Experience
Essential
- Leadership of a large multi-functional team to deliver continuous improvement.
- Creating and delivering on strategic plans, in complex multi-service, multi-stakeholder organisations.
- At Executive level, successfully leading large teams to deliver services and transformation against multiple, multi-faceted goals.
- Building and maintaining high-performing team culture.
- Delivering long-term growth in fundraised or other income against challenging targets.
- An understanding of brand management and effective communications more generally.
- Experience in the charitable sector.
Desirable
- Experience of charity governance and an understanding of serving Boards.
- Experience of dealing with, and being interviewed by, the media External, ambassadorial and purposeful relationship-building.
- Experience in the music sector.
- Good knowledge of and interest in music.
Essential Skills & Knowledge
- Interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- People-management skills, in order to achieve through an empowered team.
- Strong and confident communicator.
- Analytical skills, using data and insight to identify and assess new opportunities for the charity.
- Problem solving skills, quick thinker and creative in finding solutions.
- Excellent presentation and written skills.
- Good commercial acumen.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational skills.
Personal Characteristics
- High levels of self-motivation and ambition.
- Confident decision-maker.
- Inclusive leadership style with the ability to inspire and empower the staff team.
- Sound business acumen in an entrepreneurial environment.
- Team player with a positive, proactive and supportive attitude.
- Open and transparent communicator.
- Reliable and trustworthy.
- Positive, can-do attitude.
- Passionate and committed to the Help Musicians and Music Minds Matter charitable causes.
This is not an exhaustive job description and may be subject to change according to the needs and development of the role. It is expected that the post holder may undertake such other duties as may reasonably be requested.