British Red Cross
Executive Director (UK Operations)
Remuneration: £130,000

The British Red Cross have stood for those most in need for over 150 years.

We help people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We have one of the best-known brands in the world and are part of the largest humanitarian network that has ever existed. Our staff and volunteers know they’re a part of something unique - a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies. We enable vulnerable people in the UK and abroad to prepare for and withstand emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help them recover and move on with their lives.

We operate with international scope, deliver locally and measure our impact by the changes we effect in individual lives.

We are the Red Cross.

In these most challenging of times we are asked to change and adapt as quickly as needs require and technology enables. In order to continue to deliver to the most vulnerable in our society we are seeking a new Executive Director for UK Operations to ensure we continue to leave no-one behind.

This is a crucial senior leadership position which provides the opportunity to shape the direction of our UK services so that we make the biggest possible difference for those who most need our help and deliver our bold Strategy 2030.

The Executive Director of UK Operations leads the UK operations directorate – a dispersed group of 2400 staff and 9,000 volunteers operating across multiple sites in the UK - to deliver positive impact for people in crisis through a mix of place and regional based partnerships and national products and services. The role will ensure the impact of our services occurs in those communities where the risks are greatest and health inequality most pronounced - as part of our integrated, caused based strategy. It will be accountable for creating and delivering relevant, consistent and clear service delivery models and will act as the professional lead for standards, practice and quality assurance in UK service delivery.

This will be combined with the ability to influence at the highest levels of government and other partners. We are looking for a candidate who is a practised leader of people and developer of dispersed teams nationwide. We have been in a period of constant evolution which must continue, particularly given the pace of external change and the competitiveness of the funding environment. Therefore, clarity of vision, strategic insight and business acumen together with the ability to manage change, performance and risk will all be requirements. You will be as comfortable meeting people in communities at grassroots level as developing replicable operating models that they have helped co-develop.

The successful candidate will also act as a partner to me as Chief Executive, to the Executive Leadership Team colleagues and to our Board of Trustees.

As part of our commitment to diversity and authentically representing the communities we serve, we are keen to hear from individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds.

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please visit our microsite: https://micro.green-park.co.uk/brc-ed/

Closing date for applications: 11:59pm Sunday 3 October 2021