Chair of the Board of Trustees - Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity

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Chair of the Board of Trustees - Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity

The Organisation
Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity’s mission is to provide specialist nurses and support for seriously ill children living with complex, lifelong conditions.
Our vision is that every seriously ill child has a Roald Dahl Nurse Specialist to help them to lead a more marvellous life.
As a charity that works in partnership with the NHS, we find innovative ways to ensure that children and families have the care and support they need. We do this through improving the healthcare outcomes and resilience of children and families, and we focus on complex, lifelong conditions that are underfunded and under resourced. The outcomes we are aiming to achieve are:

• Improved quality of care
• Improved experience of care
• Improved efficiency and cost effectiveness of care
• Improved resilience of seriously ill children and their families

The Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a talented, collegiate and unified Board.
The Chair will hold the Board and Executive Team to account for Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, mission and vision, providing inclusive leadership to the Board of Trustees, ensuring that each trustee fulfils their duties and responsibilities for the effective governance and advancement of the Charity’s purpose and values.
The Chair will also support the Chief Executive and ensure that the Board functions as a unit and works closely with the entire Executive of the charity to achieve the agreed objectives. They will act as an ambassador of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, in partnership with the Chief Executive.

Person Specification:
In addition to the qualities required of a Trustee of the charity, the Chair must also meet the following requirements:

• Experience of operating at a senior strategic leadership level within an organisation.
• Successful track record of achievement through their career.
• Experience of charity governance and working with or as part of a board of Trustees.
• Significant experience of chairing meetings, events, committees or boards; recognising and leveraging the strengths of the collective, ensuring all voices are heard and guiding decision making when there isn’t a consensus.
• Experience of external representation, delivering presentations and managing stakeholders.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of the charity sector and current issues affecting it.
• Srong leadership skills, ability to motivate staff and volunteers and bring people together.
• Financial management expertise and a broad understanding of charity finance issues.
• Good understanding of charity governance issues.

Further Information
For comprehensive information about Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, the role responsibilities and the person we are looking for, please download the Candidate Information Document.

How to Apply
If you are passionate about joining RDMCC and believe you have the skills and experience we are looking for, please apply with the following:

• An up-to-date CV
• A supporting statement of no more than 2 sides of A4, detailing why you would like to be considered, your relevant experience and expertise and what you think you can bring to the role.

All applications are being handled by our recruitment partner, Trustees Unlimited (part of the Russam group).

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Melissa Baxter, Managing Partner - Charities on:
melissa.baxter@russam.co.uk / 07789 985229.

Closing date for applications: Monday 27th January 2025
Interviews with RDMCC: 11th/12th/13th February 2025

We look forward to receiving your application.