Chief Executive Officer

Are you passionate about leading a community organisation and driving sustainable, impactful change?

Can you inspire and manage a diverse team of staff and volunteers to achieve collective goals in a dynamic, inclusive environment?

Then we’re looking for you to lead Moseley Community Development Trust

Role Summary:

The Chief Executive Officer will lead Moseley Community Development Trust (CDT) into an exciting new phase as it develops and grows its asset base: two buildings, a committed core team, and wider community of active citizens and volunteers. They will develop a refreshed strategy for the charity focused on organisational sustainability, social impact, and climate resilience, and use their energy and profile to bring the wider communities around Moseley into that process.

The Chief Executive Officer will develop the organisation’s operating model to include its newest building ‘The Hive’: a flexible space which enables a wider set of people to organise around creativity, solidarity, and other shared endeavour. They will also inherit a community vision for the space and deliver a capital programme to update it in line with that vision.

The role must also model the values that are core to Moseley CDT:

• Inclusion: working, relentlessly to ensure that the organisation’s assets serve all parts of Moseley’s diverse communities of place and interest,
• Positive innovation: embodying a ‘can-do’ attitude by creating space for staff, volunteers, and active citizens to explore how things can be done,
• Collaboration: forming and nurturing productive partnerships around shared goals

Responsibilities:

To lead Moseley CDT as an organisation and system actor:

• Lead the development of a new organisational strategy, working with the Board. 
• Lead and manage the team of staff and volunteers. 
• Maintain and develop relationships in the local and thematic ecosystems around Moseley CDT, ensuring that the organisation is adept at innovating, anticipating, and responding to issues, risks, and opportunities. 
• Build relationships to widen participation in community life. 
• Develop new sources of funding and increase organisational capacity around business development and funding applications. 
• Support and strengthen existing enterprises, services, and assets – including through planned capital works at The Hive. 

To develop, update, and model good governance: 

• Ensure that the Board meets regularly, and has the strategic, organisational, and community insights it needs to make good decisions. 
• Revisit Moseley CDT’s organisational policies, and update where necessary. 
• Increase organisational capacity around policy updates and compliance. 
• Use research, data, and insight to ensure that the organisation can be nimble and responsive to changes and trends. 

Community development:

• Use the organisation’s assets to support community organisation, enterprise, and development. 
• Support and grow co-working membership to unlock maximum benefit for the wider community around Moseley CDT. 
• Create space for innovation and collective problem solving, developing new services and projects as required. 
• Invest into the Moseley CDT staff team so that they can continue to thrive at work, and to grow into their potential. 

Person Specification:

Experience and Knowledge:

• Leadership within the voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise sector
• Asset-based community development
• Operational management of buildings 
• Programme Management
• Managing volunteers

Skills and Abilities:​     

• Resourceful, practical, and entrepreneurial 
• Developing and delivering strategy 
• Effective communicator 
• Financial management
• ICT literacy
• Creating and nurturing partnerships 
• Leading a team of staff and volunteers