Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Closing date for applications: 17 July 2026
Ipswich Town Foundation is seeking to recruit a Chief Operating Officer to play a pivotal strategic and operational leadership role within the charity. Acting as a strategic partner to the CEO across all facets of the charity, to drive organisational performance, ensuring strong governance, financial sustainability, operational excellence and regulatory compliance.
As a member of the Executive Team, the postholder will provide day-to-day leadership across the organisation, working collaboratively with departments to support the effective delivery of the Foundation’s strategy. The role will ensure teams are empowered to deliver high-quality programmes that harness the power of Ipswich Town Football Club to positively impact lives across Suffolk.
The Club History:
Ipswich Town Football Club is a professional association football club, currently playing in League One, with aspirations of climbing back to the premiership.
The club was founded in 1878 and turned professional in 1936; it was subsequently elected to join the Football League in 1938. Ipswich won the English league title in 1961–62, their first season in the top flight, and finished runners-up in 1980–81 and 1981–82. They finished in the top six in the English First Division for ten years, apart from when they won the FA Cup in 1977–78.
The Club Today:
Ipswich Town is at the start of an exciting journey, as a Family Club our ethos ‘BEING AS ONE’ to become ONE when you work together on shared goal, you collaborate. Are you ready to join us on this journey?