With 43 years experience caring for London s diverse wildlife, 36 free-to-enter urban nature reserves, and over 900,000 members standing together for nature, London Wildlife Trust are engaging, inspiring, and enabling people to connect with nature.
London Wildlife Trust (LWT) is the only charity that champions nature s recovery in London. LWT s new COO will play a pivotal role in helping to achieve the 2030 Strategic Plan. They will be part of the Trust s Senior Leadership Team with day-to-day overall leadership responsibility for finance, people, organisational development, impact measurement, and governance.
Following a period of significant growth, and currently embarking on a brand-new five-year Business Plan, London Wildlife Trust is at a turning point as an organisation and is seeking a dynamic and effective leader to complement and support the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in leading the charity through a period of significant change and transformation.
The successful candidate will report directly to the CEO, and line-manage both the Head of Finance and the Head of People & Organisational Development.
Whilst we are not seeking a qualified accountant, the COO will need to be able to robustly and fluently speak to and understand financial challenges, particularly around longer-term forecasting and budgets. Supporting and guiding the formalisation of impact measurement across the organisation will also be a key aspect of the role, done in close collaboration with the wider senior management team and Director of Development.
Experience with and passion for streamlining operations, systems, and processes and continuously working to identify improvements will be essential, as will a calm and stable approach to leadership.
LWT is being assisted in this appointment by the executive search firm Society. Applications should consist of a CV and covering letter. The deadline for receipt of applications is midday GMT on Thursday, 13 March 2025.