National Sheep Association (NSA) is a UK-based non-profit organization dedicated to representing and supporting sheep farmers across the United Kingdom. Established in 1892 as the National Sheep Breeders Association, it adopted its current name in 1969 to reflect its broader role in the sheep industry.
The NSA's mission is to safeguard the interests and future of UK sheep farmers by promoting best practices in sheep farming and highlighting the sector's contributions to the economy, environment, and society. As a registered charity, its objectives include encouraging and improving sheep breeding, management, and promotion, aiming to advance education, health, heritage, science, environmental protection, and animal welfare for public benefit.
About the role
An Operations Director is being sought to join the NSA Senior Management Team and direct the professional, effective and consistent delivery of everyday operational functions of NSA. This is a senior position within the NSA team, reporting into the NSA Chief Executive, and involves regularly updating the NSA Trustee Directors and being involved in major financial, staffing and delivery decisions. It is a challenging and hugely varied role that brings a great deal of responsibility and involvement in multiple areas of exciting and important NSA activity.
Responsibilities
Governance:
* Working with the NSA Trustee Directors and supporting them to ensure NSA runs professionally and within frameworks set by Companies House and the Charity Commission.
Finances:
* Setting budgets and analysing financial information to ensure good use of NSA resources throughout the organisation. This will include a working understanding of the NSA investments and property portfolio.
Staffing:
* Looking after all NSA employees with correct HR procedures and appropriate wellbeing measures, while having some direct line management responsibilities. Also managing officeholders, paid annual honorarium, and self-employed contractors.
Compliance:
* Ensuring NSA meets various regulations around data protection, employment law, health and safety, and other requirements.
Site Management:
* Managing NSA Head Office (including IT for office and home-based staff) and the NSA Sheep Centre (including tenants) at Malvern, Worcestershire.
* Having oversight of NSA activities, including communications, corporate sales, membership recruitment/retention/administration, research projects, events, activities and campaigns work, to connect and maximise workstreams to the benefit of NSA members and the association as a whole.
Skills Required:
* Financial analysis
* HR and employment law
* Line management of staff
* Contract negotiation and management
* Communication of complex information (e.g., finances) to colleagues and directors
* Knowledge of working in a charity and experience of reporting to a Board of trustees/directors would be useful.
* Commitment to UK agriculture and appreciation of the role NSA serves within the livestock sector are essential.
Working locations
* Home-Based
How to apply
* To apply for this role, please email a covering letter, CV, and application form to Joanne Briggs, NSA Operations Director, at joanne@nationalsheep.org.uk before 12 noon on Wednesday 14th May.
* First round interviews will be on Tuesday, 20th May at the NSA Head Office.
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