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Appointment of
Chair of Trustees
Candidate pack
April 2022 | Reference ULNI
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
Introduction Thank you for your interest in the RNLI and considering becoming our Chair. We are the Deputy Chairs, and have been acting Co-Chairs since last summer. It’s been a privilege doing this and it’s been hugely rewarding. We have been working closely with the Chief Executive and the Executive Team. It has been challenging to ensure our staff and volunteers stayed safe throughout the pandemic whilst maintaining operations. It has brought out the absolute best in our colleagues and we are even stronger than before. There is a huge sense of community throughout the 35,000 or so volunteers involved in the RNLI and it has been a real pleasure to meet and work with so many terrific people who give their time and expertise so willingly. As Co-Chairs we have supported the work of the Executive Team in helping our skilled and brave lifeboat volunteers and lifeguards provide a world-class search and rescue service around the UK and Ireland, develop and deliver first class training in the RNLI college, share water safety messages and make an impact globally, both through the UN and working with local organisations. It’s a very exciting time for the RNLI as we prepare to celebrate our bicentenary in 2024. We will be commemorating the many brave RNLI people over the last 200 years and we will be looking forward to the future, and the opportunities that lie ahead. We look forward to discussing the opportunity of joining the RNLI with you. Janet Cooper Eddie Donaldson RNLI Deputy Chairs, in absence of the Chairman RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
About us
We are the RNLI:
RNLI LIFESAVING Scotland
The charity that saves REGIONS 2021 46 lifeboat stations
lives at sea 05 lifeguard units
Every day of the year, people of
all backgrounds get into danger Ireland
in the water. It's a problem we're 46 lifeboat stations
here to tackle. 09 lifeguard units North and East
36 lifeboat stations
We're here to explain the risks, 28 lifeguard units
share safety knowledge and
rescue those people whose lives
are in danger. Wales, West
and Isle of Man
We're here to work with others 46 lifeboat stations
to make the water a safer place 36 lifeguard units
for everyone.
We're here to prevent tragedies
inshore and offshore. South West
33 lifeboat stations South East
68 lifeguard units 31 lifeboat stations
And with your help, we always
31 lifeguard units
will be.
WE ARE THE RNLI
SAVING LIVES AT SEA
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
With more than 200 lifeboat stations across the UK and Ireland, our strength lies in
operating through local teams, centrally supported and resourced. But the RNLI’s
work is broad and varied – we’re more than a rescue service. We influence, supervise
and educate people too. Our vision is to save every one.
SEARCH AND RESCUE
RNLI lifeboat crews protect hundreds of communities ‘It is a privilege to be
around the UK and Ireland through our 24-hour search
and rescue service. We have an active fleet of more than an RNLI Trustee and
400 lifeboats, and an average 24 callouts per day –
there’s most likely a lifeboat out right now. In order to
to be able to play my
maintain this service, we build and repair our lifeboats to part in supporting our
the highest standards. dedicated volunteers in
Our lifeguards patrol more than 240 beaches around the
UK and Channel Islands in the summer season. They aim to
saving lives at sea’
reach anyone up to 300m from shore, within the red and Philip Goodwin, Trustee
yellow flags on RNLI-patrolled beaches, within 3½ minutes.
Baltimore Tamar class lifeboat Alan Massey
and Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat Rita Daphne
Smyth on a search and rescue training exercise
WATER SAFETY
Making people safer is core to the RNLI’s operations.
We use research, targeted campaigns and lifesaving
plans to encourage changes in people’s behaviour, in
and around the water. We work alongside partners to
maximise our reach and influence.
Cork's famous Annie Moore statue gets a 2021 makeover as
part of a joint RNLI and Helly Hansen safety campaign to
encourage people to wear a lifejacket when out on the water
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
EDUCATION
Educating young people about water safety is
fundamental to saving lives at sea and a core part of
our prevention work. The more young people we can
reach with our water safety messages, the more lives
we can save now and in the future.
We also support young people as they think about
their career paths. Engineering is at the very heart
of what we do at the RNLI. That’s why it’s crucial
we inspire the next generation, particularly young
women, to consider roles within engineering. We
hold a yearly event for local schoolgirls to celebrate
International Women in Engineering Day. RNLI Education Volunteer
David Banger teaching primary
school children important
water safety skills
RNLI COLLEGE
Training is fundamental to saving
lives. The RNLI College in Poole is
at the heart of the RNLI – where
our extraordinary lifesaving
volunteer crew and lifeguards
from around the UK and Ireland
are trained. The site also offers
an award-winning hotel and
conference venue, so everyone
can come and experience the
home of RNLI training.
Lifeboat crew doing a capsize training exercise in the
sea survival pool at the RNLI college
INTERNATIONAL
Every other minute, someone in the world drowns.
Drowning claims an estimated 235,000 lives every
year, many of them children. The RNLI is working with
global leaders, public health organisations and at-risk
communities to change this by raising awareness,
conducting research and testing interventions.
We want to make drowning prevention a priority
worldwide and reduce this staggering loss of life.
