Join our Board of Trustees at Age UK Northamptonshire

 Main tasks:

 

1.     To ensure that the charity complies with its Memorandum and Articles of Association, Charity Law, Company Law and any other relevant legislation or regulations.

 

2.     To ensure that the Charity pursues its charitable objects as defined in its Memorandum of Articles.

 

3.     To ensure the Charity applies its resources exclusively in pursuance of its objects, i.e. the Charity must not spend money on activities, which are not included in its own objects, no matter how worthwhile or charitable those activities are.

 

4.     To contribute actively to the Board of Trustees' role in giving strategic direction to the Organisation, affirming overall policies, defining goals, setting targets and evaluating performance against agreed targets.

 

5.     To safeguard the good name and values of the Charity.

 

6.     To represent the Charity at functions and meetings and help and support relationships with the Charity’s stakeholders.

 

7.     To help ensure the effective and efficient administration of the Charity.

 

8.     To protect and manage the property of the Charity and to ensure the proper investment of the Charity's funds

 

9.     To appoint the Chief Executive and monitor their performance

 

10    In addition to the above statutory duties of all Trustees, each Trustee should use any specific knowledge or experience they have to help the board of Trustees reach sound decisions. This will involve scrutinising board papers, leading discussions, focusing on key issues, and providing advice and guidance requested by the Board on new initiatives, or other issues relevant to the area of the Charity's work in which the Trustee has special expertise.

10  Interested parties send your CV and full contact details to [email protected]

What skills do I need?

We are looking for Trustees who have a range of skills and experience including leadership and senior management in the commercial sector or health sector or have senior legal or financial professional expertise.

 

Ideally, the successful candidates will be able to demonstrate:

§  A track record of meaningful roles in the private, public or voluntary sector

 

§  The ability to operate at Board level effectively in a significant organisation

 

§  The ability to think creatively and strategically; the skills to challenge current thinking at Board level.

 

§  The time commitment needed to make a difference to the charity – meeting twice quarterly, attend the annual away day and AGM as well as aligning with one of the services the charity provides.

 

Location

This opportunity can be carried out whilst working from home.