{"id":12,"date":"2025-01-23T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/bre\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:46:01","slug":"role-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/role-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Description &#8211; Chief Executive Officer"},"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\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  Role Description &#8211; Chief Executive Officer \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<h4><strong>Salary: \u00a370,000 per annum\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Responsible To: The Board of Trustees as a whole but accountable to the Chair of Trustees on behalf of the Board.<\/h4>\n<h4>Hours: 5 days a week<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Location: Sickle Cell Society, 54 Station Road, London, NW10 4UA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Reporting Line: Fundraising Manager, Communications Manager, Finance Manager, HNS Engagement Lead<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>The Society\u2019s Chief Executive is responsible for setting the Charity\u2019s strategic direction. They provide overall management for staff and define the standard for staff performance. The Chief Executive is also the Society\u2019s chief ambassador in the wider world, including with key stakeholders and central government. They have ultimate responsibility for ensuring the Society has the income it needs to sustain its work and that the risks that the Charity faces are detected and managed.<\/p>\n<h3>Leadership<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To lead, inspire and motivate staff, volunteers and professional advisers.<\/li>\n<li>To assist the Board in agreeing the values, ethos, vision and mission of the Charity.<\/li>\n<li>To lead the review and development of a medium- to long-term strategy for the Charity within its objectives, vision, and mission, and to obtain the approval of the board.<\/li>\n<li>To develop the work of the charity in order to achieve the agreed strategic plan and its objectives, vision and mission and thus to ensure that the Charity is focused on achieving the strategic priorities.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that the Charity\u2019s values, ethos and policies are relevant, fair and consistently implemented.<\/li>\n<li>To develop an organisation that is constantly seeking ways to learn and to improve its performance.<\/li>\n<li>To develop and maintain an environment that attracts and retains the best staff, volunteers and professional advisers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Management<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To be accountable to the Board for the proper and effective management of the Charity.<\/li>\n<li>To run the charity efficiently and effectively by ensuring that the charity has an appropriate management structure and management systems in order to fulfill its strategic objectives and to carry out its work.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that all management policies and decisions support the agreed vision, mission, values, philosophy and strategic priorities of the charity.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that business, operational and annual plans to underpin the strategic plan are developed, agreed and implemented.<\/li>\n<li>To identify appropriate methods for monitoring the performance of the Charity and to report back to the Trustees on the performance of the Charity against its strategy, its business, operational and annual plans, and against the annual budget as approved by the Board.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that the recruitment, management, training and development of staff reflect good employment practice and are directed towards achieving the Charity\u2019s objectives.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that the Charity is aware of best practice and that it constantly works to achieve this within the constraints laid down by the Trustees and resources available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Finance and Risk<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To be responsible in partnership with the board of trustees for the overall for the financial health of the Charity including developing, overseeing and monitoring an effective programme of income generation.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that the major risks to which the Charity is exposed are identified, reviewed regularly by the Board and the Executive Team, systems have been established to mitigate these risks, and that a full risk register is submitted regularly to the Board.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure in collaboration with external auditors that there are effective mechanisms to ensure the robustness of external and internal controls (financial and non-financial).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0External and Internal Relations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To foster good communications throughout the Charity and externally.<\/li>\n<li>To develop, as appropriate, the Charity\u2019s public profile and influence government policies affecting the interests of people living with sickle cell.<\/li>\n<li>To set up mechanisms for listening to the views of current and future beneficiaries on the performance of the Charity, as well as on areas for future development.<\/li>\n<li>To scan the external environment for changes that may affect the Charity, to advise the Trustees proactively and to take necessary action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Legal and Regulatory Compliance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To ensure that the Charity fulfils all its legal, statutory and regulatory responsibilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ensuring High-Quality Governance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Draw the Board\u2019s attention to matters that it should consider and decide.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that the Board receives all necessary advice, guidance and information on matters relating to current performance, the short- and long-term future of the Charity, regulatory and legal compliance, and other appropriate issues; and making sure that such advice, guidance and information are timely, honest, balanced and relevant.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure that the staff understand and support the governance role of the Board and that there is a positive and constructive working relationship between the Board and the executive.<\/li>\n<li>To ensure with the Chair that the Board of Trustees reviews regularly the Charity\u2019s governing instruments and governance structure, and to assist with the Board\u2019s assessment of its own performance.<\/li>\n<li>To work closely with the Board to ensure that the Board has on it the skills it requires to govern the Charity well, and that the Board has access to relevant external professional advice and expertise.<\/li>\n<li>To assist the Chair in ensuring that there is a systematic, open and fair procedure for the recruitment of Trustees, future chairs of the board and future chief executives.<\/li>\n<li>To work with the Chair to ensure that all members of the Board receive appropriate induction, advice, information and training (both individual and collective), thus getting the best thinking and involvement of each member of the Board.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Board Meetings<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>To ensure that the Board is given the information it needs to perform its duties.<\/li>\n<li>In partnership with the Chair, to develop an annual programme of board and committee meetings and board away-days.<\/li>\n<li>In partnership with the Chair, to ensure that the right and appropriate items reach board agendas and that high-quality papers support each item on the agenda.<\/li>\n<li>To assist the Chair in ensuring that the Board focuses on its governance role by making sure that the board agenda and papers do not draw the board away from governance and into unnecessary detail and management issues and also deal with any potential conflict of interest.<\/li>\n<li>To report regularly to the Board of Trustees on the performance of the Charity, progress towards the strategic priorities and the achievement of board policies.<\/li>\n<li>To implement board decisions.<\/li>\n<li>To act as secretary to the board.<\/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-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/sicklecellsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}