Trustee for Involve with Marketing and Public Relations experience

Trustee for Involve with Marketing and Public Relations experience

Trustee/Governor
J98036
At a glance

Skills

  • Campaigning
  • Marketing strategy
  • Public relations
  • Social media marketing

Where

Tiverton, EX16 6LU
Mainly at home
Travel limit? Approx 25 miles maximum

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
0-5 hours / month or 1-3 hours / week
Flexible working

Deadline

30 Sep 2024

Would you like to make a difference? If you have 3-4 hours a month to spare, we need your help! Join our community led charity at an exciting time of expansion.

What will you be doing?

We are seeking passionate, committed people to become trustees. Involve supports voluntary and community action across Mid Devon communities through support for new and existing groups like advice on volunteering, funding, governance and much much more.Our trustees are vital to helping steer and influence our work. You will make sure it reflects the needs of our Mid Devon communities as, building on our successes, we expand to meet the increasing demand on our sector. Our Involve management committee is made up of a small group of Trustees and the Chief Officer that meets four times a year typically for two hours, face to face and online. One meeting is usually combined with our Annual General Meeting.

Typically, this volunteer role will entail a maximum of 15-25 hours per annum depending on how involved in projects you become.

The role will appeal to someone who wants to help govern a charity and give their time, skills, and expertise to help others within the community.

We are looking for new Trustees who have gained knowledge and skills through direct involvement in business, the public sector, or the voluntary sector, with:

  • the ability to think creatively and strategically, exercise good, independent judgement and work effectively as a board member with other trustees.
  • effective communication skills and a willingness to participate in discussions.
  • an ability to challenge current thinking, the method of governance and management of the organisation in a constructive manner.

We are particularly looking for someone who has Marketing and Public Relations with experience of using current technologies in the social media and website, in particular interested in promoting our community work which include Devon People First; a project supporting people in Devon with learning disabilities, our wellbeing projects, our Community Builder project and our Community Wellbeing Alliances. We are at a time of expansion and you will help steer our organisation in line with our three year development plan.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who is interested in supporting a small charity and has experience of the voluntary sector and we are particularly looking for experience and skills such as:

  • Publicity and communications
  • Marketing
  • Social media

Our quarterly meetings are both in person but also online and the main part of this role would be working from home.

What difference will you make?

This is an important role helping us to raise our profile as an organisation and reach our wider community members. As a trustee, you will have a real opportunity to offer your unique skill set to help the strategic progression of the charity, but even more significantly, we are looking for someone to help us deliver our vision for the future and support new endeavours as we gain further funding for a variety of community projects.

Before you apply

Interviews will be an informal chat with the chief officer via Teams and then an introduction to the trustees

Causes
  • Local / community
  • Organisation type: 
    Charity

    We are Mid Devon’s Council for Voluntary Service, supporting and promoting voluntary and community action across Mid Devon. Involve is a Charitable Incorporated Association (CIO). Involve aims to...