Looking for someone with an HR-focus & knowledge: do you want to support the governance and people of Age Concern Twyford & District, to help us improve the lives of older people?
Our charity, set up in 1988, opened our Day Centre in 1996, and is now an independent, local charity, unaffiliated with others, providing a wide range of services and social support to older people in Twyford and its vicinity. We’re looking to upskill our trustee Board, and are particularly interested if you have people-management and HR skills, experience and interest, in order to help us better support our employees and volunteers.
In 2023-24, our turnover was £160k, as our charity recovers after the financial constraints of the pandemic, and our services and facilities return to being well-used and very well-appreciated in our community.
Our Board includes people with experience and skills in an organisation that provides for local older people, and we’d expect you to have empathy with our cause and our beneficiaries.
We’re looking for a trustee with an HR-focus, to help plan our people-management (staff and volunteers), and advise trustees and the Centre Manager in our recruitment, retention, reward and recognition systems. This is not an operational management opportunity, rather a high-level strategic opportunity to drive change.
You don’t necessarily need prior experience of charity trusteeship: support from local charity-advice organisations is always available. Full induction to our organisation will be provided, plus specialist support as a new trustee, including access to external training.
If you can think strategically and plan long-term, you have what’s needed by our trustees, and you’ll work collectively with all other Board members. Support and information from our Centre Manager is available, as they deal with the day-to-day running of the organisation.
We are a charity not a business, but we apply business principles to governing our organisation. We are looking for fresh expertise and experience to expand the diversity of our Board, in all aspects, and we welcome potential trustees with ideas and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds.
The Board meets face-to-face, monthly at our Day Centre (RG10 9RP) for up to 2 hours and some of your trustee duties can be carried-out online.
The focus of a trustee role is strategic, and trustees will not be expected to get involved in the organisation’s operations on a day-to-day basis; however, contact and liaison with other trustees and employees is expected.
Here is some of what we would expect from our trustees. We know that you may also need training and support from employees, from other trustees and from external organisations, and that that will be forthcoming, as necessary, to build on any area.
What do we get?
What do our beneficiaries get?
What do YOU get as a volunteer trustee with our organisation?
A detailed Role Description & Skills Specification can be made available to you upon request.
Your CV or similar will be read by our trustees; an interview offered to candidates as soon as mutually convenient.
Appointments are subject to satisfactory references, satisfactory completion of an Enhanced DBS check and an online Safeguarding course.
This appointment is being managed for us by inVOLve Community Services, a charity-support organisation, who offer more information and can arrange to have a no-obligation initial informal discussion (Teams/Zoom/phone) with you at your convenience to assist your application.
