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Head of Region - North and East England

Salary: £75,191 - £88,460 (dependent on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full-Time
Location description: North East and East Coast of England, the successful candidate will need to live within the region
Interview location: 1st Interviews will be on Teams, 2nd Interviews will take place in person at Thornaby Support Centre
Interview date: 1st Interviews 8th and 9th May 2025, 2nd interviews 19th and 20th May 2025
Closing Date: 21-04-2025
Reference: 19248

About us

The RNLI is a charity that provides a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service, seasonal lifeguards, and water safety education and initiatives. Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards need a dedicated, professional, and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to join that team and help save lives every day.

We’re looking for an inspiring and experienced Head of Region to join us in leading our North and East region.

Some of the benefits

- Salary £75,191 - £88,460 (dependent on experience)
- Hybrid and Flexible working options
- 26 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (increases with service)
- Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
- Life assurance
- Health and dental cashplan option

The role

The geography for this new role encompasses the coastline from Berwick upon Tweed down to Burnham on Crouch, as well as the inland region. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer & Director of Regions, the Head of Region will give greater visibility, voice, and input into decision making at a regional level.

Responsible for the delivery of our lifesaving service, you will lead the Life Saving effect in the region including lifeguarding services, lifeboats and water safety enabled by fundraising, asset and equipment management and over time, other support services. Responsible for a multidisciplinary senior management team, and a high number of overall staff and volunteers, you’ll be focused on ensuring effective business performance across all services. This includes reviewing potential opportunities and threats, and monitoring and analysing data and trends to track progress, measure performance, and understand regional impacts.

You will cultivate collaborative working; building relationships, providing support, and constructive challenges within the region and Lifesaving Operations Senior Leadership team, as well as across the organisation, working with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure that we operate in the most effective way to save more lives at sea. There will be an expectation to travel cross region and departmentally too. 

About you

Already an outstanding leader with significant experience of leading change and transformation, you will be able to build strong relationships, influencing and collaborating across boundaries. You will be used to following a clear operational strategy, whilst at the same time, able to be strongly autonomous in your leadership and delivery.  

This is a highly visible and critical role responsible for all operations within the region, therefore you will convey the necessary credibility to influence at Board level, creating compelling proposals for budgets and resources, whilst having the humility and empathy to work alongside our passionate volunteers and staff at all levels.

Experience 

- Senior leadership and influencing skills gained from leading multi-functional teams within a similarly complex organisation.
- Proven experience in formulating annual business plans, monitoring, and reporting.
- Significant financial responsibility in relation to assets and services.
- Experience of working within organisation risk and compliance frameworks. 
- Ability to lead, manage, develop, and motivate teams, whilst working collaboratively with support functions and other regions. 
- Expert communication skills to deliver sensitive information, internally and externally. 
- Experience of change leadership and delivering programmes and projects. 

As one of six regions, the North and East region has 36 Lifeboat Stations, 4 Lifeguard Support Centres, as well as a regional base in Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees. Therefore, frequent, and extensive travel across the North East and East Coast of England is expected to be a key component of this role, so it is expected that you will live in the region. 

The RNLI supports flexibility in your working preferences.

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