About the role
The Chair will lead the Board in ensuring that we deliver our mission, remain financially sustainable and realise our strategic ambition.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead the Board. Provide inclusive and effective leadership, set high standards of governance and ensure trustees make a strong collective contribution.
- Shape our future. Guide the development of an ambitious long-term vision and strategy, grounded in our mission, values and 40-year legacy.
- Partner with our CEO and Artistic Director. Build a close, trusting and appropriately challenging relationship with Dr Suzann McLean MBE, supporting performance, accountability and wellbeing.
- Steward our sustainability. Ensure strategic ambition is matched by careful financial oversight, proportionate risk management and a clear plan for resilience.
- Build a collaborative culture. Enable open, respectful and collegiate discussion across the Board and strengthen engagement with staff and stakeholders.
- Champion representation and inclusivity. Help ensure that our Board and leadership reflect the voices, backgrounds and experiences of the community we serve.
- Grow our reach and influence. Represent us externally, deepen relationships with funders and partners, and support fundraising and partnership development.
- Assure compliance. Ensure our decisions and activities remain aligned with our charitable purpose and all regulatory and funder requirements.
Work with the whole Board with a particularly important relationship with the CEO and Artistic Director. The relationship should be mutually supportive, candid and focused on the best interests of Theatre Peckham and the communities we serve.
The Chair will also act as a connector – bringing trustees, staff, partners, funders and community perspectives together around shared goals.
This is an unpaid role. We reimburse reasonable expenses in line with our expenses policy. All trustees are supported to understand the role and participate fully.
FULL ROLE DESCRIPTION CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://canva.link/4hvibndq0bzw0p0 To Apply Submit a cover letter of no more than one A4 page to tash@theatrepeckham.co.uk explaining why you are interested in becoming our Chair. Tell us how your experience, perspective and leadership could help us shape Theatre Peckham’s next 40 years.
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