Chief Operations Officer - Aldingbourne Trust
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 which we are truly proud of. The new post of Chief Operations Officer (COO) has been created to help ensure that we continue to grow, becoming more efficient and more commercial whilst staying true to our values. 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.
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. Looking to the future, you will be part of a team identifying and assessing new opportunities. You will have a proven ability to find solutions to operational challenges, you will be innovative and entrepreneurial. You will have the emotional intelligence to learn the Aldingbourne way, where colleagues are treated respectfully at all times but to challenge where required.
We are very open minded about your professional background, this is a unique role and we are unlikely to find people who have experience in every area, but you will need to learn quickly. You will be heavily involved with asset planning and management, finance, impact, quality, compliance and health and safety, marketing and development. Through the people in your teams and across the organisation as a whole you will drive innovation and improvements. Most importantly, you will share our values and passion for creating community based opportunities for the people we support.
To reflect our ambition and commitment to be more representative at a senior level, we particularly encourage and welcome applications from people with a disability, people from minority ethnic backgrounds, and people from the LGBTQ+ community.
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 aldingbourne@vbsearch.co.uk.
