PROJECT ARMONIA IS RECRUITING – CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Board member

We are looking for a dedicated individual to fill our board position as Chair. This position will collaborate with Armonia’s other board members and directors to guide the organisation forward by overseeing and supporting the strategy and operational aspects.

Role Title: Chair of the Board of Trustees

Location: This role can be conducted remotely.

Time Commitment: 10% role
– approx. 4 hours a week

Remuneration: This role is not accompanied by any financial remuneration.

WHO ARE PROJECT ARMONIA?

We are a non-profit organisation acting in solidarity with displaced people to promote equal access to nutrition and education. For the past two years, we have operated a free restaurant that served over 1000 healthy and nutritious meals per day to displaced people on the ‘hotspot’ island of Samos. We have worked with a diverse team of 36 different nationalities.

Now, we have a new exciting challenge ahead! We have just set up a new food project in Athens. In Autumn 2022, we started serving warm, tasty, and nutritious meals and we are in the process of developing a food-centered educational and employability project. Through this, we aim to create a community in which we work together with displaced people towards their integration into Greek society.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Oversight, advice on and approval of organisational strategic planning and management in close collaboration with the Executive Directors, including objectives, performance strategies, risk control and policies. Ensuring they align with the organisation’s vision, mission and values.
• Networking to further develop the organisation.
• Public and private representation of the organisation when needed.
• Periodic visits to Project Armonia in Athens, Greece.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of sources of income to provide for the continuing operation of the organisation.
• Management of the Executive Directors, including performance reviews, supervisions, check-ins, hiring and firing.
• Remain updated about the organisation, the services it provides and the community with whom it operates.
• Lead the board in the performance of its responsibilities, i.e. ensuring the Board has approved policies to help ensure sound and compliant governance and management of the organisation.
• Assuring ongoing recruitment, development, and contributions of Board members.
• Coordination of the Board of Trustees meetings together with the Organisational Director (4 – 6 meetings per year).

Basic requirements:

– Minimum of 5 years relevant professional experience

– Minimum 1 year commitment

– Available to work around 4 hours a week

– Fluency in English and ideally German

– Experience working with NGOs

– Demonstrable experience working in the nonprofit sector, ideally with displaced people, nutrition, education and/or crisis response

Experience/Skills

• Board experience in the non-profit sector
• You have relevant knowledge, experience or understanding of the situation in Greece regarding the ongoing displacement context and the injustices of the current asylum arrangement
• You are familiar with our work in Greece
• Fluency in Greek (useful but not essential)
• Be passionate about the NGOs cause and goals in supporting displaced people
• Ability to listen and engage
• Exhibit excellent interpersonal and relationship-building qualities and feel at ease in a leadership role
• Strong networking skills which can be drawn upon to support the further development of Project Armonia
• Ability in representing Armonia internally and abroad in conferences and to act as a Spokesperson