The Association of Chairs is the only organisation specifically supporting Chairs in charities, which is why it’s so important we can continue to deliver for our members.
Charity and non-profit Chairs are essential to the invaluable work of the voluntary sector. Despite today’s challenges, the Chair’s role can help ensure effective, vibrant and well-run charities, which transform lives and communities. Their leadership can often make the difference between a charity thriving or a charity in decline. Yet, we know that being a Chair is increasingly demanding and is often a lonely and overlooked role. Even the most experienced Chairs need help and support to navigate the different issues and challenges they face – a role we’ve now been playing for nearly nine years. We are committed to enabling Chairs to grow in awareness and development in their role, and to receive support from both experts and their peers alike.
We continue to grow in our mission to resource the chairing community. We strive to advocate and demonstrate the value of infrastructure organisations supporting charities and their leaders. Whilst challenges to the charity sector continue to increase, we continue to grow our membership, offering our resources and events, and ensuring Chairs can come together for mutual support.
The role
We are recruiting for an interim CEO for up to a year while we keep our schedule of events moving, members happy, and finances and IT/digital side under control.
This is an important role because every charity in the UK has to have a Chair. We are the only organisation specifically supporting Chairs in charities, which is why it’s so important we can continue to deliver for our members. Our trustees are going through a process of identifying our priorities and setting down a clear strategy. So it’s an exciting time to be joining AoC, even on a temporary basis.
Key accountabilities
- Our member communications. We have a regular newsletter to our members (1,000+) and a wider list (c. 10,000) of interested people. This usually has blogs, news, information, and information about events
- Our finances. We need our interim CEO to keep an eye on our finances by supporting our bookkeeper Zoe, making sure we do our payment runs and she can help produce our monthly budgets and actuals
- Our IT/website. It’s vital that we keep our WordPress website and database working well. So we need our interim CEO to get to grips with the systems, how we update things, and work with our digital support team
- Our events and events programme. We have to make sure that our programme of events is delivered, new events added, marketed to attendees and the hosts and speakers are happy
Project management and grant delivery including our London Project and work with Trussell Trust and other federated organisations, such as Age UK.
What you will bring
We need you to come and quickly understand what we do at AoC and get to grips with things after a short induction. So you’ll need to be :
- Comfortable with being hands-on – this is a pretty operational role
- Flexible and adaptable turning your hand to all manner of things at short notice
- Very good at working under pressure and delivering to budgets and schedules
- Good at delivering business as usual but also see how we can improve things
- Able to keep track of our finances, our database, and our IT in particular. We have a budget to find external IT support if necessary
- The face of AoC for many members and stakeholders (with the support of the board).
The closing date for applications is Monday 23rd October.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability, and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
