Your supporting statement must be no longer than 1500 words. It should help us understand why this role, why NDTi, and what you would bring. 

Please write in your own voice and use clear examples. We are interested in your judgement, motivation, values and approach, not just a list of previous roles. 

You do not need to respond to every line of the Person Specification. The areas below are intended to guide you, not to create a rigid checklist. 

You do not need to respond to these areas mechanically or in order. We are interested in how you have helped shape ideas into credible, deliverable and financially sound opportunities that are aligned with purpose. 

Your connection to NDTi’s purpose and values

Tell us why NDTi’s work matters to you, and how your values have shaped the way you lead, work with others and make decisions. We are particularly interested in examples where values needed to be held carefully alongside complexity, risk or competing pressures. 

Lived experience, voice, rights and inclusion

Tell us how you have worked in ways shaped by the insight, leadership and voice of people with lived experience. We are interested in how this has influenced decisions, programmes, partnerships, learning, evidence or wider change. 

Your understanding of NDTi’s field of work

Tell us about your understanding of the areas NDTi works in, such as social care, health, rights, inclusion, public systems, disability, ageing, children and young people, equalities, community or system change. Help us understand how your experience would support NDTi’s work and future direction. 

Practice-grounded development, delivery and capability-building

Tell us how your practical work with people, organisations or systems has shaped your leadership and judgement. We are interested in how you use relevant theories, methods or approaches to support change, and how you help others build confidence, leadership and capability through facilitation, coaching, feedback, shared learning or practical development support. 

Growth, income and sustainable opportunity development

Tell us about your experience of shaping funded, commissioned, partnership-based or larger-scale work. We are interested in how you have helped move ideas into credible, deliverable and financially sound opportunities that are aligned with purpose. 

Judgement across mission, money, risk, capacity and relationships

Tell us about how you approach difficult decisions where there are tensions between opportunity, purpose, income, capacity, delivery quality, risk and relationships. You may wish to include an example where you helped decide whether to pursue, reshape or decline an opportunity. 

Partnerships, relationships and influence

Tell us how you build relationships and partnerships that create opportunity, extend influence, support impact and strengthen organisational credibility. We are interested in how you use relationships to support shared purpose and organisational strength, not only personal profile. 

Senior and shared leadership

Tell us about your experience of senior strategic leadership in a complex environment, including how you have helped shape strategy, culture, performance, risk, sustainability or decision-making. We are also interested in how you work with governance, such as a Board, trustee body or equivalent structure, and how you lead in collaborative or shared leadership environments. Please help us understand how you influence without relying on hierarchy, respond to challenge, support others to contribute, and hold the whole organisation in view.