ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls. We are ending violence and fighting poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.

We are recruiting for four volunteer Trustees to join the Board to help lead us as we deliver on our commitments. We are focusing on finding people with the following skills and experience:

• Human Resources (with experience of safeguarding an advantage),
• Digital marketing,
• Policy/influencing,
• Legal,
• Commercial (with experience of negotiating contracts or institutional grants an advantage).

We are keen to receive applications from those with a proven ability to work at a strategic governance level, with the ability to ask probing questions and to hold management to account. Previous Board experience is not mandatory, but would be an advantage.

We ask that all applicants passionately support our mission to create a world where women live free from violence and poverty. In 2019, we launched our My Feminist Behaviours to implement Feminist Leadership Principles into our workplace, in order to work towards a positive and inclusive use of power, to create an organisation which is capable of changing the world. We are therefore looking for people enthusiastic to see this work taken forward and committed to our approach (though previous experience in feminist leadership is not a requirement).

We are keen to increase the diversity of our Board because people from a BAME background, who have a disability, or who identify as LGBTQI are currently under-represented on our Board and this is something we are committed to changing. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from candidates from these groups. We also place importance on ensuring that young people are represented on our Board and therefore, at least one of the four people appointed must be between 18 and 29 years of age. We would particularly encourage you to apply if you are from this age group.

Applicants must be in a position to commit the required amount of time to the role of Trustee. This includes attendance at four board meetings per year; in March, June, September and December, as well as several committee meetings per year plus preparation and advance reading for these.

The role is voluntary and therefore unpaid, but we do pay reasonable out-of-pocket expenses.

If you have the passion to work within an organisation committed to working with women and girls living in poverty to enable them to change their lives for good, we are keen to receive your application.

Interviews will be held at our offices in Farringdon, London on:

• Wednesday 11 December 2019;
• Tuesday 14 January 2020;
• Thursday 23 January 2020.

We are not able to offer any alternative interview dates because of the availability of our Trustees to take part in the Interview Panel. If you cannot make any of these dates should you be invited to interview, we will try our best to accommodate this, but we do ask for you to be as flexible as possible.

If you have any questions about the application process or the role, please contact Jessica Holifield, Company Secretary, on Jessica.Holifield@actionaid.org