Category: Vacancies

£52,805 plus generous employer pension contribution. 
Closing date: Midday, 2 June 2025. 
Interviews in Manchester 16-17 June 2025.

Passionate about ending UK poverty? An empathetic innovative leader, strong on vision and strategy, with skills to run a medium-sized charity?

As Chief Executive, you will lead the staff team, be responsible for providing overall strategic direction, coordination and management of all Church Action on Poverty programmes. Partnership building is a key role to maximise our impact.

Currently, our programmes are structured on the principles of dignity, agency and power. They comprise: supporting a network of 130 food pantries with a membership of over 50,000; enabling people with lived experience of poverty to speak truth to power and supporting churches to explore what it means to be a ‘church on the margins’ as well as playing a leading role in high-profile national campaigns.

It is anticipated that the role will be varied and flexible, but will include:

• Assisting the Church Action on Poverty Council of Management in the development and implementation of the organisation’s programmes, campaigns, partnership building and public affairs work.
• Managing Church Action on Poverty’s staff and resources in line with the organisation’s agreed policies and priorities, and core values of collaboration, participation and empowerment.
• Fundraising and organisational strategy to achieve our aims.
• Ensuring that people with lived experience of poverty are actively involved in all aspects of CAP’s work.
• Leading and line managing the Senior Leadership and Management Team.
• Working with the whole staff team to develop and implement strategies that build dignity, agency and power to end poverty.

Starting salary £52,805 (pay award pending), rising to £56,073, plus 10% employer pension contribution. 

• Permanent full-time post (35 hours per week), with occasional ‘unsocial’ hours, weekend working.
• 25 days’ annual leave pro rata (30 after five years’ service) plus New Year office closure.
• Hybrid working on a flexible basis from home with some time each week in the Manchester office. 

The current Chief Executive, Niall Cooper, is very happy to talk with you informally.  Please email niallc@church-poverty.org.uk to arrange a suitable time to talk.