Voluntary Senior Management Volunteer Roles
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Due to planned expansion of the Trust Board, the ATLP is seeking 3 dedicated and experienced individuals to serve as Trustees on our Board of Trustees. As a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) Trustee, you will be one of the legal directors of the company and will play a crucial role in shaping the strategic direction, governance, and overall success of our partnership. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the education and well-being of young people in the communities that we serve.
The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership (“ATLP”) is a growing multi-academy trust of 21 schools and one teaching school, based in Birmingham, Coventry, North Warwickshire and Staffordshire, with more than 10,000 students and over 1,000 members of staff. All academies are quite distinctive and separate schools, serving different communities and phases: but all either are, or have the capacity to become good and outstanding.
Key Trustee Responsibilities
Governance and Leadership:
- Act as a responsible and active member of the Trust Board, providing leadership and guidance to achieve its strategic objectives.
- Attend Trust Board meetings, sub-committee meetings, and other relevant meetings to contribute to decision-making processes.
- Oversee trust compliance with legal and regulatory requirements governing academies and trusts as a member of the trust’s legally accountable body.
- Undertaking mandatory training [1]as required and developing knowledge and skills on an ongoing basis to support effective delivery of the role.
Strategic Planning:
- Contribute to the development of the trust's strategic plan and policies, ensuring alignment with the trust's mission, vision, and values.
- Help set strategic objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive continuous improvement across the trust.
Financial Oversight:
- Provide financial oversight by reviewing and approving budgets, financial statements, and expenditure and contributing to long-term strategic planning.
- Monitor the financial health of the trust and ensure Executives demonstrate responsible financial management.
Educational Excellence:
- Support and challenge the executive leadership team to maintain and improve educational standards across the trust both in formal appraisal processes and throughout the year.
- Foster a culture of high expectations and accountability.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Engage with a diverse range of stakeholders through various formal and informal channels, including parents, teachers, students, and the local community.
- Getting to know schools within the trust, including undertaking planned occasional visits during school hours.
- Act as an ambassador for the trust and promote positive relationships with external partners.
Risk Management:
- Identify and mitigate risks to the trust's operations, reputation, and finances.
- Ensure robust safeguarding procedures are in place and adhered to.
Qualifications and Experience:
- A passion for improving outcomes for young people.
- Previous experience in governance, leadership, or strategic roles, preferably within the education sector.
- Strong understanding of the principles of corporate governance, finance, and risk management.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Due to the planned committee memberships across the three roles, recent or specific experience in any of the following areas will be held in high regard;
- Qualification or professional knowledge of accountancy or audit processes.
- Experience in financial forecasting and strategic planning.
- Educational Technology (Ed Tech) knowledge.
- Estates and sustainability knowledge.
- Practical experience of applying risk management and/or internal controls principles.
- Programme or project management experience.
- HR leadership (incl. appraisal processes) knowledge.
- Knowledge of Teaching School Hub operations
Time Commitment:
The role of a Trustee typically involves attending regular meetings and dedicating time to prepare for those meetings, as well as occasional additional commitments as needed. We expect the time commitment to be one day a month spread across various activities such as preparation of board meetings, reading board papers, ad hoc discussions and conversations with board members and the executive team, and attending events throughout the year.
The schedule of planned meetings for 2023-24 is available and will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the interview process to ascertain capacity/availability to attend the scheduled meetings.
Benefits:
- The opportunity to make a significant and positive impact on the lives of young people in your community.
- Personal and professional development through involvement in governance and leadership.
- Networking opportunities with professionals in the education and wider sectors.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Europia is a community development organisation established in 2008. Our friendly multi-lingual team are committed to supporting and empowering Eastern European nationals in Greater Manchester. We also work with regional and national partners and in doing this, we have national recognition.
Europia is seeking a dedicated volunteer to provide support to the CEO in administrative duties, calendar management and strategic policy implementation.
Role Overview: As a Volunteer Executive Assistant with a focus on CEO Calendar Management at Europia, you will take on a pivotal role in supporting the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) by efficiently managing their calendar and ensuring smooth coordination of their daily schedule. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience, boost your CV, and advance your career by facilitating the CEO's productivity and enabling them to focus on strategic priorities to further Europia's mission.
Key Responsibilities:
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Calendar Management: Take ownership of the CEO's Google Calendar, scheduling appointments, meetings, and events in a manner that optimizes their time and aligns with their priorities.
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Prioritization: Assist the CEO in prioritizing meetings and commitments, considering their strategic objectives and time constraints.
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Coordination: Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate meetings and confirm availability, ensuring all necessary arrangements are in place.
