Geeza Break is a successful voluntary organisation whose main aim is to achieve improved health and well-being of
individuals, families and their children by providing family support and flexible respite services to parents
with children aged 0-16 years, predominantly within the East/North East in Glasgow. We are run by a voluntary
Management Board.
The services we offer are intended to be short-term flexible support to families experiencing addiction, stress,
crisis or isolation. These services set out to achieve a set of aims for both the family and children.
Due to the retirement of the current post holder, the opportunity has arisen for our voluntary Board of Directors to
appoint a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who shares our ethos and will above all be committed to Geeza
Break’s values and achieving our aims.
Our CEO supports and provides strategic and operational leadership to our staff management team and will have overall
responsibility for managing and developing Geeza Break, in response to the wishes of our voluntary Board of
Directors. We would welcome applications from candidates who believe they have the necessary skills and
experience to take on this challenging but very rewarding role and who believe they can fit well into our
existing culture.
A care or charity background is not necessary to be successful in our CEO’s role but the selected candidate must have
excellent strategic and operational leadership skills gained in a comparable organisation.
The post holder will ensure that Geeza Break meets and maintains the highest standards of governance. Our CEO is also
the dedicated Child Protection and Safeguarding Officer with ultimate responsibility for safeguarding.
The key competencies our CEO needs to have are:
Minimum of at least 5 years’ senior management experience is essential including working and having responsibility
for developing, influencing, and managing organisational policy decisions within a comparable organisation.
Experience of working effectively with and reporting to a voluntary Board of Directors. You should also be able to
demonstrate your ability to produce, interpret and present relevant statistical information.
Experience of working directly with the community and involvement in community projects, of a substantial permanent
nature as well as of implementing organisational change programmes/projects and in making improvements to
enhance performance.
Educated to SVQ level 4 in management or equivalent and be a skilled leader with financial, budgetary development and
management experience, including dealing with HR.
An ability to work on your own initiative, problem solve and plan your time effectively to meet deadlines. You will
need excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to develop and maintain positive
relationships at all levels of the organisation.
Experience in negotiating with funding and regulatory bodies and public speaking would be considered desirable.