The Role
The Board of Trustees has an integral role to the effective running of the charity and provides effective governance for Tackle Prostate Cancer to ensure progress is continually made on achieving the vision and mission of the charity.
Responsibilities:
Membership of the Board and Board Meetings.
The Board consists of seven elected trustees and three appointed trustees who are appointed by the Board of trustees and they typically bring a specific skill or experience such as with our treasurer.
Trustees are elected for three years. These are all unpaid roles, however expenses are paid in accordance with the charity’s expenses policy. Board meetings are currently held on a quarterly basis during the day. They are usually held in person across the UK but are also held via the Zoom platform when circumstances require. Trustees are also expected to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Each trustee needs to:
It is essential that trustees that have the necessary time and passion to take on the trustee role.
Trustee Recruitment Process
As a charity we wish to have a board of trustees that is representative of the population it serves – those affected by prostate cancer. We believe that a diverse board, in the widest sense of the meaning, is important as it creates more balanced decision making.
Advertising openly and widely about our open positions will give us the best chance of finding the trustees we need and we will look hard at any barriers for potential trustees and remove any barriers we find to be unnecessary that are unintentionally limiting who can apply to be a trustee.
Trustees still need to be elected into position at the AGM and their nomination will ultimately need to be supported by one of our many member support groups. As a board we can propose one or more candidates to the membership who we consider to be most suitable for the board vacancies. At the 2023 AGM, to be held on 16th March 2023, we have three vacancies that need to be filled. The board will conduct a review of all applications to help decide which ones to propose to the members. We don’t know how many people will apply so we cannot promise everyone an interview, however for the ones the board believe to be the most suitable from all the applicants we will hold interviews to allow for a good exchange of information.
Ready to apply?
Please do send a brief CV, one page would be great, and a covering letter supporting your application. Please note that these documents may also be sent to members as part of the election process.
Job reference: Trustee
Tackle Prostate Cancer is the campaign name of The National Federation of Prostate Cancer Support Groups, Registered Charity No 1163152.
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