Director of People and Operations (Maternity Cover)
Employer: Finance Innovation Lab
Location: Homeworking, with one day per month in the London office - fully remote is possible
Salary: £39,980 (£60,576, pro-rated at £39,980 for 21 hours per week)
Closing date: 18 Feb 2025
This role is an Executive level role, sharing overall responsibility for the Lab’s impact with the other members of the Exec (CEO, COO, Director of Programmes and Campaigns).
The role will be specifically responsible for:
1. People function: including team days, our annual retreat, and internal communications, as well as Human Resource management and our staff handbook.
2. Programme support: stewardship of our Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Planning system.
3. Coordinating the team’s fundraising work.
4. Managing other areas of our operations: such as IT and infrastructure, including our new CRM system.
The post-holder will be responsible for line managing the Operations Manager.
The post-holder will work closely with the COO, who will be leading on finance and governance. Together, they will be responsible for drafting the plan for the Lab’s Operations function in 2026.
This post is a 13 month fixed term contract, running from mid-May 2025 to mid-June 2026.
About the Finance Innovation Lab:
The Finance Innovation Lab builds power to transform the financial system for people and planet. We advocate for financial sector policies that promote economic and environmental justice, and we work to build the collective power of the network of groups working to improve the financial system. This means focusing the Lab’s efforts in three key areas:
1. Collaborating: We convene and coordinate diverse networks and coalitions including civil society groups, allies from the financial sector, academics, policy makers and many more.
2. Catalysing: We generate and share knowledge and ideas, identifying leverage points to drive wide-reaching change, and developing impactful campaigns.
3. Campaigning: We work with others to change the policies and rules which shape and govern the financial system, through a diversity of tactics including policy, research, advocacy, media and public engagement.
Responsibilities:
1. People: Ensure we recruit, retain, support and nourish a strong staff team and maintain a culture that reflects our values of ambition, collaboration and empowerment.
2. Lead implementation of the Lab’s people and human resources strategy: in line with our core values, to maximise the team’s contribution to our mission.
3. Develop and hold our team culture: aligned to the Lab’s core values, ensuring an effective, efficient and human working environment.
4. Lead internal communications: ensuring that the team is informed about and involved in new developments.
5. Support effective management of staff: Line manage the Operations Manager and support Heads of Programme and others.
6. Operations: Oversee effective systems and support colleagues who manage those systems.
7. Oversee the Lab’s fundraising process: including identifying and researching potential new funders.
8. Coordinate and oversee the Lab’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Planning system.
9. Ensure high standards of information management: across the organisation.
10. Executive Team support: be a collaborative and engaged member of a strong executive team.
11. Lead and manage organisational development projects.
12. Be a collaborative, engaged and supportive colleague.
Your Profile:
1. Be a caring, collaborative and effective people manager: committed to creating an ambitious, collaborative and empowering culture.
2. Be a well-organised project and function manager: with a strong understanding of systems and operations.
3. Have a strong commitment to the vision, aims and values of the Lab.
4. Demonstrable dedication to equity, diversity, inclusion and justice.
For more information about the role, the interview schedule, the location and the Lab, please review the full job pack linked above.
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