Volunteer Open Eye Gallery Board Member

What will you be doing?

Our Board of Trustees are volunteers who oversee, shape and support everything we do. For example, our Board provides direction and challenge to the leadership team, monitors any risks to the organisation, and plays a major part in shaping Open Eye Gallery's future. Our Board meets four times per year, with some additional time required to review papers and attend sub-committee meetings. The appointment will be for a term of three years, with the option to renew for a second term. As a Board Member you might also attend events and exhibitions hosted by Open Eye Gallery or our partners. Our Board meetings do have a formal structure, but it is a process of collaboration where everyone has a voice. Open Eye Gallery is a learning organisation, working collaboratively to expand our knowledge through creative risk taking, and acknowledging that everyone brings something to the table. We welcome applications from all interested parties. We are particularly interested in those with specialist skills and experience in digital communications, the environment and sustainability, and different roles within the business sector, with knowledge of charities welcome. Board members are required to:

Regularly attend and contribute to Board meetings, any delegated subcommittee meetings and team away days; Ensure that adequate preparation is made for meetings by reading and examining all relevant papers, reports and budgets; Input meaningfully to the strategic thinking of the gallery; Input, agree and approve artistic and business objectives; Ensure the charity's work is inline with the Articles of Association; Contribute to agenda items as part of our learning organisation; Attend key exhibitions and events, championing Open Eye Gallery to potential and existing funders and partners.

What are we looking for?

We welcome applications from all interested parties. We are particularly interested in those with specialist skills and experience in digital communications, the environment and sustainability, and different roles within the business sector, with knowledge of charities welcome.

What difference will you make?

What our Board Members enjoy about being on the Open Eye Gallery board:   Getting involved with the Open Eye Galley board is a great way to be connected to an art form I am passionate about, and a positive way to support the communities OEG reaches out to with projects.

Sol Papadopoulos - Producer, Hurricane Films

    It’s about being able to work alongside amazing colleagues to develop, shape and inform the culture of Liverpool, the region and beyond through collective decision making and supporting the gallery staff to realise their wonderful vision.

Gary Bratchford - Reader in Photography

    I get a great deal of personal satisfaction that I can use my professional skills to support the Open Eye Gallery team, the work of photographers and in developing new talent from local communities. 

Lindsey Fryer - Chair of the board