Digital Volunteer Roles
Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (STADA) is recruiting 4 new trustees to be part of our friendly, passionate, professional Trustee Board.
What will you be doing?
As the strategic management body of STADA, Trustees have specific responsibilities. These include responsibility for setting its strategic direction and overseeing its implementation; identifying and mitigating risk and managing the charities’ resources responsibility; and ensuring that Standing Together remains true to its purpose.
Trustees are accountable for their decisions and actions to STADA’s governance structures, The Charity Commission, courts, partnership funders (including Central Government) and our service users.
The Board currently consists of 4 Trustees, all appointed based on individual areas of experience and expertise.
Please see attached the candidate pack for further details.
What are we looking for?
We are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals from diverse backgrounds with a broad range of relevant skills and a variety of professional and personal experience to join our Board of Trustees. Empathy with and support for our mission and values is a “must” and we welcome applications from individuals with lived experience.
We want to emphasise that previous board/trustee experience is not necessary, as support/training will be provided.
Our trustees are extremely important part of our governance and play an integral role in the development of STADA. Although not essential, we would really like to hear from people with the following skills and/or experience:
- Campaigning
- Digital
- Enterprise/Commercial business development
- Fundraising/ Income generation
- IT/systems
- Legal
- Marketing
- Property
- Human Resources
What difference will you make?
This is an exciting time to join us, we were recently awarded funding and our staff team is growing. We would like to strengthen our governance to help guide us as we grow.
All Trustees will receive full training on information and skills necessary to be successful in the role and are reimbursed for any reasonable expenses, e.g. travel. This will include an induction, briefings and access to ongoing training and updates.
Bringing your skills and experience to the Board will help us to continue providing our vital services to help end domestic abuse.
Before you apply
Reach TrusteeWorks are supporting us with our Trustee recruitment.
In order to apply please provide:
• A CV of no more than two sides of A4.
• A supporting statement of no more than 700 words, explaining why you wish to join the charity and the skills/experience you will bring to the Board.
• Information on any conflict of interests.
If you have any questions or require any assistance submitting your application please get in touch with the TrusteeWorks team.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Essex Sight is passionate about improving the lives of blind and partially sighted people and we are now looking for additional trustees to strengthen our dynamic and committed board.
What will you be doing?
Essex Sight in the trading name of Essex Blind Charity. We have been operating across Essex since the 1920s and our purpose is to provide practical and emotional support and advice to enable blind and partially sighted people to enjoy a full and active life in the way they want to. Following the sale of our care home last year, we are now focussing on our community services. This includes: information, advice and guidance; assessment services; home visiting; and social activities, all with the aim of helping people to improve their independence and wellbeing.
We are in the fortunate position to be partly self-funding for the foreseeable future as we look to invest the funds from the sale of the care home in the continuation and development of our community services. We also operate under a contract for Essex County Council.
We are looking to appoint several new trustees to support our succession planning process and to bring additional skills to the board. We are keen to hear from people with a range of skills and experience but we are also looking for people with some of the following specific skills, knowledge or experience (we don't expect to final all these skills in one person):
1: Finance
2: Marketing and Digital
3: Service Delivery/Charity Management
4: Lived experience
Our trustees typically meet 10 times per year and generally serve a three year term with the option to extend for another term.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a range of skills and experience but, in particular, would benefit from experience in the following areas:
1: Finance - to bolster our ability to scrutinise, manage, report and make effective decisions based on our financial situation, including managing our investments. This person will develop good relationships with our management accountants, auditors/independent examiner and investment advisors.
2: Marketing and Digital – to help us build our reach and amplify our impact with the visually impaired community, volunteers and local and national networks including employers and other charities.
3: Service Delivery/Charity Management – to help us ensure that the services we develop and deliver are based on a good understanding of existing needs and services and are managed in the right way. This might include experience around charity management, volunteer management and/or safeguarding.
4: Lived experience - to ensure we build lived experience of vision impairment into all our work and reflect that experience in what we do.
What difference will you make?
You will need a real passion for our work and a high degree of personal integrity, playing a key role in developing the charity as we evolve and grow. You will have a chance to help improve the independence and wellbeing of blind and partially sighted people across Essex, the opportunity to use your existing skills and knowledge to make strategic decisions, and the opportunity to develop new skills.
It is estimated that there are more than 50,000 blind and partially sighted people living in Essex and our services can make a vital difference to people's ability to live the lives they want to lead. This is an exciting time to be part of our work as we look to develop and expand our existing community services. We are looking for candidates who share our values and can help us deliver our purpose.
Before you apply
Please apply through Reach in the first instance, attaching your CV with a supporting statement detailing why you would like to work with Essex Sight and what attracted you to the role. Candidates will then be invited to interview with some of our existing trustees.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.