Chief Executive Officer

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Competition and Markets Authority
Chief Operating Officer
2404-073L
Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester
June 3 rd
Impetus will appoint its next Chief Executive Officer.
Impetus transforms the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school, in work and in life. With public finances overstretched, there is a clear need for strong charities and civil society. Over two million young people live in poverty in Britain today. They do less well at school, are less likely to make it to university, and struggle to find and keep jobs. Impetus delivers on this mission by backing charities to build interventions for meaningful impact; working in partnership with other funders to scale interventions demonstrated to deliver results for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds; and through policy and research, influencing policymakers with evidence of what works.
Impetus' unique approach involves working with charities to drive impact. Impetus provides long-term, unrestricted core funding to charities, in combination with ongoing support through close partnership with its investment team for CEOs and leadership teams. This could involve working with the charity to enhance its programmatic impact, or helping its leadership build a high-performance, impact culture. Impetus also provides access to world class pro bono services from other providers, and helps to strengthen UK philanthropic giving.
Impetus seeks its next CEO as it embarks on its next phase of growth. The CEO will take overall responsibility for Impetus and the delivery of its mission at this inflection point for the organisation. They will build Impetus' ability to act at scale by developing new partnerships across different forms of philanthropy; they should enhance the system-level impact of Impetus' work through the engagement of policymakers and national delivery organisations; and they should lead Impetus to be the best that it can be, strengthening the capacity and culture of the foundation.
Impetus has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to advise on this appointment.
Competitive compensation and benefits will be offered
For further information, visit: Impetus Homepage
British Business Bank
Chief Investment Officer London or Sheffield
2308-009L
The British Business Bank is a progressive and dynamic government-owned economic development bank, dedicated to making finance markets work better for smaller businesses. Independently managed, its remit is to design, deliver and efficiently manage UK-wide smaller business access to finance interventions for the UK government, involving both investment and banking programmes. The Bank's core debt and equity programmes now support over £12.4bn of finance to more than 90,000 smaller businesses, across the whole spectrum of developmental state, from start-ups and scale-ups to viable but underfunded.
As well as increasing the supply and diversity of finance for UK smaller businesses through its programmes, the Bank works to raise awareness of their broader finance options. The British Business Bank Finance Hub provides independent and impartial information to businesses about finance options, featuring short films, expert guides, checklists and articles from finance providers to help make their application a success.
The Chief Investment Officer (CIO) is a key senior executive role leading the Bank's investment business which currently comprises: British Patient Capital; British Business Investments; and Venture Solutions - including our Enterprise Capital Fund, Nations and Regions Investment Funds, Future Fund and National Security Strategic Investment Fund.
This is a particularly exciting time for the Bank, and this role is central to its future direction. The Bank is the largest LP in UK venture capital and growth equity. At ten years old, the Bank has developed a range of programmes and skills that have had a material impact on availability of finance for small businesses. But now is a time to realign those skills and programmes to create more flexibility and responsiveness to customer needs, and to open up the commercially driven activities to third party capital in order to increase UK investment in UK growth.
The CIO will be a member of the Executive Committee, a member of BBB's Commercial Board(s) and an observer on the Board of the British Business Bank plc. The role can be based in either our London or Sheffield office with teams split between the two locations.
The British Business Bank has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to advise on this appointment. For further information about the position and additional details on qualifications, requirements, terms and conditions of service and how to apply, please review the Position Specification below.
The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 16 th June 2024.
Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
Chief Financial Officer Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, will appoint its next Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The CFO will be a key member of Gavi's Senior Leadership Team, reporting directly to the CEO.
Gavi is a public-private partnership committed to saving children's lives and protecting people's health by increasing equitable use of vaccines in lower-income countries. Gavi brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners. Gavi is committed to working with its partners to protect the next generation and realise its mission to save lives, reduce poverty and protect the world against the threat of epidemics. From 2000 to 2022, Gavi has contributed to the immunisation of over 1 billion children and the prevention of more than 17.3 million future deaths, helping to halve child mortality in 73 lower-income countries and creating economic benefits of over $220.5 billion for the countries in which it operates.
The CFO will provide strategic direction and leadership to ensure Gavi's Office of the CFO is fit for purpose and effectively contributes to achieving Gavi's strategic goals and mission. In close collaboration with the CEO, Board, Board Committees (including the Audit and Finance Committee, and the Investment Committee) and the Senior Leadership Team, the CFO will play a critical role in ensuring Gavi's financial integrity, managing financial and fiduciary risks, and ensuring financial efficiency in its operations.
Gavi is committed to fostering a just, equitable and diverse culture free from racism and discrimination in which all staff, partners and stakeholders feel empowered, safe, and heard. In support of Gavi's commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, Gavi hires globally and welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, national origin, family status, sex, gender identity or expression, physical characteristics, race, religion, spirituality or sexual orientation.
Gavi has retained Russell Reynolds Associates to assist with this appointment.
For more than 70 years, AWE has supported the UK Government's nuclear defence strategy and the Continuous At Sea Deterrent. Today, the company is recognised as a centre of scientific, engineering and technological excellence, equipped with some of the most advanced research, design and production facilities in the world.
As part of its commitment to good corporate governance and sustainable business leadership, the AWE Board is planning for succession to the incumbent chair, Sir John Manzoni. It is expected that he will retire from the AWE Board in late 2024. The role of the Chair of AWE is a vital to the successful delivery of the strategic objectives for the organisation: providing effective leadership and direction to the AWE Board; shaping the organisation's strategy; and providing robust challenge and support to the Executive Team. The Chair will also build effective relationships with stakeholders and represent AWE externally and is directly responsible and accountable to the Secretary of State. The Board currently comprises of the Chair, six independent Non-Executive Directors (NEDs), one NED appointed by the MOD as a shareholder, and three executive directors.
Candidates will have:

• Significant experience at Board level as a Chair or Non-Executive Director with a record of supporting, challenging, and holding to account a strong executive team.
• Experience of working in defence, engineering, manufacturing, infrastructure or the nuclear enterprise, or a similar or related environment, with the ability to provide Board level oversight of risk identification and management.
• The ability to think strategically, set clear direction and effectively command the confidence of a range of audiences.
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, including experience of building networks, managing complex relationships and effectively influencing senior stakeholders.
• The ability to lead a complex, commercial public sector asset with the credibility to interface with regulators and government.

Helpful additional characteristics and experience include experience of working with the public sector, as well as being change oriented, with a track record of supporting complex transformation within organisations, including operational . click apply for full job details