Job Description
You will ensure Friends of the Earth is financially sustainable and compliant with relevant regulations and laws and has the premises and organizational infrastructure it needs to support a great campaigning organization. You will also ensure we have systems in place for attracting, supporting, developing and retaining talented people, including leading our systems and culture around equality, diversity and inclusion, performance management, learning and development and internal communications.
This is a six-month contract in the first instance to replace our outgoing Director, who will be leaving at the start of March. Ideally, we would like the new appointee to have some overlap or handover time prior to her departure. Consequently, we will need someone to start mid-February.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
We are looking for someone who can bring an inspiration, empathetic approach to support a range of established functions that are vital to the organization’s ability to deliver its mission of campaigning to resolve the climate emergency and nature crisis. A commitment to social and environmental justice is essential and the successful candidate will have a key role to embedding our aims of collaboration, inclusion, wellbeing and an effective and supportive working environment.
Your supporting statement should be no more than 2 pages of A4 and address the key requirements of the person specification with relevant examples of your experience and outline why you are interested in the post.
Reference no: 106217