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Head of Fgr Community

2 weeks ago


Stroud, United Kingdom Forest Green Rovers Football Club Full time

**Location: Forest Green**

**Salary Details: £37,000**

**About The Role**

FGR Community plays an important role in reducing barriers to participation in sport and creating opportunities to be active. The Head of FGR Community is responsible for managing the Trust and reporting to the FGR Community Board, ensuring the operations and activities of the Trust fulfil its strategic aims and the team work closely with its parent Club, Forest Green Rovers FC.

**General responsibilities include**:

- People development and management for the Trust, ensuring all colleagues feel valued, clearly understand their role and responsibilities, and work closely as a team, as well as across the wider Club.
- Operations and activities are developed and delivered in-line with FGR Community’s (‘the ‘Trust’s’) strategy, mission and growth and implementation plan set by the Board of Directors.
- The financial health of the Trust is maintained and managed in-line with Board expectations.
- The charity is fully compliant with all governance and English Football League (EFL) Trust Capability Code of Practice requirements.
- Be the lead for the Trust in ensuring the ‘golden thread’ of environmental sustainability across Forest Green Rovers FC and all aspects of the Trust’s work is maintained to ensure this is at the forefront of its story and delivery.
- All community outreach programmes meet the need of the community and support the Club’s ambition and goals.
- The Trust and Club work closely together with the Trust complementing the work of the Club and vice versa.
- All representatives of the Trust uphold the highest standard and reputation of the Trust and Club, within the local community and beyond.

**Key Responsibilities, include**:

- Prioritise the leadership and development of the team to ensure they are highly motivated and performing efficiently and effectively, with clear direction.
- Set and oversee the implementation of the Trust’s 3 - 5-year strategic plan, ensuring a clear growth and implementation plan and the budget is set and delivered for each financial year.
- Manage FGR Community’s charity governance and operations, including contributing to the charity’s Annual Report, reporting financial and delivery updates to Board Members and leading on agreed actions.
- Lead the implementation and updates to the Service Level Agreement between the Community and Forest Green Rovers FC, ensuring positive and productive relationships are maintained, to the benefit of all parties.
- Ensure effective policies, procedures and processes are in place to meet the EFL Trust’s Capability Code of Practice and the Charity Commission’s regulatory requirements.
- Set and deliver against the Trust’s budget and income generation plan and report progress updates to the Board of Directors, with recommended actions to achieve the organisations’ reserves and growth plans.
- Ensure the Trust’s delivery plans align with the Trust’s financial and resource availability and needs of the community.
- Actively engage and secure delivery and funding partners and stakeholders, ensuring compliance with the Trust’s procurement and environmental policies and procedures.
- Ensure the work of the Trust is communicated, both internally and externally, to achieve maximum awareness of the Trust’s impact and influence in the community.
- Ensure full diligence and compliance to Health and Safety, Risk Management (business/finance) and Safeguarding practices and General Data Protection Regulations.
- Actively champion and promote equality, diversity and inclusion across recruitment, internal development and programme delivery activities.
- Be the internal lead for FGR’s overall environmental programme and ensure the Trust upholds the highest environmentally sustainable practices, and these are embedded into the Trust’s events and programme delivery, working closely with the Club and Group Head of Sustainability.
- Represent FGR Community at stakeholder, Community and EFL regional and national Trust meetings or delegate this responsibility within the team.
- Encourage a close working relationship and sharing of resources between the Trust and FGR.

**About You**

**Skills and Experience**
- Proven experience as a manager or similar leadership position
- Experience in developing profitable strategies and implementing an organisation’s vision
- Good understanding of finance, risk management and performance management principles
- Familiarity with diverse business functions such as marketing, PR, finance, Health and Safety, HR and Safeguarding.
- Good knowledge of governance and general management best practices
- Good knowledge and understanding of environmental practices and a passion for making these central to an organisation’s success.
- An entrepreneurial mind-set with outstanding organisational and leadership skills
- Analytical abilities and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and public speaki