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Director for Children's Not for Profit

Employer
Leading Lights Education & Wellbeing
Location
City of Bristol
Salary
£24,000.00 to £28,000.00 per annum
Closing date
15 Aug 2018

http://leadinglightseducationandwellbeing.org.uk

From £24,000 + per annum with performance pay review on completion of 6 month probation.

Details of Role: 

Seeking a Director for small but amazing Not for Profit

This is an amazing opportunity for an ambitious, highly capable, and talented individual to take on a directorship in a lovely not for profit as it enters its most exciting stage of development. We are hoping this person will stay on after our current director returns from maternity and there is an opportunity to become a co-founder.

A bit about us

We are an award-winning children and family not for profit, currently a community interest company and just in the process of becoming a charity. We primarily work with children and families affected by social, emotional, and mental health and are devoted to radically changing long term outcomes. We achieve this through carefully and thoughtfully managed education, mentoring, family support and therapeutic programmes. We don’t think it’s enough to care a bit, we think you have to care a lot if you want to make a difference and this approach underpins everything we do. We currently run outreach services for a variety of clients including individual families and children, schools, universities and statutory and charity partners in London and Bristol from our base in Bristol. We run free programmes and paid for programmes and are keen to achieve long-term self-sufficiency. We are about to launch our first specialist mental health hub in central Bristol, which will provide a new and beautifully tailored range of free programmes in education and wellbeing, as well as a community café. This is something we have been patiently working towards for a long time and marks a transition point as we start to accelerate our growth, sustainability and most importantly our social impact and reach.

Broadly your expertise and experience will enable you to:

  • Understand how to create value and successful outcomes for individual clients through each stage of the design and implementation of bespoke interventions.
  • Measure and assess impact and effect on the client and what that means for generating social impact.
  • Align not for profit with current market and make sure it stays relevant in the long term.
  • Articulate and promote the USP of Leading Lights and to challenge and improve pricing and social impact assumptions.
  • Streamline and refine systems and processes continually to ensure maximum efficiency and value for money.
  • Lead and manage the core team and the wider workforce so that they and all our clients are thriving, happy and proud of their achievements.
  • Generate and fulfill new business opportunities and be able to balance need for increase in short term/immediate revenue and mid and long-term revenue growth.
  • Uphold and promote our culture and values in everything you do.

Your day to day priorities will include:

  • Management of key deadlines whilst continually defining what ‘great’ looks like and working towards this in an orderly way.
  • Ensuring the smooth running of day to day activities across the whole team.
  • Understanding the changing needs of clients, especially vulnerable clients.
  • Immediate response to client enquiries and appropriate follow up.
  • Supervision of the core team that promotes engagement, empowerment and autonomy.
  • Effective communication with all levels of people – clients, colleagues and the wider community.
  • Financial management and keen understanding of how the processes and systems impact the bottom line.
  • Staff management, including regular performance management.
  • Project management and full evaluation through to completion.
  • Revenue generation including grant funding, tenders, and new contracts.
  • Seeking and creating new business development opportunities whilst alert to risk.
  • Effective development and maintenance of client and community relationships.

You will have:

  • Minimum 3 Years Operations/Project Management experience looking to transfer into the Not for profit/ charity sector.
  • An excellent degree level qualification.
  • A strong interest in education, mental health, families and young people.
  • The ability to learn very fast, to be proactive and to respond flexibly.
  • A record of building fantastic relationship with team and clients.
  • Ambition and an inexhaustible capacity for hard work.
  • A strong belief in and explicit commitment to our values.
  • A commitment to safeguarding best practice and a willingness to undertake a DBS enhanced level check.

Experience: Management: 3 years

Education: Bachelor's

Closing Date: 

Wednesday, 15th August, 2018 - 18:00

How to Apply: 

Please send a CV and a detailed covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements to our director on the email address provided. Please note that we cannot consider applications submitted without a cover letter. We are also so sorry, but as a small and very busy not for profit organisation committed to our clients' needs, we don't have time to discuss applications before they are submitted but there will be opportunity for discussion and questions if successful at the first round. We are very much looking forward to hearing from you.

Contact Person: 

Sarah Louise

Contact Email: 

sarahlouise@leadinglightseducationandwellbeing.org.uk

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