Three Wings Trust

CHIEF EXECUTIVE JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE:Chief Executive

HOURS:Part time initially – working towards full time

ACCOUNTABLE TO:Trustees through Chair

RESPONSIBLE FOR:Sitting Service Co-ordinator, Family Support Officer, Activities Officer, Parent Partnership Officers, Finance Worker

AIMS:To promote, develop and manage the work of Three Wings Trust in supporting families and young people with additional needs.

Main Objectives of the Post

  1. To lead and manage the charity to ensure it achieves its purpose
  2. To advise the Chair and the Trustees on key external, strategic and operational factors which affect the role, functions and policy options of TWT.
  3. To represent TWT in the public arena and promote and advocate its work with stakeholders.

RESPONSIBLE FOR:

  1. Organisational Development
  2. To ensure that the organisation has clear aims, objectives, policies, business plans and develops and implements suitable strategies and budgets capable of achieving them.
  3. To focus on quality, user involvement, service development, risk management and improvement and outcomes
  1. People Management
  2. To provide supportive and inspirational leadership, good communication and oversee the performance of all paid workers and volunteers.
  3. To ensure that effective systems are established and maintained for the recruitment, management, training, development and retention of workers and volunteers, in compliance with the organisation’s policies.
  1. Finance and Fundraising
  2. To develop and implement a fundraising strategy to ensure the long-term sustainability of the organisation and maximise statutory, voluntary and other income sources.
  3. To manage the organisation’s budget, ensuring appropriate expenditure in compliance with proper financial controls and funding requirements in consultation with the Treasurer and in support of the Finance Officer
  1. Promotion and External relations
  2. To ensure that the organisation implements and effective communications strategy to reach parents, funders and other relevant organisations
  3. To ensure close collaboration with funders, partners and members.
  1. Organisational Management
  2. To ensure that the organisation receives appropriate information and advice on all matters relevant to the discharge of its functions and legal responsibilities
  3. To ensure that internal systems and procedures are established and maintained that comply with all legal requirements, including Health and Safety and Safeguarding
  4. To attend supervision sessions with the Chair of the Trustees and to attend and submit regular written and verbal reports to monthly Trustee meetings.
  5. To take active steps to ensure that the organisation works within a framework of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice.

Key Skills, Experience and Competencies:

1 Essential

Personal Skills

  • Responsible, creative and energetic
  • Excellent communication skills both spoken and written
  • Excellent people skills
  • Calm under pressure
  • Organised and flexible
  • Able to evaluate and reflect on practice
  • Basic financial and budgeting skills
  • Competent with Microsoft Office including Excel

Experience

  • Working in the voluntary sector and understanding of the strategic, management and practical issues that small charities face
  • Successful funding bids to Local Authorities and charitable trusts
  • Organisational management and development
  • Recruitment, management and development of staff and volunteers
  • Financial management, full cost budgeting and oversight of income and expenditure.
  • Experience of planning, co-ordinating and delivering new developments to specification
  • Working with children and young people and their carers including safeguarding

2Desirable

  • Experience of children and young people with special needs
  • Development and implementation of successful business plans
  • Experience of public presentations to raise the profile of the organisation
  • Understanding of the commissioning processes within local government
  • Use of powerpoint, publisher, cms for web
  • Using outcomes assessment tools

Additional information:

Salary:pro rata £ 38,000-£42,000

Hours of work:initially 17.5 hours working toward 35 hours

Annual leave:25 days plus bank holidays

Probation period:6 months

Equal opportunities: The Trust aims to be an equal opportunities employer and works according to our diversity and equal opportunities policy.

Judy WeleminskyJuly 2012