Animal Sanctuary Volunteer Roles
Using Anonymous Recruitment
This organisation is using Anonymous Recruitment to reduce bias in the first stages of the hiring process. Our system keeps your personal information hidden until the recruiter contacts you.
The Trustees’ primary role is to ensure that Ferne fulfils its charitable objectives (see page 4) and that monies received are used effectively. In order to carry out this key role, Trustees (as a Board) must do the following:
Mandate and reputation
Ensure that the charity is properly focussed on its charitable objectives and constitution and operates within the law. The Trustees are responsible for preserving the charity’s good name and reputation.
Strategic Planning
Work with the CEO and the leadership team to plan strategically for the future. Meet at least once a year to review the plan, then update or replace it as circumstances and needs change. The strategic plan is a changing, active document to which all trustees contribute. It is their job to challenge, assess and review the plan before approving the final strategy for the following five years.
Objectives, business plan and budgets
Approve Ferne’s objectives on an annual basis through the business plan and budgets that are submitted at Board meetings.
Risk Identification and Management
Challenge the leadership team to keep effective processes in place to identify potential risks that the charity faces. This risk register is reviewed and updated at each Board meeting.
Management Effectiveness and Succession
Ensure the leadership team is in place and operating effectively and efficiently. The role of Trustees is to question, scrutinise and monitor the leadership team, for which purpose Trustees should have the opportunity to constructively question, test, and challenge leaderships teams views and proposals in the spirit of achieving the charity’s objectives. Although not involved in the regular appointment of new staff, trustees actively recruit and appoint the CEO.
Internal Control and Management Information Systems
Ensure that effective systems exist to protect the organisation, and the necessary management information systems exist to assess and report back the charity’s performance and progress in meeting its objectives.
Accountability
Report back yearly to members, regulatory bodies, associated charities, staff and volunteers, and other stakeholders through the Annual Report, at the Annual general meeting and from time to time through the @Ferne magazine