Trustee Recruitment - Talk The Talk

Trustee – Talk The Talk

Location: Remote

Time commitment: We have 5-6 board meetings per year. Trustees are expected to attend these and devote sufficient time to read through the board papers in advance. There may be other events that trustees are invited to attend, and other opportunities to get involved. We estimate the time commitment to be 3-4 days annually.

Terms of office: Our trustees have a term of office of 3 years, for a maximum of 6 years.

Context:

Talk The Talk is on a mission to inspire all young people to become confident communicators for life! By inspiring a young person to find their voice and use it confidently, we are enabling the leaders of the future; those who will bring people together for a common cause, contribute to building their communities and shape the growth and development of a stronger society.

We work with teachers and schools to provide young people with the skills to communicate with assurance through a variety of oracy workshops to address key employability challenges, improve self-esteem and enable students to engage with others confidently and persuasively.

The workshops we deliver enable young people to benefit from specialist, high quality oracy development, supporting them to communicate skilfully and to empower them to raise their social aspirations and ultimately contribute towards reducing the gap of social disadvantage.

Overall purpose of the role

Our trustees are legally responsible for the governance of the charity. This means they must make sure that Talk The Talk achieves its objectives, which are set out in our governing document. The trustees ensure that we have a strategy, and that our assets and resources are only used for charitable purposes in line with the governing document. Trustees make sure that we operate in line with any relevant laws, particularly the Charities and Companies Acts.

Trustees have a collective responsibility – they work together for the best interests of Talk The Talk.

Main responsibilities

Governance

To understand our aims and objectives as set out in our governing document and ensure that we operate in accordance with them.
To help set the strategy for the organisation, including the financial strategy, and ensure implementation and progress is monitored.
To use your skills, knowledge and experience to further our work, putting aside any personal interests, and declaring any conflict of interest if/ when they arise.
To identify any risks to Talk The Talk and ensure they are monitored.
To contribute towards an annual review of the board’s performance.
To help to identify, recruit and induct new board members and the chair.
To attend and contribute to meetings of the board as relevant and undertake agreed tasks between meetings.
To uphold any policies and procedures relevant to the trustee role including confidentiality, safeguarding and data protection.
To uphold and contribute to our approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Working with staff/ volunteers

To understand and maintain boundaries between the governance perspective of the board, and the work of any staff and volunteers.
To provide support and challenge to the CEO and other staff to ensure they are carrying out their roles and achieving the set objectives for Talk The Talk.
To help with the recruitment and/or induction of the Chief Executive/senior management as required.

Representing Talk The Talk

To represent the board’s agreed position when speaking publicly on behalf of Talk The Talk.
To act as an ambassador and champion for Talk The Talk at events and online.

Please send your expression of interest and CV to Steve Phillips chair@talkthetalkuk.org