Join our Board!
ADD International is seeking up to four new Trustees, including a new Treasurer and Safeguarding Focal person, to serve on its Board as existing Trustees step down after serving their full terms. This is a very exciting opportunity for new Trustees to join us and be part of the next steps in a transformational phase of ADD’s work.
Role: Trustee (including our Treasurer and Safeguarding Focal Person)
Estimated Time commitment: 1-2 days a month.
Term: All our Trustees serve a 4-year term that may be renewed for an additional term of 4 years.
Remuneration: None. In line with current UK charity legislation these are voluntary roles. However reasonable expenses to undertake the role are covered and agreed on in advance.
Location: Virtual, but we aim to hold one in person board meeting a year to allow deeper reflection and in-person connections to support the work we do.
Closing date: 12 October 12pm UK time
As an organisation that works with disability justice activists in Africa and Asia we are clear that lived experience of disability is hugely important to our mission. Priority for this role will be given to disabled people. We want to see you at your best and so please let us know if there are any adjustments at all that we can make to the recruitment process to ensure that it works for you. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout recruitment and employment.
What is the role of a Trustee?
Trustees will contribute to the development of ADD International through:
- Shaping, sustaining and reviewing ADD’s aims and strategies and ensuring they remain relevant to the vision, purpose and values of the organisation throughout the transformation process, and beyond
- Offering varied perspectives, providing critical and generative thinking to the Board, the Co-chief executives, and ADD’s senior leadership team
- Setting and maintaining the appropriate inclusive culture for the organisation, consistent with its values
- Providing appropriate advice, guidance and assurance on the operational/delivery implications of policies (including safeguarding) that will guide the shift of power in ADD’s participatory grant making procedures and grant management
- Attending Board meetings, convened by the co-chairs of the Board of Trustees
- Providing independent support, guidance and challenging the performance, progress and implementation of ADD’s operational and financial management, and transformation process
- Through the co-chairs, holding the Co-CEOs to account for the management of the organisation and the transformation process
- Acting as a guardian of the charity’s assets, both tangible and intangible
- Ensuring that ADD complies with all legal, fiduciary and regulatory requirements
- Ensuring ADD’s governance is of the highest standard as outlined by the UK charity commission’s standards of good governance
- Participating in tasks such as fundraising, policy advocacy, recruitment panels and advice to the co-chief executives
- Adhering to the Seven Principles of Public Life
We would like new Trustees to have the following:
- An understanding of the global disability movement, disability rights, the respect and dignity of persons with disabilities, and the social and human rights model of disability
- Experience and understanding of Grant Making, especially participatory grant making and grant making to movements and activists
- Experience of delivering across a complex remote global organisation
- An appreciation and understanding of good governance and the role of the Board
- Understanding of organisational development and change management
- Appropriate personal motivation to act as a Trustee, sensitivity to the nature of the responsibilities, and understanding/empathy with the values and aspirations of ADD
- Ability to question intelligently, think strategically, debate and dialogue constructively, challenge rigorously, bring independence of thought and decide dispassionately
- Ability to listen openly to the views of others, inside and outside the Board, to work well with difference, be a team player and gain the trust and respect of other Board and senior management team members
- Openness to reflect and learn as a Trustee
- Willingness to devote time, enthusiasm and effort to the duties and responsibilities of a Trustee
- We are also specifically looking for a new Treasurer and Safeguarding Focal person. The terms of reference for these specific roles can be found below
- We also very much welcome applications from potential Trustees who are black, indigenous or a person of colour with lived experience of disability and from the global south
Please see the terms of reference below for further information on the role and what is required.
How to apply
Interested applicants should send the following attachments by email:
- A CV of no more than 2 pages, including names and contact details of two referees (that we will only contact after asking permission).
- Answers to the following questions. (It is important to note that these will be anonymised and reviewed before the shortlisting panel looks at the CVs of candidates, so it is requested that applicants do not include their name on these responses). These questions can either be answered in written form, of no more than 900 words or or as an audio/video file lasting no more than 5 minutes.
- What are the key trends in the disability and international development sectors that you think the Board at ADD will need to be aware of over the next 5 years?
- How do you think a Board of Trustees can best support an organisation going through transformation and change?
- What assets, experiences and skills would you bring to the ADD Board?
- Completed equal opportunities form
We ask that applications are in English, however we recognise and will take into account the fact that for most people this will be a second language.
These should be sent to recruitment@add.org.uk and the deadline for submitting applications is 12 October 2025.
If you need an accessible format, please contact recruitment@add.org.uk and specify which format you require.
Incomplete applications will not be accepted.