{"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":"2026-06-03T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:18:08","slug":"person-specification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/person-specification\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Specification \u00ad\u2013 Programme Director &#8211; Credit Union Transformation Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"hero\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/465\/2026\/06\/f4af-banner11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"f4af-banner1(1)\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"title\">\n\t<div class=\"title__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"title__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"title__content\">\n\t\t<h1>\n\t\t  Person Specification \u2013 Programme Director &#8211; Credit Union Transformation Fund\t  <\/h1>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"content\">\n\t<div class=\"content__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content__column\">\n\t\t  \t\t\t\t<h3>Essential Qualifications, Experience and Capabilities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Significant experience leading complex transformation across a sector and managing multi-year, multi-million value programmes in a relevant sector eg financial services, local government, consumer finance, regional economic development, building societies and mutuals\/credit unions, or adjacent regulated environments.<\/li>\n<li>Significant experience in realising the opportunities for strategic alignment and navigating personality and political dimensions to success.<\/li>\n<li>Exceptional persuasion and funder and political influencing skills to bring alignment.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrable experience designing and implementing interventions that shift organisational capability and achieve strategic growth.<\/li>\n<li>Proven stakeholder leadership &#8211; able to build trust with senior c suite leaders and boards across credit unions, funders, local, central and regional government, major employers, sector representative organisations, and cross-sector partners, and to influence in multi-stakeholder settings.<\/li>\n<li>Strong programme leadership fundamentals: planning, prioritisation, governance, risk management, reporting and delivery through ambiguity.<\/li>\n<li>Commercial acumen including budget ownership, commissioning\/procurement, contract management, and an ability to assess delivery feasibility and delivery risk.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills &#8211; able to tailor messages for technical and non-technical audiences and represent the organisation externally with credibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Desirable Experience and Capabilities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience working with, or navigating expectations of, regulators and government stakeholders relevant to local and regional government, retail financial services\/credit unions.<\/li>\n<li>Experience of delivering programmes funded by public or quasi-public funding and operating with strong accountability requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with impact investment \/ blended finance approaches where public\/impact capital is used to catalyse greater levels of private investment to deliver long term sustainability.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of affordable credit and savings ecosystems, including scale-up approaches across community finance providers and partnerships with mainstream financial services.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of the credit union and\/or community finance landscape, including practical constraints to scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Personal Characteristics<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Purpose-led and motivated by improving financial wellbeing for people in vulnerable circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>Systemic thinker: able to connect policy, market dynamics, organisational capability and customer outcomes into a coherent transformation approach.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative and credible &#8211; builds trust quickly, brings partners along, and navigates sensitive sector dynamics constructively.<\/li>\n<li>Bold but measured: comfortable testing new approaches while maintaining strong governance and accountability.<\/li>\n<li>Clear communicator who can translate complexity into action and maintain momentum across multiple workstreams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/fair4allfinance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}