HR Trustee Opportunity

HR Trustee Opportunity

Citizens Advice Hart (CA Hart) is looking for a suitably qualified HR professional to join our Trustee Board to help us maximise the help we can provide to the people within the Hart area. This is a voluntary role. 

Whilst being an independent charity, CA Hart is a member of the national Citizens Advice organisation providing free, independent, impartial and confidential advice on a wide range of issues to the local community. We do so through a team of trained volunteers supported by a management team operating from offices in Fleet.  In our last financial year, we helped in over 4,000 client cases, with nearly 9,000 issues.  We also campaigned to change policies to help people in the future. 

The Trustee Board’s focus is strategy and business planning, governance, compliance and providing support to the Chief Executive Officer. In addition, the role of the HR Lead Trustee is to 

• Provide a specialist resource for advice and opinion to the Board and Chief Executive Officer when required.  

• Ensure the charity has appropriate people policies in place considering current legislation and best practice.  

• Support and advise the Chief Executive Officer with key people related decisions around recruitment, dismissal and disciplinary processes. 

• Responsible for the recruitment of new trustees to the board. 

Why volunteer for us? 

We are looking to appoint people who have the capacity to make a significant contribution: you may have decided that you would like to volunteer and make a difference to those in need. 

Citizens Advice is there to help people whenever they need it, to campaign on issues that need changing and to champion equality. By joining us you will play a vital part in delivering a much-valued service across Hart District. Your skills can help make a difference to those in need. 

Skills 

The best Boards are made up of a wide variety of motivated people, all of whom share a common interest in a charity’s services and success. The ideal person will bring innovative ideas, enthusiasm and excellent judgement to help lead the organisation. Understanding of, and empathy with, the types of issues faced by Hart CA’s clients is also important. 

Our volunteers come from a range of backgrounds as we welcome applications from all members of our community that have the attributes for the role. 

You would need to be able to commit to attending trustee board meetings which are held 8 times a year. Estimated time commitment is 7-10 hours per month. 

How will we support you? 

We will support you in your new role with us with through a comprehensive induction programme working with a trustee mentor. We also provide learning opportunities to our trustees at local and national level to advance their understanding of our work, our challenges and opportunities 

If you would like to have an initial conversation about the role, please contact our Chair of Trustees, Roger. 

If you are keen to apply please complete the Volunteer application form.

How we will use your information

The information you give us on this form will be used to help us decide whether to recruit you as a volunteer – this is our ‘legitimate interest’ under data protection law. It will only be seen by staff involved in the recruitment process, and will be stored securely. We will retain unsuccessful application forms for up to 1 year from the date the application form was received.

If you are recruited we will retain your contact information in order to involve and support you. We will also collect additional information, such as next of kin details, and over time records of training, support meetings and where relevant, appraisals. Again, it will be kept securely, and only those people who need to see your information in order to involve you will have access to it.

All use of volunteer information will be relevant to their involvement, and may include;

• Contacting volunteers when necessary
• Making changes to role, support or equipment to improve accessibility
• Monitoring statistical details of our volunteers
• Providing ongoing support to volunteers
• Monitoring the quality of advice given to clients
• Addressing the problems or complaints

You have legal rights over your data, including access to it, and the right to ask that it is corrected, restricted or deleted. There is more information on these rights on the Information Commissioner’s Office website: www.ico.org.uk

If you have any questions about how your information is collected or used, you cna contact our office.
Telephone: 01252 878435
Email: help@citizensadvicehart.org.uk