Executive Director ("new parent leave" cover) with rolling application deadline. Also open to job-share applicants who have worked together well in the past

The purpose of this role is to lead NEON whilst our current Executive Directors are away on New Parent Leave (with strong collaboration from “Directors Group” - our equivalent of SLT). You will lead on a narrowed set of four crucial areas: 1. Fundraising and financial stability - this means doing fundraising, maintaining and building relationships with funders, and having zoomed-out oversight over our finances with the board (though day-to-day this is handled by our finance team). 2. External relationships and being the public face of NEON’s response to any big external events - coordinating NEON’s response to external events and any expected or unexpected risks to NEON. This could include an early election, some kind of crisis comms, or a complaint on a programme or safeguarding issue that needs a safe pair of hands, expertise and care. 3. Managing the Directors of our 3 “hubs” (what we call teams) and leading our Directors Group (the equivalent of SLT) to ensure NEON keeps having impact through its work. 4. Being a guardian of the parameters we set around NEON’s work for the year - which will be handed over when you start. There will be a rolling application deadline, we will start considering applications on the morning of Monday 6th March 2023. This is an earlier deadline than we usually practice, since we’d like the person to have as much overlap as possible with our current co-directors. We will close the recruitment process as soon as the position is filled