Head of Strategy and Operations

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom Ark Schools Full time

**Head of Strategy and Operations**

**Location**:Ark Charity

**Head of Strategy and Operations**

**Reports to**:Chief Executive Officer

**Location**:West London - currently operating an agile working policy with two core days (Mon and Weds) in the office

**Contract**:Permanent

**Pattern**:Full Time (standard hours 9am - 5.30pm)

**Closing date**:05/07/2023 at 10am

**Interviews**:w/c 10/07/2023

**Salary**:£50,000 to £55,000 per annum (depending on experience)

**About the role**:
As a new foundation, this is an exciting time to join Martingale and be part of shaping it for years to come. In Autumn 2023, we will welcome the inaugural cohort of Martingale Postgraduate Scholars and launch recruitment for our second cohort.

As Head of Strategy and Operations you will play a pivotal role in this work. Working closely with the CEO on a day-to-day basis, you will help to build and grow the foundation. Working collaboratively with the wider team, partner universities and funder, this will be a fast paced and varied role. You will be responsible for managing relationships with key stakeholders and support the CEO to establish new partnerships with funders, charities, providers and universities.

Your role will include coordinating outsourced support across finance, HR, IT and facilities. You will work closely with the CEO on strategy development, impact and evaluation, and models for expanding current initiatives/developing new initiatives that support people from low-income backgrounds to pursue, and succeed in, postgraduate study.

You will play a key role in influencing scholars’ outcomes on a broader strategic level and have the opportunity to develop professionally with support from the CEO and external learning opportunities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead on key projects and initiatives within the organisation, including ad-hoc research and analysis
- Lead quantitative and qualitative analyses and present synthesised findings and recommendations
- Support the CEO on funder development activities, including creating proposals for funding
- Produce and coordinate engaging documents and communications for key stakeholders, including senior leaders at Partner Universities, and the Martingale Advisory Board
- Manage relationships with University Partners, including senior leaders when required. Ensure they are consulted and pleased with progress, while also delivering on their commitments
- Develop collaborative relationships with charity partners, organisations with similar missions to Martingale, and other relevant organisations
- Coordinate outsourced support on HR, Finance, IT and facilities, and act as their key point of contact
- Budget forecasting and management including working closely with external finance teams
- Oversee the progress of projects against project plans and ensure all milestones are met: hold internal colleagues and external providers to account

**Key Requirements**:

- A bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience
- Excellent qualitative and quantitative problem solving skills
- Able to assimilate complex information quickly, identifying the pertinent points and making them accessible for a wider audience
- Experience managing multiple projects/workstream and priorities simultaneously, while maintaining attention to detail, prioritising, and meeting deadlines
- Experience of high-quality relationship management with a range of stakeholders of different seniority
- Excellent interpersonal skills: Friendly and personable, able to build rapport and trusting relationships, able to work co-operatively in a multidisciplinary setting
- Comfortable working in a rapidly growing and changing organisation with a degree of ambiguity - confident to create processes and ways forwards where they might not yet exist
- Resourceful, able to act on initiative, hard-working, detail orientated, and systematic

**View the full job description and person specification**
**here**

**About Martingale**

***
Martingale Postgraduate Foundation (Martingale) exists to fund and support the next generation of STEM leaders. We believe that family income should not be a barrier to the pursuit of excellence, so our programmes focus on supporting students from low family income backgrounds.

Martingale’s flagship programme is the Martingale Postgraduate Scholarship, which supports students from low-income backgrounds to pursue postgraduate degrees and excel in them by providing:

- Full funding (fees, stipend and research expenses) to study for a Master’s degree at a partner university.
- Access to the Martingale Development Programme, which will deliver cohort-building, leadership, and career development activities.

Martingale is well funded by leading philanthropists, and is currently being incubated by Ark Ventures, a leading charity that develops and supports organisations that tackle some of the most challenging problems facing young people in the UK.

**Benefits**
- 27 days annual leave plus b

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