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SalaryPassionate about creating more diverse and effective boards? Getting on Board is too! Help us to make trusteeship more accessible, effective and inclusive by joining us as Chief Executive.
Location: Home based (UK)
About Getting on Board
Getting on Board is a national charity which supports individuals to join charity boards, helps charities recruit trustees effectively and supports trustees to have impact in their roles. We work with thousands of potential trustees, charities and employers. We have a particular focus on trustee diversity, aiming to support more women, younger people, people of colour and people from other under-represented groups to join charity boards.
There are an estimated 100,000 vacancies for charity trustees in the UK and three quarters of charities say that they struggle to recruit board members. Once in a role, many current trustees are isolated and unsupported. Without effective trustees, charities cannot thrive.
We help charities in their mission to become more representative of the communities they serve by recruiting and retaining trustees from a diversity of backgrounds and lived experiences. This is fundamental because charities need access to the broadest possible talent pool to function at the highest level.
We train nearly 10,000 people a year, with thousands more people reading our free guides.
About the role
After a wonderful seven years in post Penny Wilson, our current Chief Executive, has decided to pass on the baton. Penny has played a huge role in building Getting on Board from a micro charity to a hugely impactful growing organisation with a national profile and income of over £250k and rising.
This is a very exciting time for Getting on Board. We have experienced year-on-year growth and are working hard to develop an infrastructure that will ensure the charity is sustainable and has a robust platform for further growth.
We are well positioned to take advantage of a wealth of opportunities to have more impact because of our national profile and a small team of highly dedicated staff, associates, freelancers and trustees.
We are lucky to also have a wide range of partners and supporters who believe in Getting on Board’s mission and work with us to amplify our campaigns and increase our reach.
We have a clear strategy and need a new Chief Executive to help us build the connections, relationships and partnerships that will drive our income and ensure that we can deliver on our ambitions.
In other words, we know that there are corporate partners who would love us to train their staff as trustees, we just need to reach out to them. We know that charities are interested in diversifying their boards, we just need to teach them how. We know that significant numbers of people care about volunteering and want to become trustees, they just need to know how and be able to access opportunities. We also know that charities struggle to recruit trustees, and we can help them get better at it.
This is a broad role, as people who have worked in small, growing organisations with limited resources will understand. There is an inevitable mix of operational, strategic, and external facing activities, all of which contribute to our impact.
The Chief Executive role is increasingly focused on raising awareness and developing relationships to generate more income, so we can increase our impact. To this end, we are accelerating our plans to recruit an Operations Manager to move the operational activities, currently undertaken by the Chief Executive, to this new role. This means that there are lots of moving parts and change is occurring all the time, which will be exciting for the right person.
Who we are looking for
Our ideal candidate recognises the positive impact a diverse and high-performing board of trustees can have on a charity. They also have a passion for helping others to see and achieve the benefits by raising awareness and advocating for trusteeship, diverse boards, good recruitment, and positive governance practices.
You’ll likely be a storyteller, an experienced advocate and skilled in income generation, and fundraising and have experience generating successful partnerships with a range of organisations.
Having had a leadership role in a small, ideally fast-growing, organisation you’ll appreciate what’s needed to manage business resources, the dynamics of limited resources and cash flow challenges and yet find ways to succeed in raising income.
This could be an excellent opportunity for a professional charity fundraiser or commercial director to step up to their first Chief Executive role. Equally, it could motivate somebody at another stage of their career wishing to have a real impact in a flexible/part-time role. We are extremely open to hearing from you whether your proposition is left-field, part-time, co-leadership (job share) or something else. We would love to have as diverse a field of candidates as possible to assess.
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Applications for this role close at 9 a.m. Monday 20th May 2024.
