This is no ordinary opportunity.
Library For All has already changed the lives of more than 1 million children. Our Chief Executive Officer has the power to change the lives of millions of children around the world. Leading the Senior Leadership Team, our CEO is the driving force to create positive impact for children in the world’s poorest communities by leveraging established publishing and technology services. Setting, directing, and executing the organisation’s strategy, the CEO is supported by key personnel to realise financial and mission objectives.
Library For All is no ordinary Not-for-Profit.
As a social enterprise of Save the Children Australia, our mission is to support global literacy by ensuring access to high quality books and learning materials. We create beautiful books, written by the communities that will benefit from them, and then distribute these with innovative tech solutions. Our work delivers meaningful change for children’s education globally. As a trusted partner to many of the world’s leading development agencies, we’re laser-focused on scaling our impact to create measurable change for millions more children.
Where you come in:
We’re searching for Library For All’s next CEO. This is a full-time, permanent position that can be based from any capital city in Australia. We are also open to the right candidate to be based from anywhere in the Asia-Pacific region, which has been identified as a key focus area for Library for All.
Reporting to the LFA Board (via the Chairperson), as well as the Executive Director – International Programs (who sits on the Save the Children Australia Executive team), you will lead the growth and impact of Library For All in this key leadership role that sits within the Save the Children Senior Management Team. You will leverage existing partnerships and relationships and lead the development of the organisation’s strategic and business plan, steering Library For All into the next exciting chapter of its already remarkable journey.
You will make an impact by:
· Leading the commercial strategy to ensure products and services are innovative, meet customer needs, remain best-in-class and deliver meaningful impact in addition to delivering strong returns on capital investment
· Leading enterprise technology for impact & revenue
· Ensuring optimum business development activities, including working closely with Save the Children Australia and Save the Children International as both a partner and a client
· Leading the organisation’s finance, people & culture, enterprise technology and general administration functions, utilising Save the Children’s shared services model where suitable
· Enabling the organisation’s workforce with the skills, tools and capacity to deliver an agile and effective business
Does this sound like you?
You will have exceptional inter-personal skills, utilizing a flexible communication style and an influential style of leadership (with the capability to affect change at all levels). Your laser-sharp focus to deliver better educational outcomes for children will be matched only by your dogged determination to drive genuine innovation by leading and enabling your high performing team to scale even greater heights in the pursuit of global literacy.
This role requires:
· Substantial experience at a senior executive level, with a demonstrated capacity to thrive leading highly innovative, agile and high performing teams with a transformation agenda
· Direct experience working in a developing or humanitarian context
· Experience within the development sector to enable effective partnership building and business development with key clients and stakeholders (with a deep understanding of Social Enterprise being a highly desirable attribute as well)
· Proven ability to set and achieve ambitious targets, while working autonomously in a fast-growing organization with significant growth plans
· Experience successfully developing strategy, including establishing measurement frameworks and achieving set performance indicators
· Proven experience with managing broad and complex strategic activities, or programs in complex operating environments
Working at Library For All is more than just a job.
It’s the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same.
In addition to working at the leading edge of education technology alongside a team of highly engaged professionals you will have access to:
· Internal employment and development opportunities
· Friendly and flexible work environment
· Agile work environment including working from home
· Support for workplace wellness, including access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
· Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)
· Additional annual leave option.
For more information regarding our employee benefits, please follow this link.
Sound interesting?
We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume by clicking on one of the buttons in the ‘Apply’ section.
Applications close 4pm AEST, Friday 22nd March 2024.
Position Description – CEO, Library for All
Library For All is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.
We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know! We’re dedicated to ensuring Library For All is a workplace suitable for all people and can modify our processes to suit you – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.
Library For All is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.