Chief Executive

SF Executive are proud to be working with the Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Charity to find the organisation an inspirational and commercially driven Chief Executive.

The Charity is proud to support Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, the only Trust of its kind in the country. With more than 641,000 patient visits each year, their team works tirelessly to provide the very best treatment and support to women, children and families. Their patients experience some of the most advanced treatments, complex surgical procedures and compassionate care.

Together they strive to always be at the forefront of what is possible.

Thanks to their dedicated supporters and fundraising team, the Charity has been able to help the Trust make a real difference to all who use their services. This vital support has meant the Trust has been able to introduce new technologies and equipment, undertake cutting-edge research and provide the best possible experience and healing environment for children, young people, women and families.

The Role

Based in Birmingham, the Chief Executive is responsible for leading the development and delivery of the Charity’s long-term strategy and for the operational management of the Charity. The role leads on ensuring that the Charity delivers as effectively as possible its annual targets, raising significant income for Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and for research that seeks to improve the lives of women, children and young people, in Birmingham, the UK and across the world.

Leadership & team working

• To provide outstanding leadership, modelling the Charity’s values, to motivate staff, volunteers, donors, partners and other stakeholders to deliver the vision and mission.
• To lead the Charity ensuring targets and objectives are met whilst creating a culture that embraces the Charity’s and the Trust’s values and attracts, develops, rewards and motivates staff and volunteers.
• To oversee performance management by ensuring all staff have annual objectives and appraisals, developing skills and expertise to ensure implementation and adherence to values and standards.
• To ensure effective team working both within the Charity but also between the Charity and the Trust.

Strategy & business development

• To lead on the development and delivery of the strategic plan and provide direction and leadership for overall planning, implementation and monitoring of the Charity’s activities.
• To act in a liaison role between the Charity and Trust, and with other partners where appropriate, to ensure strong and aligned partnerships that inform the Charity’s strategy and seeks to best serve beneficiaries.
• To develop and deliver plans to achieve or exceed annual fundraising targets in line with the agreed long-term strategy and cash flow, whilst ensuring all fundraising activities are delivered in line with the Charity’s commitment to best practice and high ethical standards, building trust and confidence amongst donors, other stakeholders and the general public.

Delivery of operational excellence

• To ensure that a key set of metrics are developed to help track the development and growth of the business and this data is used as part of a continual improvement process to deliver expected outcomes.
• To effectively manage the resources provided by the Charity for the operation of the fundraising team; overseeing the overall financial management/control of the Charity, including financial planning, reporting, budgeting and asset management, ensuring a cost-conscious culture is embedded across the organisation at all times.
• To ensure that leadership, systems and processes are in place to deliver excellent project management and to deliver agreed budgets, plans and objectives.
• To work with the Trust to provide accountability to donors and Trustees, ensuring charitable funds are spent in line with the intention of donors and/or Trustees, to have the greatest impact for beneficiaries.
• To develop a set of outcome measures that provides to demonstrate the clinical, social and economic impact of the funds that have been invested into the Trust by the Charity.

Governance

• To develop a mutually trusting and effective working relationship with Trustees.
• Together with the Group Company Secretary, ensure the Charity delivers great governance and high ethical standards in all it does, ensuring its legal obligations are met in compliance with all Charity, company and other relevant law and good practice guidelines.
• Together with the Group Company Secretary, ensure systems and structures are in place to enable the Trustees to fulfil their legal and governance obligations, providing them with accurate information and advice to enable them to make informed decisions so that they conduct their role in accordance with the law, Charity Commission requirements and the Charity’s own constitution.

Stakeholder engagement & communication

• Building effective relationships across a wide range of stakeholders to ensure effective and timely communication – including but not limited to the Trust, key donors, prospective donors, local businesses, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and other key influencers.

• To champion a marketing and communications strategy that seeks to communicate engaging and motivating messages both internally and externally for the Charity and the Trust, demonstrating the impact of charitable funds and the need for continued support.

Brand profile and reputation

• To protect and develop the Charity brand, further building the national and international profile of the Charity as a values-led organisation with high ethical standards and integrity.
• To act as key representative for the Charity at internal and external meetings and events, acting as a spokesperson for the Charity where appropriate.
• To contribute to donor and partner relationships at the highest level, working with relevant teams to identify and where appropriate lead on approaches to high value potential supporters and ensuring the Charity delivers best practice stewardship for all supporters.