The RNLI supports SeaSafe, a project in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh,
where children are at high risk of drowning. As part of the project,
children receive swimming lessons that could save their lives
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
Our impact
Every year, our volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards help and rescue
thousands of people and have saved over 143,000 lives since 1824. Countless
more lives are saved through our youth education and water safety work.
The RNLI will be celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2024. We are
proud of our history, the affection in which people hold our traditions,
and the RNLI’s achievement of saving lives over nearly two centuries.
As we look forward in the future, we will ensure that volunteering is at
the heart of all we do, recognising the changing nature in volunteering
as we adapt for the future.
We will continue to work with partners such as the Black Swimming
Association (BSA). Through the partnership, the RNLI will fulfil its
commitment to saving everyone. And the BSA will fulfil its
commitment to ensuring vital water safety education and drowning
prevention is accessible and equitable for Black and Asian communities
in the UK and Ireland.
RNLI Lifeguard Daisy Evans
This partnership will ultimately deliver on a joint ambition to significantly keeping watch over the beach
reduce accidental drowning fatalities in these communities. from the lifeguard hut in
Withernsea, East Yorkshire
Aran Islands’ Severn class lifeboat
David Kirkaldy powers through the
waves in the dark
IN 2021
408
LIVES SAVED BY
53,665
PEOPLE AIDED BY
35
PEOPLE AIDED EACH
DAY ON AVERAGE
RNLI CREWS RNLI CREWS BY LIFEBOAT
AND LIFEGUARDS AND LIFEGUARDS VOLUNTEERS
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
Our values
We are a charity founded upon and driven by our values:
• Selflessness
• Courage
• Dependability
• Trustworthiness
Volunteers are at our heart. Values shared by generations
of supporters have powered our lifesaving work through
kindness and generosity for almost 200 years.
Volunteers make up 95% of our organisation – ordinary
people doing extraordinary things. This includes around
5,600 lifeboat crew members and 23,000 community
fundraisers. Thousands more dedicated volunteers raise
awareness, give safety advice and help in our museums,
shops and offices, supported by expert staff – all working
together to help communities at home and abroad
save lives. Living the RNLI's values: volunteer Paul Weston
qualified as a helm at Portishead in 2021. Being in
charge of a lifeboat and crew is a huge responsibility
St Davids crew launch their Tamar class lifeboat Norah Wortle
down the slipway on a training exercise. RNLI volunteers have been
launching lifeboats here since 1867 and have saved hundreds of lives
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
Looking to the future
As we draw close to our 200th anniversary, it is
important that the RNLI is prepared for future challenges,
and ready to sustain the charity for the next two centuries.
Our new Chair will need to help us look to the future and
ensure we adapt and remain relevant in a rapidly
changing environment.
One of our major focuses will be securing a future
volunteer workforce. Engaging young people, and
utilising digital tools, technology and new forms of
communication will be key to this. We also need to ensure
that we are inclusively connecting with diverse audiences,
conscious of the hugely diverse communities we work with
and support every day.
Our work has never been more important, whether
we are keeping people safe in the UK and Ireland, or
using our experience and expertise to help tackle the
global drowning problem. Since 1824, we’ve pioneered
developments in lifesaving at sea, and there is a hugely
exciting period ahead as we continue to innovate, develop
our services and engage new communities and lifesavers of RNLI Lifeguard Jamie Hannaford keeping
the future. beachgoers safe on West Bay Beach, Dorset
Crew Member Becs Miller takes part in a night-time
search and rescue exercise onboard Dunbar's Trent
class lifeboat John Neville Taylor. More than 40% of all
2021 lifeboat launches were carried out in darkness
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
The role of the Trustee Board
The Trustees are responsible for ensuring the RNLI stays true to its mission,
ethos and values.
Being a Trustee of a dynamic, complex, international Trustees need to:
charity, means making decisions that will impact on
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership traits, for example,
people’s lives, on the communities we serve across the UK,
being an active listener, aware of your own bias and
Ireland and Crown Dependencies (and internationally) and
on wider society. comfortable to challenge your own thinking.
The Trustee Board has ultimate responsibility for all the • Demonstrate an inclusive, respectful, non-judgemental
activities of the RNLI in pursuit of its aims. Trustees, led approach to others.
by the Chair, have independent control over, and legal
responsibility for, the RNLI’s management. They act as • Show independence of thought, emotional intelligence
the ultimate decision makers, protecting the interests and generosity of spirit.
of volunteers, beneficiaries, colleagues, and the public.
They agree the strategy and work closely with the • Actively promote diversity within both the Trustee
Chief Executive and Executive Team to ensure they are Board and the RNLI as a whole.
in a position to deliver effectively.
RNLI Trustees come from a wide range of backgrounds and In line with evolving good corporate governance, a Senior
bring a range of specialist skills to support and challenge Independent Trustee will be appointed this year.
the organisation. What they have in common is a passion
for the organisation and a belief in its objectives to reduce
deaths from drowning.
