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Director
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Volunteering • Long term role
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Rebecca Fox
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#125018
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Director at Trauma Recovery CIC - Join Our Team in Transforming Lives Through Trauma-Informed Care, Recovery Support and Community Impact
Role Summary
Trauma Recovery CIC has a minimum of 3 Directors who work closely and collaboratively as a team.
Each Director is responsible for contributing to the strategic direction, governance and long-term sustainability of Trauma Recovery CIC, ensuring that the organisation remains focused on its social purpose and community benefit.
As a Director and Person with Significant Control, you will help ensure Trauma Recovery CIC is well governed, financially responsible and remains focused on its values and community benefit purpose.
This is an unpaid director role. The Director is not remunerated for carrying out director duties, although reasonable agreed expenses may be reimbursed in line with organisational policy.
The role requires a commitment to acting in the best interests of Trauma Recovery CIC, supporting effective decision-making, maintaining accountability, and working collaboratively with other Directors to ensure the CIC operates ethically, transparently and in accordance with its community interest objectives.
This Director role is unpaid. Reasonable agreed expenses may be reimbursed in line with Trauma Recovery CIC’s expenses policy.
Any potential conflict of interest, including any paid work, consultancy, employment or connected-person arrangement with Trauma Recovery CIC, must be declared and managed in line with company policy and legal duties.
In addition to the Director role, the Director may hold a senior leadership position. It is important that the Director in this circumstance can maintain appropriate boundaries between governance and day-to-day management.
We welcome applications from neurodivergent people, disabled people, people with lived experience, and those from groups that are underrepresented in leadership and governance roles.
We recognise that people communicate, process information and participate in different ways and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments and accessible participation wherever possible.
As a lived experience led organisation, previous Director experience is not essential. We welcome applications from people who can demonstrate relevant skills, values and potential. Training, induction and ongoing support will be provided to help Directors understand their responsibilities and develop confidence in the role.
| Job Purpose | To take responsibility for the strategic direction and governance of Trauma Recovery CIC. | |
| Working Days/Hours | Directors commit to attending Director's meetings at least quarterly at times/days agreed between all directors. | Other responsibilities are completed at times/days suited to the director. |
| Flexibility Required | To attend events and relevant meetings where required | |
| Checks Needed | Enhanced DBS with registration to the live checking service and 2 satisfactory references |
Overview of responsibilities
Directors must act within their powers, promote the success of Trauma Recovery CIC for its community benefit purpose, exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence, avoid unmanaged conflicts of interest, not accept inappropriate benefits, and declare any interest in proposed or existing arrangements with the company.
Directors are responsible for overseeing organisational risk, including safeguarding, financial, operational, legal, reputational and information governance risks.
Duties of a CIC Director
- Fulfilling the Social Mission: Directors must ensure that Trauma Recovery CIC’s activities align with our stated community or social objectives. This involves regularly reviewing Trauma Recovery CIC’s operations to assess our impact on the community and adjusting as necessary.
- Compliance with Regulations: Directors have a legal obligation to comply with CIC regulations, including filing annual reports and accounts with the relevant authorities. They must also ensure transparency and accountability in all financial transactions.
- Financial Management: Directors are responsible for overseeing the company’s finances, including budgeting, financial planning, and risk management. They must exercise prudence and diligence in managing the company’s resources to achieve its social and financial goals.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Directors should actively engage with stakeholders, including employees, customers, and the wider community, to understand their needs and concerns. Building strong relationships with stakeholders fosters trust and enhances the company’s reputation.
- Strategic Planning: Directors play a central role in developing and implementing Trauma Recovery CIC’s strategic plan. They must assess market trends, identify opportunities for growth, and adapt the company’s strategy to changing circumstances while staying true to its social mission.
- Protect the asset lock and ensuring activities are used to support the CIC’s purpose: Directors should make decisions that are transparent, properly recorded and consistent with the CIC’s governing documents and community benefit commitments.
- Trauma-Informed Leadership: Directors should support a culture that prioritises safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment and inclusion for staff, volunteers, service users and fellow Directors. Directors should consider the potential impact of organisational decisions on people affected by trauma and support policies and practices that promote wellbeing and reduce harm.
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Directors should actively support equality, diversity, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice across all areas of Trauma Recovery CIC's work. This includes considering the impact of decisions on people with protected characteristics and those who experience barriers to accessing support.
- Collective responsibility: Directors share collective responsibility for decisions made by the Board. Directors are expected to contribute their views openly during discussions and support agreed decisions once they have been made.
- Safeguarding oversight: Ensuring safeguarding arrangements are appropriate, regularly reviewed and effective.
- Reputation and public trust: Acting as a positive ambassador for Trauma Recovery CIC and helping maintain public confidence in the organisation.
- Information governance: Supporting compliance with data protection and confidentiality requirements.
- Board development: Contributing to regular reviews of Board effectiveness, skills and succession planning, taking part in both the board of Directors and Advisory board where appropriate.
Skills, training and Experience
| Skills & Experience | Essential/Desirable |
| Personal, direct lived experience of sexual, domestic and/or relational trauma and ability to demonstrate own recovery journey | D |
| Commitment to the aims, values, social purpose and community benefit objectives of Trauma Recovery CIC | E |
| Understanding of the role, legal duties and responsibilities of a CIC Director, including acting in the best interests of the company and the community it serves | E |
| Ability to contribute to strategic planning, sound governance and effective decision-making as part of a small board of Directors | E |
| Ability to exercise independent judgement, maintain confidentiality and manage potential conflicts of interest appropriately | E |
| Understanding of financial oversight, budgeting, sustainability and risk management within a small nonprofit or social enterprise setting | E |
| Experience of leadership, governance, management, trusteeship, community leadership, lived expertise, project leadership, board membership or other relevant responsibility within a professional, voluntary or community setting. | D |
| Excellent communication skills, including the ability to listen, challenge constructively, ask appropriate questions and work collaboratively with other Directors | E |
| Understanding of trauma-informed, inclusive and safeguarding-aware practice, with a commitment to protecting the wellbeing and dignity of people using the service | E |
| Knowledge of compliance requirements relevant to CICs, safeguarding, data protection, health and safety, employment responsibilities and regulatory reporting | D |
| Ability to represent Trauma Recovery CIC professionally with partners, funders, stakeholders and the wider community | E |
| Willingness and capacity to attend Directors’ meetings, review papers, contribute between meetings when needed and undertake the role on an unpaid basis | E |
| Professional experience or community insight relevant to trauma recovery, domestic abuse, sexual violence, relational trauma or support services | D |
| Good IT skills, including email, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, shared documents and secure handling of organisational information | E |
| Enhanced DBS check registered with the live checking service and two satisfactory references, where required by organisational policy | E |
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Our organisation offers Counselling online and in person alongside our lived experience community, Butterflies. Butterflies offers people in Hertfordshire with lived experience of sexual, domestic and/or relational trauma the opportunity to come together to support one another through shared experience, peer support and adding their voice to make a change.
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