The Chief Executive Officer
- Service: Senior Leadership Team
- Location: Hybrid with regular work from Norwich, Ipswich and March - plus regional travel
- Reports to: Board of Trustees
- Contract: Full-time, permanent, 35 hours a week (flexibility required)
Job Purpose
To provide strategic leadership, vision and direction to Ormiston Families, ensuring delivery of its mission to help families across the East of England build resilience and improve children’s lives.
Role Overview
- Deliver the strategic plan, ensuring alignment with values, impact, and financial sustainability.
- Inspire and lead a high-performing team, fostering a collaborative and accountable culture.
- Drive income growth through fundraising, partnerships, and socially minded commercial activity.
- Ensure robust governance, safeguarding, and compliance frameworks.
- Represent Ormiston Families with credibility – engaging stakeholders, media, and funders.
- Maintain strong financial oversight and reporting to the Board.
- Champion innovation, digital opportunities, and service improvements.
- Promote a learning culture, diversity, and equity throughout the organisation.
Person Overview
- Values-led and emotionally intelligent leader with integrity, compassion, and a deep commitment to making a difference for families and children.
- Inspiring, visible, and collaborative presence across teams and regions – able to motivate, empower, and hold others accountable.
- Strategic and commercially minded, with the creativity to grow income without compromising service quality or values.
- Strong communicator and ambassador, able to influence, network, and represent the organisation with credibility at all levels.
- Digitally aware and operationally astute, ideally with property or asset oversight experience, to drive innovation and efficiency.
