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Location

Swindon | United Kingdom

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Job description

VfC provides mobile fully-accessible toilet/changing facilities at events across Great Britain, to enable people with disabilities and health conditions to attend and participate in events with greater ease and comfort.

What will you be doing?

The Chair of Trustees/Trustee, along with fellow Trustees, will be responsible for ensuring compliance and accountability for finance, legal and governance obligations:

• setting strategic direction and goals,
• ensuring the charity complies with its governing document, charity law and statutory requirements,
• ensuring internal controls are fit for purpose and complied with,
• bring valuable professional or other experience to their charity,
• help to ensure that the charity is well-managed through the appointment of senior executive staff.

What are we looking for?

1. Be eligible for appointment as a Charity Trustee and with a positive DBS check.
2. Demonstrate a commitment to the aims and values of charitable activities.
3. Ability to provide the level of commitment required for the role of Chair/Trustees.
4. Experience of governance and the role of a Charity Trustee is essential.
5. Ability to lead and work as part of a team.
6. Personal experience of disability and/or knowledge of the disability community and physical activity.
7. Essential expertise/experience relating to:
   1. Organisational effectiveness
   2. Risk management
   3. Interpersonal and communication skills
   4. Leadership
   5. Chairing of / participation in meetings.
8. Desirable expertise/experience:
   1. Fundraising
   2. Safeguarding
   3. Digitisation
   4. Marketing
   5. Data protection
   6. Event / operations management.

What difference will you make?

The Chair of Trustees/Trustee, working alongside other Trustees and the CEO, will have the opportunity to inspire, define and maintain the Charity’s vision, mission and values, as well as develop the short and longer term strategy for the Charity.

Before you apply

Please submit a Covering letter with a subject line stating the role you are applying for ( Chair of Trustees or Trustee ) and your CV to the Company Secretary VfC

The closing date for applications will be Sunday 31st March 2024 .  Interviews for a short list of candidates will be held from Wednesday 10th April 2024 . 

Character references will be required for the successful candidate(s).

Causes

• Physical disabilities

Organisation type: 

Charity

Imagine if the only place you could go to the toilet was in your own home! For a quarter of a million
disabled people in the UK - and millions more across the World - this is a reality....

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