Essential abilities and experience
- Outstanding people management skills, with the ability to create the conditions for other senior leaders to do their roles brilliantly
- Experience at senior leadership level or equivalent, particularly leading or contributing to corporate strategy
- A deep knowledge of the UK charity / NGO sector and the issues facing them
- High competence in managing budgets and making commercial decisions
- Understanding and passion for digital fundraising, advocacy and mobilisation
- A passion for helping build a fairer, more progressive society
- A strong understanding of D&I best practice
Valuable abilities and experience
Each of the following would be valuable assets for the role and you’ll need to have several of them to do it well, but individually they aren’t essential requirements:
- Experience working at an agency
- Experience in a CEO role or equivalent
- Hands on experience of delivering digital fundraising, advocacy or mobilisation
- Expertise in delivering or overseeing operations work, such as resource planning and process design
- Strong knowledge of trends in technology and digital marketing
- Ability to set and deliver long term organisational or departmental strategies
- Knowledge of how to use OKRs to set team-wide goals
- Working understanding of GDPR and other data protection legislation
- Experience setting HR policies
- Ability to manage web developers effectively