Standards & Compliance Lead Trustee

KidsAid seeks a Standards & Compliance Lead to ensure compliance with ethical, professional, and clinical standards relevant to KidsAid’s beneficiaries.

WHAT DIFFERENCE WILL YOU MAKE?

If you wish to make a long-term contribution to our community, we are your charity!

Our aim is to safeguard children so that early life trauma does not become a lifelong burden, and manifest into more serious issues in the future.

Your role as Standards & Compliance Lead will be vital! 

You will lead our Standards & Compliance Subcommittee and have a lead role in monitoring the experience and standard of service delivered to our beneficiaries.

We are looking for a Standards & Compliance Lead with the following qualities

• An understanding of due diligence and charity standards.
• Analytical skills and ability to interpret and work with a range of data and information and evaluate compliance.
• A willingness to be available to the CEO and staff for advice and enquiries on an ad hoc basis.

Person specification for Trustee

• A commitment to the organisation.
• A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort.
• Strategic vision.
• Good, independent judgement.
• An ability to think creatively.
• A willingness to speak their mind.
• An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of trusteeship.
• An ability to work effectively as a member of a team.
• A commitment to Nolan’s seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership.

Time Commitment

The board meets in person in Northampton six times a year. There may also be occasional ‘away days’.

We prefer to meet in person to build and maintain a cohesive team, however, sub-committees may opt to meet online if preferred.

You should allow approximately 8 hours per month to include reading reports and attending meetings and events.

Apply to Join Us

Please do apply to become a KidsAid trustee. Our mission is so worthwhile and your contribution to our board team will be greatly valued.

Should you wish to discuss this further, the CEO and Chair will be delighted to hear from you:

Rebecca Caswell-Fox (CEO)
rebecca@kidsaid.org.uk

Tony Bates (Chair)
tony@kidsaid.org.uk