Work With Us: Chief Operating Officer
We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer to work closely with our CEO, developing strategic vision into operational delivery.
Job Title: Chief Operating Officer
Salary: Up to 56k per annum (depending on experience)
Hours: 35 hours per week average (including some evenings / weekends)
Pension: GPP, employee’s and employer’s contribution matched up to 5% of salary
Annual Leave: 25 days per annum (up to 5 additional days relating to continuous service)
Tenure: Permanent
Based at: Birmingham Settlement Sports & Community Centre, 600 Kingstanding Road, B44 9SH
The Role:
Birmingham Settlement is looking to appoint to the new role of Chief Operating Officer to help us continue to deliver the safe, high-quality services our people want, deserve, and expect.
Working closely with the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer will help translate strategic vision into operational delivery by ensuring the Settlement has the systems, people, and processes in place to achieve its goals. This includes operational support and leadership: working closely with managers and service leads to drive the Settlement’s delivery and people strategies, embedding culture, and organisational development to create and take opportunities while also delivering effective financial management, governance, compliance, and risk management.
To succeed, you will have significant experience in the charity sector at a senior level with a proven track record in service delivery and charity compliance, you will have excellent communication and leadership qualities with ability to motivate and inspire to get the best out of people as well as an understanding of the issues the Settlement strives to challenge. As a critical member of the Settlement’s leadership team, you will play a key role in supporting sustainability, development and implementation of our longer-term strategic plans. This will be a very busy but rewarding visible and hands on role that cuts across all aspects of the charity as we continue to grow and develop.
About Us:
Since 1899 Birmingham Settlement has been challenging social inequality and disadvantage; supporting people to live happier, more fulfilled lives. Our five organisational objectives are:
1) To improve financial resilience – people and communities
2) To build individual and community wellbeing
3) To develop people – skills, confidence, voice
4) To build environmental awareness and action
5) To build and maintain a sustainable organisation
We do this by maximising our resources to provide services and activities that support people to overcome the barriers they face and to take positive action on the issues that impact on their lives. Whether it’s financial hardship, social isolation, unemployment, or other issues, we provide independent advice and support that enables people to gain new skills, to build confidence and to establish social and community networks that create opportunity and improve lives.
The Settlement is at an important phase of growth and change, including ongoing investment and development of our owned sites, our Nature & Wellbeing Centre by Edgbaston Reservoir and our Sports & Community Centre in Kingstanding. Those developments while continuing our wider work have made for a busy but exciting period with opportunity to create a real and positive offer for the people and communities we serve. With that in mind, we now wish to appoint an energetic and visionary candidate to a newly created role of Chief Operating Officer which, working closely with the Settlement’s CEO, trustees, managers, service leads and wider stakeholders will help develop and deliver the Settlement’s vision for its long-term future.
How to Apply
Please familiarise yourself with the Job Description, Person Specification, and Background Paper.
Complete the below Application Form and Equalities Form and send to recruitment@bsettlement.org.uk
Closing Date: Wednesday 8th July with interviews commencing 16th/17th July
Job Description and Person Specification
Please note, CVs are not accepted. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Theresa Gniadkowski on 0121 250 0770.
Birmingham Settlement is committed to Equality of Opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Registered charity number 517303