Chief Executive Officer

A grant-awarding charity helping local voluntary and community groups is looking for a Chief Executive Officer to ensure the Foundation delivers its mission, strategies, goals, and charitable objectives, as determined by the Board of Trustees. You will take prime responsibility for developing strong, trusted, and long-lasting relationships with donors and other key stakeholders and bringing in new donors, creating new funds and raising the Foundation’s endowment.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the Foundation’s vision and strategy remains compelling and tackles the pressing needs identified within the communities of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, working in partnership with the board of trustees and staff team.
• Providing organisational leadership working with the team to deliver the agreed strategic/business plans.
• Ensuring the Foundation’s donor development and related plans deliver the organisation’s targets for donor income, including writing grant applications (if required), maximising agreed development opportunities and monitoring performance against the plan.
• Positioning the Foundation as a leading authority on the needs and causes in communities in Shropshire/Telford & Wrekin in order to highlight current and future challenges, ensuring that support from the Foundation is effectively targeted and identifying where further funding and wider fund criteria is required.
• Taking accountability for ensuring that appropriate grant-making policies and processes are in place to facilitate effective grant-making.
• Serving as one of the primary spokespeople for the Foundation through various channels, promoting and raising awareness of its work, maintaining and seeking to improve the charity’s public profile throughout Shropshire.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in developing organisational strategy to achieve long term objectives and business plans.
• Experience in a Senior Management/Director/CEO type role.
• Experience of working effectively with an accountable body e.g. a Board as part of a Senior Management team, including Non-Executive Directors or Trustees.
• An understanding and commitment to the voluntary sector and familiarity with philanthropy and grant making.
• Experience of leading, developing and motivating a team to deliver high levels of organisational performance, plus a track record of delivering against personal targets and objectives.
• Financial literacy and experience of managing budgets.
• An understanding and ability to operate a wide range of technology software.
• Full UK driving licence, access to a car and ability to travel across the County.

You will be working 24 hours per week and will receive a pro-rata salary of £40,000 - £45,000 per annum. Choice of offices to work from may be negotiated to include Shrewsbury, Telford, or Broseley, and some hybrid working with the majority being office-based.

To apply for this role as Chief Executive Officer, please click apply online and upload an updated copy of your CV. Applications must be received by 12:00 on 01.12.24, with interviews taking place week commencing 09.12.24.