CHIEF EXECUTIVELONDON YOUTH ROWING

APPOINTMENT BRIEF APRIL 2016

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Thank you for your interest in becoming our next Chief Executive.

London Youth Rowing is a ground breaking charity with a mission to develop young people through physical activity and to open access to rowing at all levels. The charity is passionate about making fitness and rowing accessible to young people from all backgrounds across London, helping them to be physically active, develop their confidence and skills and to have fun in the process.

Using the power of sport, our work enables disadvantaged young people to develop their life skills and improve their physical, social and mental wellbeing. Through our programmes we work with over 8,000 participants every year, partnering with 130 schools and numerous clubs.

Indoor rowing continues to be a key point of access with schools and clubs, enabling those that would not normally have the opportunity to take part in rowing to try the sport for the first time.

Our competition programme provides an opportunity for the most talented participants to develop their rowing to the highest levels, while our life skills programmes aim to broaden aspirations and develop life skills through combining rowing and corporate mentoring.

With our most recent CEO, Matt Rostron, leaving after eight years to take up a new post in Boston, we seek a new CEO to develop, promote and lead the organisation through its next period of growth. To achieve this you will need to be passionate, driven and ambitious about helping improve the lives of young people living in disenfranchised communities across London. You will be supported by a robust and well networked Trustee Board, an expanding and generous supporter base and a committed team of staff.

In this appointment brief, you will find information about our work, our structure and our plans for the future. You will also find specific details on our current requirements and information on how to apply for this exceptional opportunity.

WELCOME

Jim Downing, Chair

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London Youth Rowing (LYR) was founded on the belief that rowing and other forms of physical activity promote whole-life health benefits, including self-development, teamwork and enhanced self-esteem. We work to make these benefits accessible to young people from all backgrounds, abilities and walks of life.

We provide coaching, infrastructure and opportunities for indoor, outdoor and adaptive rowing, and other sports or activities, to improve the health, fitness and well-being of young people in the interests of social welfare. LYR works with people aged 11 to 18 in London who, by reason of their youth, disability or circumstances, would not otherwise have access to these activities.

Our dedicated coaches and development team aspire to help all our participants grow through sport to reach their true potential in their daily lives, hence our motto: ‘Making Champions Everyday’.

ABOUT US

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LYR aims to:• Develop and deliver outreach programmes to make

rowing accessible to those who would not normally get the opportunity to do so

• Provide both the coaching and equipment required to support these programmes

• To develop the life skills of young people through a structured programme of physical activity and industry led workshops

• To make careers in coaching accessible to people from every background

• Broaden the future aspirations of young people

• Raise awareness of rowing and fitness among young people of all abilities across the capital

OUROBJECTIVES

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Indoor rowing Indoor Rowing continues to be the route through which many thousands of London’s young people gain their first experience of rowing. We have over the years developed Indoor Rowing into a sport in its own right, mainly through the provision of rowing machines and coaching support to a series of Satellite Clubs as part of the Satellite Hubs and Clubs (SHaC) project with Sport England.

On-Water Rowing LYR provides on-water rowing coaching at a total of ten clubs and centres across London including Thames Rowing Club (Wandsworth); Fairlop Water (Redbridge); Danson Lake (Bexley); London Regatta Centre (Newham); Globe Rowing Club (Greenwich); Surrey Quays Water Sports Centre (Southwark); University of London Boathouse (Hounslow); Thames Tradesmen Rowing Club (Hounslow) and Queen

Elizabeth Olympic Park (Hackney). LYR also embed performance coaches into two state secondary schools in London as part of our academies programme.

Life SkillsBreaking Barriers combines rowing activities with industry led skills and workshops, project management experience and mentoring. The activities are designed to engender life skills and increase our beneficiaries’ aspiration sets. The Breaking Barriers initiative empowers young people to build on the competencies learned from rowing. It is the step that enables progression from sport into further education, training and employment.

OUR CORE ACTIVITIES

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Satellites Hubs and Clubs (SHaC) This is LYRs largest participation programme working with 90 schools and 10 on-water centres across London. The SHaC initiative links a group of ‘Satellite’ indoor rowing clubs to a network of LYR affiliated on-water ‘Hub’ rowing clubs located primarily in state secondary schools across London. In 2015 a total of 71 satellite clubs and 3,720 young people participated during the year, of which 45% were girls, 66% where from a BME group and 4% considered themselves to have a disability.

Competition Rowing LYR creates and develops junior rowing sections at rowing clubs across London to ensure that young people have the opportunity to join and flourish in a professional rowing environment. Often embedded within existing rowing clubs, LYR junior head coaches are in place to make sure that young athletes are nurtured and coached to reach their full potential.