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Time Management: Proactively manage the CEO's time by identifying conflicts, suggesting alternatives, and making adjustments as needed to accommodate urgent matters and optimize efficiency.
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Communication: Maintain clear and timely communication with the CEO regarding their schedule, upcoming commitments, and any changes or updates.
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Confidentiality: Handle sensitive information with the utmost discretion and maintain confidentiality in all interactions, adhering to Europia's policies and procedures.
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Administrative Support: Provide additional administrative support to the CEO as required, including drafting correspondence, preparing documents, and conducting research.
Requirements:
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with a keen eye for detail.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to interact professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Google Calendar or similar calendar management tools.
- Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality.
- Prior experience in calendar management or executive support roles is preferred but not required.
- Commitment to Europia's mission and values.
Benefits:
- Access to our online training platform with over 300 courses
- Gain valuable experience in executive support and calendar management.
- Make a tangible impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of Europia's leadership.
- Opportunity to work closely with the CEO and gain insights into the operations of a charitable organization.
- Flexible volunteering hours to accommodate your schedule.
- Join a diverse and supportive team of staff and volunteers.
Note: This role description focuses specifically on managing the CEO's Google Calendar and supporting them in their day-to-day activities.The responsibilities outlined may be adjusted based on the CEO's needs and the volunteer's skills and experience.
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GSTTKPA is going through an exciting period of change. As a result, we are seeking to recruit a new Chair to support our ambitious and innovative change programme, so we can continue to achieve the aims and objectives of the charity.
The Chair role provides leadership to the organisation and the Trustee board by ensuring that everyone remains focused on the delivery of the organisation’s charitable purposes in order to ensure that GSTTKPA moves forward and continues to benefit kidney patients in the future.
The Chair will also need to set the strategy for the charity for the next few years which is vital for ensuring that our work and goals are in line with our vision. Just as importantly, the new post holder must understand that all the Trustees have a collective responsibility. This means that the Chair and the other Trustees must always act as a group and not as individuals.
As a Trustee, the new Chair must have a commitment to equality; celebrate diversity and be responsive to the needs of different groups and individuals within GSTTKPA and the wider community. In return, the successful applicant will join a warm and friendly team that works collaboratively to support each other as well as our kidney patients.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Bristol After Stroke are looking to recruit a new member to the Board of Trustees.
The new Trustee will bring a variety of skills, perspectives, and experiences, to join our Board to help us shape our charity’s future. This is an exciting time to be involved in the charity and we are looking for someone who is engaged with the cause, energetic and passionate. You will be able to think strategically and practically about the challenges and opportunities the organisation may face, whilst also providing leadership, scrutiny and support.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Join our Christians in Media Board
Passionate about bringing Christians together from across the diverse media arena? Committed to supporting Christians as they live out their faith in the media public space without bias or agenda, while holding firm to Biblical beliefs?
Across the decades, Christians in Media has adapted to an ever-changing media landscape. In recent years, we have created opportunities for our community to connect with each other and pray for Christians working in, and with, media; equipped young people through our Mentoring Programme; developed a regional hub model and launched the Faith in Media podcast.
Help us bring Faith and Media together, and inspire Christians to be influencers for the Kingdom, as we gear up for our Autumn 2024 conference, design a global day of prayer 2024, extend our network reach and set our sights on our monumental 60th anniversary celebration in 2027. Your trustee role is pivotal to our continued success.
Interested?
Applications close Thursday 28 March 2024.
See our Trustee Recritment Pack for further information.
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Role description
Africa Health Organisation (AHO) is setting up a pharmaceutical company to carry out research and produce drugs/medicines and vaccines for patients in Africa. Patients and healthcare providers are all dependent on pharmaceutical companies for the treatment of diseases. Over 80% of drugs/medicines and over 90% of vaccines used in Africa come from outside the continent. AHO is working hard to end this by setting up a new pharmaceutical company to produce drugs/medicines and vaccines in the continent. The purpose of the company is to study diseases, research, and invent new drugs/medicines and vaccines for the diseases. The companies require medical data and reports of patients for researching and discovering new drugs. This is made easier after medical records have gone electronic and are being stored after encryption through blockchain-based applications.
AHO is looking for Specialists in pharmaceutical science to help with setting up the company, registration, governance, board of directors, licensing, production, compliance, regulatory, finance, laboratory, human resources, and marketing.
Roles and responsibilities
- Start-up, registration, governance, licensing, financial, capital, business planning, and lobbying in the UK, US, EU, Asia and Africa.