Using diversity and inclusion to drive improvement

• Build on our current approach to diversity and inclusion to drive value through:
  • Increasing the scope of the existing supporter base.
  • Attracting and retaining talent within the teams you lead.
  • Establishing clear inclusion diversity and inclusion goals that are targeted to growth priorities.

The Person

The blend of experience we’d want to see in shortlisted candidates would be as follows –

• Experience of management and leadership responsibility at CEO or Senior Director level
• Experience of developing and implementing organisational strategies in changing external environments.
• A strong track record of leading a senior leadership team in setting and delivering a strategy.
• Evidence of effective working as a member of a team, with the ability to ensure full stakeholder engagement and the ability to secure the commitment of other key organisations, agencies and individuals to work together to achieve shared goals.
• Experience of setting, managing and controlling large budgets.
• Experience of motivating, developing and empowering teams to exceed objectives, whilst ensuring individuals across an organisation feel valued and are helped and supported to develop and fulfil their own personal aspirations and potential.
• Experience in leading engagement across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Excellent communication skills, able to connect and engage with a wide range of people 1-2-1, in small groups and with large audiences.
• Understanding of operating in a regulated, highly public and transparent environment.
• Experience of leading and successfully delivering significant fundraising or income generating strategies, involving high level relationship management experience (ideally including within the Charity sector).
• Passionate about continuous improvement in ways of working, always seeking to question, challenge and innovate, seeking to learn from others where best practice exists.
• Demonstrates a commitment to great governance, high ethical standards, honesty and integrity.
• A track record of promoting sand supporting diversity in teams that you have led.
• Degree level education or equivalent.

In Summary

This is a hugely rare opportunity to make a difference to an organisation at a pivotal stage of its development.

As a value based organisation it’s really important the successful candidate shares the Trust’s and Charity’s values.

This doesn’t necessarily mean somebody from an NHS, public sector or fundraising background. Instead what is most important is that we find somebody whose leadership practice can role model and promote the Trust values of ambition, bravery and compassion. These were developed by our staff and are an important part of how they deliver their services, whatever they may be. A key element of the successful candidates’ leadership approach will be to value, engage in, support and promote inclusion and diversity both within the team but more widely across all aspects of the business.

WR Fundraising Recruitment is delighted to be working again with the UK’s largest organic horticulture charity that has an amazing track record of providing impact in a wide breadth of programmes that include environmental, health, education and community.

At a very exciting time of development we are looking for a new Chief Executive to lead the strategic operations and development of the C£3million charity. The pandemic has seen a renewed passion in horticulture and gardening at many levels alongside an increased awareness of the benefits of organic growing relating to climate change, health and wellbeing, biodiversity, economic development and stronger communities.

As a membership organisation, the charity is in a position of strength to further develop innovative work with individuals, communities and schools – helping people to grow and garden following organic principles. Further support comes from a strong trading arm, fundraising and corporate / government funding for long lasting, impactful research and programmes.

We’re looking for a dynamic leader to steer the charity through its next cycle of development. Candidates would be preferred with experience or demonstrable knowledge in: Environment / sustainability, food security, health / well-being, organic / sustainable gardening /farming, community / consumer education programmes.

Chief Executive

£65,000 per annum

Midlands Office – Flexible / Remote Working Available

Full time, Permanent (35 hours per week)

The Role

• Take leadership of the charity in the pursuit of its Vision, Mission and Purpose, ensuring that the highest standards of integrity, openness and professionalism are maintained
• Ensure that the charity has a successful external profile by developing relations with relevant partners at national and local level, including members, the media, the public, benefactors and other stakeholders
• Develop market opportunities: forge creative partnerships with business, government and the wider voluntary sector
• Develop and nurture the team, ensuring that staff, the SMT and the Board of Trustees all play a part in furthering the organisation’s goals.
• Expand the charity’s supporter base: make membership relevant to diverse populations.
• Carefully balance financial sustainability with the organisation’s mission
• Raise the income needed for the implementation of strategic and business plans; using all appropriate available funding sources and developing new enterprise and sources.

