General Information

At Charity Bank we use Applied for our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. Instead of using your CV alone, we'll be asking you to answer questions to test skills needed for the role. The responses are then anonymised, and reviewed in a random order by members of our team.  The Applied platform also asks some demographic questions before you start your application.  We at Charity Bank never see the responses to these demographic questions with your application. We only see summary statistics to help us check if our candidate pool is balanced and if everyone has an equal chance to get hired irrespective of their background. If you prefer, you can easily opt out of answering these questions.

Please email a member of the HR team (recruitment@charitybank.org) if you require Charity Bank to make any reasonable adjustments to support you during our recruitment process. 

We request that you do not use generative AI as part of your application.

Please visit the 'Current Vacancies' section on the website for the full recruitment pack.

Purpose and Main Dimensions of the Role

The role of a non-executive Director at Charity Bank is to support and challenge the CEO and executive management and to drive strategy by assisting and guiding them in achieving the aims of Charity Bank.

The leadership of the board is critical to the long-term success of Charity Bank.

In particular, the candidate will bring a knowledge and understanding of the charity and social enterprise sector and ideally have experience with social investment. The candidate will be expected to participate fully in Board meetings, ensuring the

interests of the social sector are well understood and balanced with the needs of a regulated bank. The candidate will be expected to act as an ambassador for Charity Bank, representing and promoting it to external stakeholders and other contacts as appropriate.

Directors are individually and collectively responsible for ensuring that Charity Bank complies with its governing documents, company law, shareholder and other relevant agreements, and all relevant legislation, regulation and policy. Thorough training on these issues will be provided.

The candidate will be expected to perform all such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the role, as agreed from time to time with the Chair of the Board.

Person Specification

The candidate is expected to demonstrate the following:

Personal Qualities

• A strong and visible passion and commitment to Charity Bank, its strategic objectives and mission.

• Good independent judgement, impartiality and the ability to think creatively in the context of Charity Bank and the external environment.

• Tact and diplomacy, with the ability and willingness to listen but also to challenge and criticise constructively.

• Ability and willingness to commit time to conduct the role well.

• Ability to foster and promote a collaborative team environment and respect the confidences of colleagues.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with the charity/social sector, and the ability to set this in the context of Charity Bank.

• Experience of strategic analysis and planning.

• Commitment to furthering equity, diversity and inclusion.

• Strong communication skills, ability to work with others and contribute as a team player.

Desirable

• Understanding of the social investment marketplace.

• Understanding of funding and financing options for charities and social enterprises.

• Understanding of public sector policy and/or commissioning.

• Knowledge of environmental sustainability issues.