- Clinical research/clinical trials
- Analysis and pharmaceutical quality,
- biotechnology,
- clinical pharmacology and translational research,
- drug design and discovery,
- formulation design and development and pharmacoengineering,
- pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug metabolism,
- physical pharmacy and biopharmaceutics,
- regulatory sciences, and
- social and behavioral pharmacy, pharmacoepidemiology, and pharmaceutical outcomes.
Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, pharmacy, biology, chemistry, medicine, engineering, epidemiology, or similar scientific subject if combined with further education and training such as the MSc Scientist Training Programme (STP) in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business Studies such as MBA and Marketing.
- Registered General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Member or/& HCPC/ RPS or willing to register.
Desirable
- Technical qualification such as Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology, Quality Control, Engineering, Manufacturing.
- Post graduate certificate or diploma in a relevant pharmaceutical field.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and the regulations surrounding Pharmaceutical Manufacture.
- Knowledge of clean room design and functioning.
- Highly developed Professional knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes including equipment and facility design, construction, validation and testing.
- Knowledge of:- o Aseptic preparation of medicines o Terminal Sterilisation processes o QA/QC services
- An understanding of medicines management procedures
- Knowledge of product licensing and medical devices registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience of product development
- Evidence of working within GMP/GDP guidelines.
- COSHH Regulations and Health & Safety at Work Act.
- Evidence of significant, relevant and on-going personal CPD
Skills
Essential
- Leadership and motivational skills
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Planning and organisational skills; ability to prioritise demands on service and plan workload of self and others
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate with a range of people such as technicians, pharmacists, engineers, clinicians and customers
Desirable
- Change management
- Project Management skills
Other
Essential
- Capable team worker with ability to create and sustain good relationships.
- Able to deal with constant interruptions, multiple pressures and at times aggression.
- Methodical with attention to detail
Joining Respond as a Trustee - January 2024
Background Information
Founded in 1991, Respond is a national charity that seeks to transform the lives of people with learning disabilities and autistic people who have experienced trauma. We are committed to bringing about positive change for our clients and their families, enabling them to lead richer and more resilient lives.
Respond's services for children, young people and adults are:
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Survivors' psychotherapy
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Family support services
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Advocacy, including ISVA and domestic abuse services.
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Training, consultancy and reflective practice
Respond supports charities that campaign for equality and inclusion with the aim to prevent abuse and equip individuals and their families to come to terms with their experiences and live more positive lives.
Our specialist training, supervision, reflective practice and consultancy equips agencies and health / social care providers to deliver trauma-informed services. This includes responding to and providing consultancy and training for significant events such as institutional abuse.
Our income base is diverse with trust funds and grants continuing to be a vital part of maintaining core services Respond offers, alongside donations from trusts and foundations. We also continue to have larger ongoing or spot contracts for our work for NHS commissioners and local authorities.
It is a good opportunity to join Respond's Board at this time, following our restructure and as we move towards the last year of our current strategy for 2022-25. Following a challenging period due to changing funding landscape and closure of some services, we will be focused on consolidation and improving impact measurement to secure long-term financial sustainability.
The role of the Board of Trustees
The Trustees (or 'Board members') are trustees of the charity and directors of the limited company. They are responsible for the governance, setting the strategic direction and monitoring the implementation of the strategy. The Board ensures that the charity acts in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.
The Board has responsibility for:
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ensuring the charity acts in accordance with its charitable purpose and is providing public benefit and meets its legal obligations;
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making decisions in the best interests of the charity;
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developing the multi-year strategy;
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monitoring the management of the finances and resources of the organisation (operations, budget, property, workforce and tenders);
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monitoring performance, quality and impact;
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appointing and appraising the CEO.
Who we’re looking for
Following a recent skills audit within the current Board, the Board is seeking trustees with the following skills or experiences;
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Finance - This person will have a financial qualification and will enable the Board to ensure the sound financial health of the charity. The person will collaborate with the Finance Director to ensure that the organisation has systems that meet sector best practice and ensures financial accountability. This trustee will be the Treasurer and chair the Finance Committee.
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Human Resources (HR) - This person will have experience in working in HR roles, preferably in the voluntary sector. This person will help review and strengthen Respond’s HR policies, set up and lead the people committee and guide the Leadership team in dealing with complex HR issues including change management.
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Fundraising, Marketing and Comms – This person will work closely with our Head of Development and Commissioning on our income strategy and communications strategy.
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Psychotherapy /working in a trauma informed setting – As an organisation providing psychotherapy and arts therapies for autistic people and people with learning disabilities, we are looking for a trustee with experience of working as a therapist with a systems-psychodynamic approach.
