Chief Executive Full Time

CoachBright are an award-winning national social mobility charity supporting the next generation to become independent and resilient so they can lead the lives they want. Working across schools, universities and organisations, we’re giving pupils, university students and young professionals the tools and behaviours to succeed.

CoachBright partner with schools, universities and workplaces in the short term to boost grades and longer-term increase access rates to higher education and high-level apprenticeships for pupils from low-income backgrounds leading to increased social mobility.

CoachBright’s founder and CEO, Robin Chu will be leaving the charity towards Christmas after nine successful years and the board therefore seek at talented CEO to join the organisation to further grow and develop the organisation.

The Role

• Provide inspirational leadership to the team galvanising everyone in our mission to make education fairer and social mobility a reality.
• Overall responsibility for income generation of the charity. This will be leading on building partnerships with schools, universities, employers and funders to generate income for the charity.
• Chief advocate and external representative of the organisation regularly raising awareness of the charity’s mission and vision to make social mobility a reality.
• To empower and enable the board of trustees to deliver on their responsibilities around compliance, strategic guidance and statutory reporting requirements.

The Candidate

• Passion: we have big aims and are looking for those who share our desire to make education fairer in the UK, so a person’s background does not determine their future.
• Advocacy and Public Speaking: track record of speaking at events and getting wider supporters bought into the mission of your work.
• Team Leadership: love working with teams to align individuals around a shared mission.
• Organisational growth: we want an individual experienced in growing an organisation.
• Income Generation: track record of bringing traded income and grants into an organisation.
• Strategic Thinker: you will have a good understanding of looking further afield and spotting trends and challenges in years to come.
• Managing ambiguity: working across the social and education sector, you will have experience of managing changing circumstances.