Interim Director of Communities London, England
Job description
Catch22 is a social business, a not-for-profit business, with a social mission. For over 200 years we have designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities. Our 1600 colleagues work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting 44,000 individuals, from cradle to career.
Our Young People, Families & Communities (YPF&C) hub runs services across England covering, young people’s substance misuse, child exploitation, county lines and gangs work, young people’s mediation and restorative justice and health and wellbeing to name a few.
The Interim Director of Communities is a newly-created role, following the internal move of the Director of Community Links. Reporting to the Strategic Director for YPF&C, you’ll oversee day-to-day operations at Community Links, continuing the significant impact we have through the delivery of our community-based services. You’ll provide strategic and operational leadership of Community Links’ portfolio of services, and continue ongoing efforts to identify and drive opportunities for growth.
During your tenure, you will also be part of the wider YPF&C Senior Leadership Team, and will play a crucial role in inputting expertise into our future plans to integrate Community Links and Catch22 services, as part of the wider YPF&C Strategic Hub to maximise the efficiency, impact, and quality of our work.
Using your experience in providing high-quality, community-based service provision, you will have the opportunity to shape our operations to deliver the best possible outcomes for users of our existing services, whilst also utilising your strategic and change management expertise to help define the future ‘Communities’ portfolio of service and embedding these services effectively as part of the wider YPF&C hub.
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We are looking for someone with the following skills, qualifications and experience:
- A relevant qualification in a relevant functional/specialist area or equivalent significant operational experience in a relevant specialist area.
- Significant experience in a leadership role within a charity or non-profit environment, preferably with a focus on community-based service provision.
- Experience of leading, engaging and motivating staff in a challenging organisational environment. Ability to create a compelling vision for staff and successfully manage and communicate change.
- An ability to communicate, engage and influence, both internally and externally, wide a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Business development/fundraising expertise.
- Budget management experience with multiple funding streams.
- A strategic change management outlook, able to understand problems and collaborate with colleagues to design solutions, while maintaining attention to detail.
- Able to keep the interests and needs of service users central to organisational thinking whilst balancing these with business and organisational imperatives and realities.
- Data-driven decision making
- (Desirable) Level 6 management qualification or equivalent
- (Desirable) Level 3 or equivalent safeguarding qualification
Additional Information
Contract: Fixed term, 9 months
Location: 105 Barking Road, London, E16 4HQ
Salary: £70,000 FTE
Recruitment process: Interviews will be held on 23rd, 24th & 25th August
If you would like to arrange an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact [email protected].
See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.
Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
