West Norfolk Befriending CEO

4 months ago

King's Lynn, United Kingdom West Norfolk Befriending Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Key responsibilities**:

- To provide leadership to West Norfolk Befriending and to be responsible for the management and administration of the charity within the strategic, policy and accountability frameworks laid down by the board of trustees.
- Together with the chair, to enable the board of trustees to fulfil its duties and responsibilities for the proper governance of West Norfolk Befriending and to ensure that the board receives timely advice and appropriate information on all relevant matters

**1. Leadership**:

- Lead, inspire and motivate staff and volunteers
- Uphold and develop the aims of West Norfolk Befriending, along with the strategic objectives and priorities.
- With the chair, ensure that the trustees review and set the values, vision, mission, strategic objectives and priorities for West Norfolk Befriending.
- Ensure that the values, ethos and policies of West Norfolk Befriending are relevant, fair and consistently implemented.
- Develop an organisation that is consistently seeking ways to learn and to improve its performance.
- Promote an environment where staff and volunteers are nurtured and supported.
- Maintain and develop an environment of trust and openness amongst our staff and trustees.

**2. Management**:

- To be accountable to the board for the proper and effective management of West Norfolk Befriending.
- To run West Norfolk Befriending efficiently and effectively by ensuring appropriate management structures and systems are in place to fulfil our strategic objectives and carry out our work.
- To ensure that all management policies and decisions support the agreed vision, mission, values and strategic priorities of West Norfolk Befriending.
- To ensure that operational and annual plans to underpin the strategic plan are developed, agreed and implemented.
- To identify appropriate methods for monitoring the performance of West Norfolk Befriending against its strategic, operational and annual plans, and budget, and to report this back to the trustees.
- Ensure that West Norfolk Befriending has the resources (human, material and financial) to operate effectively.
- To ensure that the recruitment, management, training and development of staff reflect good employment practice and are directed towards achieving the charity’s objectives.
- To ensure that the charity is aware of best practice and that it constantly works to achieve this within the constraints laid down by the trustees and resources available.

**3. Finance and risk**:

- To be responsible overall for the financial health of West Norfolk Befriending including developing, overseeing and monitoring an effective programme of income generation and ensure that expenditure is in line with the budget approved by the board.
- To ensure that the major risks to which the charity is exposed are reviewed regularly by the board, systems have been established to mitigate these risks, and a risk analysis is automatically carried out when taking on new work or proposing new work to the board.
- To ensure that there are effective mechanisms to ensure the robustness of external and internal controls (financial and no-financial).

**4. Relationship building**
- Foster good communications throughout the charity and externally
- Build strong, trusting relationships with key stakeholders, businesses, Local Authorities, organisations and other charities.
- Enhance the profile and positioning of West Norfolk Befriending in the community and surrounding areas.
- Listen to the views of current and future beneficiaries on the performance of the charity, as well as on areas for future development.
- Be a voice for older people in the public arena.

**5. Governance**:

- Ensure that the board receives all necessary advice, guidance and information on matters relating to current performance, the short
- and ling
- term future of the charity, regulatory and legal compliance, and other appropriate issues; and making sure that such advice, guidance and information are timely, honest, balanced and relevant.
- Work closely with the board to ensure that the board has on it the skills it requires to govern the charity well, that the board has access to relevant external professional advice and expertise and to assist with the board’s assessment of its own performance.
- Work with the chair to ensure that all members of the board receive appropriate induction, advice, information and training.
- Assist the chair in ensuring that the board focuses on its governance role by making sure that the board agenda and papers do not draw the board away from governance and into unnecessary detail and management issues.
- In partnership with the chair, ensure that the right and appropriate items reach board agendas and that high-quality papers support each item on the agenda.
- Report regularly to the board of trustees on the performance of the charity, progress towards the strategic priorities and the achievement of board policies.
- Sub

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