be about the corporate life here, but we are all about delivering exceptional expertise and making a real change to people’s lives.
Leukaemia UK and You
You will lead the development and delivery of People, Governance & Operations frameworks, aligned to the organisation’s strategy and under the direction of the Director of Finance and Resources. As a Head Of, you will contribute strategically as a specialist in your field, combining hands‑on operational delivery with a strong focus on continuous improvement. You will have the opportunity to help shape and embed new ways of working, improve processes and systems, and develop an important function that is fit to support an ambitious and growing charity. Delivery will be a team effort, with operational coordination and administrative delivery carried out by the Governance & Operations direct report, under your leadership.
Whilst the accountability is broad, we seek first and foremost a qualified and experienced HR professional, with a track record in a wide range of HR disciplines, working across a variety of stakeholders and managing a busy workload to deliver programmes of work. As part of this, we would expect a level of exposure and competence with regards to operations, governance and risk management. You will line‑manage and develop the Governance and Operations direct report, who provides administrative and coordination support across HR, governance, health & safety, facilities and IT activity.
In return, you will gain exposure to a broad range of organisational activity, work closely with senior leaders and teams, and play a key role in supporting Leukaemia UK’s next phase of strategic development.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Experience in managing a broad range of HR activities in a small or medium-sized charitable organisation.
- CIPD Qualified
- Proven experience of shaping HR strategy and implementation, with tangible outcomes.
- Business partner experience, to tailor HR support to the needs of different teams.
- Proven experience in shaping the culture and internal ways of working of an organisation, including expertise in EDIB and Wellbeing.
- Proven experience in organisational design and change management
- Excellent knowledge of UK Employment Law and how to embed this into HR policy.
- Proven experience in advising on Employee Relations to reach fair and just outcomes.
- Sufficient knowledge to oversee and review the Comp and Benefits framework.
- Proven experience in providing learning and development solutions to meet internal needs.
- Experience of line managing staff and supporting their development.
- Effective communication skills (written and oral), ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
- Effective planning and work prioritision skills to balance strategic and project work with hands on delivery and line management.
- Comfortable working in a part time role with clear priorities and boundaries.
- Resilient and resourceful to navigate through and embed organisational and process change
- Able to demonstrate our charities values of being bold, collaborative and curious.
- Discrete and trustworthy with high levels of integrity.
- Strong IT skills, including Office 365 and SharePoint.
Desirable:
- Governance experience
- Risk management experience
- Level of exposure to Health and Safety obligations
- Management of outsourced service providers.
- Willingness to identify, test and apply appropriate technology and AI tools to streamline processes.
Role Specifics
- 22.5 hours per week (0.6 FTE) worked over 4-5 days, Monday to Friday.
- Location: We are very flexible! Our offices are based in Central London, and we operate hybrid working. In this role you are required to work from the office at least 1 day per week.
- FTE Salary range £60,000 dependent on experience (pro-rata for part time)
- We are proud of our benefits – see a summary on our website Work with us - Leukaemia UK
Benefits
- 36 days holiday per year, including bank holidays- pro rata for part time employees
- Pension – default is 4% employee and 4% employer and we match up to 6%
- Life Assurance – x 4 cover
- Critical Illness Cover
- Cash back healthcare scheme & Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Hybrid Working- 1 day in the office per week
- Company sick pay
Applications and interview timings
If you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of experience, skills, energy, and flair, then we would love you to apply. Please also see the full job description attached to the advert.
To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications. Please apply via the CharityJob website with your CV and covering letter.
Closing Date: Midnight Tuesday 12th May 2026
- First interviews will be held via Teams on Thursday 21st May 2026
- Second interviews will be face to face in our London Offices – at 26 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5BL on Wednesday 27th May 2026
I look forward to hearing from you!
Azra
Azra Karaselimovic
Director of Finance and Resources
Leukaemia UK
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Together we can find and fund the research that matters most to people living with blood cancer.
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