Chief Executive Officer
Role Overview
The Chief Executive Officer will lead the charity's next phase and provide strategic and operational leadership.
The role works closely with the Board of Trustees, staff, and partners to support organisational development, sustainability, governance, and impact.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Link to Change
Link to Change is a charity working to protect children and young people from exploitation, abuse, and harm.
The charity works with children, families, professionals, and communities and has experience addressing child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, online harms, and violence.
The organisation is entering a phase of growth across Bedfordshire and surrounding areas.
Role overview
The Chief Executive Officer will lead the charity's next phase and provide strategic and operational leadership.
The role works closely with the Board of Trustees, staff, and partners to support organisational development, sustainability, governance, and impact.
Key responsibilities
- Lead organisational strategy, growth, and development, and help shape the organisation's future direction.
- Oversee financial sustainability, governance, service delivery, and performance.
- Build partnerships across sectors, lead and develop teams, and champion safeguarding excellence.
- Keep the voices and outcomes of children and young people central to the charity's work.
Essential qualifications and experience
- Degree-level education or equivalent relevant experience, and continuing professional development in leadership, safeguarding, or organisational management.
- Leadership or management qualification, such as ILM, CMI, or equivalent.
- Significant senior leadership experience in a charity, public-sector, or related organisation, including leading strategy and organisational growth.
- Strong safeguarding experience with vulnerable children and young people, and experience working with statutory, voluntary, and multi-agency stakeholders.
- Experience in financial management, team leadership, and overseeing service delivery and performance in a regulated or safeguarding-focused environment.
Essential knowledge and abilities
- Knowledge of safeguarding frameworks, exploitation and abuse affecting young people, trustee governance, trauma-informed practice, and charity financial management.
- Ability to provide strategic leadership, manage risk and complexity, communicate and influence, build partnerships, prioritise, and lead through others.
- Competence with IT systems including Microsoft Office and financial or administrative systems; ability to contribute to external communications and organisational profile-building.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant professional qualification in safeguarding, social work, youth work, leadership, management, or a related discipline.
- Advanced safeguarding or child-protection training, or financial/business management training or qualification.
- The available description also lists charity-sector experience and income generation, fundraising, commissioning, or contract management as desirable; the remaining text is truncated.
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