Chief Executive Officer Full Time

Salary: Circa £120,000 per annum
Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week) – we would be happy to consider flexible working options including job share opportunities.
Contract: Permanent
Location: We have a flexible working policy at NCVO, but as CEO, it is important that there is regular visibility in our London office for at least two days per week. Regular travel around the UK will also be required.
Closing date: 09.00, 10 January 2022
Interviews: Interviews will take place initially with Saxton Bampfylde, our recruitment agency. Shortlisted candidates will then be interviewed in February 2022.

NCVO is the membership community for charities and voluntary organisations. Together we champion voluntary action, the compassionate people who make a daily difference, supporting the collective impact made across the country. With our members at the heart of everything we do, we unite to champion the remarkable role of charities and volunteers by speaking up and supporting each other to make a bigger difference. For stronger communities. For everyone.

After a period with an interim CEO, we are now seeking to appoint a permanent leader for our organisation. They will be a powerful communicator both in listening to our members and other charities and in influencing stakeholders including the government and the media. Their natural way of working will be to seek to collaborate and partner with others to achieve meaningful and long-lasting outcomes that benefit voluntary organisations, volunteering, and wider society.

Our leadership team is working to embed our new culture and ways of working. Driven by our values of being open, collaborative, inclusive and ambitious, this will underpin how NCVO approaches everything it does. Culture change sits at the heart of our new strategy.

We are looking for a leader who can truly inspire and influence, who lives our values and can lead our culture change as we continue to support charities and volunteers to make a bigger difference.

NCVO is fully committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, both in our organisation and in the wider voluntary sector. We want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and identities. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates. As part of our commitment to employing disabled people, all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirement for all competencies on the person specification will be guaranteed an interview.

If you have access needs or require reasonable adjustments as part of the recruitment process, please let us know.

Job information

• Candidate pack

How to apply

Please send a CV and supporting statement via the Saxton Bampfylde website – quoting the reference UATAGA. Please also visit this webpage if you have any queries regarding the vacancy.

Benefits for NCVO employees

NCVO offers attractive benefits including:

• 25 days’ annual leave (for full-time staff and pro-rata for part-time staff)
• the option to purchase up to five more days each year
• the option to take 35 hours of volunteering leave per year
• subsidised gym membership
• season ticket loan
• flexible working, including opportunities to work from home/off-site
• generous contributions to a stakeholder pension scheme
• training and development opportunities.

We are located a short walk from London King’s Cross station in a modern accessible building, overlooking Regent’s canal.