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Emmaus Colchester is seeking a CEO to provide clear and confident leadership across all areas of Emmaus Colchester: supported housing, Companion support, retail, reuse, logistics, partnerships and charity governance.
You will be responsible for ensuring the organisation is safe, well-run, financially sustainable and true to the Emmaus ethos of solidarity, dignity and shared responsibility.
You will join an organisation with a strong local presence and a practical, empowering model: combining a stable home with meaningful work and participation in social enterprise. Your leadership will help Emmaus Colchester respond confidently to a changing supported housing environment, increasing regulatory expectations and the need for long-term financial resilience.
- Strong governance, compliance, safeguarding, risk management and reporting to Trustees.
- Safe, high-quality supported housing and a positive residential community for Companions.
- Thriving reuse, retail, warehouse and logistics operations that support the charity’s mission.
- Robust financial planning, internal controls, income generation and long-term sustainability.
- A culture of dignity, inclusion, accountability and continuous improvement across staff,
volunteers and Companions. - Productive relationships with local authorities, funders, regulators, partners and the wider
Emmaus Federation.
Emmaus Colchester is a charity that empowers people to overcome homelessness. We provide the foundation of a safe home and a life-changing package of tailored support. Through our residential community and thriving social enterprises across the city, we offer stability, purpose, and a route to rebuilding lives.
Emmaus is a unique, secular organisation supporting people affected by homelessness and social exclusion. There are currently 29 Emmaus communities across the UK, stretching from Glasgow to Dover and Norfolk to South Wales. Collectively, the Emmaus Federation supports more than 1,000 people with experience of homelessness.
To apply for this role, download the recruitment documents below and then complete the job application form you will find this below or by clicking the ‘apply now’ button on the right of this page. Please return your application form via email to Vivienne Depledge
at vivienne@emmauscol.org or post it to: Vivienne Depledge, Emmaus Colchester, 175 Magdalen Street, Colchester, CO1 2JX.
Closing date 31 August 2026
Interviews will be held in early September
Emmaus UK provides equal opportunity for all job applicants and employees and is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination. We are dedicated to an inclusive culture, and we strive to create a workplace where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas, and experiences work together. We welcome applications from all individuals irrespective of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, marital status, or parental responsibilities.
To ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for our roles, all our applications are anonymised until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.