Charity Trustee

What will you be doing?

Black-heritage students' outcomes lag behind those of their peers in both the higher education and early careers sectors.  

At With Insight Education, our social mission is to address this inequality by removing the perceptual and structural barriers that black-heritage students face.  

Since launching in 2018, our structured mentoring programmes have empowered over 1,500 students with the confidence, insight and interpersonal skills needed to shape brighter futures with greater opportunities for social mobility.  We also work in an advisory capacity with the university sector, designing programmes and training staff to better support our cohort of young people.   

Although we are a charity, the majority of our finance, to date, has come from traded income. We are hugely ambitious about our future and have identified that we need additional HR, ESG and Philanthropy guidance to achieve our goals.   

The ideal candidates will be agile minded, happy to share their knowledge and possess influential communication skills.  An understanding of governance is desirable although prior experience of being a Trustee is not required. 

Given the nature of our work, we particularly welcome candidates who have lived experience of the inequalities that we seek to address and/or have experience of working closely with the community that With Insight Education serves.

What are we looking for?

Successful applicants will be expected to demonstrate evidence of the following skills, capabilities, and experience:

• A proven track record in their area of expertise; Philanthropy, HR and ESG (particularly Social Value).
• Experience of sustainable, commercially viable organisational growth and development.
• Practical experience of engaging with strategy and leadership and of helping to develop and grow an organisation towards high performance.
• Being a great communicator who listens intently, clearly articulates your thoughts and provides constructive feedback.
• Ability to objectively analyse information to arrive at creative solutions.
• Being generous with your knowledge.
• Being aligned to the values of With Insight Education.

Prior experience of being on a Board is desirable, but not essential.

What difference will you make?

As a Trustee you will support and shape our work and strategic direction as we look to increase our impact.

Anything else...

We have quarterly meetings, each lasting a maximum of two hours.