Board Member
Location: Lewes, East Sussex
Salary: £3,873.96 per annum
Job Type: Initial Term: Board members will be elected at the December 2024 board meeting. The initial term is three years, with an expectation that a second term of three years will follow.
The Board comprises people with strategic and governance experience who also have a wide range of specialist skills and interests in the field of work. Collectively, they oversee the governance of the organisation and are paid for their personal service.
The governance framework also incorporates three Board committees: Audit and Risk, People Pay and Culture, and Service Quality. New Board members will be expected to sit on at least one of these Committees.
The Role
The Board meets quarterly using a hybrid model: two remote meetings and two in-person meetings at the Head Office in Lewes, East Sussex. Meetings are held once a month (excluding August) in the mornings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., either as a full Board or as separate Committees.
In addition, they have two in-person Away Days each year to review the performance of the organisation and to work with the C-Suite to set the strategy for the organisation in the year to come and to monitor progress. Members are expected to attend all scheduled meetings during the year.
Board Members are collectively responsible for:
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