ShareAction

This is an exciting time to join a growing organisation already established as a leading voice in the responsible investment space, and to play your part in helping shape a fairer, healthier, more sustainable future. The global investment system has an oversized impact on challenges from the climate crisis and biodiversity loss to poverty and inequality. We want to make sure that impact is positive. At ShareAction we work with investors, policymakers and individuals to unleash the positive potential of the investment system. We aim to build a world where our financial system serves our planet and its people.

ShareAction is widely recognised as a thought leader in the field of responsible investment (RI). The organisation’s mission is to define the highest standards for responsible investment and to drive change until those standards are adopted worldwide.

Background and Role Purpose

We are looking to appoint new trustees to support ShareAction in realising an ambitious new strategy. Trustees have ultimate responsibility for the governance of the organisation, as outlined in our Articles of Association, ensuring it delivers its charitable objectives, is financially sound and legally compliant.

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about ShareAction’s mission and will help us achieve even greater impact around the world.

Time Commitment

Trustees will be expected to be committed and engaged, devoting, on average, a minimum of 1-2 days per month, spread across different activities and requirements. More details available in the Recruitment Pack.

Recruitment Pack

For more information on the role and the organisation, you can download the attached Recruitment Pack.

Key Responsibilities:

• Attending regular meetings of the Board and its sub-committees (where appointed)

• Contributing actively to the Board’s collective role in setting ShareAction’s strategic direction in line with its charitable objectives, setting policies, and evaluating the executive team’s performance against agreed targets

• Ensuring that the organisation complies with its governing document, charity law, company law and all other relevant legislation and regulations

• Ensuring that management and administration are undertaken responsibly

• Ensuring that the organisation uses its resources well and exclusively in pursuance of its charitable objects

• Acting in the best interests of ShareAction while exercising independent judgement

• Safeguarding and protecting charity assets (investments, cash, intellectual property, staff and reputation) and ensuring the charity’s financial stability

• Acting as an ambassador for ShareAction and using networks to promote its work and, where appropriate, to seek funding

• Assessing and scrutinising Board papers and contributing to the work of sub-committees

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential:

• Experience relevant to the mission of ShareAction and a willingness to champion its values

Expected:

• Firm and well-evidenced commitment to the aims and work of ShareAction

• Collaborative and emotionally intelligent

• Ability to work as part of a team, in a culture of learning and change

• Willingness to support, directly or indirectly, ShareAction’s fundraising and other income generation activities

• Ability to think creatively

• Assertive, willing to speak their mind and exercise exercise independent judgment

• Understanding, or willing to learn about, the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship

• Willingness to support ShareAction’s executives and staff in their work as appropriate

• Not be disqualified from being a trustee

• Ability to make the time commitment to perform the functions of the role

Closing date for applications: 9 am on Monday, 31 October 2022

Three rounds of interviews between November and December 2022:

• First stage interviews with ShareAction Trustees
• Second stage interviews with ShareAction’s Chief Executive and Leadership Team
• Third stage interviews with ShareAction Trustees

Appointment date: 1 January 2023

ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and so if you are not 100 percent sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about your experience and what you hope to bring to this role.

We have a London office and we actively encourage staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available - such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

ShareAction’s London office is based in vibrant Bermondsey and a short walk from London Bridge underground and national rail. Remote working will remain the norm for many ShareAction staff as we continue to face the Covid-19 pandemic, with office space available as described in London for those who wish to use it.