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To provide strategic and technical leadership, and management of our technical activities, including overall responsibility for Health & Safety, Wellbeing, Quality and Standards within the group companies, related certification and driving a holistic culture internally and externally, advising the:
- SHEQW planning team;
- Chief Technical and Operations Officer;
- Executive Team; and
- Board of Trustees
The Director of Technical will be responsible for providing mentorship to all product owners from a technical perspective, ensuring cohesion and accuracy across our entire portfolio with an appropriate quality assurance framework and organisation-wide CPD and development programme in place; as well as leading the internal Technical Group and selected stakeholders including HSE, Clients and relevant Trustees; this will include arrangements for informing, setting and continually reviewing best practice.
To engage with external stakeholders from a technical perspective to build the credibility of the organisation and support commercial, policy and charitable activities. |
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| Person Specification |
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject, with a Lead Auditor qualification
- Breadth and depth of experience and understanding of the health, safety and wellbeing sector and issues
- Proven strategic leadership, including portfolio development and management
- Strong financial literacy skills
- Evidence of strong IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Excel
- Evidence of strong verbal and written influencing and communication skills
Desirable
- NEBOSH (or equivalent) Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety or first or post-graduate degree in health and safety
- Understanding of Environmental and wider risk management issues
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of leading and managing multi-disciplinary technical teams with demonstrable outputs
- Experience of managing wide ranging portfolio at strategic level
- Strong evidence of setting and managing quality assurance standards and processes
- Previous roles in senior technical management capacity with experience in delivering audit or structured consultancy in relevant technical areas
- Experience of operating across international boundaries
- Experience of managing budgets
Desirable
- Audit qualification and experience in an international context
- Working with external agencies including Regulators and policy makers
- Experience in delivering training
Behaviour Competence
- Self-starter motivated by high standards and able to motivate others with a clear vision
- Strong adaptable interpersonal skills, taking time to know and understand others and their preferred way of working to drive performance and achieve collective results
- Strong organisational skills, own and across divisions at high level
- Ability to manage confidential and sensitive information
- Behaviours detailed in the corporate Behavioural Framework
- Team Work
- Communication
- Creativity & Change
- Enhancing Performance
- Leadership, ability to mentor other senior technical staff
- Personal Effectiveness
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