Competencies required for the role
The following are the core competencies and the evidence that will be applied when assessing candidates:
- An understanding and awareness of the significance of the Pathway Fund’s ambition and mandate.
- Relevant Board and / or Leadership experience.
- Contributing to the leadership of the Board.
- An influential advocate for the organisation, with credible communication skills.
- Ability to contribute to the board of a complex organisation including experience in reconciling different views.
- Sharp analytical skills and sound judgement.
- Ability to manage change and establish shared organisational objectives.
- Active commitment to high personal standards.
- Sound understanding of the Chair / Board / CEO / Executive relationship and an ability to work strategically and positively with the non-executive and executive teams.
- Challenges poor performance and supports individual personal development.
- Ability to contribute to the development of strategy and the scrutiny of its delivery.
- Ability to evaluate policies and plans, including resource requirements and risk.
- Pathway’s future needs and in the context of the wider environment.
- Identifies connections and dependencies between issues, highlighting both opportunities and potential unintended consequences.
- Demonstrates the capacity for an innovative and flexible approach in response to factors that may alter plans.
In fulfilling these criteria and principles, Non-Executives of Pathway Fund will be instrumental in providing strong and visionary leadership to drive the organisation’s mission, and support the drive toward inclusive social and economic growth in Britain.
We are looking for candidates who bring one or more of the following skills:
- Philanthropy: experience in working directly with philanthropists and an understanding of how to raise funds in this way.
- Investments: experience across impact/social investment, or investment more broadly.
- Enterprise: experience in enterprises across start-ups, venture capital, either from the investor or entrepreneur perspective.
- Legal: experience of the legal/regulatory aspects of start-ups and social enterprises.