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  • Organisation: Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
  • Salary: Voluntary
  • Closing Date: 05 December 2017 | Non Executive Director

Board Members

Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (SASSOT) is a high performing County Sports Partnership, bringing partners to work together to create active places and healthy lives through physical activity and sport. SASSOT is currently on a positive journey of change, with a new Chair and leadership team, completion of a governance review and development of a new strategy for 2018-2021. The aspiration of the Board is for SASSOT to become a progressive, adaptable and thriving organisation, with a visionary Board at its helm.

We are looking for several new Board Members to help steer SASSOT through this exciting period of transformation. These voluntary roles will help to ensure we continue to embrace the changing sport and physical activity landscape, both locally and nationally.

We are particularly looking for applicants from the commercial sector or with experience in marketing, insight / market research or finance. However, we welcome applications from anyone with a successful track record of leadership and management at a strategic level who will help us achieve our vision of Everyone More Active More Often.

Purpose of role

• To ensure the Board provides leadership and sets the strategic direction of SASSOT

• To approve SASSOT’s strategy, long-term financial plans and annual budget, and to monitor delivery against these

• To take decisions collectively and act solely in the best interests of SASSOT.

• To ensure that SASSOT complies with its Constitution and Terms of Reference, the law and good practice and that SASSOT applies its resources solely for the purposes set out in its Constitution and Terms of Reference.

• To ensure that SASSOT’s controls, monitoring and reporting systems are robust, and to periodically review and address major risks

• To uphold and protect the values, integrity and reputation of SASSOT.

• To be a visible role model for the Partnership, and to advocate and champion SASSOT’s work

• To advocate the role of physical activity and sport for its own sake and for how it contributes to wider cross-cutting agendas

• To contribute towards making the Board a high performing team.

• To contribute towards ensuring SASSOT’s long term success.

• To support as appropriate the Chair, other Board members, senior management and other staff, sharing expertise and experience

• To engage with SASSOT’s current and potential partners and to represent SASSOT and its Board at events.

Download the full recruitment pack here.

How to apply

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Malcolm Armstrong, Chair of SASSOT, on 07825 415153. Please click here for more information.

Closing date for applications is Tuesday 5 December 2017 at 12 noon

SASSOT is committed to ensuring that our Board Membership and Leadership are fully reflective of the diverse communities that we serve, and we therefore encourage applications from all sections of these communities.

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