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Location

Manchester | United Kingdom

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Job description

Portraits of Recovery is looking to recruit new people to support our unique vision to change the conversation around recovery from substance use, placing art front and centre for authentic storytelling, supporting social and cultural change.

What will you be doing?

We’re looking for people who have:  

• An interest in supporting and/or lived experience of recovery.  
• A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.  
• A strong interest in or experience of working in the arts, and the visual arts in particular.  
• Strategic vision and an understanding about how ‘visions’ can be made real.  
• Willingness to adhere to PORe’s values.  
• Willingness to devote the necessary time and effort to PORe’s business.  
• Independent judgment coupled with a willingness to speak your mind and challenge ‘group thinking’. 

And we’re particularly looking for skills and experience in:  

• Financial accounting & fundraising  
• Legal  
• Governance  
• Arts marketing  
• Contemporary art  
• Substance use, recovery and wider health sector  
• Higher and further education 

What are we looking for?

Person Specification 

We are looking for trustees who can demonstrate: 

• An interest in supporting and/or lived experience of recovery.
• A commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. 
• A strong interest in or experience of working in the arts, and the visual arts in particular. 
• Strategic vision and an understanding about how ‘visions’ can be made real. 
• Willingness to adhere to PORe’svalues. 
• Willingness to devote the necessary time and effort to PORe’s business. 
• Independent judgment coupled with a willingness to speak your mind and challenge ‘group thinking’. 

What difference will you make?

The chance to not only change the lives of those in recovery from substance use, but to have a wider impact on how society views 'recovery.' 

Before you apply

To apply, please read our application pack and detailed information about trustees, and then send a current CV and a letter, outlining why you’d like to join our board, with your skills and experience, and a filled out equal opportunities form to Mark Prest, [email protected] . 

Deadlines:  

• Application: Sunday 10 March 
• Interviews: w/c Monday 25 March  

Please contact us for an equal opportunities form and supporting application pack: [email protected]

Causes

• Arts

Organisation type: 

Charity

Portraits of Recovery (PORe) is a pioneering visual arts charity based in Manchester, inspiring and supporting people affected by and in recovery from substance use (Recoverists).

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