Salary Scale: Director – £58,746
Accountable to: CEO
Hours: 37 hours a week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Home working (with frequent travel to London & Liverpool with travel across the UK when allowed)
Shared Lives Plus is the UK membership charity for more than 6,000 Shared Lives carers, 150 Shared Lives schemes and a growing network of over 25 local Homeshare organisations. Our vision is a kinder, stronger society built on sharing our lives and our homes. We help build communities where everyone lives a full life, regardless of the support they need. We do this by turning Shared Lives and Homeshare into thriving, mainstream options, with all the right structures in place to support and guide who want to share their lives and homes.
Are you the entrepreneurial strategic leader we are looking for? Do you work openly, collaboratively, positively? If so, you could join our senior management team and help us grow and develop our strategy for income generation, partnerships and embed a culture of opportunity and growth.
Please submit your CV along with a supporting statement considering (based on all the details in the job description and person specification) why you feel you’re the person for us. Short pre-interviews will be on Thursday 25 February, with a half day interview process week commencing 1st March 2020. Closing date is 9am on 22nd February.
Shared Lives Plus is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed to ensuring that all staff are motivated, skilled and rewarded by their work. We welcome applicants regardless of race, religion or belief, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age and other protected status as required by law. We promote and protect human rights; they are the foundation of what we do.
We want to be an inclusive place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come and contribute their unique strengths and perspectives. We are focused on equality and believe that all the fascinating characteristics that make us different, make us more able to deliver our life-changing work with passion and creativity.
No agencies please.
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The post holder will line manage a growing team including:
The postholder will be responsible for delivering on income growth targets including earned and unrestricted funding as well as restricted grant funding, negotiated with the chief executive.
You will provide support across the wider organisation as necessary. Our organisational structure is currently under review so the line management responsibilities of this role could change accordingly. The postholder will attend and participate in board meetings.