We expect you, as a member of the Local Trust staff team, to:
- Demonstrate the organisation’s vision and values in your daily work
- Consistently adopt an outward looking approach to your role, building Local Trusts external relationships, visibility and influence wherever possible
- Take a proactive role in promoting equality and anti-discriminatory practice
- Help Local Trust deliver its environment and sustainable development policy
- Be aware that you have a duty of care for the health and safety of yourself and others
Local Trust job descriptions are subject to amendment from time to time, in consultation with the individual concerned and in line with the organisation’s needs.
Essential Experience
- Extensive experience of delivering a large-scale community development programme
- Experience representing organisations at a strategic level, and effectively communicating messages to a range of audiences, both in writing and face to face
- Experience effectively managing and balancing multiple stakeholder relationships both at a strategic and operational level
- Understanding of the dynamics and challenges of working with place-based organisations and the wider community, not-for-profit or social enterprise sector
- Experience of working at a senior level within a large-scale grant giver or similar operational environment
- A track record of supporting and promoting innovation in the delivery of organisational objectives
- Experience in managing an organisation’s HR function
- Proven experience effectively within a team at a senior level, including with trustees and senior colleagues
- Experience leading staff teams in an environment that prioritises autonomy, delegation and cross-organisation collaboration
Essential Education/training/previous work experience
- Relevant degree/professional qualification or equivalent work experience
Essential Competencies/technical skills
- Excellent communication skills (including writing and oral presentation skills) capable of being applied across a wide range of audiences, to a high standard
- Proven ability to engage, represent and negotiate at a strategic level with a wide range of organisations, interest groups and stakeholders
- Strong people management skills, with the ability to work with a significant staff team, as well as with senior colleagues on a cross-organisation basis
- Deep understanding of budget development, setting and implementation
Essential Soft skills/requirements
- Ability to confidently build and maintain professional relationships
- Significant personal accountability, with the ability to work on your own initiative with a high level of autonomy, as well as in partnership with others
- Ability to maintain high standards of work, through self-evaluation, seeking feedback from others, and self-initiated professional development
- A flexible, entrepreneurial approach to your work, and a constant willingness to challenge, reinvent and innovate in order to increase impact and effectiveness
- Ability to travel, as required, throughout England and to stay away from home