{"id":14,"date":"2025-01-23T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/bre\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:11:45","slug":"person-specification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/person-specification\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Specification – Chief Operating Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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These are the six areas we will explore with candidates. They match the six parts of the role description. We do not expect anyone to arrive expert across the board. We are looking for real depth in at least two of these operational domains: finance; fundraising and income generation; people and culture; governance and risk; planning and performance; or property, information management and technology. Alongside that depth, we need the judgement to hold the other functions to a high standard without being the technical expert, and to know when to bring in external help or other counsel.<\/p>\n

1. Strategic Thinking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evidence that you have worked out what an organisation should do in a complicated landscape. We will want to hear how you have led strategy development including how you formed a view, what you decided against, how you made the argument to people who had to be persuaded, and what happened next. We are also interested in how you make a set of relationships work: how you have read who wants what, found where interests actually overlap, and built something none of the parties could have built alone.<\/p>\n

2. Operational Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n

Experience of leading several operational functions and making them work as one, including property and information management. A record of setting a standard and getting there, including where you inherited something that needed to improve. We will want to hear how you decided what needed to change and what you actually did.<\/p>\n

3. Financial and commercial judgement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sound financial judgement at organisational level (regardless of whether you are an accountant): budgets, controls, reporting, and the questions to ask. Experience of generating income and of diversifying it across sources such as philanthropy, trusts and foundations, corporate partnerships and government. We are particularly interested in candidates who have built a commercial operation or run a trading entity, and who can see the revenue in assets an organisation already owns.<\/p>\n

4. Culture Change and Building High-Performing Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n

A convincing track record of building high-performing, inclusive teams, and of leading cultural change that lasted. We will explore how you have raised the bar in a team that was not yet performing, how you developed the people who could grow, how you handled those who could not, and how you did both fairly and with care. We will also ask what your staff would say about you.<\/p>\n

5. Governance and Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deep knowledge of governance and risk frameworks, and experience of charity or public sector governance. A record of running a board and its sub-committees so that trustees are properly served and appropriately challenged.<\/p>\n

6. Collective Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n

Someone with integrity and empathy, who takes shared responsibility for the whole organisation seriously, brings challenge where it is needed, backs colleagues when it counts, and helps make the Academy a brilliant and inclusive place to work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/academy-medical-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}