Chief Executive Officer

Get Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Family Rights Group in London is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead the charity through a pivotal growth phase. You will work with the Board and Senior Leadership Team to deliver strategy, ensure financial sustainability and drive a high-impact program portfolio across advocacy, policy, and family support services.

The role requires a values-led leader with a track record in influencing policy, securing funding, and building partnerships with policymakers, trusts and philanthropists.

Qualifications

• Experience of strategic leadership, organisational development and leading senior teams.
• A track record of influencing policy and practice relating to children and families, ideally including securing legal or policy reform.
• Experience of working alongside communities affected by social injustice and ensuring their voices inform change.
• Strong influencing and partnership-building skills, including the ability to engage senior policymakers and Government officials.
• Experience of securing funding, developing relationships with trusts, foundations and philanthropists, and maintaining financial oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Family Rights Group’s strategy and oversee sustainable organisational growth.
• Harness staff expertise and manage the senior leadership team to drive impact.
• Build relationships with policymakers, politicians and funders to influence law, policy and practice.
• Oversee expansion of policy work, legal influence, and programmes while centering the voices of parents, kinship carers and young people.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Organisational development

Senior team leadership

Policy influence

Community engagement

Partnership building

Fundraising

Financial oversight

Job description

Chief Executive Officer - Family Rights Group

Salary: £95,000–£100,000 per annum

Location: London / hybrid working, with at least 3 days per week in the office

Are you interested in lead critical change for children and families?

Family Rights Group is seeking a passionate Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation into its next chapter of growth and influence. For more than 50 years, Family Rights Group has championed the rights of children and families involved with children’s social care, providing advice and advocacy, influencing policy and practice, and helping shape child and family law.

With 12,000 more children in the care system than a decade ago and too many families struggling to access the support they need, its work is more important than ever. Significant new funding now creates an exciting opportunity to sustainably build on the charity’s established expertise and increase its impact.

This is an opportunity to lead a highly respected organisation through a pivotal period of development, strengthening its influence and helping deliver lasting change for children and families.

The role

Working closely with the Board and Senior Leadership Team, you will lead the delivery of Family Rights Group’s strategy, oversee sustainable organisational growth and harness the fantastic expertise and passion of our staff team.

Externally, you will be a leading voice for the charity, building relationships with policymakers, politicians and funders to influence law, policy and practice. You will lead the expansion of FRG’s policy work, legal influence, family group conference and Lifelong Links programmes, while ensuring that the voices and experiences of parents, kinship carers and young people remain central to FRG’s work.

You will also oversee income generation, financial sustainability and governance, ensuring the organisation is well positioned to deliver its ambitions.

About you

You will be a values-led strategic leader with a strong understanding of the issues affecting children and families and a track record of leading organisations through growth and change.

You will bring:

• Experience of strategic leadership, organisational development and leading senior teams.
• A track record of influencing policy and practice relating to children and families, ideally including securing legal or policy reform.
• Experience of working alongside communities affected by social injustice and ensuring their voices inform change.
• Strong influencing and partnership-building skills, including the ability to engage senior policymakers and Government officials.
• Experience of securing funding, developing relationships with trusts, foundations and philanthropists, and maintaining financial oversight.

Above all, you will be a collaborative, rights-based leader who shares Family Rights Group’s commitment to social justice and believes that children should be able to thrive within their families, with loving relationships to turn to throughout life.

We welcome your application

If you are an ambitious, values-driven leader ready to help shape the future for children and families, we would love to hear from you.

We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds and are committed to an inclusive recruitment process.

Closing date: Sunday 15th November 2026

First round interviews with Giving Back Recruitment: 20-27th November 2026

Engagement with key FRG stakeholders: 3rd December 2026

Second stage interviews with FRG: 4th December 2026