The Person

• Ability to develop a long-term vision and think entrepreneurially and strategically to grow the organisation.
• Excellent ambassadorial, networking and negotiating skills.
• Demonstrable success at inspiring and developing a senior management team. Excellent financial management skills. Commercial insight.
• Successful management and application of an income generation model with multiple streams, including membership, public and private funding and commercial ventures.
• Team management experience at Chief Executive or executive level with dedicated resources and budgets and leadership of a multi-disciplinary team.

All applications will be anonymised to remove bias from the recruitment process

Closing date for applications: 7th March 2021

Interviews will commence week beginning: 15th March 2021

Location: This role can be based from any of our UK-wide hubs.

The Trust is seeking an exceptional individual to be part of the Executive Committee, responsible for leading The Prince's Trust to ensure its life-changing support is safely delivered to children, young people and young adults aged 11-30 across the UK.

You will oversee the delivery of all our lifechanging activity helping over 60,000 young people across the UK each year through direct delivery, digital delivery, and delivery partnerships. Providing exceptional motivational leadership to over 500 colleagues in addition to an extensive volunteer network, you will have responsibility for securing, managing, and influencing senior level partnerships within the public and private sector. The blended delivery team will be aligned with the Customer Services provision, which is the first point of contact for enquires, and subsequently, facilitate the transition of young people to the appropriate support intervention.

You will have experience of leading organisations through significant change and be able to demonstrate effective delivery of a high-level customer service experience to an end-user. Powerful communication and influencing skills, strong contract management experience and proven analytical expertise will be key to this position.

With a deep knowledge, understanding and empathy of the current issues and barriers facing young people across the UK, you will also lead one of The Trust’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion networks and have a natural and instinctive interest in others that reaches beyond the role.

For more information, please go to the job description. (This will open in a new window).

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The Trust is handling all enquiries through our Talent Acquisition Team and you will be asked to provide a CV and supporting statement as part of your application.

Head of External Relations

We have an exciting new role for an experienced leader to drive the external marketing communications and income generation for a new division within the charity.

Position:  Head of External Relations

Location: Flexible as homeworking supported

Salary: Circa £40 - 45k dependent on experience

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 12 months Fixed Term Contract (becoming permanent if funding allows)

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and 5% Employer pension contribution

Closing Date: 9th February 2021

Final Interview Date: 15th and 16th February 2021

About the Role

There is a great deal of untapped potential for a proactive leader to unlock and the case for support has never been stronger. The charity has a high-profile patron, highly active trustees, dedicated staff and a newly appointed CEO who is passionate about education and the development of young people.

This new, senior role brings together external relations and income generation and is an amazing opportunity for someone to build on a strong existing portfolio with an excellent team. In particular, the Head of External Relations will be responsible for an integrated External Relations Strategy and its operational delivery that includes:

• Marketing, profile raising and public relations (on and offline)
• Income generation (Local Authority level, fundraising and partnerships)
• Public Affairs/Policy PR and campaigning
• Membership marketing
• Research and Impact evaluation

About You

The Head of External Relations position is an exciting and challenging role, at the heart of an agile organisation with a strong record and reputation, with the potential for real and profound change for children and young people. You will have direct experience of working across a broad range of the specialist areas of responsibility identified above. If you lack specific personal experience of working in a particular area, you will be asked to demonstrate evidence to support your potential to do so and an understanding of the factors that will drive success.

You will have experience of:

• Hands on strategic and operational delivery of digital/social media, PR and Public Relations campaigns
• Leadership and mentoring
• Successfully working with Trustees/senior partners and at Board level
• The education sector

As Head of External Relations, you must be able to lead in a rapidly changing internal and external environment to ensure the charity can maximise opportunities and manage the challenges it faces.

Applicants are asked to provide a current CV and 2-page covering letter outlining evidence against the essential criteria in the job description, clearly identifying the skills and experiences applicable to the role.

A satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be a requirement once a conditional offer of employment is made to successful candidates. 

In Return…

Work for an organisation with excellent work life balance policies, where flexible working is promoted and the culture of the organisation is to nurture staff through effective leadership and excellent team working.

About the Organisation

With increasing numbers of children and young people affected by social, emotional and behavioural difficulties inhibiting their progress and limiting their life chances. The charity has developed a range of interventions and support to give vulnerable children and young people the opportunity to be the best they can be. Whether it is delivering certified training, supporting whole-school or authority-wide nurturing schools approach or promoting evidence-based research, the charity is providing quality support and resources to make nurturing provision a reality for pupils across the UK and beyond.

