Volunteer Trustees - Marketing, PR, communications

What will you be doing?

We are looking for a Trustee to join our small, high impact Trustee team of five. We are already professionals in youth mental health, day to day finance and trust/foundation fundraising.  We are also recognised regionally for our robust safeguarding.  Thanks to review and advice from University of Sussex and our involvement in shaping the new Dorset Youth CRM and evaluation tool we are becoming robust in this area too.  It is important to us that you have lived experience of the issues we support our young people with - perhaps currently, as a young person, a family member or close friend.  This is crucial because our young people, their families and wider stakeholders trust that we genuinely understand the need and the impact we must create together.  Our young people drive our business planning, hold the Trustee Board to account and nominate a spokesperson to attend board meetings to feed back and challenge us.  We would love to receive applications from some young adults, people of all backgrounds and identities and candidates interesting in the role of Chair. It is not vital that to be a local as board meetings are held mostly online, but it would be highly beneficial if you are able to visit in person every few months.  

What are we looking for?

We would like candidates to have experience in managing the marketing, public relations and social media needs of a charitable organisation.  Our charity is highly local, so you will need to be able to effectively reach the local community of Portland, attract the attention of the young people themselves, their carers, and other organisations who may have skills and resources we can benefit from.  This means that while you will already be skillful, you will need to understand our interesting locality.   We would love to receive applications from some young adults, people of all backgrounds and identities and candidates interesting in the role of Chair.  Perhaps in addition to your skill, you fit one of more of the above. It is not vital that to be a local as board meetings are held mostly online, but it would be highly beneficial if you are able to visit in person every few months. 

What difference will you make?

Leadership by our current board is passionate and dedicated to our cause.  Leadership by our young people is both by two young alumni participating as volunteer youth workers, and all 225 of our young people are invited to shape our work and strategic direction, so you will be interviewed by two of our young people alongside us.  Trustee in our charity is a very active role, helping ensure we can continue our drive for excellence and success as recently recognised by the award of a large Lottery grant to span over 5 years.  As a trustee, you will have a real opportunity to be part of the strategic progression of our charity. The roles described are so important to us - not only do we need committed people to keep us on track financially, keep us visible, well resourced and connected but even more significantly, we are looking for people who are in touch with youth issues and able to help us formulate our vision for the future.