Trustee (Three Vacancies)

Voluntary Organisations Disability Group

The Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) is seeking to appoint three new trustees to its Board. These positions offer a unique opportunity to contribute to the strategic direction and growth of our organisation.

Trustees will play a crucial role in shaping our mission, overseeing strategic initiatives, and ensuring that VODG remains accountable to its stakeholders. With ambitious plans to further support VODG members, we seek experienced and successful leaders who are deeply committed to disability advocacy and rights. We are especially keen to recruit leaders with significant and clearly demonstrable expertise in the following:

• Fundraising, grants and philanthropy – the ability to share approaches, networks and new revenue for the direct benefit of VODG as we continue to diversify our income. 

• Leading large-scale charities – preparedness to unlock, at a CEO level, new membership opportunities in pursuit of our mission as a pan-disability, all-age membership body. 

• C-suite digital and data information – the ability to support VODG, as a relatively small organisation, as it charts new opportunities through digital transformation. 

VODG trustees are senior leaders within their respective organisations—Chief Executives and Senior Directors. Over the past three years, VODG has successfully broadened diversity among the Board, and we remain committed to seeking applications from across all parts of our membership, in particular leaders with lived experience of disability/long-term health conditions.

We are keen to ensure that the Board is representative of both the different types of member organisations and of the people members support, including services supporting people with neurodiversity, mental health conditions, hidden, physical and sensory disabilities.

We actively encourage applications from those whose individual life experience – including disability, ethnicity, educational attainment, diversity of gender identity, religion and sexual orientation – will enrich perspectives and increase the effectiveness of our work. We particularly want to encourage those who can contribute lived experience of disability and of accessing services, as well as people from minoritised ethnic community backgrounds who are notably underrepresented on charitable boards.

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