[Hiring] Trustee - Programmes @Hope and Homes for Children

Role Description

As our Programmes Trustee, you will bring senior international development or humanitarian programmes expertise to our Board, helping to strengthen the quality, scale and impact of HHC's work across nine countries. Working closely with our Chair, CEO and Director of Global Programmes, you will contribute to our ambitious 2030 goal by:

• Programmes leadership: Drawing on your senior experience to provide strategic oversight and constructive challenge on HHC's programme delivery, quality assurance and evidence base, helping ensure our work delivers real and lasting change for children and families.
• Systems change: Advising the Board and Executive on how to drive and sustain national-level care reform across the diverse contexts in which HHC operates, including fragile and conflict-affected settings.
• Humanitarian financing: Supporting HHC's ambitions to transform how the humanitarian sector finances work addressing children in orphanages and those at risk of family separation, drawing on your understanding of macro-level financing mechanisms and how they can be influenced.
• Safeguarding and risk: Contributing to the Board's oversight of the risk, regulatory and safeguarding context for an international organisation working directly with vulnerable children and families.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in a programmes function within an NGO, multilateral organisation, government body or major funder, particularly in work with marginalised children, families and communities.
• A track record of overseeing or leading programmes at scale across multiple countries or regions, including in lower income, middle income or fragile and conflict-affected settings.
• Extensive experience of programme strategy, quality assurance, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and of using evidence to drive decision-making.
• A sound understanding of the international development and humanitarian sector, including donor landscapes and the operating environment for international NGOs.
• Experience of working in partnership with local government and other stakeholders to bring about systems change.
• Commitment to the belief that every child deserves to grow up in the love and safety of a family.

Requirements

• Engage with our work across nine countries.
• Contribute to systemic change at global scale, helping to shape the future for separated children worldwide.
• Be part of an organisation approaching its 2030 goal — a worldwide consensus that orphanages have no place in any child's life.

Benefits

• This is a voluntary, unremunerated role.
• The role requires approximately 12–18 days per year, comprising:
• Four Board meetings per year (in person, London or virtual).
• Five subcommittee meetings per year (virtual), as a key member of our Programmes, Advocacy, Research and Accountability Committee (PARAC).
• An annual two-day awayday, which may take place in one of our countries of operation.
• Additional time for preparation, ad hoc queries and induction in your first year.
• The initial term of office is three years, with the possibility of two further three-year terms by mutual agreement.

Company Description

Hope and Homes for Children actively encourages equity, diversity and inclusion, and we look to recruit a diverse range of people to reflect the communities in which we live. We are keen to see a diverse membership of both the trustee body and committees as we believe diversity brings us closer to our mission of eliminating orphanages.