Person Specification
Core Skills
Drawing upon previous experience, you will support the organisation’s central aim to work with local communities and East Bank partners to open up opportunities for people living and working in, and visiting East London.
You will act as a ‘critical friend’ to the Executive team ensuring the cultural and educational offer and programmes fit with our values scale of innovation, ambition, benefits, opportunities, priorities and choices within a strategy.
You will contribute to the consolidation, understanding, and communication of the Foundation’s organisational values, demonstrating high standards of behaviour and attitude and an understanding of the importance of trust in the organisation and our reputation.
Through your professional experience you will have the ability to steward the charity’s resources effectively, to review and challenge management and financial information on organisational performance, to ensure business plans and strategies are robust and realistic and risk is managed
An effective influencer, you will support Executives to build a strong network and profile for the organisation to enable the organisation to achieve its mission.
You will have experience overseeing or managing organisations through significant periods of change. Whilst we’re eager to engage with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and possessing a range of skills, individuals with functional expertise in the following areas would be of particular interest:
- Regeneration, Place-Making and Community Engagement
- Revenue Stream Development & Fundraising
- Finance & Accounting
- Branding & Marketing
Bearing in mind the Foundation for Future London’s mission to play a central role in transforming the social and economic life chances of people living in East London communities, individuals from, or with links to, East London, are encouraged to consider these roles. We are particularly keen to attract people who live in the boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
We are also keen to engage with young people, who though they may not have all the core skills listed above, would like to play a part in taking this ambitious, exciting project forward.
Time Commitment and Location
The Board meets at least four times a year.
You may be asked to be a member of a sub-committee, in which case meeting times and dates will be agreed on appointment.
Each meeting of the Board is held at a different East London organisation.