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Role: Chief Executive Officer
Area: Based in Chichester
Hours: 4 days per week
Salary: Circa £44,000
Job Description for the Chief Executive Officer
Leadership, Strategy & Governance
- Set and drive the strategic vision, ensuring meaningful impact for stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and represent the client externally.
- Lead the team, delegating project delivery while maintaining oversight.
- Ensure transparent governance, risk management, and legal compliance.
Operations, Finance & Project Delivery
- Oversee financial planning, including budgeting, reporting, and revenue generation.
- Secure additional funding to enhance the client's services and impact.
- Manage contracts, procurement, and supplier agreements to ensure value for money.
- Develop and maintain key policies, including HR, legal, and operational processes.
- Deliver and monitor performance metrics to evaluate project success.
- Ensure accurate data collection to inform decision-making and strategy.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Foster relationships with key partners.
- Represent the client in media and press engagements to enhance its profile.
- Ensure clear and consistent communication through various channels, including digital.
- Lead engagement initiatives to demonstrate the value of the client’s activities.
- Organize consultations to shape future projects and gain stakeholder buy-in.
- Build and maintain partnerships to align with broader economic and community goals.
Planning, Human Resources, and Finance
- Ensure appropriate financial oversight, including producing an annual budget and managing day-to-day finances, with quarterly reporting to the Board.
- Secure additional resources, including funding, to enhance projects and services.
- Conduct environmental scanning to adapt and respond to challenges and opportunities.
- Foster a positive workplace culture, including staff development and performance management.
- Take responsibility for personal and professional development in consultation with the Chair of the Board.
Person Specification for the Chief Executive Officer:
Experience and Knowledge:
- Strategic leadership and management of an organisation, business or
partnership for more than 5 years.
- Experience of working to a board of directors.
- A proven track record of developing and delivering business plans and
projects.
- Experience in procurement and contract/operations management.
- Experience of dealing with the media and press.
- Experience leading and managing a small team, including recruitment and HR
practices.
- Experience of bringing together partners and of working in a multi-stakeholder
environment.
- Experience in financial and budget management, including budget setting and
Skills and Abilities
- Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, negotiating and
networking skills, including the ability to build consensus, manage
stakeholders and develop partnerships.
- Strong commercial, financial and fundraising skills.
- IT literate and aware of new ways of working.
- Resilient and able to solve problems creatively and work under pressure.
- Flexible, innovative and able to respond positively to changing circumstances.
- Self-motivated with a can-do attitude.
- Tactful and diplomatic.
- Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent in business / management
For further information on this opporunity, please forward a copy of your CV
