Job Vacancy – Community Trust Chief Executive Officer
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This is an exciting and unique opportunity to lead a passionate and talented team based within a professional football club charity with an exciting outlook and solid foundations for growth.
We are looking to recruit a high calibre Community Trust CEO who can show the commitment and inspiration required to lead our charity, motivate a diverse team, build influential relationships, and further develop our reputation locally and nationally.
FLEETWOOD TOWN FC COMMUNITY TRUST
The Fleetwood Town FC Community Trust is a registered charity proud to represent Fleetwood Town Football Club in the local community.
The Trustees are proud of the work that the charity does to improve the lives of local people in Wyre and Fylde, Lancashire. Covid has had a devastating effect on many lives, and we are determined to ensure that all future activity has huge benefits in rebuilding and reconnecting our communities.
The Trust offers many diverse activities that aim to provide the people in Wyre and Fylde with the opportunities to participate and enjoy themselves in a fun, friendly environment.
Fleetwood Town Community Trust (FTCT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and employees to share this commitment.
About Us
Fleetwood Town Community Trust (FTCT) is a vibrant and active community project that aims to provide socially inclusive community, health and education engagement programs which aim to make a difference to the lives of people within our community.
Having successfully attained charitable status, the challenge for the Trust is now to reach even more people and increase the role we play in the local community. The Trust offers many diverse activities that aim to provide the people in Wyre and Fylde with the opportunities to participate and enjoy themselves in a fun, friendly environment.
Fleetwood Town Community Trust (FTCT) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and employees to share this commitment.
Fleetwood Town Community Trust (FTCT) is an equal opportunities employer, and values diversity within our organisation.
THE ROLE OF FTCT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
We have an exciting opportunity for a Chief Executive Officer to join our team at Fleetwood Town Community Trust (FTCT). This role involves providing inspirational senior leadership of the Fleetwood Town Community Trust, developing, and delivering an ambitious strategic plan that increases both the Trust’s and Football Club’s brand, impact, and reputation.
Strategic responsibility for the financial and business growth of Fleetwood Town Community Trust, ensuring sustainability and diversity of income streams, which can be reinvested in community-based activity for the benefit of the Fylde coast and its communities.
With a strong, dedicated Board, a great team in place and a clear mission, we firmly believe the Trust is set for an exciting decade. However, to achieve our ambitious plans, we are looking to appoint an inspirational and strategic senior leader as our FTCT CEO, taking over from the current CEO when he leaves to pursue other opportunities.
Working closely with the Board and the Trust’s three Senior Managers in particular, the FTCT CEO will have executive responsibility for governance, growth and financial sustainability of the charity.
The FTCT CEO will be an inspirational leader both internally and externally, working to secure and cultivate diverse income streams and high-impact partnerships, whilst ensuring we continue to operate with excellent systems and processes which support our talented staff to do what they do best.
As an ambassador for both the Community Trust and Football Club, the FTCT CEO will foster a positive culture, ensuring staff at all levels across the organisation are inspired and encouraged to succeed and develop in-role.
The Trustees are looking for a high calibre CEO that can deliver and effectively communicate our vision, mission, and values clearly. We want someone who can make Fleetwood Town FC Community Trust one of the leading and most respected Community Trusts in the country.
THE INDIVIDUAL
Above all else, the successful candidate will embody the values of the Community Trust, as well as mirroring those of the Football Club, driving our mission to improve lives in a way that leaves a positive legacy for decades to come.
You will be comfortable managing executive and non-executive board level meetings, with the ability to influence and establish credibility as a trusted leader across all our networks.
We will be particularly interested in candidates’ business development experience. How you have gained these key skills is less important, but we know that a strong track record in growing and developing an organisation will be a critical foundation for success in the role.
The Trust has sound financial foundations which, along with our enviable track record, provides a fantastic base on which to grow our exciting work, but we are especially interested in candidates who can help us capitalise on new opportunities aligned to our strategy.
You will also need to be creative, take innovative approaches to solving problems and able to continually motivate and inspire all around you.
At interview, we will ask you about relationships you have cultivated with related and/or associated parties. This might have been within a professional sporting environment or elsewhere, but demonstrable experience of this will be essential for us.
APPLICATIONS
Appointing a new leader to the Trust at this stage of our growth is one of the most important things we will do as a Board in the next decade, which is why we are pleased to have appointed Carole Sweeting of Sweeting HR Ltd to help us through the process.
We strongly recommend an informal discussion about the role (including the work and impact of Fleetwood Town FC Community Trust, their strategic ambition, and the local area) with Pete Murphy (Chair of the Board of Trustees) before you apply. Please contact him to arrange a call back at petemurphy@uwclub.net or Hugh McCaw (Deputy Chair) at h.mccaw@btinternet.com
If you wish to apply for this position, please supply the following:
- A CV setting out your career history, with responsibilities and achievements, details of your current salary and benefits (in confidence) and preferred contact details
- A supporting statement (or covering letter) of no more than two pages, which fully addresses the criteria in the job description and person specification
- Details of two referees who can speak authoritatively about you together with a brief statement of the capacity and over what period they have known you. Referees will not be contacted without your prior consent
- Please also see the FTFC Community Trust Monitoring Form. We ask applicants to complete this form to assist us in checking that our recruitment methods conform to equal opportunity guidelines. Completing this form is voluntary, and the information will not be used as part of the shortlisting or selection process. Please return completed forms to carole@sweetinghr.co.uk
It is essential that your CV and supporting statement/covering letter highlight all the relevant experience that the selection panel will be looking for in the sift process.
A full job description can be found at https://fleetwoodtownfcct.com
Fleetwood Town FC Community Trust CEO – Recruitment Campaign Timeline
- Role Advertised
27th July 2022
- Closing Date
17th August 2022 at 12pm
- Shortlist
26th August 2022
If you have not heard back by 26th August 2022, please assume that unfortunately your application has not been successful
- Interviews
Stage One – 30th and 31st August 2022 via telephone
Stage Two (Board Panel Interview) –1st and 2nd September 2022
- Announcement and Start Date
ASAP
Recruitment Statement
Fleetwood Town FC Community Trust strongly believe that we should operate to the highest standards of governance and transparency. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. As part of this commitment, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds, alongside those that wish to consider a less than full time role.
Safeguarding Statement
This post falls within the scope of regulated activity and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974). Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (formerly CRB) check and are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Exemptions) Act 1975.
Equality Statement
Fleetwood Town FC Community Trust is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
Fleetwood Town FC Community Trust is also committed to the safeguarding of vulnerable groups.
