NAVCA is to launch a hunt for a new chief executive after the resignation of Jane Ide.

Ide will leave the charity sector infrastructure body on 10 November to take up the same role at education and employment sector body Creative and Cultural Skills.

She joined NAVCA three years ago, which included a stint as the organisation’s head of membership engagement before becoming CEO.

NAVCA is the umbrella organisation for around 180 local charity sector bodies that provide support to around 160,000 local charities and voluntary groups.

NAVCA chair Judy Robinson said the recruitment process to replace Ide will launch soon “and we will use this opportunity to talk to members, colleagues and allies about NAVCA and future roles”.

She added: “I want to thank Jane for her huge commitment to NAVCA. In particular, Jane’s work with other national voluntary organisations and with NAVCA’s members during Covid-19 has been so crucial to supporting people. It has demonstrated just how important voluntary and community action and its infrastructure support is to society, and not just in a crisis.

“I know Jane will be much missed. The NAVCA Trustee Board wants to build on her work and the progress we have made in recent times, working with and supporting our members and the wider voluntary sector so that we are at the heart of thriving and fair communities

Ide said: “I am immensely proud of the work that NAVCA does to support our members as they help their local communities to benefit from a thriving, resilient voluntary and community sector.

“For far too long the work of local infrastructure has gone unnoticed, unappreciated and undervalued. But in recent years we have started to see signs that that is changing - most recently in the Kruger report’s recommendation for government investment in a revitalised local infrastructure offer, and in the support offered by funders to local infrastructure in the wake of the pandemic.

“I know that NAVCA has played a key role in changing perceptions of local infrastructure at national level, and I also know that NAVCA will continue to grow in strength and impact as it champions the work of local infrastructure across England.

“There is never a good time to leave a job you love but this is the right time for me to take on a new challenge.”

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