Overview

Interim Chief Operations Officer role at Starfish Search for a non-profit organisation. The focus of this role is to provide executive, operational leadership to ensure all services are high-quality, innovative, compliant, and clearly aligned with the organisation’s strategic goals and values.

Base pay range

This range is provided by Starfish Search. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

This role is running for a period of six months and offers a salary of c.£130,000.

We will require the candidate to be on-site 3 days/week at various locations across the UK, primarily based at the main office in Birmingham.

Responsibilities

• Lead long-term strategic planning and transformational change to modernise services, challenge conventional practice, and future-proof the organisation.
• Establish and lead effective systems for monitoring performance and quality, using data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement and regulatory compliance.
• Sponsor and direct capital and infrastructure programmes that enhance service environments and operational capabilities.
• Share collective responsibility for corporate leadership across the chief officer group.
• Ensure services are fully compliant with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with regulators, commissioners, funders, and other strategic stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience in commissioned education, health, or social care services.
• A proven track record of leading complex, multi-site service operations at scale.
• Deep understanding of regulatory environments, including CQC, CIW, RQIA and Ofsted, and the responsibilities of a Nominated Individual.
• Demonstrable experience of driving transformational change and service redesign.
• Understanding of impact measurement and quality assurance frameworks.

Location

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Job details

• Seniority level: Executive
• Employment type: Contract
• Industries: Non-profit Organizations