Chief Executive Officer at The Aldingbourne Trust
Making Space
Chief Executive Officer
The Aldingbourne Trust is unique and inspiring, with a laser focus on providing opportunities for autistic people and people with a learning disability to live great lives, contributing to their communities and fulfilling their ambitions.
Our model is innovative and evolving, the organisation is complex and multi-faceted and delivers outcomes of which we are truly proud. We use social enterprises to attract visitors and customers, to drive revenue to the organisation. These enterprises provide training and development for people with disabilities – who are front and centre of everything we do. The more successful they are, the more we can reinvest our profits to create more opportunities.
After years of visionary leadership and dedication, our inspirational CEO Sue Livett will be stepping down next year, leaving behind a powerful legacy of inclusion, innovation and impact. The Aldingbourne Trust is a thriving successful charity, do you want to take it to the next level?
You will be primarily based at the Aldingbourne Country Centre, which is situated next to the South Downs Park and attracts around 80,000 visitors a year. You will have responsibility for the Centre, as well as our broad portfolio of services, all designed to help disabled people to learn, develop and thrive. You will have the emotional intelligence to learn the Aldingbourne way, where colleagues are treated respectfully at all times but to challenge where required. It is a cliché, but no two days will be the same.
It is likely that our next CEO will bring experience of the world of social care, but we are open minded about where this experience comes from. Your understanding of the challenges and opportunities for our organisation, could come from your time working in a social care provider large or small. You could be an experienced CEO looking for a new challenge or could be currently at Director level in a larger organisation and looking for the chance to lead a charity for the first time. You might have experience gained in the public sector at a local or national level.
You will need to be creative, entrepreneurial and innovative. We operate in a tough climate and we cannot stand still; we must keep evolving. Our organisation exists to change people lives, the more we grow the more impact we will have. Most importantly, you will share our values and passion for creating community based opportunities for the people we support.
The Aldingbourne Trust is committed to championing equity, diversity and inclusion throughout all aspects of the organisation’s work. As part of this, the Board has made a commitment to achieving greater diversity.
For more information on this exciting opportunity, please click here, or for an informal, confidential discussion with our recruitment partners at VBS, please call Rob Hilyer on 07952 316 654, or by email at [email protected].
Timetable
Closing Date 8th December
Longlisting w/c 15th December
Preliminary Interview with VBS (Teams) w/c 5th January
Shortlisting w/c 12th January Informal meetings with CEO and Chair w/c 19th January
Final Panel Interviews w/c 26th January