Human resources deals with the recruitment and retention of staff. Larger charities tend to have dedicated HR staff or even whole departments; smaller charities often park the HR function with the finance department.
A person responsible for HR may be expected to:
A charity which assists people with limited mobility in getting access to London art spaces is being forced to close after exhausting its funds fighting an unfair dismissal case.
The Charity Commission spent nearly more than £445,000 on recruitment advertising and services in the last financial year, and has budgeted to reduce the figure to £200,000 for the current year.
I am the chair of a charity which I consider to be well run and effective but recently I have been presented with a problem that I have not experienced before. Two senior members of staff, both members of the senior executive team, have written to me separately to complain about the bullying behaviour of two of the trustees.
CSV has appointed Sir Jon Shortridge as its new chairman.
Interims working in civil society organisations have seen a pay rise of 4 per cent during the last six months, new research by Russam GMS has revealed.
Papyrus, a charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide has appointed Udeni Salmon, former head of volunteering at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation as its new executive director.
The Sick Children Trust has appointed Michael Robinson, global head of human resources at Man Group, to its board of trustees.
The Charity Commission has provided some guidance to the trustees of the London Air Ambulance charity about certain financial and governance issues, but has made no judgement about whether they were correct to dismiss chief executive David Philpott last November.
Guide Dogs for the Blind has appointed a NATO strategist as its new chief executive.
A child abuse expert and an independent family policy adviser have been appointed as independent trustees to the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity which aims to combat online child abuse content
A funding crisis has erupted at the Royal Institution, the charity that exists to connect people with science, prompting trustees to scrap the post of director and make Baroness Greenfield, the prominent neuroscientist who held the post, redundant.
Crusaid, a charity working for people living in poverty as a result of HIV and AIDs, has appointed Jordan Hay as its new chief executive.
FORMER Action Aid executive Salil Shetty has been appointed as Amnesty’s next secretary general. Shetty, an Indian national, will begin the role in June 2010, following a string of roles in the charity sector, most notably as director of the United Nations’ Millennium Campaign for the past six years.
Jackie Mendoza has been appointed executive director of Rosa UK, the Women’s Fund. Mendoza was previously interim development director at the Fund and ran her own fundraising consultancy
Governance expert Dorothy Dalton has stormed into the debate over whether trustees should sit on unitary boards alongside the executive and be paid for their work.
Marcus Agius, the group chairman of Barclays plc, has been appointed chairman of the board of trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
The Archway Project has appointed Fran Gorman as its new chair, replacing Martin Jenkins who was in the role for two years.
The Charity Employees Benevolent Fund has appointed former Charities Aid Foundation innovation head Gill Nunn as its new director.
Cath Lee has been confirmed as the new permanent CEO of the Small Charities Coalition.
PF Awards winner Erich Reich has received a knighthood for charitable services in the 2010 New Year Honours list.
Because the chief executive (CE) is so central to the success or failure of the charity, evaluation of the CE by the board is an important component of the board’s responsibilities. But too often evaluations (and job descriptions) are undertaken only when the board has become unhappy with their CE.
This is a well established charitable company. Trustees are the only company members. The charity has had a very good reputation in its field. The last inspection report gave it a two rather than a three-star (excellent) rating which it normally gets. The chief executive was appointed 17 years ago. When he first arrived he brought much needed change to the charity and although initially faced with opposition from some of the older staff, the charity under his guidance achieved much.
GuideStar UK director Les Hems has left the organisation to take up a new role as director of research at the Centre for Social Impact in Sydney, Australia.
The board of the London Air Ambulance charity that sacked chief executive David Philpott after he raised concerns about alleged malpractice by some trustees, has reportedly commissioned an independent review into the circumstances surrounding his dismissal.
Ten faces from the charity sector have earned a place in the influential Who’s Who 2010, which celebrates people who have both “reached the pinnacle of excellence in their field” and “demonstrated lasting significance”.
The Office of the Third Sector has announced that Rolande Anderson is to join as its new director general, succeeding Campbell Robb who leaves at the end of this month to join Shelter as chief executive.
The Alzheimer’s Society is creating more than 100 new jobs and setting up 49 regional central branches in the UK in a bid to win more contracts from Primary Care Trusts and local authorities. Some 36.5 per cent of its income currently comes from grants and contracts.
Patrick Cox has left his role as chief executive of the Small Charities Coalition in order to concentrate full time on the charity he originally founded, the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign.
David Philpott, chief executive of the London Air Ambulance charity, has been sacked as he was investigating allegations about conflicts of interest and misuse of funds against some of the trustees.
The Charity Employees Benevolent Fund will launch officially on Thursday, six years after it was initially proposed and registered as a charity.
