Role description
Chief Executive Officer
Salary: Up to £75,000
Hours: 35 per week
Office Base: 1 Delaunays Road, Manchester M8 4QS. Hybrid working. The CEO is expected to work a minimum of 3 days per week working from the office/ across Manchester.
Responsible to: Board of Trustees
Responsible for: Overall management of GMIAU
Benefits:
Annual leave: 28 days per year plus bank holidays, plus an 5 extra days after 5 years continuous service. There is also an additional entitlement to cover the period between Christmas and New Year.
Pension: The minimum employer contribution 3%. The employee minimum contribution 4% - which attracts 1% tax relief that is added to the pension pot. GMIAU matches employees pension contribution up to a maximum of 6%.
Role purpose
Overall management and development of GMIAU including leadership, strategic direction, staff, finance and funding, legal, regulatory compliance and professional standards to ensure GMIAU provides a quality service and a voice at a national level for people in the North West who are experiencing immigration injustice.
Key responsibilities
Planning and development
To support the Board of Trustees in producing, implementing and reviewing GMIAU’s Strategic plan and be responsible for the preparation of Business plans.
To ensure that annual delivery plans are produced, agreed and implemented to maintain a focus on delivering quality support as well as advocacy for people who face the challenges of the immigration system including people seeking asylum, refugees and others who want to settle in the UK.
To oversee the setting up and embedding of new services and projects.
Governance
To provide the Board of Trustees with a comprehensive package of support to make sure they can effectively govern GMIAU.
To service and support the Trustees and any sub-groups.
Leadership
To have overall responsibility for all aspects of staff management, ensuring staff thrive in their roles.
To lead GMIAU’s People Strategy, including responsibility for recruitment and retention of staff and volunteers, as well as organisational structure .
To ensure relevant policies and practices as well as systems for staff supervision are in place to support and develop staff.
To have line management responsibility for Managers/Supervisors within GMIAU.
Funding
To actively seek out and secure significant sources of funding for GMIAU. This includes income from trusts and foundations, commissioned income from local authorities, and fundraising.
To develop and secure sustainable income streams.
To maintain existing funding relationships to ensure continued funding arrangements.
To write and manage reporting for funding bids.
Communications
To actively promote GMIAU and ensure that it has a positive public profile.
To represent the interests of GMIAU to external agencies through ongoing liaison and relationship building
To ensure that internal communications are effectively maintained, and that staff and Team meetings take place regularly.
To oversee publicity materials to ensure they are in line with policy and values.
Financial management and reporting
To support the GMIAU Board of Trustees in setting and monitoring the annual budget.
To have overall responsibility for financial management, ensuring that appropriate systems are in place, maintained and reported on.
To liase with external funding and regulatory bodies to ensure their requirements are met.
To ensure that effective monitoring systems are in place and maintained.
To ensure that monitoring reports are submitted/presented in line with requirements of funders and the Board of Trustees.
Statutory requirements
To ensure that GMIAU complies with all legal and regulatory requirements, including:
Charity and Company Law
Health & Safety regulations
Employment Law
Equalities legislation/regulation
Immigration Law
To support the Board in ensuring that GMIAU acts in accordance with its Memorandum & Articles of Association.
Legal Aid Agency (LAA) contract
To be the LAA Contract Representative responsible for the annual review and updates to the Quality Manual and Business Plan.
Through the Head of Legal Services, ensure that casework delivery meets high quality standards.
To ensure that the casework team keeps up to date with changes in immigration law and practice.
Policy and practice
To lead the GMIAU staff team in contributing to the development of policy and good practice within GMIAU.
To work to combat all forms of discrimination, and to ensure that the principles of equal opportunities are implemented in all work undertaken on behalf of GMIAU.
Person specification
Experience
Leadership: Demonstrable track record of dynamic leadership in the development of a similar sized charity.
Strategy: Proven success in developing organisational strategy, including in changing external environments.
People Development: Experience of developing staff and nurturing talent.
People relationship building: Experience of building meaningful relationships with diverse stakeholders, at all levels.
Fund raising/income generation: Experience of identifying new income opportunities and developing relationships with funders.
Services: Experience of setting up and bedding in new services or projects.
Bid writing: Developing and reporting on funding bids.
Finance: Experience of budget setting and financial management in an organisation of similar complexity.
Performance management: A track record of inspiring high levels of commitment and performance from others, and of effective management of under-performance when required.
Skills
Complexity: An ability to manage competing priorities and a challenging workload within a high-pressure environment.
Delivery: Able to focus energies on the achievement of the organisation's objectives within a values-based culture.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to convey complex information in a simple and persuasive way.
Diversity: A commitment to equality of opportunity in both employment practices and service delivery.
Networking: Able to foster new partnerships, working collaboratively with a diverse range of partners.
Public speaking: A persuasive speaker, capable of positively influencing a wide range of audiences.
Personal qualities
Relational ability: An effective team player.
Character: An excellent role model, able to engender an environment of mutual trust and respect.
Innovation: An innovator and motivator, able to think creatively.
Resilient: Sufficiently robust to fully meet the demands of the role.
Sector awareness: An understanding of the issues faced by people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants in the UK, and the associated policy framework.
Values: Values led, with a commitment to safeguard and implement the ethos and values of the charity.
Passion: A passion for immigration and social justice.
