CPRE Hertfordshire
Location
Welwyn, Hertfordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
We will soon need a new Chair to lead our Board of Trustees and develop our future work. If you share our passion for Hertfordshire's countryside and want to help us grow in capacity and influence, we'd like to hear from you.
What will you be doing?Initially you will become Vice Chair during a transition period with our outgoing Chair, before being appointed as Chair yourself.
As Chair you’ll provide leadership to our Board of Trustees, an excellent team with a broad range of experience, and you’ll guide the future strategy, direction and development of our charity.
Externally, you will help advocate for our campaign priorities and build relationships with key stakeholders. You’ll support our fundraising, membership and community engagement initiatives. And you will participate in occasional meetings with the wider CPRE network to help shape national policy and to represent our charity’s interests.
Internally, you’ll provide governance oversight, and you’ll provide support to our Chief Executive and our team of paid staff and volunteers and periodically meet with our President and Vice Presidents.
The role is available for a term of up to 6 years subject to annual re-election by the membership.
What are we looking for?You will need to live in Hertfordshire and share our passion for the local countryside. You’ll work flexibly from home and from our small office in Welwyn village, with occasional travel elsewhere in the county.
You should also have:
In line with our Charity constitution, we ask that all Trustees are, or are willing to become, members of CPRE - it’s quick and easy to join.
What difference will you make?The countryside is under immense pressure for development. But the countryside also sustains us, as we rely on it for our health and well-being, for clean air and water, for growing our food, for access to nature and wildlife, and for helping combat climate change by soaking up carbon.
Working collaboratively with the rest of our team, you will help make a real difference with regard to the issues facing the local countryside. Your ideas and energy will help us advocate for positive solutions, promote our campaigns, and increase our voice and our reach to new audiences.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll have the satisfaction of leading a local charity with a long history of campaigning for Hertfordshire’s countryside. You’ll meet like-minded people throughout Hertfordshire and across the country and lead a team of passionate individuals. We’ll support you with induction and training, and you’ll have the opportunity to get involved with events, networking activities, and topical workshops on a local and national level.
The Hertfordshire countryside is wonderful – help us to look after it.
Before you applyIf you’d like to find out more, please get in touch for an informal conversation about the role and to learn more about what we do.
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CPRE Hertfordshire campaigns for the protection and enhancement of the Hertfordshire countryside for everyone to value and enjoy. We are a long-standing environmental charity and our members,...
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