Operations Director

Bertha Earth is an thrilling new youth-centred environmental organisation dedicated to
co-creating a world the place each baby inherits a wholesome, thriving planet. By way of our
programmes, folks and storytelling platform, our mission is to develop a various community of younger
environmental leaders, storytellers and changemakers who reignite an excellent love for our planet.

We welcome purposes from everybody who meets the function standards, and strongly
encourage people to use who’ve a incapacity, impairment or well being situation or
establish as a member of a minority ethnic group throughout the UK.

The Position

A broad remit for a small crew, because the Operations Director, you may be overseeing the
operational components of the organisation, our strategy to threat, well being and security and knowledge
administration, and our bodily areas.

You can be a senior chief within the organisation, serving to us arrange and be ready for our subsequent
development stage. We’re a younger organisation, and that is an thrilling alternative to check new
issues, iterate on current concepts and assist take our programmes and areas to the following stage.

Position Obligations

Tradition & ethos

• Mannequin and develop the ethos and tradition of the organisation, contributing successfully at a
  senior stage to help in shaping and growing the organisation for the longer term
• Contribute to the strategic path of the organisation

Operations

• Create and handle budgets, threat reporting and mitigation for the organisation, together with
  annual enterprise planning
• Line administration and lead the crew managing the day-to-day operational necessities of the
  organisation and its programmes
• Oversee contract administration of our freelance facilitators and line administration of Neighborhood
  Engagement Lead
• Develop and enhance programs and processes throughout the organisation to make sure a protected container
  for each employees and younger folks

Knowledge

• Lead on all components of the gathering and storage of organisational knowledge, together with that
  of younger folks and employees, guaranteeing understanding and compliance throughout the crew 
• Evaluate, implement and lead on knowledge auditing processes, insurance policies & procedures; performing as
  knowledge lead for the organisation
• Handle specialist help, together with our knowledge safety associate and exterior assets the place
  required
• Handle our knowledge administration platform; it’s probably this function will line handle a devoted
  function in-house for knowledge and programs

Well being and Security, Danger

• Lead on the organisation’s strategy to insurance coverage, well being & security and compliance,
  working intently with our HR perform. Particularly establishing the constructions for a large and
  assorted facilitation crew to make use of to make sure a tradition of security all through programme supply
• Organisational lead for insurance policies, processes and procedures. Working with topic information
  specialists to make sure these are match to be used, up to date frequently and utilized in day-to-day operations

IT

• Handle our relationship with Bertha IT help and assets
• Managing the organisation’s IT technique, planning and other people necessities
• Assist our advertising and marketing crew from an operational perspective

Bodily Areas

• Collaborate with our sister organisation, Bertha Basis, round all bodily areas we
  use for workplace work and programme supply
• Lead on contractual agreements and threat assessments for bodily house rent and use
• Lead on operational and planning necessities for our future retreat house for younger
  folks, together with collaborating within the working group for this challenge

Safeguarding

• Assume the function of Designated Safeguarding Officer for the organisation (Relying on prior
  expertise, this is probably not rapid, and coaching might be supplied to help the profitable
  candidate)
• Lead organisational accountability for planning and guaranteeing protected programmes

Wage 

Remuneration is between £60,000 and £67,000 professional rata based mostly on expertise. A 5% London weighting
is included inside this bracket, because the function have to be based mostly in London. 

Working Sample

This function is based totally in our London workplace, with the choice of working remotely when
applicable. A portion of the work will probably be carried out in London-based associate colleges, requiring
the flexibility to journey frequently. To be able to fulfil the necessities of this function, there could also be
occasional in-person touchpoints with the crew exterior of London, for which cheap journey
and lodging bills will probably be reimbursed.

Annual go away and advantages

• 25 days annual go away (not together with financial institution holidays and Christmas closure)
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, surrogacy, associate, carer, bereavement, and parental go away
• Firm pension scheme with matched contributions of 10% after probation
• Dental and healthcare plans
• Subsidised eye-care checks and glasses
• Demise in service provisions 

apply

Click on the hyperlink under to use by way of our Opportunity Hub. You’ll be requested to submit a CV and
reply a couple of quick screening questions on your related expertise and motivation.

Please observe that you simply have to be obtainable for all the next dates on your utility to be
thought-about:

1. Software Deadline: 23:59 Friday, twenty third February – That is the deadline for receiving your
   solutions to the questions and CV
2. 1st Spherical Interviews (Google Hangout 45-minute name): Monday 4th – Thursday seventh March 
3. Evaluation Day & Interview (09:00-17:00): Wednesday 14th March
4. Begin date: Negotiable relying on discover durations and prior commitments

Our commitments

As an organisation, we’re consistently working to attain equality of alternative in all
employment insurance policies and practices, remove all types of discrimination, and are dedicated to
upholding wonderful employment practices.

Our objective is for all members of the Bertha Earth crew to really feel revered, valued, and capable of
obtain their potential no matter age, incapacity, race, gender reassignment, being pregnant and
maternity, faith or perception/ non-belief, intercourse, sexual orientation, marriage and civil
partnership, or membership/non-membership of a commerce union.

We’re additionally dedicated to safeguarding and selling the welfare of kids, younger folks, and
weak adults and count on all employees and postholders to share this dedication.

Please see the candidate pack for full particulars of the function and
obligations.