Other roles you may have experience of could include External Relations, External Affairs, PR, Public Relations, Marketing, Marketing and Communications, Communications, External Marketing, Income Generation, Income Generation Manager, Head of Income Generation, Head of Fundraising, Fundraising, Partnerships, Public Affairs, Policy, Policy and PR, Membership, Research, Research and Impact.

Work with us

The Vegan Society is an anagram of The Nicest Voyage. Quite fitting, we think, as for many people veganism is a journey – and a pretty remarkable one at that. Regardless of where you are on your vegan journey, our staff are on hand to make it easier, healthier and more fun. If you think you’d be great at helping others with this, read on, as this may be right up your street.

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.

Who we’re looking for

Are you passionate about changing the way we treat animals? Do you want to help reduce damage to our environment? Do you want to get people to enjoy healthy vegan food that looks good and tastes great?

As individuals, we have a somewhat eclectic mix of skills, passions and idiosyncrasies…but it works. Probably because we all have one thing in common: we believe we’re onto something really special.

The Communications Team has grown in recent years and in order to meet our ambitious plans for the next few years, we need to recruit some new people to our team in our offices conveniently located by Snow Hill station in Birmingham.

The role

Our busy Communications Team needs a manager to supervise their workload, manage the retention and recruitment of members, plan our attendance at major consumer shows across the UK and together with the Head of Communications ensure effective external and internal communications.

The role will call for considerable involvement in day to day operational and management issues within the department, as well as involvement with media requests, engagement with external organisations and individuals to maximise The Vegan Society's brand awareness and event coordination.

This role is one of first-line management and will call for a close relationship with and support for the Senior Management Team's work.

As Communications and Supporter Services Manager you will:

• Line manage members of the Communications and Supporter Services teams: conducting 1-1s, signing off leave, appraisals etc.
• Lead on staff-run events at vegan and plant-based consumer shows, managing negotiations and the booking process
• Act as a spokesperson for The Vegan Society for broadcast media as required
• Support our media and PR strategies
• Liaise with the Campaigns Manager and the Business Development Marketing Manager to support their media and PR strategies. 
• Project manage the implementation of the society's new CRM with the selected supplier during 2021 and support the Senior Supporter Services Coordinator with the implementation and testing of the CRM ensuring that the society keeps to timescales and budgets.
• Maintain organisational engagement with partners, supporters and high-level (celebrity) supporters.

To be considered as our Communications and Supporter Services Manager you will need:

• Demonstrable team management skills
• A very high standard of literacy with good all-round writing skills and excellent proofreading skills.
• Good project planning experience
• Good understanding of the full spectrum of marketing communications with expertise in marketing and PR.
• Events management experience
• To be willing to adhere to a vegan lifestyle for the duration of your employment.

What we offer

• A fun and supportive team
• A solution-focused atmosphere and hard-working environment
• Flexible working hours
• Employee Assistance Programme and health cash-back scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Childcare vouchers scheme
• Animal companion compassionate leave
• Ethical pension scheme (5-7% employer contribution)
• Death in service benefit
• 28 Days leave + 8 Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave & 3 closure days)
• Central Birmingham office location

Salary and hours

This is full time (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £27,741 – £39,880 per annum.

The application deadline is 9am Monday 15 February 2021.

Interviews will be held w/c 22 February 2021.

Please note: The role is typically an office-based role, however remote working will be in place until social distancing measures are relaxed/removed. After these restrictions are eased a flexible work schedule could be considered but you would need to live within commuting distance of Birmingham.

CVs cannot be accepted. No agencies.

Work with us

The Vegan Society is an anagram of The Nicest Voyage. Quite fitting, we think, as for many people veganism is a journey – and a pretty remarkable one at that. Regardless of where you are on your vegan journey, our staff are on hand to make it easier, healthier and more fun. If you think you’d be great at helping others with this, read on, as this may be right up your street.

The Vegan Society makes veganism more accessible and an easily adopted approach by supporting individuals, policy and decision makers, caterers, manufacturers, health care professionals and the media.

