Overview
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Salary: £135,000 - £165,000
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Hammersmith and Caversham
Hours: 40 Hours per week
Role summary
As CEO, you will be the visible leader and ambassador of British Rowing – representing a sport with deep heritage and an exciting future. The Chief Executive will be responsible for the delivery of the British Rowing Transformation Plan, ensuring outcomes are aligned to the needs of the organisation, its members, its clubs and partners. This will require considered leadership and sound business judgement as British Rowing seeks to establish a more united and robust organisation.
You will
* Lead the delivery of our transformation programme, ensuring the organisation, its systems, and people are aligned to succeed.
* Strengthen our reputation as one of the UK’s most effective and forward-looking governing bodies.
* Build new partnerships and revenue streams that enable sustained investment in participation and performance.
* Champion inclusivity, integrity, and innovation across everything we do.
* Inspire confidence among staff, volunteers, athletes and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead Transformation and Growth: lead the team to deliver the transformation programme, ensuring regular reporting against milestones to key stakeholders, surfacing issues and risks and delivering appropriate mitigating actions, and ensuring strong business planning and risk management systems.
* Inspire and Empower People: provide inspirational leadership to the senior team, ensuring clear performance objectives, robust performance review and appraisal processes, with regular feedback and ongoing development programmes for the team.
* Governance and Accountability: work with the Chair to optimise the contribution of the Board and senior leadership team, ensuring the Board can operate effectively and make well-informed decisions; ensure exemplary standards of governance, risk management, and transparency.
* Financial Stewardship and Commercial Development: oversee financial performance, develop new income streams, and ensure investment decisions deliver sustainable value and impact.
* Stakeholder Leadership: build trusted, influential relationships with key local, regional and national partners; build strong relationships with Home Nations, Regional Rowing Councils, clubs and competitions to share and own the transformation vision.
* Culture and Values: define, embed and role model the organisational culture and values across the organisation and the broader sport.
* National and International Representation: maintain relationships with national partners including UK Sport, Sport England and the British Olympic and Paralympic Associations; act as Accountable Officer for funding agreements and maintain relationships with World Rowing.
Mandatory Requirements
Experience and Expertise
* An accomplished senior-level executive with demonstrable experience of motivating and leading teams through growth and change.
* Experience leading an organisation through a significant transformational period and building commitment across stakeholder groups.
* Experience operating at board level, providing the Board and stakeholders with clear understanding of issues and risks to fulfil fiduciary duties.
* Deep understanding of good governance and experience delivering it.
* Excellent financial awareness with proven ability to control budgets and forecasts.
* Experience in effective risk management across physical and financial risks as well as safeguarding.
* Experience developing a brand and understanding digital transformation as a driver of growth, efficiencies and opportunities.
Key Skills and Attributes
* An inspirational, inclusive and collaborative leader with high integrity and ethical standards, passionate about the power of sport to transform lives and communities.
* Commercially astute with the ability to develop and drive strategy to enhance income streams and partnership potential.
* Ability to develop members of the senior management team in a high performing organisation.
* A collaborative and empowering leadership style.
* Ability to drive change and engage stakeholders through consultation and clear communication.
* Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion across the organisation.
What We Offer
Besides the salary and 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, you’ll also get:
* 7.5% employer pension contribution (when you contribute 3%)
* £20 per month with Betterspace (wellbeing platform)
* Company Health Insurance and Health Cash Plan
* Life assurance (x3 your salary)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Free and secure parking in Hammersmith
* Free annual ROW Membership
* Bonus annual leave between Christmas and New Years Day
Additional Information
To apply for this role, please submit your cover letter alongside your CV. We’re going to close applications on 17th of November; apply straight away as we reserve the right to close applications early if we find the right candidate.
Interviews: First round either 27th or 28th November. Final Interview: 10th December
About Us
British Rowing is the governing body for rowing, responsible for supporting grassroots rowing in England and preparing the GB Rowing Team for Olympics and other international competitions. Our vision is a sport that welcomes everyone; our mission is to create a healthy, inclusive and life-enhancing sport. We are a member organisation with over 30,000 individual members, supporting over 550 affiliated clubs and 230 affiliated events.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all individuals. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in the recruitment process, please contact HR.
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