CEO Office Intern - Essex, ON, Canada - Guardian Jobs

Description

To lead and develop CARA, taking overall responsibility for the operational and financial management, generating income, working closely with the board of trustees to achieve CARA's strategic and budgetary aims, whilst ensuring compliance with statutory, contractual, and regulatory requirements.

Hours:

Your hours of work are as required to perform the duties of your role, for a full-time employee this is normally 35 hours per week.

Contract:
Permanent

At least two days a week in the Colchester office, with some home working, regular travel across Essex and occasional travel in the East Region.

Holiday: 25 days per year pro-rata, plus additional closure days between Christmas and New Year.

Please complete the application form, which can be downloaded from our website, explaining how your skills and experience relate to the person specification.

This post is restricted to women applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1.

The post of Chief Executive Officer offers an exciting opportunity to steer CARA through the next stage of its development, providing leadership to the talented and committed CARA team.

The role will involve building on the considerable growth and development that CARA has achieved over the last 10 years, securing funding to ensure it can continue to provide excellent specialist services to survivors of sexual violence and take steps towards CARA's vision of a world without sexual violence and child sexual abuse.

CARA's CEO is responsible for leading and developing CARA, taking overall responsibility for the operational and financial management, generating income, working closely with the board of trustees to achieve CARA's strategic and budgetary aims, whilst ensuring compliance with statutory, contractual, and regulatory requirements.

Lead on and be responsible for the creation, ongoing development and implementation of the organisation's strategic, business and annual plans.

Good governance:

Report and present to the Board of Trustees on the organisation's progress against its budgets, plans, any risks, challenges and changes, and all information relevant and necessary to the effective discharge of the Board's duties, including strategic decision-making.

Develop and share proposals with the Board for the implementation of its objectives and the ongoing development of the organisation.

Support the Board of Trustees in its ongoing process of self-assessment, development and improving its diversity and representation.
Ensure the charity meets its constitutional, regulatory and legal obligations.
Generate new and various funding and income opportunities through networking, developing partnerships.

To keep up-to-date with current developments affecting victims and survivors of sexual violence and ensure that CARA responds appropriately to these developments.

Build, support and oversee strong relationships with individuals and organisations across the voluntary, public and private sectors, and in local and national government.

To remain informed of national and regional Rape Crisis perspectives, drawing on Rape Crisis England and Wales expertise and resources as appropriate.

Ensure policies and processes that support good communication, staff health and well-being, and safe and effective delivery of work are in place and adhered to throughout the organisation.

Take overall responsibility for the staff team, its management and performance.

Capture the organisation's work through robust monitoring and evaluation, and ensure CARA's impact and any learning is shared throughout the team and with the Board, survivors, funders and other partners as appropriate.

To oversee safeguarding at CARA, working with the Designated Safeguarding Leads to ensure effective policies and procedures are in place and communicated to staff, trustees, sessional counsellors and volunteers, and that CARA follows best safeguarding practice.

To adhere to all CARA's organisational policies and procedures.

CARA (Centre for Action on Rape and Abuse) works with victims and survivors of sexual violence and child sexual abuse, providing independent, specialist support and promoting and representing their rights and needs.

CARA's vision is of a world without sexual violence and child sexual abuse. CARA is a registered charity working with adults, young people and children from across mid and north Essex. We have a head office in Colchester and outreach premises in Braintree, Chelmsford, Clacton-on-Sea, Great Dunmow and Harwich. We also provide remote services.

CARA currently employs 39 full and part-time staff and has an annual income of approximately £1.To provide high quality, specialist support to victims and survivors of sexual violence and child sexual abuse.

# To increase awareness and understanding of sexual violence and child sexual abuse and the impact they have on victims and survivors, challenging myths and misconceptions.
# CARA is a women-led organisation and we work from an intersectional feminist perspective. We actively seek to ensure equality of women as a service provider and as an employer.
CARA's commitment to diversity and inclusion

CARA seeks to be an inclusive organisation that actively encourages, supports and values diversity amongst both our service-users and our workers.

CARA is committed to anti-racism and are currently developing an Anti-racism Policy. You can read more about CARA's commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

We work with SERICC Rape and Sexual Abuse Specialist Service and Southend-on-Sea Rape Crisis (SOS Rape Crisis) to deliver the contract for the Office for the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (PFCC) for Essex for services for victims and survivors of sexual violence and child sexual abuse across Essex, Southend and Thurrock.

Synergy Essex also shares a number of other projects, funded by the Ministry of Justice, Essex County Council and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Our current PFCC contract ends in March 2025.

Synergy Essex intends to submit a bid for the new contract, which is expected to be put out to tender in the summer of 2024.

CARA is a founding stakeholder of Icena - a social enterprise offering training and consultancy to eradicate sexual discrimination and violence.