Chief Executive Officer | Love Squared

Peridot Partners; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A charity organization in the UK is seeking a Chief Executive to lead through a pivotal growth phase, combining compassion and commercial acumen. Responsibilities include empowering teams, crafting strategies for financial sustainability, and building partnerships. Ideal candidates will have senior leadership experience in values-driven organizations. The closing date for applications is 9 a.m. on November 24, 2025.

Qualifications

• Proven senior leadership experience in a values-driven organisation, ideally within charity, education or social care.
• Strong strategic, operational and financial skills with the ability to lead through change and growth.
• A collaborative leadership style that inspires trust and brings out the best in others.

Responsibilities

• Lead with courage, curiosity and care, empowering staff, volunteers and partners to deliver excellence.
• Shape and deliver a bold strategy that strengthens impact and secures financial sustainability.
• Build strong partnerships with funders, commissioners and collaborators across sectors.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic planning

Collaboration

Financial acumen

Commitment to inclusion

Job description

Love Squared is a charity and social enterprise dedicated to supporting children and families who face mental health, trauma, and special educational needs. We provide free Glow programmes, specialist education and wellbeing packages, and a national Radical Kindness campaign.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Executive to lead Love Squared through a pivotal growth phase. The CEO will combine compassion, commercial acumen and operational rigour to secure financial sustainability, expand services, and build a national profile.

You will:

• Lead with courage, curiosity and care, empowering staff, volunteers and partners to deliver excellence.
• Shape and deliver a bold, forward‑looking strategy that strengthens impact and secures financial sustainability.
• Be a visible and credible ambassador for Love Squared, helping to build our national profile and champion our values.
• Ensure safeguarding, governance and accountability remain at the heart of all we do.
• Build strong partnerships with funders, commissioners and collaborators across the statutory and voluntary sectors.

About you

• Proven senior leadership experience in a values‑driven organisation, ideally within charity, education or social care.
• Strong strategic, operational and financial skills, with the ability to lead through change and growth.
• A collaborative leadership style that inspires trust and brings out the best in others.
• A genuine commitment to inclusion, safeguarding and trauma‑informed practice.
• Imagination to see opportunities where others see obstacles and resilience to lead with warmth through uncertainty.

Why now

Children and families across the UK are being failed by overstretched systems and underfunded services. Love Squared offers a radically different approach – care that is creative, personal and deeply human. This is an opportunity to lead an organisation at a defining moment, protecting what makes us special while building a stronger, more sustainable future.

Closing date

Closing date: 9 a.m. Monday 24th November 2025
Candidates informed of outcome: Friday 28th November 2025
First stage interviews (virtual): Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th December 2025
Second stage interviews (virtual): Monday 15th December 2025

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Love Squared and Peridot Partners are committed to promoting equality and diversity. We invite applications from all enabled candidates and aim to support a culture of diversity and inclusion across the organisation.