Volunteer HR Trustee | Sight Advice South Lakes

This role underpins the core aims of the charity and works closely with the Chair and Chief Executive. The charity is small, however is beautiful in nature and the support it gives is highly valued by everyone who has contact with us.

What will you be doing?

Role Summary

• Committed to ensuring highest standards of governance in policies and practice related to employee relations, recruitment, retention, reward and recognition as well as staff and trustee development.
• Assessing risks and measuring the impact of HR interventions in the light of changing legal requirements and best practice.
• Implementing company policies and practices in the context of furthering charitable objectives and evaluating how they impact beneficiaries and staff.
• Ensuring long-term strategic oversight of the organisation’s personnel and staffing requirements in relation to the overarching goals of the charity.

Main Responsibilities Of An HR Trustee

• To review and recommend current and future strategic resourcing, training and development and annual budgets and plans to the Trustee Board
• To actively contribute to policy setting, strategic direction, goal and target setting, and evaluate performance against targets, budgets, plans and charitable objectives
• To ensure that HR activities and interventions are linked to the company’s charitable objectives and complement the company culture
• To ensure the Trustee Board has systems to monitors and review the performance of the company’s Chief Executive, rewards performance accordingly and identifies appropriate development opportunities
• To monitor the financial position of the charity and its operations within its means and objects, making sure that there are clear lines of accountability for day-to-day financial management
• To monitor whether the service complies with its governing document and standards and if the needs of the beneficiaries are being met

What are we looking for?

Qualities of HR Trustee

Essential

• Experience of performance management, HR/employment law issues and implementing them contextually
• Willingness to actively participate in discussions concerning needs of company’s beneficiaries, staff and the trustee board
• Willingness to act in the best interest of the charity while adhering the Nolan principles of public life
• Sound, independent judgement and ability to think creatively
• Working effectively as a team member and demonstrating a willingness to learn and develop

Desirable

• Strong intellectual and analytical ability; innovative thinker and ability to focus on issues requiring action
• Experience in the charitable or voluntary sector
• Experience of charity law and governance

The charity is at a turning point in its development and requires the guidance of its Trustees to ensure continuity and sustainability at a time when the demand for our services have never been higher.

What difference will you make?

All the team at Sight Advice South Lakes highly value the knowledge, experience and expertise of the professional people who volunteer for the organisation in order that they can provide the highest quality of services for our clients. The staff are always on hand to support the Trustees in their work and work closely together as team. Our client group are at an increasing disadvantage in the community, with cuts to transport and local services and in turn rely on the regular contact and support which a small local charity like Sight Advice gives.

The client group are involved at all levels within Sight Advice volunteering as Trustees and in other roles, this is a consequence in turn of the support they have received and valued. A new member to our team soon recognises the genuine warmth and gratitude of all those who are involved with the charity and this in turn gives our volunteers a feeling of belonging to the community and fulfilment in their role.

What’s in it for the volunteer?

It has been said many times by many organisations that “working for us is like being part of a family”, however here at Sight Advice that really rings true. We are a small local charity and belong to the community we serve, the values of kindness, empathy, respect and professionalism are those we all hold dear. Being a small charity we have limited resources so we rely on the knowledge and expertise of all our trustees so you will soon have a major impact within your role and can be assured that there will always be someone to support you in turn.

A few more details

Interested candidates can call and have an informal chat with our Chief Executive, Claire.

Causes

• Campaigning
• Children / families
• Counselling / advice
• Learning disabilities / difficulties
• Local / community
• Older people / later life
• Physical disabilities
• Social care

Sight Advice South Lakes aims to provide advice and support to enable visually impaired people to lead full and independent lives.

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