Head of Community Trust
Lead the LTFC Community Trust with passion and vision. Drive impact, growth, and community transformation while ensuring excellence in governance and partnerships. Apply now to make a real difference!
Job Purpose
Provide strong and inspirational leadership to the Community Trust, ensuring the successful development, execution, and delivery of the LTFC Community Trust Strategy. Enhance the Community Trust and Football Club’s brand, impact, and reputation while ensuring excellence in governance, safeguarding, talent development, and meaningful partnerships.
Strategic responsibility includes financial and business growth, ensuring sustainability and diversification of income streams to reinvest in community-based initiatives for the benefit of Luton and its communities. The role requires clear and confident communication of our vision, mission, and values with key internal and external stakeholders.
Key Relationships
- Chair of the Board of Trustees
- Board of Trustees
- Community Trust Senior Management Team
- CEO and Senior Executives at Luton Town Football Club
- Premier League Charitable Fund
- English Football League Trust
- Government Departments and Stakeholders across strategic areas of work
Job Description
Leadership, Strategy & Governance
- Develop & implement the Community Trust’s Strategy and operational plans in collaboration with the Board of Trustees and Luton Town FC.
- Develop future strategies alongside Board members.
- Ensure sufficient resourcing to achieve strategic objectives and maintain required processes and procedures.
- Work with the Chair to establish clear governance structures and operating models in line with the Charity Commission, Premier League Charitable Fund, English Football League in the Community, and Capability Code of Practice.
- Lead an effective Senior Management Team to drive strategy and operational plans.
- Lead, develop, and support the Senior Management Team to achieve excellence.
- Foster relationships with key partners in Luton and surrounding areas.
- Develop an impact-driven delivery model to inform decision-making.
- Ensure safeguarding, equality, diversity, and inclusion are integrated across all Trust activities.
Income Generation and Stakeholder Relations
- Raise the profile of the Community Trust locally and nationally.
- Diversify income streams through the expansion of partnerships and funding opportunities.
- Establish new strategic relationships with organisations within and beyond the area.
- Collaborate with the Business Manager and Football Club to create a sustainable pipeline of investment opportunities.
- Communicate effectively with partners to enhance the Community Trust and Football Club’s brand and influence.
Financial Planning, Human Resources, and Management
- Provide coaching and mentorship to staff, fostering performance, talent development, and succession planning.
- Oversee the performance management process, including continuous monitoring and annual performance reviews.
- Lead the preparation and oversight of the annual budget.
- Ensure overall financial management and sustainability of the Community Trust.
- Promote a values-driven culture of quality and continuous improvement in alignment with the Trust’s charitable objectives.
Impact
- Implement impact and insight procedures to assess and enhance programme effectiveness.
- Provide timely impact and process reports to the Board and stakeholders.
- Monitor and analyse income utilisation, ensuring accurate impact reporting.
- Produce an annual report with supporting evidence to showcase the full impact of the Community Trust’s work.
Skills, Experience, and Qualities
Essential:
- Extensive experience of developing the way an organisation works
- Evidenced commercial acumen with a track record of developing diverse income streams
- An understanding of how charitable organisations, ideally in the sporting sector, contribute towards the regeneration of communities
- Experience in senior leadership, with strategic responsibility for at least one high-value partnership
- A passionate commitment towards improving the lives of local people
- Financial acumen, including experience of operational budgeting and strategic finance systems
- Experience in leading diverse teams, shaping and influencing culture and driving core values, with an ability to inspire, empower and get the best from people
- Experience in excellent communication (internal and external), including resolving conflict and building relationships
- Work to high professional standards with ethics and integrity
- The experience and knowledge to oversee Safeguarding and EDI, ensuring best practice is embedded across an organisation
- Resilient, with the ability to handle adversity and challenge positively, effectively, and sensitively
- Able to foster a positive, values-driven culture, where staff at all levels are supported and empowered to succeed
- Self-motivated and able to act on own initiative
Desirable:
- Experience of charity governance and senior-level charity management
- Experience in a football environment
- Experience as a Director / CEO
- An understanding of the Luton, Bedfordshire, and North Herts operating environment
- Department
- Luton Town FC Community Trust
- Locations
- Luton Town FC Community Trust
We're All Luton
At Luton Town we celebrate diversity in all its forms. Our commitment to fostering a vibrant and inclusive culture extends beyond the pitch, enriching every aspect of Our Club. We believe that a diverse workforce fuels creativity, innovation, and success.
We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed. Our dedication to equity, diversity, and inclusion is not just a statement; it's a commitment we uphold every day through our policies, practices, and actions.
We recognise that every individual brings unique skills and experiences to the table, and we are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require any reasonable adjustments to participate fully in the application or interview process, please don't hesitate to let us know.
Safeguarding Statement
The Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The Club has systems in place to ensure that the welfare of vulnerable groups is dealt with appropriately and sensitively. Everyone working at the Club has a duty of care to safeguard the welfare of children and young people by creating an environment that protects them from harm. Our standards of practice ensure all staff are fully aware and understand their responsibilities under safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance.
The Club ensures that all staff that have a direct responsibility for children, young people or vulnerable adults, have been subject to the most stringent of recruitment practices which include DBS Checks and reference checks. These staff are alert to signs of abuse or maltreatment and will refer concerns to the relevant Designated Safeguarding Officers using the agreed safeguarding procedures.
Benefits
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Subsidised Healthcare and Dental Plans.
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Complimentary meals & snacks provided
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Wide range of local and sponsor discounts
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Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle2work, electric car leasing & tech)
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Regular club social events
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Gym Discounts through benefits partners
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On-site Gym (Head Office)
About Luton Town Football Club
Luton Town Football Club, founded in 1885, is a historic English football team based in Luton, Bedfordshire.
The Club is immensely proud of its complex history, inclusivity and its passionate fanbase. These cultural aspects are reflected in all of our recruitment practices, ensuring that new staff members align with and contribute to the club's cultural identity and long-term goals.
In 2015 we became the first professional football club to pay the Real Living Wage.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and demonstrated a commitment to ensuring that applicants and employees from all sections of the community are treated equally and not discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Head of Community Trust
Lead the LTFC Community Trust with passion and vision. Drive impact, growth, and community transformation while ensuring excellence in governance and partnerships. Apply now to make a real difference!
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