Work for us

 For over 50 years, Age UK York has been here to support local older people, and those around them. We are looking for a new leader to join our team and help us realise our strategy and ensure we continue to make a difference tomorrow and beyond.

We are delighted to be introducing the exciting new role of Deputy Chief Executive at Age UK York as we implement and work to realise our new strategy. It comes at a time our local York based charity is needed as much as ever in supporting Older People in tackling the daily challenges increasingly faced by us all as we age and realising the opportunities too in preparing for and enjoying later life.

The full job description and person specification can be found here.

Our Deputy CEO will work closely with our Chief Executive Officer (CEO), deputising for them where necessary, and will have responsibilities across the breadth of our charity including leadership, input to strategy development and its implementation, ensuring operational effectiveness, implementation of income generation initiatives, and effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. This includes the role being part of our Senior Leadership Team and working with our Board.

The Deputy CEO will be responsible for leading our range of community focussed services which together make a vital difference to the lives of thousands of older people in York each year as part of realising our vision and our role in tackling the challenges faced by too many older people, and those around them, each day across York.

Whether it is campaigning to ensure older people’s voices are heard, delivering care to someone in their own home, or making sure a loved pet is cared for while their owner is in hospital, at Age UK York we always start with the unique rights, aspirations, strengths and person led needs of the person themselves. Our Deputy CEO will play a pivotal and valued role in driving forward our shared goals and our commitments into the future.

The role will work to help us involve older people like never before helping us to both co-design our services and inform our charity’s decisions hand-in-hand with older people themselves now and into the future.

Key Responsibilites:

We are looking for a thoughtful, positive and responsive leader who is as ambitious as we are at strengthening our charity and the difference we can together make in supporting older people  and communities.

We recognise this is a broad-ranging role, and you may not have experienced all aspects of it before, but if you:

• Have experience in providing leadership within an organisation and an eye for detail in strengthening working practices.
• Have a track record of building and maintained successful partnerships;
• Are experienced in leading teams in successfully delivering person-led services
• Can transfer your existing experiences and skills to a new challenge;
• Understand your strengths and weaknesses and proactively build your knowledge and skills

We would love to hear from you.

The full job description and person specification can be found here.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Demonstrates strong leadership and people management skills, with experience of leading and delivering against a strategy and business plans.
• Skilled, including an excellent communicator, in building and maintaining successful relationships across a wide range of stakeholders;
• Successful in leading teams and delivering high quality, responsive and accessible services meeting need and meeting performance requirements.
• Adept and passionate in developing agility in an organisation by applying the principles of co-design in evolving working approaches alongside clients and wider stakeholders.
• Highly organised, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment;
• Strong attention to detail and inquisitiveness qualities, and able to apply to organisational challenges and opportunities in continually strengthening our organisational practices to help us realise our vision and priorities.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication and presentation skills through a range of methods and across a diverse range of audiences.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting demands and effectively prioritise and delegate.
• Experience led understanding of working with older people including building on a strengths-based approach and prevention-based services.
• Strong interpersonal skills and personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of and build relationships across stakeholders, including managers, staff, partners and service users.
• Experience of successful contract management including collaboration with stakeholders and delivery to requirements.
• Experience and expertise in supporting effective change management and providing leadership during such periods and uncertainty.
• Experience of working in support of an organisation to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and drive success.
• Sets high standards for self, team and organisation. Motivates and inspires others to achieve these.
• Decision making – ability to make decisions based on an analysis of data and insights, including financial, performance and needs based data

Salary and Benefits:

• £44,000 per annum (Full time equivalent)
• A genuinely friendly and supportive environment
• Generous holidays – 26.5 days plus bank holidays (pro rata for part-time employees).
• Additional leave – an extra day of long service.
• Birthday day off
• Enhanced sick pay after 6 months of service
• Flexible work schedule 
• Potential for funding towards professional qualifications 
• Employee discounts
• Free eye test 
• Free flu jab 

Free DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service)