Position Description

This is an opportunity to join the Board of the Vivensa Foundation dedicated to radically improving how we all age.

Vivensa Foundation values skills potential and lived experience. The work they fund means that they know all too well the negative impacts of inequity. They are therefore committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in all areas of their work and improving the diversity of representation on their Board of Trustees and on their Committees and they welcome applications from global majority backgrounds.

Applications are invited from across the UK and Board and Committee meetings are held quarterly, with dates set in advance (the time commitment for each is around six days per year). The Board is collaborative and evidence-driven with a commitment to learning and good governance. While our office base is in central London, we offer the opportunity to attend meetings either in person or virtually. Although the role is unpaid, reasonable expenses, including travel and the need to cover caring responsibilities, will be reimbursed.

Selection Criteria

Owing to a retirement, we welcome applications for the position of Trustee from candidates with expertise in one of the priority areas set out in our new plan.

We will prioritise applications, from either:

• research active clinicians and academics with demonstrable expertise in translating research and evidence into practice or;
• professionals with a background in delivering innovative change in NHS or local authority settings, social care or housing provision with the
• experience and networks to turn the latest evidence into practice.

How to Apply

It’s an exciting time to be joining Vivensa Foundation and they’re looking for people with the commitment, vision and expertise to support and work with their small but highly experienced and professional executive team and make your contribution to writing the next chapter in their story.

If you think this could be you, please send your CV, with a covering letter of no more than two pages addressing how you meet the needs of the person specification to [email protected], together with the optional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) form.