Music Therapy Works
Description of the role
Our mission is to deliver: “High quality Music Therapy for clients, innovative collaborations with partners and wider understanding of the benefits of music for all.”
As our Chair, you will be responsible for leading our Board of Trustees to deliver our strategic plan, whilst supporting our Chief Executive and acting as the public face and an ambassador of the charity.
Could you be our new Chair? Are you based in the West or East Midlands and looking for an opportunity to create positive social change and lead a group of people focused on a common goal? Our current Chair is preparing to retire, so we are looking for a new motivated and experienced Chair or a very experienced Trustee looking for their first Chair role.
Someone committed to working with our Board of Trustees, with the sole aim of achieving MTW’s aims and enabling even more people to benefit from music therapy. We’re looking for a Chair with the following capabilities, qualities and behaviours:
- Leadership: able to lead MTW in partnership with our CEO and staff
- Clarity of purpose: work with the Board of Trustees to ensure decisions made advance the purpose, strategy and values of MTW
- Cohesive board: create a productive working environment whilst facilitating constructive trustee meetings
Governance:
- Understand MTW’s charitable objects as set out in the governing document and ensure that MTW operates in accordance with them.
- Instigate discussions on the strategic development of the organisation, ensuring that agreed strategic and financial objectives are implemented and monitored.
- Use your skills, knowledge and experience to further the work of MTW.
Responsibilities:
The Chair will be responsible for 121s with the CEO and conducting their annual appraisal, liaising with subcommittee chairs, holding annual sessions with trustees, taking an active part in the annual Away Day, plus chairing Board meetings and the AGM. We hold four Board meetings a year, currently held online on Monday evenings (January/March/June/Sept). We aim to meet in person at least once a year in addition to our Away Day.
We are looking for:
- Decision-making: able to steer the Board in key governance decisions and ensuring well founded decision-making
- Ambitious for positive social change: motivated to make a difference and lead this charity into its next strategic phase of growth and development
- Motivated: facilitative, empowering, approachable, able to delegate
- Capacity to lead: keen to commit, able to devote time and effort to the role
- Attributes: confident, organised, focused, able to see the ‘bigger picture’
- Ease of self: flexible, non-judgemental, emotionally intelligent, self-aware plus a good sense of humour always helps!
Practical Considerations
- We’re always open to new ideas and ways to make our Board as accessible as possible. Please let us know how we can best meet your access requirements.
- If you need any support to submit an application or feel like you would need support to fulfil your duties as a trustee, please do get in touch with us to discuss your individual requirements.
- Expenses can be claimed – copy of expenses policy available on request.
Any specific requirements
- Relevant qualification or training.
- Own vehicle or access to a vehicle.
- Driving licence.
- Requires Criminal Record Check (DBS).
- Requires references.
- Must own a computer or have secure access to one.
- Must be 18 or over to apply.
Where is the opportunity based?
Most work is done remotely online with some in person meetings in or around Worcester.
When is the opportunity available?
Hours can be flexible. Discuss with organisation.
About the organisation
We’re a UK charity working towards greater wellbeing through music in the East and West Midlands. Our mission is to deliver high quality Music Therapy for clients, innovative collaborations with partners and wider understanding of the benefits of music for all. Music Therapy is uniquely beneficial to people for whom talking therapies may not be effective, because music reaches deeper into the brain than language.