The recruitment process involves gathering data on jobs and people and matching the two. The activity includes defining the job role and the type of person needed for it, attracting a pool of qualified applicants to the role, assessing the information about the applicants and selecting the best person for the role. It can involve costs with advertising, administration and loss of time. Charities often use a recruitment consultant to carry out the process on their behalf
Guide Dogs for the Blind has appointed a NATO strategist as its new chief executive.
The Charity Employees Benevolent Fund has appointed former Charities Aid Foundation innovation head Gill Nunn as its new director.
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.
How to create a diverse trustee world is the million dollar question. Countless surveys, studies and working groups are looking at finding the key to attracting a broad range of stewards for a charity outside the typical trustee who is often white, over 45 and usually retired.
An online trustee recruitment service for charities to find effective board members has been launched by NCVO, Bates Wells and Braithwaite and interim manager recruitment firm Russam GMS.
Hans Wolters has been named as the new chief executive for the Resource Alliance. The incoming chief takes over from Lyndall Stein who has held the post of interim chief executive for eight months following the resignation of Simon Collings earlier this year.
GuideStar International has integrated its free website GuideStar UK and its Data Services trading subsidiary and appointed Les Hems, formerly director of third sector data and analysis at GuideStar Data Services CIC, as director of the combined programme.
Dame Diana Brittan has been appointed chairman of Independent Age, the charity that provides practical support, financial help and lifelong friendship to thousands of older people. Dame Diana has extensive experience in both public and voluntary sectors. Previously she was chairman of the Community Fund (formerly the National Lottery Charities Board) for five years until 2004. She is currently chairman of the Connection at St Martin's and chairman of the London and South Regional Committee of the British Lung Foundation. In addition to her voluntary appointments, she serves as Justice of the Peace in the City of London.
The Kew Foundation, the charity that fundraises for London's Kew Gardens, has appointed two high-profile husband-and-wife teams to share trustee duties on its board. James Murdoch, son of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and his wife Kathryn Murdoch, will take up one trustee post, while Mick Davis, chief executive of Xstrata plc and his wife Barbara Davis, will share another.
The National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has appointed Clare Tickell and Dame Julia Cleverdon to its trustee board, as two of its three appointed members. Dame Julia was chief executive at Business in the Community for 16 years, becoming vice president last year at the invitation of the Prince of Wales. Prince Charles also invited her to become a special adviser to the Prince's Charities to promote responsible business and she now also chairs the Building Stronger Communities Taskforce for the Office of the Third Sector.
The Kew Foundation, the charity that fundraises for London’s Kew Gardens, has appointed a second high-profile husband-and-wife team to share a trustee post on its board. Mick Davis, chief executive of Xstrata plc and his wife Barbara Davis, will take up one trustee post, joining James Murdoch, son of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and his wife Kathryn Murdoch, who were appointed in an identical role last month.
Women Like Us – the social enterprise that helps employers find experienced part-time staff and supports women to return to work – launched a new Trustee Recruitment Service in early April 2009 in response to the on-going difficulties a large number of charities are experiencing in finding appropriate trustees (according to NCVO 93% of organisations have between one and five vacancies on their board, and 43% of boards report that they are finding it harder to recruit trustees now than they did five years ago)
A row over management at Highgate Cemetery has prompted the chairwoman of 35 years to step down. Jean Pateman has been replaced as chair of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust after a public row which has seen her accused of terrifying fellow volunteers and of general mismanagement at the charity.
Sukhvinder Kaur-Stubbs will start as chair of Volunteering England this September. Kaur-Stubbs, who left her role as chief executive of the Barrow Cadbury Trust in February, replaces Mike Nussbaum who held the position for five years.
The Kew Foundation has welcomed James Murdoch, son of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and his wife Kathryn Murdoch to its board of trustees. Murdoch, who is currently the chairman of News Corporation Europe and Asia, and his spouse Kathryn Murdoch, who is head of strategy and communications at the Clinton Climate Initiative, will share their trustee responsibilities.
We have just offered the post of chief executive to a very experienced and highly able woman who had recently been made redundant from the corporate sector. Because, I was so delighted with my new appointment I mentioned it, in confidence (the appointment has not been formally announced), to a close business friend who told me that my ‘new' chief executive left her last company after it was discovered she had embezzled over £100,000 from the firm. No mention of this was made in her excellent reference from her employer. On investigating the matter further, I have discovered that she did fraudulently take the money. She was told that if she admitted her guilt and returned the money in full, they would turn a blind eye and give her a decent reference. She did just that.
It could be so easy. There are people over here who need trustees and there are people over there who want to be trustees. Most boards reportedly have between one and five vacancies and there are lots of people who would benefit from being a trustee. Just get them together and all is well.
Guidestar UK is seeking a new chief executive after its latest leader, Lewis Temple, returned to his roots with a new position at the helm of an international development charity.
Former Capacitybuilders chief executive Simon Hebditch has joined the trustee board of Charity Trustee Networks, the national umbrella organisation for trustees and management committee members. Now a consultant working in the civil society sector, Hebditch was also formerly external affairs director at Charities Aid Foundation and assistant director at the NCVO. He also currently serves on the board of Social Firms UK, a social enterprise network that helps disabled and disadvantaged people find work.
Lord Bhatia has been forced to quit the board of his Edutrust Academies Charitable Trust (EACT) after a government inquiry found evidence of financial and governance mismanagement at the charity. The EACT was established by Bhatia's British Edutrust in order to open and run a number of academies across England - eight of which are due to open in September.
The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) has appointed four new trustees, bringing the total number of board members to 15. The ACF runs Futurebuilders, the £150m government-backed fund that invests in third sector organisations that deliver public services. It also invests in community enterprises through a £12.5m programme.
Lesley-Anne Alexander, chief executive of the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), is the new chair of Acevo. Alexander replaces Charities Aid Foundation chief, John Low, who was chair for four years. Alexander said: "The economic downturn has meant that the work Acevo is doing for the third sector is more crucial than ever. Charities are facing lower incomes and increased demand from beneficiaries, which brings a further, challenging dimension to the role. I look forward to embracing the opportunities Acevo's voice can bring to the sector."
Charity Trustee Networks (CTN) has launched trusteefinder, a free online service for posting and researching trusteeship vacancies in the UK. The site currently contains nearly 6,000 vacancies for trusteeship and management committee roles, which are either posted by CTN or drawn from do-it.org.uk, YouthNet’s national volunteering database.
The LSC has appointed Dame Mary Marsh as chair of the LSC's equality and diversity committee. Dame Mary is the director of the Clore Social Leadership Foundation. She was also the chief executive for the NSPCC for eight years.
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) has updated its guide on the recruitment, appointment and induction of charity trustees. The publication is intended to provide charity governors with best practice guidelines on recruiting the most suitable trustees and how to support their development.
A former director general of MI5 has joined the board of the Wellcome Trust.
Dame Mary Marsh is to step down as chief executive of the NSPCC in the autumn to become the founding director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme.
The Commission for the Compact has announced that interim chief executive Richard Corden will stay on in the role permanently. His appointment will complete the Commission for the Compact team, which has had to rebuild itself after two key departures last year.
