DETAILS:
- Part-time (2-3
days a week)
- Salary
according to skills and experience
- London-office based
- (Will consider a home-based person who can
occasionally travel to our office, if beyond reasonable commuter
distance)
SUMMARY:
British Sign
Language Broadcasting Trust is a young, successful charity with an ambitious
agenda.
Funded by commercial
broadcasters, we commission television programmes made in British Sign Language
and we support the companies and Deaf programme-makers who produce them.
Following an organisational
restructure, the postholder of this new role will support the Chief Executive and Deputy Chief
Executive with governance matters.
This
will include managing the Board’s cycles and committees, drafting meeting agendas,
papers and minutes, working on the organisation’s strategies and frameworks,
and supporting the Deputy Chief Executive with creating
and implementing staff policies and procedures.
Key responsibilities:
- The day-to-day management of Board cycles and
committees
- Owning
the calendar/meeting invites to Board meetings and committees
- Drafting
agendas and papers for Board meetings and committees with the SMT and Chair
- Circulating
requests and reminders for papers (including distribution of papers, uploading
papers to Teams, drafting matters arising reports)
- Drafting
the minutes for the Board meetings and any committee meetings.
- Developing,
leading and implementing the organisation’s strategies and frameworks for
governance and compliance
- Overseeing
onboarding, induction and training for Trustees, under guidance from the Chair
- Supporting
the Deputy Chief Executive and working with the Head of Communications and Distribution
with recruitment of Trustees
- Supporting
the Deputy Chief Executive with creating and implementing staff policies and
procedures
- Assisting
the Chief Executive with the creation of the Annual Report and sharing it with
the Board, Companies House and Charity Commission
- Managing
the annual review of the Board’s effectiveness.
Employees are also required
to comply with all BSLBT policies and relevant legislation.
You may be expected to carry
out other duties which fall reasonably within this role.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential:
- At least 4 years’
experience in governance or a similar company secretarial professional role
- Strong proven
organisation skills
- Excellent
attention to detail
- A proactive,
self-motivated team player who can multitask and meet deadlines
- Good communication and team-working skills,
with the ability to build and maintain both internal and external contacts and
relationships
- Experience of
drafting Board reports and minuting and managing Board and committee meetings
- Experience of
developing governance policies and drafting governance documents
- High level of
numerical and writing skills and competent in the use of MS office software to
a high level (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and PDF editor) to assist in the
communication of key messages to facilitate decisions
- Experience in the
use of online web-based portals to update information as required e.g. Charity
Commission and Companies House websites
- A BSL user or, if not, a willingness to
learn BSL
- An interest in BSL Zone programmes.
Desirable:
- Experience of living or working in the Deaf community
- Knowledge
of working for a charity.
This is a description of the job as it is presently constituted. It is
the practice of BSLBT to examine job descriptions from time to time and to
update them to ensure they relate to the job as then being performed, or to
incorporate whatever changes are being proposed.
Click here for the full role description and person specification. Please also look at our website and social media to get a full picture of who we are and what we do.
TO APPLY:
Please send a relevant CV plus a letter (no more than two A4 pages) explaining how you are suitable for this role online, via grapevinejobs by midnight on Monday
6th May 2024.
Interviews will be held remotely by Zoom or
face-to-face in London on Wednesday 15th May.
BSLBT particularly welcomes applicants from people of Black, Asian and minority ethnic heritage.