Senior Consultant

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading consultancy team delivering high-quality governance and leadership support to the voluntary sector.

As a Senior Consultant, you’ll play a key role in delivering impactful consultancy and training & facilitation, while also contributing to service development and income generation. Working closely with internal teams and associate consultants, you’ll help organisations strengthen their effectiveness, resilience and social impact.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality consultancy, training and facilitation in governance and leadership.
• Manage projects and coordinate internal and associate consultants to ensure excellent delivery.
• Identify and develop new consultancy and training opportunities to support business growth.
• Contribute to service development, income generation and sharing sector insights.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced consultant who is passionate about the voluntary sector and wants to make a meaningful difference through their work.

Your background

You'll bring strong experience in governance and leadership consultancy, alongside excellent facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.

With a track record of managing projects and delivering high-quality outcomes, you’ll also be confident in generating income and developing client relationships.

A solid understanding of the challenges facing the voluntary sector, combined with strong analytical and communication skills, will set you up for success in this role.

About the team

Our Consultancy Team sits alongside our Training and Conference Suite teams as part of Commercial Services.

They deliver high‑quality governance and leadership support through consultancy, training, and facilitation, helping charities improve impact while driving service growth and insight.

With members at the heart of everything we do, we champion the charities and volunteers who make a daily difference to our communities across England. Join us and help us make communities stronger and support us making a bigger difference!

Some of NCVO’s great benefits include:

• 25 days’ annual leave (pro-rata for part-time staff), increasing based on years of service
• five days’ volunteering leave (pro rata for part-time staff)
• enhanced pay for maternity/adoption leave
• generous employer pension contribution of up to 8.5% of salary.

Find out more about the benefits of working at NCVO.

Send a copy of your CV, with a short covering letter, and our information form, quoting the reference SCT, to recruitment@ncvo.org.uk. You can also send any queries about the process to this address.

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