| Job Title: | Trustee |
| Responsible To: | The Chair and Trustees of the Board |
| Location: | Remote. The Charity has two sites: Yorkshire and Saunderton, Buckinghamshire. All meetings are remote except for an annual two-day awayday held at our site in Yorkshire. All Trustees are expected to familiarise themselves with our services. |
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There are 4 Board of Trustee meetings each calendar year, one of which is a two-day face to face strategy meeting, typically in Yorkshire. Each Trustee will be a member of a relevant Board sub-committee which meets four times a year virtually to support the relevant subject matter expertise.
Unremunerated |
Key Relationships
Executive Leadership Team, external stakeholders, service users and clients, all employees and volunteers
Background to the Role
Following extensive stakeholder research, and with approval of the Board of Trustees, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People has defined its ambition in extending the impact and focus of the Charity’s services.
Having brought the charity Hearing Link into Hearing Dogs for Deaf People in 2017, we are on a journey to fully integrate the two organisations and to transform our direct services. At the same time, we will modernise the support services and funding infrastructure needed to enable and future proof the Charity.
We have defined the core delivery goals and have begun the programme of change whilst continuing to deliver business as usual. In doing so, we have:
- Appointed four new Directors.
- Completed a comprehensive re-modelling of the services directorate.
- Begun work to design a digital technology and development programme.
- Begun work in creating a programme of modernisation in our People and Culture, income generation and marketing teams.
- Undertaken a programme of change to bring our three websites and separate charity social channels into one integrated website, modernised platform, digital infrastructure and brand refresh. The new website will launch mid-May.
To support us in this process, we are looking for four trustees who are able to assist us by offering specialist advice in:
- People and Culture, specifically people change leadership, performance & culture transformation.
- Service design, specifically digital / hybrid services development and impact measurement.
- Commercial business development, including commercial product and business development to drive income generation and brand reach.
- Generating new high value relationships, specifically to support us in accessing corporate partnership and high value individual support to catalyse our development by providing pro bono expertise, reach, scale and income.
*note1: we place a high value on lived experiences so welcome applicants who are HDfDP or assistance dog service users and / or have experience of hearing loss and who feel they can offer the above expertise.
** note2: across all roles we would look for potential org / board leadership experience.