Through these successes, some of our ‘alumni’ athletes have been offered scholarships at universities in the UK and USA. Others have gone on to compete on national platforms including the GB trails, Junior World Championships and the Oxford Cambridge Boat Races – opportunities which would not have been possible without LYR.

Rowing AcademiesLYR operates an embedded rowing programme in two London state secondary schools: Mossbourne Community Academy and Brampton Manor Academy. Both these academies have an LYR head coach and access to LYR facilities and equipment.

The students who form part of these programmes all receive coaching at the same levels as their private school counterparts across the capital. They are inspirational role models to their younger peers and offer relatable role models in a typically exclusive sport. Both academies have very high educational standards and showcase the ability to combine the highest academic performance with competitive rowing. Both these academies are examples of the benefits that physical activity has on non-cognitive traits that are signposts to success in further endeavours.

Row4Results The Row4Results Initiative joins London Youth Rowing with Tideway, whereby LYR holds a series of indoor rowing events and competitions between boys and girls from years 7&8. It runs both in schools and community youth clubs across London. The programme aims to ensure that rowing is accessible to everyone irrespective of background or experience, and to connect Londoners with the Thames.

London Water Sports Centre Based in Newham, the London Water Sports Centre is a six lane, 2km stretch of clear water along the docks which offers a world class, safe place for young people from the local communities which surround Newham to take part in a range of water sports.

Complementing our SHaC on-water based sessions are a multitude of community based open access sessions throughout the summer, community courses and programmes, performance sessions and para-sports initiatives utilising the dock as a safe place for people to row.

OUR PROJECTS

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Funding Sport England continues its essential support of LYR, enabling us to deliver the Satellites Hubs and Clubs initiative. We are also generously sponsored by Tideway, The Stewards Charitable Trust, London Borough of Newham, London Borough of Hounslow, Team Watersports, British Rowing, The Boat Race Company, Oxford Cambridge Rowing Foundation, APAP, LLDC, CVB, Royal Docks Trust and a number of other trust, foundation, corporate, statutory, individual and event donors.

Breaking Barriers In 2014, LYR launched an important new initiative, Breaking Barriers, which is based around our long held belief that the disciplines gained through rowing (team work, discipline, resilience, confidence) can lead to employability, educational attainment and more general life skills. Starting as a pilot sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers with 12 young people from two London boroughs, PWC provided funding, volunteers and mentors for the programme that on all counts was a great success.

This project has demonstrated its ability for considerable momentum and in its second iteration, it has been extended to over 60 participants with new funding partners, mentors and volunteers from both the public and private sector to help us deliver this project and others to follow.

LYR Apprenticeships In 2016, LYR will launch an apprenticeship programme. This initiative is a coach development programme aimed at supporting young people through professional coaching qualifications. The programme aims to open up access to professional coaching qualifications for young people, broaden the reach of LYR by mobilising additional coaches in our rowing centres and establish LYR as an accredited training provider.

FUNDING & NEW DEVELOPMENTS

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National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships (NJIRC)This competition is LYR’s flagship annual event, and in 2016 we hosted 2,079 competitors making it the world’s largest indoor rowing competition for junior competitors. Now in its tenth year, NJIRC offers an accessible platform for young athletes between 11 and 18 to compete at a national level. Young athletes came from as far afield as Plymouth and the Isle of Wight to compete.

Every known barrier to entry is removed through: subsidised entry fees, transport support and travel assistance where required, full adaptations where required for those with disabilities, and targeting entries from clubs and schools that do not typically compete in rowing events.

The event is co-hosted with The Boat Race Company and the event is certainly enhanced by having these links to the Boat Race.

London Youth Games Since 2006, LYR has not only re-introduced on-water Rowing as one of the events featured in the annual London Youth Games, but also has initiated Indoor Rowing as a new, and very popular, featured sport. In 2010 we piloted an Adaptive Rowing event for young people with disabilities, which became a fully point scoring event in 2011.

OUR EVENTS

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We remain ambitious to impact the lives of as many young people as we can. This means building on our legacy of successful programmes, whilst developing and executing a strategy that will ensure our strength into the future.

We will develop our sustainability through reviewing our income generating activities to provide increasingly unrestricted funding for charitable activities.

Generally, we are moving towards consolidating our programmes into 3 main areas: life skills, engagement and competition.

Life Skills Breaking Barriers

We will seek to expand Breaking Barriers, integrating the programme with our Academy model and our proposed new participation/engagement programme.

Academies

We will identify and engage with new potential Academy partners.

Apprenticeships

We will complete the development of and launch our apprenticeship programme and work to qualify as an accredited training provider.

Engagement Participation

We will successfully pilot a new engagement programme which provides meaningful outcomes from participation in sport.

Adaptive

We will integrate adaptive as a core component of existing and future programmes.

CompetitionClub Rowing

We will continue to deliver the highest standards of performance rowing to enable opportunities for our young athletes to progress into professional rowing or access scholarships.

