A grant-awarding charity helping local voluntary and community groups is looking for a Chief Executive Officer to ensure the Foundation delivers its mission, strategies, goals, and charitable objectives, as determined by the Board of Trustees.
You will take prime responsibility for developing strong, trusted, and long-lasting relationships with donors and other key stakeholders and bringing in new donors, creating new funds and raising the Foundations endowment.
As Chief Executive Officer, some of your responsibilities will include:
1. Ensuring the Foundations vision and strategy remains compelling and tackles the pressing needs identified within the communities of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin, working in partnership with the board of trustees and staff team.
2. Providing organisational leadership working with the team to deliver the agreed strategic/business plans.
3. Ensuring the Foundations donor development and related plans deliver the organisations targets for donor income, including writing grant applications (if required), maximising agreed development opportunities and monitoring performance against the plan.
4. Positioning the Foundation as a leading authority on the needs and causes in communities in Shropshire/Telford & Wrekin in order to highlight current and future challenges, ensuring that support from the Foundation is effectively targeted and identifying where further funding and wider fund crite...