In order to meet our ambitious growth plans for the next few years, we need to recruit some additional people to join our team in our new offices conveniently located by Snow Hill station in Birmingham. As such we are looking to recruit a Digital Communications Manager, this role is key in supporting our growth strategy.

The role

The Digital Communications Manager will provide support to the Head of Communications as well as team leadership and direction to the Digital Communications team.

The role will call for considerable involvement in day to day operational and management issues within the Communications Department, as well as engagement with external organisations and digital agencies to maximise The Vegan Society’s brand awareness.

This role is one of first-line management and will call for a close relationship with and support for the Senior Management Team’s work.

As Digital Communications Manager you will: 

• Line manage members of the Digital Communications Team: conducting 1-1s, signing off leave, appraisals and supporting staff with their training and development plans.
• Project manage larger digital and web-based projects for the Communications department.
• Generate awareness of the society and its campaigns, and drive traffic to digital activities through online marketing and communications.
• Develop strategies, tools and applications to increase supporter and business conversion, engagement and retention, using a thorough understanding of our audience.
• Collate data from various sources across Digital Communications, and supplement that data with relevant research, producing detailed reports.

To be considered as our Digital Communications Manager you must have:

• Demonstrable team management skills and experience
• A very high standard of literacy with good all-round writing and proofreading skills
• Good project planning experience
• Good understanding of the full spectrum of marketing communications with digital marketing expertise
• Experience of programmatic advertising would be an advantage.

What we offer

• A fun and supportive team
• A solution-focused atmosphere and hard-working environment
• Flexible working hours
• Employee Assistance Programme and health cash-back scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Childcare vouchers scheme
• Animal companion compassionate leave
• Ethical pension scheme (5 – 7% employer contribution)
• Death in service benefit
• 28 Days leave + 8 Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave & 3 closure days)
• Central Birmingham office location

Salary and hours

This is full time (37.5 hours per week) role with a salary of £27,741 – £39,880 per annum.

The application deadline is 9am Monday 15 February 2021.

Interviews will be held w/c 22 February 2021.

Please note: The role is typically an office-based role, however remote working will be in place until social distancing measures are relaxed/removed. After these restrictions are eased a flexible work schedule could be considered but you would need to live within commuting distance of Birmingham.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic youth and health & social care focused person to join our dynamic team and is well suited to an individual that is looking to gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace. The successful candidate must be as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.

Countless talented young people across the country are unemployed, under-employed or looking for a better career. Meanwhile, across the health and social care sector there is currently in a workforce crisis with thousands of vacancies across hundreds of different roles.

See some potential to do some brilliant work? Us too! Could you lead our programmes to get 10,000 young people into health and social care careers over the next 3 years?

As an Operations Executive, you will work with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage 16-30-year olds into sustained health and social care jobs. Working as part of a team within our Central region you will work with clear objectives to ‘connect’, ‘progress’ and help ‘transform’ the lives of young people who need us most.

 Responsibilities:

• Supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills.
• Delivery of Prince's Trust's Health & Social Care project.
• Accurately record and track young people’s journey and progression using The Prince’s Trust CRM system.
• Supporting young people into positive sustained outcomes including education, training, and employment.
• Ensuring young people who need us the most are recruited and engaged through outreach.
• Co-ordinating with partners to deliver employment programmes, including leading skills sessions.
• Ensuring every young person ‘progressed’ has an action plan with an appropriate pathway of support and keeping detailed records of our engagement with them.
• Recruitment and management of trusted partners who refer to and/or deliver our services.
• The recruitment and management of volunteers to support and deliver our services.

Requirements: 

To support our delivery requirements across Central England we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who have some of the following qualities: 

• Experience of the NHS or Health & Social Care sector in any capacity
• Experience of recruiting people into roles within Health & Social Care
• Experience in caseload management to a varied audience
• Have experience in using customer relationship management systems and reporting data
• Able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience
• Can be adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation
• Experience in providing one-to-one support and delivering high quality learning and development sessions through a variety of mediums.
• A natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people
• Experience in at least one of the following areas:
  • Youth Work or Teaching
  • Health & Social Care sector
  • Recruitment
  • Careers & Employability Sector
  • Managing Partner Organisations and Volunteers
• Possesses a strong understanding of the challenges young people from within The Trust’s target groups might face.