[Hiring] Income Generation & Industry Partnerships Trustee @Mathematics in Education & Industry

Role Description

MEI seeks a Trustee with senior commercial, corporate partnership or industry philanthropy experience to join its Board. This Trustee will bring commercial insight, external perspective and relevant networks to help MEI strengthen its relationships with employers, industry bodies, foundations, corporate partners and philanthropic supporters.

This is an opportunity to use your experience and connections to open doors, provide strategic advice and help MEI build high-impact partnerships aligned with its mission to improve lives through mathematics education.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Bring senior commercial insight and external perspective to Board discussions about MEI’s income generation and industry engagement.
• Help MEI identify where its work is most relevant to employers, industry bodies, corporate foundations and other strategic partners.
• Support the development of senior relationships through their insight, networks and external perspective.
• Serve as an active member of the Finance, Audit and Risk (FAR) Committee.

Trustee Responsibilities

• Ensure the charity complies with its governing documents and all relevant legislation and regulation.
• Pursue its charitable objectives effectively.
• Use resources only in furtherance of those objectives.
• Provide strong strategic leadership and direction.
• Safeguard MEI’s reputation and values.
• Ensure effective and efficient administration.
• Maintain financial sustainability and organisational resilience.
• Appoint and oversee the Chief Executive.

Trustee Expectations

• Attend Board meetings and strategy sessions.
• Participate in committee work.
• Provide advice and support between meetings when required.
• Contribute to working groups where appropriate.
• Complete MEI's induction programme within the first three months of appointment.

Key Relationships

• Work closely with the Chair of Trustees and a trustee mentor.
• Engage with all other trustees in Board or committee meetings.
• Occasionally meet with the Chief Executive and other members of the Senior Leadership.
• Act as an ambassador for MEI to the wider world.

Person Specification

Particularly Valuable Experience

• Senior strategic leadership experience or previous trustee experience.
• A strong understanding of governance and trusteeship.
• Sound judgement and the ability to contribute effectively at board level.
• Experience managing organisational change and complexity.
• Broad business and financial understanding.
• Strategic thinking and collaborative leadership.
• The ability to take collective responsibility for organisational success.

• Senior experience and commercial leadership in industry or business.
• An understanding of corporate partnerships, corporate philanthropy or social impact funding.
• Credibility and networks within business, industry or philanthropy.
• Insight into skills, workforce development, numeracy, social mobility or mathematics education.

Personal Attributes, Values and Behaviours

• Act solely to promote public benefit.
• Avoid any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organisations that might seek to influence them.
• Make choices based on merit.
• Ensure that everything that MEI does can stand the test of scrutiny by its stakeholders.
• Be open about all the decisions and actions they take.
• Be truthful at all times.

Additional Information

• Prepare for and attend four board meetings per year, with two likely to be in person and the other two online.
• Attend an in-person strategy day each year.
• Serve on one or two committees, each meeting 4-6 times per year for about two hours online.
• Attend online training or other development activities, including induction sessions in the first three months.
• Encouraged to attend at least some part of MEI's large and popular annual conference.

Travel

• Travel is limited to required events, such as Board meetings and the strategy day, currently held in Bristol.
• Costs are reimbursed.

More Information

Please review the Pack. See more, including our Annual Reports and Accounts at www.mei.org.uk . Registered charity number 1058911.