Are you a strategic leader with a passion for operational excellence and a commitment to making a real impact? Elrha is seeking an experienced Director of Finance and Operations to drive our organisational effectiveness, ensuring that our systems, processes, and teams support the delivery of high-quality and impactful work in a constantly changing environment. 

About the Role 

As a key member of the Directors Group, you will lead our finance, HR, grant management operations, procurement, and governance functions. You'll work closely with our Directors Group and Board of Trustees to ensure sustainable growth and operational alignment with our mission and values. Your leadership will help us build strong relationships with funders, steer effective change management, oversee organisational risk management, and drive improvements in efficiency and compliance. 

What You'll Do 

• Lead and support high-performing teams to deliver operational excellence across finance, HR, procurement, governance and grant management. 
• Provide strategic leadership on organisational risk management, compliance, and operational effectiveness. 
• Drive the implementation of systems and processes to enhance efficiency and support our vision. 
• Collaborate with the Board and senior leadership to align operational priorities with our strategy. 
• Champion Elrha's values and lead our commitment to becoming a climate-responsible organisation. 

What We're Looking For 

You'll bring significant experience in financial planning, budgeting, HR, and operational management, ideally within the charity or non-profit sector. You're a proven leader, skilled at driving organisational change, managing complex funding streams, and fostering an inclusive and productive culture. With excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, you're adept at navigating challenges and delivering results. 

We offer: 

• Remote working as standard – staff can access office bases in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Manchester if required/ appropriate. We expect staff to attend team meetings and away days in person as required. 
• As standard we work 35 hours per week. We are also happy to discuss flexible working patterns and many of our staff work non-standard working hours. 
• Our benefits include minimum 5% employer pension contribution (3% employee contribution), life cover, organisational sick pay, family friendly pay and leave schemes; incremental increase in annual leave (25 day basic entitlement) depending on length of service, opportunities for learning and development, a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and retail discounts platform. 

Note for applicants: 

• Candidates must have the independent right to work in UK at the time of appointment as we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role. 
• Please read through the Information for Candidates document as well as the Job Description for further information to support your application and complete your personal statement. 
• When applying you will be taken through the Save the Children UK recruitment system. Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes. 
• For any questions, please contact the HR team at HR@elrha.org 
• We reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a very high volume of applications. 

Closing date:  2nd February 2025 

Interview dates:  18th & 19th February 2025 

About Elrha 

Elrha is a global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation. We fund and support projects that go on to shape the way in which people across the world are supported during a crisis. We're an established and respected part of the humanitarian community, working closely and meaningfully with our fellow networks and actors to make change happen.  

Read our strategy: shaping the future: our strategy for research and innovation in humanitarian response 2023 - 2040. It sets out how we'll work with our community to realise its potential in humanitarian response, and how we'll capture the real change and improvements to the lives of people affected by crisis. 

Our strategy sets out our values by which we hold ourselves accountable as individuals and as an organisation and employer. 

• Putting people at the centre  
• Working with others  
• Acting responsibly  
• Committed to learning  
• Inspiring change 

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion 

Elrha is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBTQ+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

Please ensure you read the full job description and candidate information document, and then complete the Personal Statement as requested in the application process. We look forward to hearing from you.