Experience
Essential (assessed through shortlisting and interview)
- Track record of working with senior stakeholders and delivering results through matrix-style working.
- Experience in leading and working across multiple strands of activity within a programme of work, spotting interdependencies, opportunities and risks.
- Experience of delivery in a public sector or purpose-led organisation, and across a complex system.
- Key experience in developing / executing:
- Long-term planning for change and delivery;
- Effective programmes to deliver impact-led outcomes.
- Experience of leading change and transformation.
- Experience of delivering outcomes through partnership with other organisations.
- Demonstrable experience of strong collaborative working behaviours.
Desirable
- Experience of working as part of a geographically-dispersed team, with responsibilities across regional or auxiliary channels.
- Experience of working at national level.
Skills and Attributes
Essential (assessed through shortlisting and interview)
- Committed to our mission of getting disadvantaged children reading, with high levels of integrity.
- Confident influencer, with excellent interpersonal and communicative style.
- Effective collaborator with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to nurture and develop an excellent team, which may include agency or consultant staff; able to lead a cross-organisational team and work in a matrix style.
- Excellent writing skills and ability to distil complex information into a strong, cohesive story.
- Comfortable in leading change and working within a changing context, and able to handle ambiguity in support of complex decisions.
- Strategic and analytical – comfortable with data and attention to detail, ensuring that delivery is guided by impact.
- Commitment to, and role modelling working in, an inclusive way and committed to BookTrust’s valuing and development of diversity.
- Comfortable in working in medium sized organisation (c.100 people) which works at national level and at scale.