DIRECTOR OF SERVICES/DEPUTY CEO

Relate NI is a registered charity and the leading organisation providing confidential relationship counselling support to individuals, couples, young people, children and families throughout Northern Ireland. We are recruiting a Director of Services to lead, develop and grow the organisation.

POST:  DIRECTOR OF SERVICES/DEPUTY CEO

Reports To: Chief Executive Officer 

Base: Belfast 

Contract: Permanent  

Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week) – on occasions, the demands of the role may require work outside these hours).

Salary: Please see Job Description within the Application Pack 

Background: 

We are delighted to invite applications for a new role in Relate NI, Director of Services/Deputy CEO.  We are looking for an inspirational and visionary leader to support Relate NI into an exciting period of opportunity, expansion and development. Relate NI and Family Mediation NI merged in November 2024 and is currently consolidating as the ‘go to’ organisation for quality professional mediation and therapeutic support.

The appointee will be a proven strategic leader with the ability to develop and establish collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to successfully stimulate and deliver positive change for the organisation, its staff and service users.  They will have a personal drive for results and be motivating and energetic in the pursuit of positive outcomes.

If this sounds like you, please see our recruitment pack for further detail!

Closing date:  12/06/2026 @ 5pm

Interviews will be held week commencing 30th June 2025.

Completed application forms should be returned to:

Katrina Hinfey

Relate NI

3 Glengall Street

Belfast

BT12 5AB 

OR emailed to HR@relateni.org

Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

Relate NI is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

As part of the recruitment process, the successful candidate/s will be required to complete Access NI Security Clearance before commencing a role with Relate NI.