Head of Finance and Operations

35 hours per week (flexible working available – minimum 28 hours per week)

Grandparents Plus is seeking a skilled and experienced Head of Finance and Operations for a senior leadership role in our ambitious and growing charity. Reporting to the CEO, you’ll bring financial and commercial experience to support income generation and the effective delivery of our activities, impact and growth.

You’ll develop, implement and strengthen our policies, processes and infrastructure, including leading on developing, maintaining and monitoring effective systems for finance, HR and IT, embedding our new CRM system (Salesforce) and leading on legal compliance.

As you’ll be responsible for producing management accounts, an accountancy qualification is desirable. If successful, you’ll have line management responsibility for a finance officer and will be supported by an office coordinator. You’ll also manage external HR and IT support providers.

About Grandparents Plus

Grandparents Plus is the national kinship care charity (England and Wales). We provide advice, information and support for grandparents and other family members – kinship carers – who step in to care for children who cannot live with their birth parents, often in difficult family circumstances, including parental death, drug or alcohol misuse, imprisonment or domestic violence. We do this because we want to make children’s lives better.

Grandparents Plus is committed to transforming support for kinship carers and their children, including through our research and influencing activities, our information and advice service, and the expansion of our kinship carer support programmes. 

To apply, please send a CV and a supporting statement setting out clearly how you meet the criteria set out in the person specification. 

Closing date: Tuesday, 19 November 2019.
Interview date: Monday, 25 November 2019.