The Role

We are seeking a strategic executer to partner with the CEO in delivering CEASE’s ambitious vision. This is an integrator role that we are aligned, focused, and equipped to turn vision into action.

The Director of Operations will:

• Be passionately committed to CEASE’s vision and mission.
• Act as a gifted leader and manager, inspiring others and fostering a culture of collaboration.
• Bring a breadth of operational leadership skills to design and manage CEASE’s internal structures and systems.
• Translate vision into strategy, and strategy into clear deliverables, goals and tactical plans.
• Keep teams aligned and accountable, ensuring everyone is rowing in the same direction.
• Serve as a filter and sounding board to the CEO and integrate the major functions of the organisation into a cohesive whole.

Please read the Information for prospective candidates for full details and how to apply.

Closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 10th October 2025

Please mention ACEVO Jobs when applying.

About CEASE

CEASE is a small human rights-based charity with a huge vision: to create a world without sexual exploitation through exposing and dismantling its cultural and commercial drivers. It is only through addressing this wider context that we believe it will be possible to see real change.

CEASE’s advocacy is rooted in evidence, stories and human rights as it seeks to join the dots between the sex industry, a hypersexualised, objectifying, pornified culture and public attitudes and behaviours towards sex.

Our approach is both top-down and bottom-up. Through our policy work, we seek to subject the sex industry to greater scrutiny, accountability and regulation, to disrupt its business model and to shift the political consensus. Through our communications work, we expose the multifaceted harms of the sex industry, challenging the prevailing cultural narratives and creating lasting culture change.

We work across a broad range of stakeholders, from charities to politicians and activist groups. CEASE is not affiliated to any single ideological, political or religious position but seek to build a diverse alliance that shares our vision, grounded in common social values.

To understand more about our ethos and beliefs please head to our website: https://cease.org.uk/about/ or you can see more of our impact from our 2023/24 Annual Report.