Are you a strategic leader with a passion for operational excellence and a commitment to making a real impact? Elrha is seeking an experienced Director of Finance and Operations to drive our organisational effectiveness, ensuring that our systems, processes, and teams support the delivery of high-quality and impactful work in a constantly changing environment.
About the Role
As a key member of the Directors Group, you will lead our finance, HR, grant management operations, procurement, and governance functions. You’ll work closely with our Directors Group and Board of Trustees to ensure sustainable growth and operational alignment with our mission and values. Your leadership will help us build strong relationships with funders, steer effective change management, oversee organisational risk management, and drive improvements in efficiency and compliance.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and support high-performing teams to deliver operational excellence across finance, HR, procurement, governance and grant management.
- Provide strategic leadership on organisational risk management, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
- Drive the implementation of systems and processes to enhance efficiency and support our vision.
- Collaborate with the Board and senior leadership to align operational priorities with our strategy.
- Champion Elrha’s values and lead our commitment to becoming a climate-responsible organisation.
What We’re Looking For
You’ll bring significant experience in financial planning, budgeting, HR, and operational management, ideally within the charity or non-profit sector. You’re a proven leader, skilled at driving organisational change, managing complex funding streams, and fostering an inclusive and productive culture. With excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, you’re adept at navigating challenges and delivering results.
We offer:
- Remote working as standard – staff can access office bases in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester if required/ appropriate. We expect staff to attend team meetings and away days in person as required.
- As standard we work 35 hours per week. We are also happy to discuss flexible working patterns and many of our staff work non-standard working hours.
- Our benefits include minimum 5% employer pension contribution (3% employee contribution), life cover, organisational sick pay, family friendly pay and leave schemes; incremental increase in annual leave (25 day basic entitlement) depending on length of service, opportunities for learning and development, a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and retail discounts platform.
Note for applicants:
- Candidates must have the independent right to work in UK at the time of appointment as we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role.
- Please read through the Information for Candidates document as well as the Job Description for further information to support your application and complete your personal statement.
- When applying you will be taken through the Save the Children UK recruitment system. Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes.
- For any questions, please contact the HR team at HR@elrha.org
- We reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a very high volume of applications.
Closing date: 2nd February 2025
Interview dates: 18th & 19th February 2025
How to apply
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