Chief Executive Officer
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust
Role is based at EHAAT’s offices at Earls Colne, Essex or North Weald
Competitive six figure salary
We are proud to be Essex and Hertfordshire’s local life-saving charity, operating out of two airbases in North Weald and Earls Colne to deliver a 24/7, 365 day-per-year service. Whether by helicopter or rapid response vehicle, our critical care teams rush to the scene with life-saving support equipment to deliver advanced clinical care, usually only available in a hospital emergency department.
We are here to assist everyone who lives, works, or is travelling through the region. Our objective is to save lives, reduce or prevent disability, or suffering from critical illness and injury, by delivering a first-class pre-hospital emergency medical service to the people of Essex, Hertfordshire and surrounding areas.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a talented, personally influential CEO, with presence and emotional intelligence, to lead us through the next exciting era of development at the Charity. We are a vibrant organisation with a high-profile and hugely respected brand across our region. The coming months will see us continue to build on great foundations, to further develop our education and research capabilities in our Centre for Excellence and to secure our own Air Operating Certificate to bring our aviation in-house.
We also need to further ramp up support for the Air Ambulance across our communities to boost and diversify our income, and we will be working hard to ensure that EHAAT is on the longer-term financially sustainable footing that all charities need in today’s rapidly changing world. This is a substantial team leadership role, too; you will be fostering a senior team which includes accomplished leaders drawn from varied fields, including clinical, aviation and charity backgrounds.
You may come from any sector, but wherever you have worked, you will bring a deep understanding of what we do and why this makes our CEO role a bit different to others. You will understand our place as a charity, yet a charity that straddles the clinical and aviation worlds and is therefore highly regulated by different authorities. Already a respected leader, you will bring confidence, resilience and a forward-looking approach to this role, quickly becoming trusted and relied upon by us all. A confident ambassador and great communicator, you will connect naturally with people of all backgrounds both outside our organisation, and internally with our paid staff and volunteers.
How to apply
To make an application, please click on the apply now button below, with the following prepared:
- Your CV (no more than three sides).
- A covering letter that sets out your motivation for applying for this role and your knowledge and experience against Part One of the Person Specification.
Closing date
Friday 2nd May 2025
Preliminary interviews
w/c 5th and 12th May 2025
Final Panel interviews
w/c 26th May 2025