Lead Director

As Lead Director, you will lead Our Streets Now’s (OSN’s) next phase of growth, with overall accountability for delivering the organisation’s  strategy and ensuring meaningful and measurable impact.

You will work collaboratively with the director team to shape priorities and decisions, while ensuring clear accountability for delivery, organisational performance and progress against agreed goals.

A key part of the role is driving financial sustainability and growth, including developing income streams, strengthening partnerships and ensuring the organisation meets its funding and growth ambitions.

You will act as the primary liaison between the organisation and the Board, ensuring clear communication, preparing board papers and reporting on progress against organisational objectives.

You will provide overall organisational leadership, ensuring the systems, planning and financial management needed to support a growing organisation are in place, including oversight of forecasting, budgeting and management of the c.

£100k annual budget.

You will also bring the leadership and management expertise required to guide and support a strong team of directors, while building external relationships that strengthen the organisation’s profile, influence and long-term funding opportunities.

Essential Criteria:

• Ability to provide senior leadership and to manage and develop a team of directors
• Strategic thinking and organisational leadership
• Demonstrated ability to secure funding or develop sustainable income streams
• Ability to oversee budgets, forecasting and financial management in a small organisation
• Understanding of governance structures, including reporting to a Board
• Systems thinker, able to connect strategy, operations and impact in a growing organisation
• A credible external voice, able to raise the organisation’s visibility and build relationships with funders, partners and stakeholders
• Able to engage thoughtfully with public sexual harassment and related issues. Experience from adjacent fields such as VAWG, domestic abuse, youth work, safeguarding or violence prevention is equally valued
• Inclusive and intersectional thinker committed to equity and social justice
• Collaborative, values-driven leadership style, able to build trust internally and externally
• Resourceful and resilient, comfortable operating in a small, scaling organisation.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Brown and ethnically minoritised women, who remain underrepresented in our sector.