Chief & Service Development Officer

Avenues is a community where people smile, laugh and grow – and achieve great things. We love to go the extra mile for people, building confidence and encouraging individuality and independence so people enjoy full, happy lives.

We are a charity that specialises in supporting autistic people, people with learning disability, acquired brain injury and complex support needs.

We do this by supporting and promoting people’s intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual welfare, with around 2,000 staff supporting around 650 people with social care across our subsidiaries in the South East, West Midlands, London and the East of England.

We have exciting plans for the future; we have grown steadily in recent years through a series of acquisitions and through organic growth. We are able to retain contracts and win new business because of the quality of our services and the outcomes they achieve. We are now adding this exciting new post to our Executive Team to enable us to achieve our goal to support more people.

As Chief Growth and Service Development Officer, you will report directly to the Chief Executive and play a pivotal role in driving the organisation’s growth agenda, overseeing property services, leading business development initiatives including fundraising and the incubation of non-core business services. You will be responsible for expanding Avenues’ reach, diversifying income streams, and ensuring the sustainability and excellence of our property portfolio and asset management.

You will have significant experience of winning new business in social care or a related area and will bring a passion and drive for developing new services and income streams. You will have knowledge of property services and an understanding of fundraising and the ability to lead teams in areas where you are not the expert but can inspire your managers to grow and develop their teams.

The Avenues Group is deeply committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applications from people whose experiences, perspectives and backgrounds will strengthen our organisation and enrich our leadership.

For more information on this exciting opportunity, please download the role information pack, confidential discussion with our recruitment partners at VBS, please call Rob Hilyer on , or by email at

*** Any applications directly submitted via the to Avenues portal will be passed over to VBS***