We are delighted to have worked with NUS to help them appoint their new Chief Executive – Simon Blake, who is currently Chief Executive at Brook – the national health charity which focuses on young people. Simon brings long term senior management and leadership experience in membership, campiaging and high quality service delivery organisations.
Director of Adult Social Services – Leeds City Council
A successful campaign has been concluded with the appointment of Cath Roff as the new DASS at Leeds CC. Currently DASS at Derby and with experience at Sheffield, Cath has a great feel for urban centres in the North. Cath will be joined by a newly appointed Chief Officer – Care and Access Delivery which Proventure has been working to support (to be announced shortly). DASS roles are often tricky to fill. These are high pressure and focused roles in any authority. Candidates are often cautious of making the wrong career move and keen to gain confidence of moving to an authority which shares there same vision for the delivery of relevent, high quality, flexible and innovative adult social care – something Leeds continues to forge ahead with. If you wish to know more about how Proventure can help with difficult to appoint roles, please contact Steve Cooley at stephen.cooley@proventureconsulting.co.uk
Four new trustees appointed to AFG Board
Following a recent search focused campaign we are really pleased to have helped search for and select four new trustees for Alternative Futures Group. By building on our understanding of the North West charity’s growth and future plans, combined with a detailed brief on where the current board could be supplemented we undertook a search for three new trustees. While looking for very specific backgrounds and experience in areas of senior strategic finance, business development and a generalist with senior strategic management experience we were pleased AFG chose to appoint a fourth new Trustee with well rounded experience. Proventure has now assited on the recruitment of 7 of the 10 Board members at AFG.
We used search to gain recommedations and referalls to approach only the most suited to the role briefs, deciding against the extra cost of advertising the roles. While this can take a little while longer the quality of potential candidates is raised by a search approach. Learn more about AFG and its new Trustee Board members.
Chief Officer Access and Care Delivery – Leeds City Council
We are delighted to have supported Leeds City Council in appointing their new Chief Officer responsible for adult social services Access and Care Delivery in the city. As Leeds has adapated to the changes in adult social care, the Care Act and better integration with its health partners in the city, they chose to combine to previous roles for this new Chief Officer post. Completing a capable team the new CO will report to the incoming Director of Adult Social Services, Cath Roff joining in March/April.
AFG wins Charity of the Year
We are very pleased to announce that Alternative Futures Group as won Charity Times’ – Charity of the Year for 2014 in the over £30 million category, beating some well known and long established charities such as The Stroke Association, Guide Dogs for the Blind and The Citizens Advice Bureau.
This news confirms the organisation’s commitment to both its service users and own staff in times of increased focus on quality and the reduction of costs. We have worked with AFG for 3 years in sourcing Trustees to join their Board and so regularly see and hear of their innovation, high standards and drive in adaping to this changing environment. We wish them continued success.
To read more about the award and and AFG please view this link
New commercial appointments at Trafford Council
We are pleased to announce that we have helped appoint to both the Commercial Director and Contracts Director posts at Trafford Council. This progressive, efficient and well run council look to further their potential for both saving money and creating new sources of income and both Directors will add to this commercial drive.
Chief Executive Officer – NUS – circa £100k
After many years of working closely with the National Union of Students and many of its member students’ unions we are pleased to launch the recruitment campaign for their new Chief Executive. Working alongside elected officers this key executive senior management role will provide the leadership of an organisation which supports the voice of students whilst delivering a wide range of activities and services to its membership. If you wish to learn more about the role please visit nuspeople.co.uk and then if you wish to discuss the role please contact mark.tobin@proventureconsulting.co.uk or 07717 725 844
Leeds City Council – Director Adult Social Services and Chief Officer Access and Care Delivery
We are pleased to launch the campaign to find the new Director of Adult Social Services and a Chief Officer – Access and Care Delivery for Leeds City Council. Information about both roles can be found on the Leeds CC Welcome page including the opportunity to download the relevent Job Description and Person Specification. Any queries please do get in touch with mark.tobin@proventureconsulting.co.uk
Three Trustee roles – Alternative Futures Group – Merseyside
We are searching for three new Trustees to join a very capable Board of Trustees at this successful and expanding mental health charity operating in the North West of England. The roles require specific experience to add to the skills already retained on the Board (senior finance, business development and entrepreneurialism, generalist). More information on AFG and the roles can be found in the AFG Trustee Pack August 2014 Any queries please do get in touch with Stephen Cooley on 07747 698 829 or stephen.cooley@proventureconsulting.co.uk
Proventure moves office
After 9 years in our original office just off Deansgate in Manchester city centre, we have just moved to our new office. It’s not far from the old one, just the other side of Deansgate near Parsonage Gardens and just East down river from the Lowry hotel.
Here is a map to find us and we look forward to welcoming you soon. We are on the corner of Blackfriars Street and Parsonage.
The postal address is: Blackfriars House, Parsonage, Manchester, M3 2JA and our contact number remains the same – 0161 835 3377.