Chief Executive Officer

Organisation: Wrexham Tennis & Padel Centre
Salary: £50,000, with flexibility for an exceptional candidate
Location: Wrexham, North Wales
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 27 February 2026
Interview date: 17 March 2026
Job Description: As CEO, you will provide strategic, financial and operational leadership, ensuring the Centre continues to grow sustainably while remaining rooted in community impact and strong governance. You will shape and deliver the organisation’s long term vision and ensure services, programmes and operations remain high quality, inclusive and aligned to community need.

This is a pivotal role for a leader who combines commercial instinct with values led leadership, and who can represent the organisation credibly across local, regional and national stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership
- Lead the development and delivery of a bold, future focused strategy for the Charity.
- Translate long term vision into clear priorities, measurable objectives and sustainable growth
- Work closely with the Board to support strong and effective governance.

Commercial & Financial Leadership
- Strengthen financial sustainability through robust budgeting, forecasting, planning and risk management.
- Grow income through partnerships, memberships, programmes, development of our retail arm, grants and commercial activity.
- Ensure strong financial controls and compliance with charity governance requirements.

People & Culture Leadership
- Foster a culture of trust, inclusion, safeguarding, respect and high performance.
- Lead, support and develop the senior leadership team; embed fair and compliant people practices.
- Champion equality, diversity and inclusion across the organisation.

Organisational Excellence & Compliance
- Ensure best practice policies, systems and processes across the organisation.
- Oversee safeguarding, health & safety and regulatory compliance.
- Produce high quality reports for the Board, funders and regulators.

Partnerships, Profile & Community Engagement
- Act as an ambassador for the organisation—locally, regionally and nationally.
- Build influential relationships with governing bodies, local authorities, schools, community partners and funders.
- Enhance the Centre’s visibility, reputation and reach.

Programme & Service Oversight
- Provide strategic oversight of programme development to ensure high quality, inclusive offers aligned to community needs.
- Support managers in driving innovation and impact across services.

About You

You will bring:
- Senior leadership experience in sport, leisure, charity or community settings.
- A successful track record in delivering growth, developing partnerships and organisational development.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen.
- An inclusive, collaborative and empowering leadership style.
- Passion for community sport, wellbeing and widening participation
How to apply: Please note, recruitment is being administered by Tennis Wales, but this role is for Wrexham Tennis & Padel Centre (WT&PC), and the CEO will be an employee of WT&PC only. Please view further information about the role, and details of how to apply here: https://hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/vacancies/45159?identifier=tenniswalesltd