The Board wants to ensure that the charity's 'beneficiaries' are represented in its governance. We encourage applications from people who have lived experience of autism, learning disabilities and/or trauma-informed work (either directly or through family members). How the Board carries out meetings will also be reviewed to accommodate adjustments requested by new trustees with learning disabilities or who are autistic. (Please refer to a separate document if you or someone you know with lived experience may be interested)
Person Specification
The following knowledge, experience and skills are essential for the role:
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a commitment to the mission of Respond;
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senior experience, ideally including one or more of the following areas – finance, human resources, fundraising/marketing, legal, compliance, hard-to-reach communities, caring/social care, psychotherapy, commissioning.
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ability to identify creative solutions to problems within limited resources;
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good analytical skills;
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ability to think strategically;
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independence and flexibility in thinking;
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ability to communicate efficiently and connect with a wide range of people, internally and externally;
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a willingness to meet the minimum time requirement (see below);
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an understanding of the legal duties of trusteeship set out in the Charity Commission's 'The Essential Trustee'; and
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an ability to work effectively as a member of a team and to make decisions for the good of Respond.
Trustees will be expected to demonstrate the following personal attributes:
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good interpersonal skills including listening;
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commitment to excellence and high expectations of self and others;
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values people and the contribution of all stakeholders;
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sound judgment;
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team-oriented with a supportive approach.
Respond is dedicated to developing opportunities for Trustees to be appointed reflecting greater and varied diversity among our Board of Trustees, so we welcome applications by suitably qualified candidates irrespective of gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, marital or parental status, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We particularly welcome applications from Black and minority ethnic candidates who are under-represented on the board.
What we offer
New trustees will:
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Receive induction and training;
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Develop new skills and competencies;
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Meet new people and develop professional networks;
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Contribute to ensuring that the charity offers high quality effective services to autistic people and people with learning disabilities who have experienced trauma, who are in need;
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An annual appraisal
Time requirement - What is involved?
Trustees attend eight Board meetings per year approximately every six-eight weeks currently on a Tuesday evening 5:30pm to 8pm. Meetings are in London, and remote access is available for trustees who live/work outside London.
Each Trustee is expected to be an active member of the Respond community, committing 5 to 10 hours per month to the charity which may also involve being on a sub-committee such as; Finance Committee, Clinical Governance and Safeguarding Committee each of which meets four times per year, typically during normal office hours online or in London.
Trustees are expected to attend an induction session at Respond prior to their first Board meeting. Trustees are expected to attend all Board meetings. Other meetings are away-days over a weekend.
Trustees are invited to the annual general meeting, which takes place typically in November.
Trustees may claim expenses incurred in effectively carrying out their duties, in accordance with Respond’s Trustee Expenses Policy.
Papers are distributed one week in advance of meetings. In addition, Trustees are expected to review documents and communicate with other board members and senior staff between meetings. Every effort will be made to ensure that trustees with learning disabilities or who are neurodiverse have access to documents in formats that they can understand or have the support available for them to fully participate as trustees.
Occasionally, circumstances may require urgent meetings (either face-to-face or virtual) to examine strategic issues or items requiring Board approval
Duration of the role
Board terms are for a five-year term following which the person can be elected to serve another three years.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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InFocus Charity is looking for trustees to shape its vital work in transforming the lives of young people with vision impairment & complex needs.
We are looking for new trustees who care deeply about transforming the lives of young people with vision impairment and other complex needs. Ideally, you will have a background in SEND, adult care services or experience in charity management or governance.
The role
As a member of the board of trustees you will oversee the strategic direction of the charity and ensure its effective management. You will also ensure that InFocus Charity has a clear strategy and that our work and goals are in line with our vision. Just as importantly, you will support and challenge the executive team to enable InFocus Charity to grow and thrive, and through this, to transform the lives of young people with vision impairment and complex needs.
We are looking for people willing to bring energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the role, and who will broaden the diversity of thinking on our board. You do not need previous governance experience – we will provide a full induction and training.
Personal skills and qualities:
- A passion for our cause. Willingness and ability to understand and accept their responsibilities and liabilities as trustees and to act in the best interests of the organisation. Ability to think creatively and strategically, exercise good, independent judgement and work effectively as a board member. Effective communication skills and willingness to participate actively in discussion. A strong personal commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. Enthusiasm for our vision and mission. Willingness to lead according to our values InFocus Charity. Commitment to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership. Some knowledge of Special Educational Needs (SEN) and adult care would be useful but not essential.
How to apply
In the first instance, please contact us to arrange an informal conversation with Jane Bell, Chief Executive Officer. Details can be found on our website.
You may also click on the 'Apply Now' button and we'll be in touch soon.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.