STRATEGY & LONG TERM PLANS

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The Charity’s income was £1,233,081 in the financial year ended 31 March 2015 compared with £859,642 in the year ended 31 March 2014. In 2015/2016 this is predicted to increase to approximately £1,500,000.

The fund balance carried forward as at 31 March 2015 was £417,868 consisting of £79,544 of unrestricted funds and £338,324 of restricted funds.

The Trustees of LYR are also directors for the purposes of company law. LYR was established in June 2004 with the aim of attracting more young people into rowing and other physical activity. LYR was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee on 10 May 2007 and became a registered Charity on 25 February 2008.

It adopted new Articles of Association on 6 December 2010, which provide for a minimum of two and a maximum of eleven Trustees, most of whom are elected by the members.

LYR receives the support of a large number of sponsors, partners and volunteers and is extremely proud of its talented and dedicated team of coaches and development staff. Our programmes would not be possible without them, and we extend our thanks to all of those who enable us to deliver our many activities.

FINANCIAL STRENGTH& GOVERNANCE

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Reporting to: Chair and Board of Trustees

Location:London

Purpose:To provide inspirational leadership, ensuring the organisation continues to support young people to develop and grow through the provision of high quality programmes and activities.

Scope and Accountability

Our new CEO will:

• Provide visible, ambitious and engaged executive leadership for London Youth Rowing and have overall responsibility for all activities undertaken by the charity

• Work in close collaboration with the Board, staff and volunteers of London Youth Rowing to deliver the charity’s mission

• Ensure the Board of Directors is kept informed about strategy, policy and all other relevant issues relevant to the discharge of their duties

• Oversee the financial sustainability of the charity, including working with Trustees and relevant staff on the formulation of a financial strategy and annual budget for approval by the Board

• Demonstrate a deep commitment to the mission, values and ethos of London Youth Rowing

• Establish the overall strategy for London Youth Rowing’s continued development and growth, and set objectives across all areas of the organisation to implement the strategy

• Ensure the organisation knows the impact of its programmes and can articulate and learn from it

• Take responsibility for developing London Youth Rowing’s culture and ensuring an organisational environment that promotes positive staff morale and performance

• Act as the primary representative of London Youth Rowing with all external stakeholders, in particular with organisations working in youth development, sports and health provision

• Build and maintain partnerships with other organisations where beneficial for

• London Youth Rowing’s continued development

• Evaluate and improve the performance of the organisation on an ongoing basis, recruiting the right personnel to deliver on agreed organisational objectives

• Support the Development Team on fundraising initiatives with sponsors, foundations and individuals including possible establishment of a trading subsidiary

ROLE PROFILE

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Person Specification

The successful candidate will have some or all of the following attributes, experience and skills

• Experience of leading and managing an organisation of a similar size and complexity

• Demonstrable experience of providing inspirational and credible leadership to cultivate confidence and trust

• Proven ability to develop a clear strategic direction for an organisation

• Ability to lead and deliver change to meet organisational goals and implement the agreed strategy

• A combination of commercial and voluntary sector experience

• A good understanding of youth, sports development or education and the policy narrative the charity operates within

• A good understanding of developing and delivering impact focused programmes and measuring outcomes

• Experience of managing significant budgets and of long term financial planning

• Experience of supporting fundraising and income generation activities

• Experience of working within a legal structure which includes a subsidiary

• Experience of acting as an ambassador and the ability to effectively represent London Youth Rowing to external organisations

• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders, including government departments

Personal skills and attributes

• Strategic thinking and business planning skills

• Strong commercial acumen and analysis skills

• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills

• Good interpersonal skills, including networking, facilitation, provision of support and guidance

• Drive, initiative and resilience to achieve and exceed targets whilst holding firm to values

• Strong influencing skills with an ability to inspire confidence and create trust

• Ability to work under pressure and solve problems and issues when they arise

ROLE PROFILE

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Applications should be submitted via our website: http://prospect-us.co.uk/jobs/details/hq00162733

Applications can also be posted to: Sarah Hill, Prospectus, 20-22 Stukeley Street, London, WC2B 5LR

TimetablePublished advert closing date: 5th May 2016

Prospectus interview dates:9th-20th May 2016

Interviews with Chair and Trustees: 23rd May 2016

Recruitment Process If you have any questions on any aspect of the appointment process, need additional information or wish to have an informal discussion, please contact Tokunbo Makinde or Ami Jenick on 020 7691 1920 or via email at:

tokunbo.makinde@prospect-us.co.uk

ami.jenick@prospect-us.co.uk

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for this position, please upload a comprehensive CV, and a supporting statement of no more than two pages of A4 on our website. Please ensure that your application fully addresses the appointment criteria in the person specification.

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