We are inviting applications from people interested in serving the charity on a voluntary basis as trustees of Headway UK.
Trustees are the guardians of a charity's purpose, providing leadership, oversight and strategic direction to ensure the organisation remains effective, sustainable and focused on delivering its mission.
As a trustee of Headway UK, you will join a committed board working collectively to support and challenge the executive team, safeguard the charity's reputation and resources, and help shape its future priorities.
Having conducted a knowledge, skills and experience audit, we are particularly looking broaden the collective expertise of the board by recruiting new trustees with the following skills:
- Charity and/or company law
- Safeguarding
- Neuropsychology
- Charity retail
- Cyber security and digital transformation
We also warmly welcome applications from people with experience of Headway network of local charities and branches.
In addition, we are seeking to strengthen our diversity of background and representation of those we serve and thus we particularly welcome applications from brain injury survivors, applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds and applicants from the devolved nations of the UK.
If you are interested, please download and read carefully the Trustee recruitment pack below, which also includes details of how to apply.
Deadline for applications:
- If you are voting the member of a Headway charity or branch and wish to nominate someone, the deadline is 5 August.
- If you unconnected to a Headway charity or branch, the deadline for applications is 16 August.
Please note that the difference between the two application deadlines relates to the charity’s Articles of Association, which require nominations from the network to be received 42 clear days before the date of the forthcoming AGM to be held on 17 September.
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MHFA England are seeking a Non-Executive Director with expertise in digital transformation, AI and emerging tech to assist in agreeing and supporting MHFA England’s strategy, ensuring the delivery of our overall purpose and mission as a social enterprise.
The Non-Executive Director will ensure the human and financial resources are available to achieve MHFA England’s objectives by providing expertise and guidance.
Reasonable travel expenses are covered.
Principal duties
- Overseeing the delivery of MHFA England’s strategy and performance
- Protecting the long-term sustainability of MHFA England
- Safeguarding the reputation of MHFA England
- Representing MHFA England at collaboration and network events, and contributing to the development of organisational relationships
Person specification
- Board-level experience in one or more of the following:
- Leading organisations through digital transformation and organisational change.
- Understanding how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping learning, training, skills development and customer expectations.
- Providing strategic challenge on the effective use of data, CRM, digital platforms and customer insight to improve engagement, retention and organisational performance.
- Experience overseeing the implementation and optimisation of digital platforms, including websites, CRM systems and learning technologies.
- An awareness of economic and political changes that may impact MHFA England
- Sound judgement around corporate governance, financial strategy risk, and opportunity
- A commitment to social enterprise and MHFA England’s values and culture
- Highly developed communication, interpersonal, and teamworking skills
- Collaborative, solutions-focused and able to provide healthy and supportive challenge
- Curious and embraces innovation
- A strong personal commitment to workplace equity
Application details
Please submit
- A comprehensive CV including details of your achievements in each role
- A supporting statement. This should clearly set out how you meet each of the criteria set out in the person specification. You should provide evidence in your statement; and not simply a broad claim to have done it - give us examples and dimensions; tell us what this achieved and how it helped meet your organisations' goals
- Please ensure that you indicate in your application any dates when you will not be available, or where we might have difficulty in contacting you
- Please let us know of any accessibility accommodations you may require.
Please submit
– A comprehensive CV including details of your achievements in each role
– A supporting statement. This should clearly set out how you meet each of the criteria set out in the person specification. You should provide evidence in your statement; and not simply a broad claim to have done it - give us examples and dimensions; tell us what this achieved and how it helped meet your organisations' goals
– Please ensure that you indicate in your application any dates when you will not be available, or where we might have difficulty in contacting you
– Please let us know of any accessibility accommodations you may require
Our vision is to create a nation where everyone's mental health matters.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.