Director of Oversight

Job description

Director of Oversight

Salary: £125,000 per annum

Reports to: CEO

Direct reports: Head of Scheme Oversight

Location: Based at our office Harlow, Essex with some travel nationwide. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street or Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service to/from Harlow Town Train Station as well as free parking and EV charging on site.

About the role:

The role of Director of Oversight is new to the structure at Motability Foundation and is accountable for strategic relationships, most importantly the relationship with Motability Operations including scheme oversight, but also Government and devolved nations.  

What you will be doing:

Strategy 

• Collaborate with the Board and other Directors to drive, develop and deliver the Motability Foundation’s five-year strategy and work with the CEO in setting the oversight strategy.  
• Accountable for setting the scheme oversight roadmap which includes the planned deep dive topics as well as the routine annual activities of oversight.  

Strategic Relationships 

• Own the overall relationship with Motability Operations, in particular the MO Executive Team, and actively manage the key stakeholders.  The CEO will remain accountable for the relationship with the MO CEO but you will be actively involved on a day to day basis.   
• Collaborate with the CEO and Chair to strengthen the MF relationship with the MO Board using a stakeholder management approach.  
• Lead the organisational relationship with all other key strategic suppliers e.g. the AA in the provision of driving lessons.  

Scheme Oversight 

• Collaborate with the current Head of Scheme Oversight to review and reset the way of working to be in keeping with the revised and restated scheme agreement.   
• Own the relationship with the Motability Operations Chief of Staff to ensure the processes and access are in place to enable the Foundation to perform its oversight accountability.   
• Collaborate with the Chair of the Scheme Oversight Committee to ensure the committee is effective and providing sound governance.  
• Provide the key escalation route for Motability Foundation colleagues to resolve issues of non-adherence to agreements with Motability Operations and in particular issues of compliance with the Scheme Agreement and Comms Framework.  
• Ensure that the Scheme Strategy and Motability Operation’s Annual Operating Plan are compatible and in accordance with the Motability intent. 

Leadership

• Lead the Scheme Oversight team.  
• Play an active role within the Executive Committee to support the 5 year strategy and day to day running of the Foundation. 
• You will be a role model of our values – collaboration, evolving and respectful – and inspire those around you to always deliver their best. 

Your experience:

• Experienced at reporting into the Executive of commercial organisations (>£1bn revenue) or operating at c-suite level representing an external third-party.  
• Likely to have either an audit or management consultancy background with accountability for client delivery and relationships at the highest level.  
• An expert commercial negotiator with the ability to manage complex relationships and the judgement to make trade-off decisions in the pursuit of strategic objectives.  
• The intellectual agility and commercial experience to understand complex operational and financial arrangements of a large-scale consumer-facing organisations.   
• Gravitas at the board table enabling complex, difficult and negative messages to be delivered with skill and credibility.  
• High emotional intelligence with the ability to switch leadership styles in favour of the charity workforce and ideally a personal experience of disability.  

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience, we'd still encourage you to apply.

Who are we?

We are building a future where all disabled people have the transport options to make the journeys they choose.

We fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year. We award grants to charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Why choose us?

We want working for the Motability Foundation to be the best career move you’ve ever made. When you join the Motability Foundation you will join a group of people who are supportive, innovative and motivated to improve the lives of our beneficiaries.

We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. This is embedded into our values, Collaborative, Respectful and Evolving.

We bring our people together through our People Forum, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Social Squad and our Wellbeing Champions and our employee Spotlight Awards help us recognise the excellence and dedication of our staff.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

london (tottenham hale)

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

02-08-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English