Chief Executive Officer

**Christchurch based iconic leadership position**:

- **Encourage the spirit of exploration, inspiring a new generation**:

- **Follow your passion leading this significant not-for-profit organisation**

**About The Role**:
The Trust’s highly respected CEO is moving on after many years of service and this represents a rare and outstanding opportunity to lead the strategic development of the Trust, ensuring its growth and ongoing future success conserving and encouraging the spirit of exploration for generations to come. Key responsibilities include:

- The strategic oversight and delivery of the Trust’s conservation programmes, the Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project and the Trust’s growing international and Inspiring Explorers programmes
- Effective promotion of the Trust to attract national and international recognition and support
- Building and developing key relationships with stakeholders and partners nationally and internationally
- Developing a high performance, values-based workforce, leading through coaching and empowerment
- Maintaining and proactively securing new revenue opportunities, including donations, legacy contributions, sponsorships and grants.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Be an inspiring & seasoned leader known for providing strong leadership through maturity, personal integrity, mana/charisma & practical wisdom, motivating others through your enthusiastic approach
- Have commercial acumen, with strong strategic thinking, planning and execution skills
- Have ‘political savvy’ with a track record of building successful and sustainable relationships at a senior level with stakeholders, government agencies and other key influencers
- Enjoy networking in order to proactively secure new partnerships & revenue opportunities
- Be experienced in overseeing programmes and field operations, requiring H&S and risk assessment
- Have a collaborative mindset and strong communication skills, along with the ability to work well with a diverse range of people & cultures, across multiple stakeholder environments
- Be available to travel internationally and domestically, as and when the job requires.

**Benefits**:

- The Antarctic Heritage Trust is a well respected NFP organisation with a global outlook that is conserving Antarctica’s heritage for future generations and inspiring the next generation of explorers
- You will be joining a global organisation that conserves the remarkable expedition bases of early Antarctic explorers, including Carsten Borchgrevink, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Edmund Hillary on behalf of the international community
- A small and values-led organisation of skilled, passionate and committed staff
- Share the world’s greatest exploration stories, encouraging youth to explore the physical world to educate and inspire them
- Sustain and grow the Trust’s programmes while caring for people and the planet

You will aspire to align with the organisational values to:

- Be open minded and curious
- Be Innovative
- Strive for excellence
- Encourage positive risk taking
- Treasure the spirit and legacy of exploration

**About the Organisation**

Antarctic Heritage Trust is a New Zealand-based charity with a vision of inspiring explorers.

Through its mission to conserve, share and encourage the spirit of exploration the Trust cares for the remarkable expedition bases of early Antarctic explorers including, Carsten Borchgrevink, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Edmund Hillary.

It shares the legacy of exploration through outreach programmes and encourages the spirit of exploration through its Inspiring ExplorersTM programme to engage and inspire a new generation.