Deputy Chief Executive

This is an exciting time to join the Royal Society for Public Health to use your passion for policy and communications and your experience of delivering high quality strategic and operational support to help fulfil our mission for everyone to lead a healthier longer life. We have a clear strategy, a great staff team and deliver high quality work. We are looking to move the next stage of our strategy and want someone brilliant to help us do that.

RSPH is the UKs leading public health membership and education charity, and we are looking for the right person to support our Chief Executive in delivering our strategic vision to reduce health inequalities, support the wider public health workforce and make public health everyone’s responsibility.

As the world’s oldest public health agency and the UK’s leading specialist provider of public health qualifications, the Royal Society for Public Health is uniquely placed to make a difference. With health and social care services facing increasing pressure, healthy life expectancy stalling, inequalities increasing and more people leaving the workforce due to ill-health, our remit couldn’t be more important.

What you will bring

We are looking for someone with experience in of working at Director level in an organisation of comparable scale and complexity.  You should have a proven track record of representing organisations to interested parties, and of persuading and influencing at senior levels including experience of managing relationships with Government, Parliament, regulators, trade bodies, consumer organisations, firms and the media.

This role will require experience of developing and delivering organisational strategy. You will have experience in building effective teams of senior staff through people management skills such as leadership, vision, communication, motivation, constructive challenge and delegation. 

An effective communicator, you will excel at engaging with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve organisational goals. Most importantly we want someone who wants to come and work with the organisation to deliver our strategy and make a difference.

In return we offer:

·       25 days annual leave

·       Agile hybrid working structure – 9-day fortnight available

·       Pension contributions

·       BUPA Cash plan

·       Cycle to Work Scheme

·       Membership of the Royal Society for Public Health

·       Access to public health knowledge and skills training courses and qualifications

·       Organisational commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our employees

·       Welcoming and friendly team of colleagues, and an active Health Champions programme

RSPH values and actively strives to have a diverse and inclusive workforce in a working environment free from discrimination.

Please do let us know if you require any adjustment to allow you to participate in this recruitment process.

RSPH operates an agile working policy with some attendance at our London office according to business need.

Interviews will be held at our offices in Whitechapel on Wednesday 31 July.  If you are unable to attend please indicate this on your application.

Please visit our website for more information and the full job description.