Kilmore Quay volunteers hit rough seas in
their Tamar class lifeboat Killarney
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEES
The Chair role
Key responsibilities:
• Work with the Trustee Board to oversee the As Chair you will ensure effective discussion about the
development of an appropriate strategy for the development of the RNLI’s aims, objectives and goals
RNLI with the Chief Executive. in accordance with the RNLI Charter and regulatory
requirements. You will encourage and empower the
• Advocate for the RNLI, representing its interests,
Board to excel in its strategic role. You will also be
building strong partnerships with stakeholders
working very closely with the Chief Executive to ensure
nationally, internationally and across communities.
that the Trustees’ decisions are acted upon and that the
• Provide leadership in support of the RNLI’s RNLI is managed effectively and efficiently.
commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and
health and safety. Our volunteers, staff and supporters are at the heart of
everything we do, and as Chair you will be engaging with
• To support the Chief Executive in representing the
people across our organisation. You will:
RNLI externally, at functions, in broadcasting and on
social media.
• Ensure that the non-executive committees are
• Visible non-executive leadership to all stakeholders effective in using delegated authority and provide
including volunteers, supporters and employees. relevant advice to the Trustees and Executive Team.
• Work with the Trustees to maintain an effective team. • Provide support and constructive challenge to the
Ensure constructive relationships with RNLI executives, Chief Executive and Executive Team. Hold the Chief
staff and volunteers and resolve conflicts where they Executive and Executive Team to account for the
occur. delivery of agreed strategies.
• Work with the Trustees to ensure the right composition • Appraise the performance of the Chief Executive,
of the Board. Chair the Membership Nomination hold regular performance reviews and recommend
Committee and ensure an inclusive approach that revisions to remuneration.
appoints the best people for the roles from diverse
• Ensure that proper governance processes are in
backgrounds.
place to enable the RNLI to meet its objectives and
• Ensure the proper running of Trustee and governance statutory requirements.
meetings. Ensure that appropriate information is
• Work closely with the Deputy Chairs.
made available in a timely fashion, that contributions
are encouraged from all participants and that clear • Maintain an interest in maritime, lifesaving and
decisions and actions arise from these meetings. not-for-profit sector issues, to inform proposals that
enhance the effectiveness and innovative culture of
the RNLI.
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEESWhat we’re looking for
We are looking for a passionate, collaborative Chair and future-focused leader to
join this complex organisation and support the vital work we do every day, in an
environment of change.
You will be inspired by our work and supporting our • Strategic and creative thinking, with an intellectual
communities, and ambitious in driving towards our next curiosity. You will be able to provide calm direction
bicentenary, preparing the RNLI for future challenges, to and leadership in a way that inspires confidence in
continue saving thousands of lives. and commitment from others, particularly in times of
change or crisis.
Our next Chair will bring:
• Inclusive, empowering leadership, with a commitment
• Experience of leading a high-performing Board or
to furthering our commitment to diversity and
Committee in an organisation with comparable
inclusion.
operational complexities and scale to the RNLI, bringing
out the best in the Trustee group to deliver their • A genuine respect, commitment and empathy with the
collective accountability. work of the RNLI – whether this be through interaction
and/or support of our volunteer communities, our
• Understanding of good governance processes, with
education services, our international partnerships, or
proven commitment to the legal duties, responsibilities
our search and rescue, both inland and at sea.
and liabilities of charity trusteeship.
• Leadership through our values of being selfless,
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to
courageous, dependable and trustworthy.
engage and connect meaningfully across all levels and
communities in the organisation, inspiring our people Desirable:
and supporters for the future. • Experience and understanding of volunteering and
• Networking, influencing and relationship-building voluntary organisations.
experience and a track record of connecting and
building trust and credibility with stakeholders both
internally and externally to your organisation, including
the media.
Crew kit protects Dunbar volunteers at the bows
of their Trent class lifeboat John Neville Taylor
during a lively search and rescue exercise
RNLI APPOINTMENT OF CHAIR OF TRUSTEESTerms of appointment
Previously the Chair role has had significant time committed to it, but it has now
evolved into a non-executive leadership role. Other Trustees are taking on increasing
responsibilities and, for example, we are appointing a Senior Independent Trustee.
Whilst we will need someone able to respond in a crisis, travel from
time to time to events and to engage with staff and volunteers across
this diverse and complex organisation, the time commitment needed
to do this role effectively is evolving, and we anticipate that this will
land at around the equivalent of a day a week.
Meetings:
The Trustee Board meets four times a year, plus twice yearly with the
Executive Team to discuss our strategic direction, and on additional
occasions if required.
The Chair will chair the Membership Nomination Committee and can
attend meetings of other committees.
Location:
Meetings will be in London or Poole and, increasingly, are being held
remotely to reduce the need to travel.
As well as preparing for and attending meetings, Trustees represent
the RNLI at events.
This is an unremunerated role.
How to apply
Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment LONDON
agency advisor to RNLI on this appointment. 9 Savoy Street
London WC2E 7EG
Candidates should apply for this role through our website
at www.saxbam.com/appointments using code ULNI EDINBURGH
46 Melville Street
Click on the ‘apply’ button and follow the instructions to upload a Edinburgh EH3 7HF
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