Essential Qualifications
- Professional safeguarding experience required.
- Proven leadership and management experience.
- Track record of delivering strategic transformation and success.
- Active Christian faith.
- DBS required.
Core Competencies
- Honesty, Integrity, Openness, Collaborative.
- Solution-focused, Creative, Committed, Passionate.
- Political acuity and active networker – able to build and maintain trusted relationships with a wide range of faith communities and political groups.
- Ability to horizon scan across the safeguarding arena to understand emerging trends and needs. The CEO is a key provider of this input to the Board and the wider organisation.
- Strong leadership, strong strategic management skills and good level of interpersonal competence.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
- Ability to manage complex demands and lead change programs.
- Ideally, experience of working within a related charity.
Genuine Occupational Requirement
thirtyone:eight is a Christian organization, as specified in para 8.5 of the Articles (attached). This falls within the section headed “Statement of Faith” which also emphasises the fact that we support people regardless of race, religion, lifestyle, gender, sexuality or any other factor. In practise this means that the CEO needs to be able to preside at gatherings such as staff prayer meetings, and to actively support and promote the Christian ethos of thirtyone:eight, as prescribed in the Articles, both internally and externally. The CEO also needs to represent thirtyone:eight to a wide range of Christian forums where common shared faith is a prerequisite for the organisational relationship. While some of our members and service recipients are not Christian, the vast majority are, and therefore reasonably expect that the CEO of this Christian organisation is themselves a practising Christian. Even those members who are not Christian understand that we are an organisation rooted in and run on Christian principles and foundations.