Person Specification

PART ONE

Essential

Experience and knowledge

• Strategic leadership and substantial management experience with a successful track record leading a business entity, a commercially-orientated public enterprise or a national voluntary organisation
• Understanding of collaborative working and a partnership approach and able to facilitate collective decision making
• Successful experience of developing and implementing innovative strategic plans an monitoring performance against agreed objectives
• Experience of being accountable to a Board, acting as a trusted adviser and taking responsibility for implementation of decisions
• Experience of successful leading the implementation of a sustainability initiative
• A successful track record in building effective partnerships and developing and sustaining influential relationships with multiple stakeholders in the private and public sector
• Outstanding presentation skills, at ease handling all parts of the media
• Experience of successfully holding full P&L responsibility, able to develop effective financial strategies and skills in identifying and implementing new funding

Desirable

• Experience of driving growth and leading the scaling up of business/organisation

PART TWO

Ability and skills

• An energetic and consensual leader with highly developed coaching skills, able to grow the team’s skills and strengthen performance
• Personal commitment to sustainability on a personal or professional basis
• Able to build a collaborative style of working which develops relationships built on trust and mutual respect
• A natural team player, able to achieve a style of working based on personal integrity and honesty
• A confident networker, accomplished at managing a wide range of stakeholders
• Focused on securing maximum charitable impact with the ability to create partnerships that deliver on this objective
• A persuasive influencer, with strong diplomacy skills, credible across a wide range of audiences with compelling oral, written and presentation skills
• An innovative practitioner who is able to identify and capitalise upon growth and development opportunities
• Excellent analytical with the rigour to test and challenge the data and balancing competing priorities
• Able to accurately identify and interpret complex data and information