{"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":"2026-02-11T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:14:37","slug":"person-specification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/walkwheelcycletrust\/person-specification\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Specification \u00ad\u2013 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<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/walkwheelcycletrust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/449\/2026\/02\/walk-banner-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"walk-banner-3\" \/>\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 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<h3>Experience<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrable success in developing and delivering a compelling vision and strategy for an organisation.<\/li>\n<li>Significant experience as a CEO or aspiring CEO (leading a sizeable executive portfolio) in a large, complex, or multi-stakeholder organisation.<\/li>\n<li>Proven track record of leading organisations and teams through substantial change, growth and\/or transformation.<\/li>\n<li>Strong experience of influencing, engaging, and aligning diverse internal and external stakeholders around shared objectives.<\/li>\n<li>Experience of working within, or in close partnership with, the voluntary, community, or social purpose sector.<\/li>\n<li>Established record of building effective, high-trust relationships with trustee or non-executive Boards.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated success in growing organisational income through fundraising, grant funding, commercial activity and strategic partnerships.<\/li>\n<li>Experience of leading organisational modernisation, including digital systems, data capability, and operational infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>UK-wide experience and\/or working with national and devolved governments (desirable).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Skills &amp; abilities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Proven ability to lead and influence complex systems involving multiple public, private, and voluntary sector actors.<\/li>\n<li>Exceptional people skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and mobilise people internally and externally, including employees, volunteers, community leaders, senior politicians, civil servants, strategic partners and policymakers.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to lead evidence-based strategy, using data, research, and evaluation to strengthen policy influence and funding confidence.<\/li>\n<li>Capacity to operate confidently and effectively at local, regional, and national levels across the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Strong political awareness, with the ability to build constructive and credible relationships with elected representatives and public officials.<\/li>\n<li>Well-developed commercial and entrepreneurial acumen, with the ability to identify and pursue opportunities for sustainable growth.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent relationship-building, negotiation, and influencing skills with senior external stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and persuasively, and to act as a credible public spokesperson for the organisation.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to grow, mobilise, and empower a national membership and supporter base to drive change.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to speak confidently about one or (ideally) more aspects of our agenda, i.e. transport \/ walking wheeling cycling \/ environmental issues \/ sustainable development \/ infrastructure \/ public health.<\/li>\n<li>High levels of personal integrity, authenticity, resilience and sound professional judgement.<\/li>\n<li>Resilience.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to navigate complexity, build consensus, include, engage and involve others, make decisions, take personal ownership and hold others to account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Knowledge<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Strong understanding of how governments operates and how policy and regulatory decisions are developed and influenced across the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Well-developed understanding of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in organisational leadership, governance, and operational delivery.<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge of the sustainable transport, active travel, housing development and\/or public health sectors is desirable<\/li>\n<li>Understanding of different funding models \u2013 e.g. statutory\/grant funding, fundraising, commercial income<\/li>\n<li>Sound understanding of safeguarding responsibilities, risk management, and regulatory compliance in a charitable context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Values &amp; 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