{"id":12,"date":"2022-03-24T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T09:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageuk\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:37:24","slug":"person-specification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/person-specification\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Specification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"hero\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2025\/09\/ageuk-banner-2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ageuk-banner-2\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"content\">\n\t<div class=\"content__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content__column\">\n\t\t  \t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 10px;line-height: 13px;text-align: center\">Photo One: Bokayo, 75, Kalacha, Kenya \/ Photo Two: Bakri, 65, Syria \/ Photo Three: Bheru, 70+, Thar Desert, India<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"title\">\n\t<div class=\"title__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"title__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"title__content\">\n\t\t<h1>\n\t\t  Person Specification\t  <\/h1>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"content\">\n\t<div class=\"content__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content__column\">\n\t\t  \t\t\t\t<p><strong>Essential Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience as Chair of a Board of Trustees or as a charity Trustee.<\/li>\n<li>A commitment to the vision, mission and values of Age International and passion for improving later life around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Experience in the UK international development \/ humanitarian sector.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to understand charity finances.<\/li>\n<li>Capacity to absorb complex information presented orally and in writing.<\/li>\n<li>Capacity for strategic and critical thinking, objectivity, and impartiality, with the ability to make high quality decisions based on a clear line of sight into the organisation.<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to help raise funds and the profile of the charity and represent Age International externally to funders and decision-makers.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to act as a team player and commitment to debating issues openly and challenging colleagues and executives appropriately.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to recognise and handle appropriately potential conflicts and conflicts of interest.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to uphold the highest standards of integrity and probity.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to provide coherent oversight and leadership, including representing the charity and understanding the views of our stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>Willingness to commit the time required. We estimate that the time commitment would be between half a day and a day a month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Desirable<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leadership experience in a complex, federated or network organisation.<\/li>\n<li>Previous skills and experience relating to matters impacting older people.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to travel occasionally to visit the programme work supported by Age International through partners in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East (no more than once a year at most).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/ageinternational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}