Leadership Development Director - Windsor, United Kingdom - THE WINDSOR LEADERSHIP TRUST

Description

About Windsor Leadership

Windsor Leadership is a charity, founded in 1995, which provides transformational leadership programmes for the most senior leaders across all sectors, including corporate, public, military, education, faith and not-for-profit.

We specialise in providing residential experience-led development programmes at Windsor Castle. The programmes focus on facilitated learning in a peer-to-peer environment. We challenge leaders to think differently, explore their own leadership style and consider the wider impact of their leadership. Our residential programmes range from two to five days, followed six months later by a two-day Part Two.

Supported by dedicated and experienced volunteers, we have delivered development programmes for nearly 30 years. We challenge leaders to explore and discover their personal leadership styles and think about their responsibility to self, their organisation and society.

Our vision

Exceptional Leaders, Leading For Good

Purpose of the role

We are looking for someone to lead on our development programmes, and to use the insights gained from our alumni to help Windsor Leadership develop and advocate for values-based leadership. The role will manage our programme and event delivery teams, capture themes, share outcomes, and develop ongoing development opportunities for our programme alumni. This role will help to raise our profile within leadership development by generating reports, promoting articles, working with leadership development specialists, and creating podcasts and webinars - this can be done by yourself and/or using our alumni and internal teams. At an anecdotal level, the role will also assess and share the impact that we have on individuals, their organisations and wider society, in support of our charitable purpose.

This role holds the key to relationships with many of our stakeholders and the quality of our programmes, including our volunteer base who support us because we influence positive change and are the best at what we do. It will also continue to build on our ever-growing community of dedicated alumni, who like to learn themselves, donate time and support our work.

OVERVIEW

• Oversee programme Delivery - manage the programme delivery team, and maintain quality and standards
• Develop alumni Engagement - develop our post programme events and opportunities and increase alumni engagement and activity
• Collate anecdotes and report on our Impact - on individuals, organisations and society
• Raise our Presence - coordinating our experts and leaders to promote leadership development through podcasts, webinars, articles etc.

PROGRAMMES

• Attend many of our residential programmes and events as a Programme Director (including occasional overnight stays in Windsor Castle) to support programme delivery and gain knowledge of the impact and up-to-date leadership trends.
• Ensure programme and event delivery remain at the highest standard. Work with our Chairs and Facilitators
• Ensure programmes meet expenditure targets (control spending)
• Oversee management of Bespoke clients and development of Bespoke programmes.
• Manage and support Programme Delivery Team
• Oversee relations and bookings with our key venue partners.
• Manage programme budgets, ensuring costs and resources are controlled

ALUMNI

• Support the Alumni Relations Manager by creating, promoting, and hosting alumni-themed events.
• Ensure programmes and events stay relevant with up-to-date trends and themes.
• Engage with and understand the needs of our alumni to support their development requirements.
• Create a go-to library for our alumni of leadership articles, books and sources of development information.
• Develop alumni engagement. Help grow our community of engaged alumni

IMPACT & PRESENCE

• Increase our presence - develop our presence within the leadership community, by promoting thought leadership based on intel gained within our programmes. Reviewing, absorbing and commenting on leadership development per se. Promoting and publishing articles and white papers, sourced from within our community.
• Show we make a difference - record and share our impact by attending events and programmes, using surveys, interviewing participants, recording anecdotes, and capturing evidence of change.
• Share our impact success through social media, website, PR opportunities and our annual end-of-year report, working in partnership with our marketing department.
• Develop external partnerships to support the development of our Impact, and Presence.

IN GENERAL AND IN ADDITION

• Support strategic development and ensure everything we do drives our purpose and supports our vision - Exceptional Leaders, Leading for Good.
• Support the Business Development team, developing leads through alumni interaction.
• Support our marketing communications, for example, by ensuring our language is consistent and effective in the leadership space.
• Attend SLT and Trustee meetings.
• Be flexible with support and take on any other task deemed necessary from time to time to ensure the continued success of a charity.

Person Specification

Essential. The job -

• is based in Windsor and requires at least 40% office or venue attendance. The rest may be wfh or office based.
• requires some overnight stays, up to 20 a year. Not at weekends
• is a full time and other jobs and may not be run alongside, especially coaching or consultancy

Requirements

• Have experience of managing small teams
• Show an appreciation for or have worked for a not-for-profit organisation
• Ideally, have hands on and extensive knowledge of leadership development
• Be able to build and nurture relationships as well as feel confident engaging with senior leaders
• Be able to facilitate or chair development groups
• Be able to communicate well and work across departments
• Be able to review programme outcomes and write reports
• Contribute to the strategic thinking and planning of the organisation with the SLT
• Ideally provide evidence of writing and publishing articles on leadership
• Be willing to write and represent the views of Windsor Leadership, and not just their own

The applicant must be able to -

• Work collaboratively
• Be articulate and show outstanding interpersonal skills
• Present themselves well as an ambassador for Windsor Leadership
• Write well
• Have a high regard for detail and accuracy
• Be hands on - we all support each other across departments
• Enjoy working with a small team that makes a big difference

IT Skills

• Be IT literate, especially on Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Be CRM competent (we use Salesforce)

THE OFFICE

Our office is based in Windsor and our office hours are 9.00am - 5.00pm, although this role will require some occasional early starts and late finishes on some events. We currently offer a mix of home-based and office-based working.

Our face-to-face programmes operate in Windsor Castle and Cumberland Lodge in Windsor. We employ 14 people, have a volunteer base of about 100, and we deliver 20+ open and bespoke programmes a year (including on-line) and several one-day workshops and webinars.

INTERVIEWS

1st Round with CEO and SLT in person in Windsor

2nd Round with CEO and Trustee in person, venue tbc

Ideal start date Position available immediately