Chair of Trustees

The IW Story Festival is looking for an experienced chair of Trustees

Celebrating story in many forms, The IW Story Festival for children & young people, holds an annual story festival featuring author talks, puppetry, theatre, storytelling, dance, and creative workshops.  It also takes authors and performance into local schools in a ‘Stories in schools’ programme in June each year.  Help us develop and deliver our vision. 

To express your interest, please email: [email protected]

Description

The IW Story Festival CIC organises an annual story festival for children, young people and their families in February half term and a ‘Stories in Schools’ programme in May.  We are looking for an experienced Chair of Trustees to join our board.

Our chair would need to:

• Chair our Trustee meetings
• Oversee governance of the charity, ensuring compliance with Charity Commission requirements and the charity’s constitution.
  
•  Oversee and steer the strategic development of the charity
  
• Support the development and maintenance of our policies
  
•  Oversee annual budget and risk management
  
• Build the team: Recruit new trustees, address skill gaps, and review board performance 

What skills do I need?

The person we are looking for must have skills in these areas:

·       Strategic planning,

·       Policy development

·       Developing organisational culture

·       Stakeholder engagement and relationship building

Experience as a chair to include

·       Charity law and compliance,

·       Project management,

·       Inclusion and diversity

·       Digital marketing and other forms of communications

·       Chairing meetings

·       Fundraising

If you are interested in finding out more, please email [email protected]

Location

This opportunity has no specific location e.g. can be carried out anywhere.