Chief Executive Officer,Children in Need

Chief Executive Officer, Children in Need

Job Requisition ID: 40821

Job Closing Date: Sunday 19 April 2026

Location: Flexible across the UK with regular travel to CIn HQ in Salford and other BBC sites as required.

Job Details

Job Band: SL

Contract Type: Permanent

Department: BBC Children in Need

Purpose of the Role

The Chief Executive Officer leads the charity, inspiring staff and volunteers and managing resources prudently. The CEO has overall responsibility for the day to day running of BBC Children in Need, shaping and implementing the strategic direction of the charity with appropriate engagement from staff and Trustees. This includes setting and managing the budgetary, strategic, human resources, business development and other priorities of the organisation.

Reporting to the Chair of the Board of Trustees, the post holder leads BBC Children in Need's Senior Leadership team (Chief Officer Group) and, with the support of this team, leads the organisation to ensure that its activities meet the strategic and business objectives.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Responsible for the overall direction, leadership and forward planning of BBC Children in Need within a strategic framework approved by the Trustees.
• Responsible for the leadership, motivation, well being and efficiency of circa 140 staff, and overseeing relationships with external partners, volunteers, and more than 3,000 grantees and charity partners, actively championing collaboration, creativity and diversity.
• Accountable for the commercial, strategic, financial, funding and operational success of the charity.
• Overall responsibility for the financial and P&L management of the charity, with an annual income of circa £60m and typically funding over 3,000 grants and projects to the value of up to £200m over 3 years at any point in time.
• Responsible for maintaining and raising the profile of BBC Children in Need both internally and externally as the BBC's UK corporate charity and overseeing how we work with the BBC to tell the story of the challenges facing UK young people.

Your Skills and Experience

• Significant experience operating at Chief Executive or Executive Board level within a complex, high profile organisation.
• Strong track record of working with and influencing Boards of Trustees and committee structures.
• Good understanding of the UK voluntary and community sector, ideally including grant making and/or services supporting children and young people.
• Credible external ambassador, with experience engaging senior stakeholders across the sector, government and/or major national partners.
• Proven experience of setting and delivering organisational strategy and leading through change.
• Experience of leading complex organisations with accountability for performance, culture and delivery.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

When you are offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks which include reference checks, eligibility to work checks and, where applicable, safeguarding and social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Benefits

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35 hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We hope to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief.

Disability Confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact .