Person Specification

Qualities, skills and experience

Excellent communication skills with the capacity to carry colleagues with them in a collaborative manner.
Ability to consider and constructively challenge the performance, strategy, and objectives of City & Guilds.
Commitment to City & Guild’s evolving strategic plan, vision, and our purpose.
Unquestioned integrity, good humour, and intellectual versatility.

Senior management/leadership level experience in commercial organisations of significant scale and complexity (at either Executive or Non-Executive Board level).
Experience as a COO/CDO/CTO or equivalent.
Track record of delivering transformational change to business processes and/or technologies for service improvement and customer satisfaction.
Strong track record of achievements in environments that are changing their industries through disruptive innovation strategies.

Senior strategic management experience gained in a commercial business and/or in a public/ third sector institution of significant scale and complexity.
Experience as CFO or Finance Director level or equivalent, ideally as a qualified accountant.
Strong track record of achievements in complex or changing environments.
Breadth of vision and a strong grasp of governance issues, including charity governance, alongside an eye for detail.
Demonstrable experience of organisational transition and the management of change.
Strong relationship building skills, with the ability to build the right relationship with the CFO and to challenge and support the CFO.

Previous experience of the charity sector and of chairing a Finance Committee in an organisation of significant scale and complexity.