Assistant Director- Finance and Planning

The Youth Endowment Fund   

Assistant Director – Finance and Planning  

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer 

Salary: £75,000 - £79,000 

Location:  Central London or Hybrid*(see below) 

Contract: (2-year fixed term – potential to extend)  

Closing date for applications: 9:00am Monday 3rd February 2025 

Interview dates: week commencing 10th February 2025 

We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.  

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. We have c.£145m committed now to projects that are already underway and aim to commit and spend another c.£80m by 2029. It really matters that this money is spent effectively: every project we complete gives us more information on what works to prevent violence affecting young people. We’re looking for a new Assistant Director for Finance and Planning who will be accountable for the financial planning to ensure this money is spent well and implementing processes to ensure we get full value from the endowment. 

Key responsibilities 

Your job is to ensure that every pound of our funding is spent effectively. You are accountable for our financial planning and management, and effective commissioning of c.£30m-£40m of external projects annually. Your main responsibilities will be ensuring that: 

• We manage our finances excellently. 

• When other organisations do work with us, we procure and contract for it really well. 

• We fulfil our legal responsibilities. 

• We make decisions based on the right information. 

• We lead the organisation excellently. 

About you 

• You’re confident and competent at overseeing finance. You have had previous responsibility for financial management within an organisation. 

• You create simple processes and communicate them very well. You’re a structured thinker, able to develop proportionate and user-friendly processes across a range of domains. 

• You love data - and love making it seem simple. You can extract and analyse data and present this in a way that is easily understood.