Executive Director (Operations & Finance)

Are you an experienced leader who shares our passion to make a difference?

We are looking for an Executive Director (Operations & Finance) to join our Executive Management Team and support the delivery of our strategic vision.

The NHC is a not-for-profit membership organisation which brings together housing in the North to develop insight, influence and solutions for our members, helping them to meet the net zero challenge, and put housing at the heart of a rebalanced country. Through our Consortium Procurement offer, we support members nationally and across the public sector with compliant procurement solutions.

You’ll support the Chief Executive and, as part of a small executive team, lead our corporate services covering Finance, IT, HR, Governance, Risk, and Office Management. Your role will help to ensure we remain a strong, well-run business as we continue to grow to support our members’ needs.

You’ll provide sound financial and operational planning, leading the Corporate Services team to provide our wider staff body with the resources and support they need to deliver unrivalled solutions and services to our members. You’ll support our managers to develop financial awareness and acumen, and will also oversee the corporate support service we provide externally.  

It's never dull at NHC, and you will be working on a variety of internal and external projects to help drive the organisation forward and ensure our operations are agile, lean, progressive and relevant.

Our commercial offer continues to grow in size and scope, and you’ll work closely with the Consortium Procurement team to help them achieve their strategic vision.

You will contribute directly to making a difference to our members’ tenants through oversight of our Unlocking Success bursary scheme.

As Company Secretary, you will be a key link to our non-executive Board of Management, and particularly to our Audit & Risk Committee. 

Your contribution will be central to building an organisation we are all proud to be part of, always ensuring the wellbeing of our people is at the heart of the way we operate.

The NHC is a small team, but we make a difference. We aim to offer a rewarding, supportive place to work where we invest in people, and they can be themselves and fulfill their potential.

We have a modern effective working environment – a contemporary hub office in Sunderland City Centre is available, and you can choose to work in the hub as and when you want, or you can work from home. We’ll expect you to travel to Sunderland regularly to collaborate with colleagues face-to-face but we were an agile organisation before the pandemic, and we continue to use technology to ensure work is something you do, not somewhere you go.

If you like the sound of our organisation, share our values, are a team-player, and have the ability to switch between high level strategic work and rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in when its needed, this could be just the role for you! If so, then please send your CV and a cover letter which demonstrates how you meet the requirements to enquiries@northern-consortium.org.uk by9am Monday 15th April  2024.  For an initial informal discussion, please get in touch with Catherine Wilmot via catherine.wilmot@northern-consortium.org.uk or on 07483 088844.

Panel interviews will take place on Wednesday 1st May 2024 at our Hope Street Xchange office in Sunderland. If selected for interview, you will be asked to prepare a short presentation to bring on the day and attend an informal lunch where you will have a chance to meet the team and ask any further questions.