Jobs & Board Vacancies
Mencap Liverpool is the local Mencap Group for the Liverpool City Region. We are a small to medium sized charity but we achieve a lot by concentrating on the right things and working together. Unlike many other organisations, we are thriving in challenging times, but we need your help to ensure we continue to grow sustainably.
Become a trustee (Volunteer Role)
To be part of the team who govern the charity (trustees), providing strategic direction. You will be responsible for ensuring the charity uses its resources in the most effective way to achieve our vision of a world where people with a learning disability are included, listened to and valued equally.
What competencies are required?
The heart and mind to help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives and make a positive difference to the lives of local people affected by learning disability issues.
To understand the mission and uphold the values of Mencap Liverpool.
The availability to attend: board meetings and subgroup meetings on a regular basis, the AGM, other related events and the time to read papers in advance so that we can hold effective meetings. (The average time commitment is around 3-6hrs per month)
To be able to work in a team, to listen, learn and to actively contribute ideas and to apply sound, constructive judgement.
We are now looking particularly of people with personal or professional experience of learning disability to join the board.
Trustees and their responsibilities
Trustees have and must accept ultimate responsibility for directing the affairs of a charity, and ensuring that it is solvent, well-run, and delivering the charitable outcomes for the benefit of the public for which it has been set up.
(This information is taken from CC3a- The Essential Trustee: An Introduction published by the Charity Commission – if you haven’t been a trustee before, we recommend you read it)
How to apply
Email the Chairman (Ed Gilchrist) at ed.gilchrist@mencapliverpool.org.uk for more information and to arrange an informal meeting with him and the Chief Executive, Sarah Jones.
Is there anything else to know?
This is a voluntary position. Trustees become directors of the company (limited by guarantee). Trustees wishing to volunteer alongside vulnerable members will require a Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure. Board meetings are held at the Hope Street office, roughly every 6 weeks, usually on a weekday evening. Trustees may be asked to play a part in sub-committee activity from time to time. The society is managed by the Chief Executive and her small team of professionals and volunteers.
