TAP Risk & Charity Governance Trustee

What will you be doing?

The role of a Trustee is to uphold the Charity’s mission and vision, ensuring the effective governance of the charity. The Trustees will work together with the General Manager to set the strategic direction and framework for the organisation. Since we are a small charity Trustees play an important role at TAP and may be required to support the General Manager more than in some larger organisations. 

Strong governance is vital to our continuing success and we are looking to recruit a Risk & Charity Governance Trustee who will will report into the Chair and will partake in sub-committees relevant to their skillset. 

What are we looking for?

Experience and Skills required

Personal Qualities 

• Demonstrate a strong and visible passion and commitment to the charity, its strategic objectives and cause 

• Demonstrate tact and diplomacy, with the ability to listen and engage effectively 

• Ability to foster and promote a collaborative team environment 

• An ability to distinguish between the Board's governance responsibilities and the executive team's operational responsibilities.

• High standards of integrity, discretion and accountability.

• Ability to commit time to conduct the role well; 6 Board meetings take place per year with Committee meetings taking place between Board meetings, with a strategy day once per year and regular meetings with the Chair and General Manager. 

Experience and Skills

• Experience in risk management, compliance, governance, management, or standard organisational governance oversight.

• Experience of charity governance would be preferable but not essential.

What difference will you make?

The role of Risk & Charity Governance Trustee is an opportunity to play an important role in the stewardship of our charity, helping the Board maintain high standards of governance, understand and manage strategic risk, and ensure that our decision-making remains effective, proportionate and aligned with our charitable purpose.

As a Trustee, you will share responsibility with the wider Board for the overall governance and strategic direction of Third Age Project Alongside these collective responsibilities, you will provide particular insight and challenge in relation to risk management, governance and good practice.

We are particularly interested in someone who can bring a constructive, strategic and big-picture perspective to charity governance and risk.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who sees effective risk management as more than compliance. The successful candidate will help us use risk insight to make strategic decisions, balancing appropriate control and assurance with the need for the charity to innovate, develop and deliver impact.

You will help the Board to:

• Maintain an effective governance framework, with clear accountability, appropriate policies and robust decision-making.

• Oversee the charity's strategic risk framework and ensure significant risks are identified, assessed, managed and appropriately escalated.

• Review the effectiveness of the charity's risk appetite, risk register, controls and assurance arrangements.

• Support the Board in understanding its legal, regulatory and fiduciary responsibilities.

• Promote compliance with relevant charity law, regulation, governing documents and recognised governance standards.

• Ensure governance arrangements remain proportionate to the charity's size, activities and evolving risk profile.

• Periodic reviews of governance policies.

• Contribute fully to wider Board discussions on strategy, performance, financial sustainability, safeguarding, organisational culture and impact.

The above list is indicative only and not exhaustive. The Risk & Charity Governance Trustee will be expected to perform all such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the role.