Trustee

Salary: Volunteer

ScreenSkills is seeking four Trustees, who have a broad mix of senior industry experience, to join their Board for this new phase of the charity’s development.

ScreenSkills launched its new five-year strategy in October 2024 and has been reviewing its governance in a review begun in early 2024 in response to the Screen Industry Task Force report November 2023.

Role details

• Primarily a remote role with some in-person meetings
• Five meetings per year
• Three-year commitment (with potential to extend)
• For further details, please visit the ScreenSkills “Trustee Vancancy” page

Role responsibilities

The Trustees will play a vital role in ensuring ScreenSkills can deliver its core purpose and vision, and to support the screen sector sustainably as a strategic skills body. As a trustee you will be responsible for the overall management and administration of ScreenSkills, to ensure it complies with charity law and any other relevant legislation. You will have responsibility for ensuring the organisation pursues its charitable objectives as stated in its terms of reference, operational plans and budgets to support the vision and strategy.

As a Trustee you will support the senior leadership team to identify major risks to the organisation which are regularly identified and reviewed ensuring systems are in place to mitigate these risks.

The trustees will also be required to support the senior leadership team to ensure the views of stakeholders are regularly sought and considered, taking into consideration the external environment.

Person specifications

Ideally, the Trustees will have experience/expert knowledge in at least one of the following areas:

• Organisational transformation
• Fundraising and partnerships
• Education/Skills
• Marketing and Communications
• Strategic use of data
• Technology and AI experience
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• The primary responsibilities of the trustees are to provide
• ScreenSkills with strategic leadership including governance experience, financial oversight, risk, and stakeholder management.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Senior commissioning experience from a broadcaster, whether public service or commercial or SVOD
• Or senior production experience from a broadcaster, streamers, studios and/or independent production company across film, animation and/or television
• Or Senior production / development experience from a VFX company/studio that serves film, television, games and other media.
• Or an adjacent / complementary sector experience with skills as highlighted below
• Leadership or management of an organisation ideally within the film and TV industry or a relevant adjacent sector
• Plus, proven experience on a board as a trustee, NED or in industry body as a council or advisory board member or similar

How to apply

Please submit a CV and a cover letter outlining your interest and suitability for this position to jobs@screenskills.com. Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Applications are actively sought and welcomed from across the UK nations and regions to ensure an improved pan UK representation within the Board. We are seeking a diverse range of individuals willing to bring energy, enthusiasm and commitment to the unpaid role and can broaden the diversity of thinking on our board.

ScreenSkills is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering after a career break, women, people who are LGBTQ+, minority ethnic groups, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, from a less advantaged socio-economic background as well as any other under-represented group.

We’re happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application & selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. So, we encourage you to get in touch with us if you require anything jobs@screenskills.com.

The closing date for this position is 18/05/2025 at 17:00