Trustee - Up to 10 days per year
- Employer
- Centre for Ageing Better
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- No remuneration; expenses paid.
- Closing date
- 24 Nov 2019
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Job Details
The Centre for Ageing Better is passionate about achieving its positive vision of a society in which everyone enjoys later life. We seek to bring about long-lasting changes in policy and practice informed by evidence so that more people approaching later life are in good health, fulfilling work, and live in safe and accessible homes and connected communities. Established in 2015, with an endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund, our organisation is now widely recognised as a leading authority on ageing issues.
We have influenced national policy on everything from the Cridland Review of State Pension Age, the Industrial Strategy, the NHS Long Term Plan, and the Prevention Green Paper. We work across all sectors and have partnerships with Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Leeds City Council and Leeds Older People’s Forum, Public Health England, and Care and Repair England.
Under the leadership of our Chief Executive, Anna Dixon, and our new Chair, Dame Carol Black, we are focused on having a significant impact across England by being bolder in calling for change, being highly effective at influencing a wide range of stakeholders, including the private sector, developing and maintaining impactful partnerships to deliver the changes, and continuing to develop a strong analysis and evidence base to support the changes we want to see.
With a committed Board in place, we are now seeking to build further on our skills by appointing a Trustee with a background in strategic finance. You will provide support and strategic advice on our endowment and will already have a profile in your field. A professional accountancy qualification would be an asset, although it is not strictly essential. We are looking for someone who is clear and confident in the role of governing a charity, safeguarding its assets and applying them as efficiently and effectively as possible to further our objectives.
Closing date is Friday 29th November 2019.
Company
The Centre for Ageing Better is a new charitable foundation that works to help people benefit from the opportunities, and manage the challenges, of ageing. It aims to apply evidence of what works to public policy and drive changes in line with that evidence. It began operating in 2015 and has 16 employees.
The centre’s mission is to develop, share and apply evidence to help people age better, bring fresh thinking to the challenges and opportunities faced by society as more people live longer and bring about change to improve later lives.
By 2024, the centre says, there will be 4.9 million more people aged 60 and over compared to 2014 (an increase of 24%), and 0.5 million more people aged 85 years and over (an increase of 33%).
In 2013, the Big Lottery Fund announced support for the development of a ‘Centre for Ageing Better’, and in January 2015 awarded the nascent centre a £50 million endowment in order to help it identify what works in the ageing sector through bridging the gap between research, evidence and practice. The centre has received further development funding from the Department of Health and the Department of Communities and Local Government.
The centre is a member of the What Works network, a group of nine organisations committed to developing evidence that can inform better decisions aimed at improving public services. Other members include the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Sutton Trust and the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.
The centre has several priorities for improving later lives (defined as people aged over 50). These include the ability to manage major life changes, to be in fulfilling work, to contribute to surrounding communities, to be physically active, to live in suitable homes and neighbourhoods and to live in age-friendly communities.
The centre is actively looking for partnership opportunities and has developed two partnerships already. In March 2016, it announced a five year partnership with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in order to make Greater Manchester an ‘age friendly’ city-region and support people over 50 to re-enter the labour market. The centre has another partnership with Business in the Community which is aimed at making the case for age friendly workplaces.
The centre is seeking motivated and talented people to join its team. It offers a variety of opportunities including permanent roles, fixed term roles, secondments, internships, volunteering and lay involvement.
- Website
- https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/
- Telephone
- 020 3829 0113
- Location
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Level 3 Angel Building,
407 St John Street,
London
EC1V 4AD
GB
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