Lead Director

Consult; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Our Streets Now is seeking a Lead Director to steward the organisation through its 2025-2028 strategy, delivering meaningful impact and financial sustainability. You will provide organisational leadership, oversee budgeting, forecasting and performance against goals, and develop income streams to fund growth.

You will work with the director team to shape priorities, strengthen partnerships and build relationships with funders, stakeholders and the Board, ensuring clear accountability and a

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience overseeing directors and teams.
• Strategic thinking and organisational leadership.
• Proven ability to secure funding or develop sustainable income streams.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasting and financial management in a small to mid-size charity.
• Understanding of governance structures and reporting to a Board.
• Systems thinker able to connect strategy, operations and impact.
• Strong external profile to engage funders and partners.
• Inclusive, equity-focused leadership in a scaling organisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall organisational leadership and director-level governance.
• Lead strategy delivery and ensure progress against targets.
• Develop income streams and strengthen funding partnerships.
• Prepare board papers and report on organisational performance.
• Oversee forecasting, budgeting and financial management.
• Build and mentor a high-performing leadership team.

Skills

Senior leadership

Strategic thinking

Fundraising / income generation

Budgeting & financial management

Governance & board reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Equity & social justice

Collaborative leadership

Resilience in scaling org

Job description

As Lead Director, you will lead Our Streets Now’s (OSN’s) next phase of growth, with overall accountability for delivering the organisation’s 2025-2028 strategy and ensuring meaningful and measurable impact.

You will work collaboratively with the director team to shape priorities and decisions, while ensuring clear accountability for delivery, organisational performance and progress against agreed goals.

A key part of the role is driving financial sustainability and growth, including developing income streams, strengthening partnerships and ensuring the organisation meets its funding and growth ambitions.

You will act as the primary liaison between the organisation and the Board, ensuring clear communication, preparing board papers and reporting on progress against organisational objectives.

You will provide overall organisational leadership, ensuring the systems, planning and financial management needed to support a growing organisation are in place, including oversight of forecasting, budgeting and management of the c.

£100k annual budget.

You will also bring the leadership and management expertise required to guide and support a strong team of directors, while building external relationships that strengthen the organisation’s profile, influence and long-term funding opportunities.

Essential Criteria:

• Ability to provide senior leadership and to manage and develop a team of directors
• Strategic thinking and organisational leadership
• Demonstrated ability to secure funding or develop sustainable income streams
• Ability to oversee budgets, forecasting and financial management in a small organisation
• Understanding of governance structures, including reporting to a Board
• Systems thinker, able to connect strategy, operations and impact in a growing organisation
• A credible external voice, able to raise the organisation’s visibility and build relationships with funders, partners and stakeholders
• Able to engage thoughtfully with public sexual harassment and related issues. Experience from adjacent fields such as VAWG, domestic abuse, youth work, safeguarding or violence prevention is equally valued
• Inclusive and intersectional thinker committed to equity and social justice
• Collaborative, values-driven leadership style, able to build trust internally and externally
• Resourceful and resilient, comfortable operating in a small, scaling organisation.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Brown and ethnically minoritised women, who remain underrepresented in our sector.