Purpose

Leadership of operational delivery and clearly setting out programmatic plan, including managing logistics, complex timelines and budgets as well as coordinating across the executive team.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep track of FiTC’s overall progress, timelines and milestones, ensuring key deliverables are met well within time, budget and expectations, and the wider programme remains on target.

• Support senior leaders by working closely and ensuring cross-programmatic alignment.

• Set up systems to ensure easy workflow patterns across team including budget compliance and project management systems.

Major events and programming

• Support the design and lead delivery of major events, festivals, and City-wide programming, owning logistics, scheduling, and on-the-day coordination.

• Support in managing event budgets, suppliers, venues, and delivery partners.

Relationships and engagement

Support existing relationships with City institutions, employers, livery companies, faith communities, and professional networks etc.

• Gather insights and feedback to shape responsive, evidence-led programming, monitoring and evaluation.

• Support consultations and stakeholder engagement around events and programmes.

Person Specification

Essential

• Knowledge of the City of London, namely its institutions and professional culture.

• Strong project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex programmes and events to time, budget, and high quality.

• 10+ years' experience of project management and producing major events.

• Excellent organisation, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work across a senior leadership team, managing dotted-line relationships and competing priorities with diplomacy.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• Knowledge of London’s faith and cultural diversity.

• Experience in outreach, engagement, and relationship building.

• A positive and ‘can-do’ attitude

• Problem solving in a professional context

Desirable

• Experience of fundraising

• Established relationships in or connected with the City

• Knowledge of how local government and other City mechanisms and offices such as the Lord/Lady Mayor’s office, City Police and City of London Corporation work.

Common Expectations

• Work as part of a respectful team alongside Chaplains and staff from all faiths and none.

• Operate with significant professional autonomy and maturity within a small, fast-moving team.

• Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, and freedom of religion or belief.

• Undertake ongoing professional development.