Board Member in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Tyne Housing Association

Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Tyne Housing Association has an outstanding legacy of standing by the North East’s most vulnerable people since 1973. Through our housing, support, healthcare, training and investment in communities, we help get people to a better place. Better support from Tyne starts with the relationship, no two people are the same, so we lead with progressive and individual support.

We are a housing association with a clear sense of purpose, a strong commitment to our region and a brilliant staff team. We have a strong board with comprehensive skills mix amongst our current members, and now wish to strengthen those further.

For our upcoming Board Member vacancy we particularly welcome applicants from women and other under-represented groups, including people who have experienced homelessness. Having done a skills audit, we do have a future requirement to strengthen our board’s skills in Information Technology. This role would suit an individual with a well rounded ICT background and career.

This is an unpaid role but we pay all reasonable expenses as well as invest in our members’ development. Board meetings are held quarterly and generally late afternoon/early evening. To find out more about Tyne and the work we do, visit our website and download our latest annual review, or read about the impact we make in our recent social value study.

Role & Responsibilities

• The essential functions of the Tyne Housing Association board are;

• Setting and ensuring compliance with the values, vision, mission and strategic objectives of the organisation to ensure its long-term success;

• Setting a positive culture, with strong customer focus;

• Ensuring that the organisation operates effectively, efficiently and economically; Providing oversight, direction and constructive challenge to the organisation’s chief executive and executives;

• The appointment and, if necessary, the dismissal of the chief executive;

• Satisfying itself as to the integrity of financial information, approving each year’s budget, business plan and annual accounts prior to publication;

• Establishing, overseeing and reviewing a framework of delegation and systems of internal control;

• Establishing and overseeing a risk management framework in order to safeguard the assets and reputation of the organisation.

All members of the Tyne Board share the same legal status and have equal responsibility. Each must act only in the interests of the organisation. Board members must ensure that the interests of the organisation are placed before any personal interests, whether commercial or otherwise. Board members who may have a conflict of interests must declare that conflict.

Tyne board members are required to attend four quarterly meetings per year plus the company Annual General Meeting. They are expected to have read all the previously circulated papers in readiness for the meetings. Additionally board members may be invited to join sub committees or task and finish groups, training events, board away days or public profile raising events.

If you’d like to apply, please send a CV along with a covering letter outlining why you are interested in becoming a Board member of Tyne Housing to our retained consultancy Castle Peak Group at:

A full candidate pack is available on request by emailing the above address.

Closing Date: Wednesday 26th June