The Charity Commission is to scrap the director-level roles that sit between the chief executive and the head of operational functions, leaving 11 senior managers heading up 11 functions and reporting directly to Sam Younger (pictured).

The new structure was unveiled by the regulator yesterday in the wake of its strategic review last year. The Commission must reduce its budget by a third in real terms between now and 2015 and so has had to redesign its staffing structure.

The roles of executive director of charity information and corporate services, legal services and compliance, charity services, and policy and effectiveness, will all be axed. David Locke, executive director of charity services, has chosen to leave the Commission at the end of the financial year in 2012, but before which he will be leading on the new corporate strategy for the Commission with the chief executive. Nick Allaway, currently executive director of charity information and corporate services, will take the head of business services role and Kenneth Dibble the head of legal role in the new structure.

Rosie Chapman, who was executive director of policy and effectiveness, took voluntary redundancy at the end of May.

The Commission stated: “The priority in adopting this structure has been to keep the management hierarchy as flat as possible, push maximum responsibility to the operating level and ensure value for money. It will also ensure at least two senior managers in each of the four sites.”

The new management structure was shared with staff at the beginning of May and they are now being consulted on the new team structure that will sit beneath it. The regulator has already decided not to close any of its four sites in the short-term, as doing so would have “too great an impact on the Commission’s finances, workforce and performance”. It will be looked at again in the next spending review in 2015.

The new structure will take effect from October.

The 11 new functions are:

• First contact
• Operations, London
• Operations, Liverpool
• Operations, Wales
• Operations, Taunton
• Investigations and enforcement
• Registration
• Information and communication
• Policy
• Legal
• Business services