Strategic Director of Community Development

4 weeks ago

Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Acis Group Full time

Acis Group is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director of Community Investment to join our Executive Leadership Team. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering our community investment strategy, ensuring the delivery of our vision, values, and business plan.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Liaise with Board Members, the Chief Executive, and other Directors on matters of corporate management and business development.
  • Work on business strategy and policy formulation at Board and Executive Leadership Team level to help achieve the Company's overall objectives.
  • Direct the Community Investment teams on matters relating to the delivery of our community investment activities and services across education, employability, wellbeing, and student accommodation services.
  • Lead and own the organisation's strategic approach to growth through developing new complementary products and services in the communities in which we work.
  • Turn stakeholder relationships into strategic partners, through owning the group-wide external relationship development with stakeholders at all levels and across multiple organisations.
  • Drive change across the organisation to deliver a culture that meets high standards for all our customers and ensures the organisation's growth, in ways that meet the needs of our customers.

Requirements:

  • You'll be an innovative and creative thinker able to consider new ideas whilst recognising the constraints of the highly regulated environment in which we work.
  • Substantial experience of working in a senior manager role or higher in a medium to large sized organisation – and all that that role entails.
  • A clear influencer, negotiator, problem solver, and relationship developer – who knows how to get the job done and with the commercial experience to win and grow new business through new funding opportunities.
  • A real understanding of social value and how organisations like ours can leverage external funding to deliver more.
  • A strong knowledge of how grant, contract, and framework funding works, including in-depth understanding of tendering and bidding processes to ensure we maximise our value for money and drive profitability.
  • Experience of Ofsted, regulatory bodies, audit, and compliance regimes.
  • A demonstrable commitment to the principles of safeguarding and a thorough understanding of keeping children safe in education.
  • You'll not be phased by challenge, resistance, and setbacks; as you know this is the path to innovation and continuous improvement.
  • Resilience. Working at Acis Group is a challenging but rewarding career. You'll be helping to bring real change to our customers' lives.
  • Relentless enthusiasm and drive to develop creative solutions. Making a positive difference to our customers is what gets you up every day.

As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you'll have experience in the following areas:

  • Senior management role with a clear understanding of the social housing sector and how it can contribute to the communities in which it works.
  • Direct management of the operational delivery of grant and public funded investments and projects in effective delivery partnerships with others.
  • Successfully managing large and complex financial budgets.
  • Direct reporting to non-executive boards and committees.
  • Representing the organisation in regulatory investigations or assessments.
  • Leading complex, high-value, investment strategies and teams.
  • Implementation of projects and programmes.
  • Involvement of service users in the design and delivery of service.
  • Highly developed commercial acumen and entrepreneurial skills.

What might make you stand out from the crowd:

  • An appropriate professional qualification commensurate with the job role or a degree-level education in a relevant discipline.
  • A formal management qualification (such as CMI, ILM, MBA) is desirable.
  • Project or programme management qualified, such as PRINCE 2, lean, or six sigma.
  • A demonstrable commitment to continuous professional development, learning, and qualification.
  • You'll be adept at change, having got hands-on experience living and breathing new ways of working and knowing how to bring your colleagues along for the experience.

Being part of the Acis Group team, you'll get:

  • Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave every year increasing by one to a max of 30, plus bank holidays.
  • Pension contributions up to 10%.
  • The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
  • One day's paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement).
  • Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations, and much more.
  • Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out, and much more.
  • Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers.
  • Long service awards for our loyal employees.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it.
  • Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development.
  • Death in service benefit.

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