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Chair Recruitment pack April 2019 Magna Housing April 2019 1
Chair
Your application
Thank you very much for your interest in this post. On the following pages, you will find details of the role
and the selection process to assist you in completing and tailoring your application. In order to apply you
should submit:
• An up-to-date CV which shows your full career history – we recommend that this is no longer than three
pages;
• A supporting statement explaining why you are interested in this role, detailing how you are a good
candidate for this post and how you fulfil the person specification – we recommend that this is no longer
than three pages;
• The declaration form (completion of the equalities section is not mandatory, but is requested for
monitoring purposes in line with our commitment to equality and diversity); and
• Indicate on the declaration form if you cannot attend any of the interview dates.
Please note that applications can only be considered if all the documentation is complete. Please send your
application, preferably in MS Word format by email to: magna@campbelltickell.com.
Applications must be received by 3rd May at 12 noon.
Please ensure we receive your application in good time. If you do not receive confirmation of receipt within
24 hours of sending, please call the team on 020 3434 0990. To help avoid your submission being treated as
spam, please use a secure email address from which to send your application and refer to the role and
organisation in the header.
Please do call me if you wish to have an informal discussion about the role and organisation, or if you have
any other questions to help you decide whether to apply.
Kind regards
Kathy Carter
Kathy Carter
Senior Associate Consultant
07786 831 690
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Chair Contents Welcome to Magna 4 About Magna 5 The Board 6 Role profile 9 Person specification 11 Structure chart 12 Key terms and conditions 13 Board & Committee Meetings Calendar 2019-20 14 Key dates and the selection process 15 The media advertisement 16 Magna Housing April 2019 3
Chair Welcome to Magna Dear Candidate We’re delighted that you are interested in becoming our new Chair. This is an exciting time to join Magna as we develop an ambitious new vision and strategy for the next decade, starting in April 2020. In recent years the Board’s focus has been to increase financial capacity and organisational resilience, which has resulted in an agile, high-performing business with a solid platform to build from. With a new Chief Executive bringing fresh ideas and an ambition to do much more, we are now looking to transform our services, invest in and improve our existing homes, and build as many new homes as our capacity will allow. As our new Chair you will be a strong advocate for change, with considerable experience in senior leadership and ability to articulate vision and strategy. Working with the Chief Executive and the Board, you will drive the organisation’s growth and increase its capability further. Your ability to inspire and shape the Board will be evident from your considerable non-executive experience and you will bring a clear understanding of what good governance looks like. Under your leadership the Board will remain ‘upstream’ and focus on bringing insight and constructive challenge to the Executive Team and Senior Management. You will be a leading ambassador for Magna with a desire to be out and about developing strategic relationships with our key stakeholders, and you will encourage this behaviour in the rest of the Board. Your understanding of the challenges for housing organisations, now and into the future, coupled with your commitment to making a difference to people in housing need will be central to your own personal values. You don’t have to have a housing background but your credibility in the role will be dependent on how much you can identify with and relate to the key issues and potential opportunities this dynamic environment presents. Most of all you will bring energy and an enthusiasm to see Magna succeed and grow in the years to come. Best wishes, Selina White Dawn Lang Selina White Dawn Lang Chief Executive Chair of the recruitment panel Magna Housing April 2019 4
Chair About Magna Magna Housing Association Limited was established in 1993 when West Dorset District Council transferred its housing stock to us. Magna West Somerset was created in 1998 and took over homes transferred from West Somerset Council. We amalgamated Magna Housing Association Limited, Magna West Somerset Housing Association Limited and Magna Housing Group Limited in April 2017 to create Magna Housing. We are a charitable housing association operating in Dorset and Somerset and we have about 9,000 homes. We achieve top quartile or near top quartile performance in most of our key performance areas. The work we do is guided by our Purpose: To help people meet their housing needs. Our current Strategy sets out our Strategic Targets. These are the clear and measurable actions we plan to carry out in order to achieve our Strategic Objectives. We are working to adopt a new 10-year strategy starting in April 2020. In 2019/20, Magna will be focussing on improving current ways of working and strengthening service delivery. We are growing our in-house maintenance team in order to improve the facilities offered within our Sheltered Housing properties, and to extend our service offer by delivering our own communal cleaning. During the year we will launch our new I.T. platform, website and mobile app, completing the first phase of our wider service transformation programme. By the end of the financial year we will have delivered 50 new homes and have started approximately 300 more, as our development programme gains momentum. We will achieve all of this whilst maintaining an operating margin of 28%, interest cover of 338% and gearing of 29%. Magna Housing April 2019 5
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The Board
Mr Adam Peat – Chairman
Adam Peat OBE was the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales from 2003
to 2008. He was a senior civil servant with the National Assembly for Wales
from 1998 to 2003, having previously spent nine years as chief executive of
Tai Cymru (the body funding and regulating the housing association
movement in Wales). Adam is due to retire in July 2019.
Mr Asit Acharya
Asit has over 25 years’ experience in senior management roles in local
government and housing associations. He is a former chief officer in a
combined housing and social services department in London. Some of
Asit's other roles include managing director of ASRA (Greater London)
housing association and service improvement director for the Guinness
Trust and he has been a board member of several housing organisations.
He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and has a postgraduate
qualification in housing
Mr Tim Ayre
Tim has run his own consultancy business for the last 10 years providing
specialist investment advice to those involved in the commercial property
sector. He qualified as a chartered surveyor and was formerly investment
director of a large property company. Tim is due to retire in July 2019.
Mrs Debbie Bond
Debbie works in the family business, a long-established domestic appliance
sales and repair shop in Bridport. She has previously worked in other
retail, customer service and publishing roles. She has over 20 years’
experience of being a tenant of Magna Housing which gives her an insight
into issues faced by tenants and puts her in a position to offer solutions
based on actual experience. She has a degree in law from the Open
University.
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Ms Phyllida Culpin
Phyllida Culpin has 20 years’ experience as a housing professional with a
background in regeneration of large estates, community development,
social cohesion and development of employment and training for
residents. She was executive director of customer and community services
at Yarlington Housing Group for four years and is passionate about
involving residents and using customer insight to improve services and
efficiency. Prior to working for Yarlington, Phyllida was with the
Metropolitan Housing Trust in London for 13 years and includes
campaigning for low cost housing and social inclusion among her personal
interests.
Mr Graham Clarke
Graham Clarke is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants and has over 20 years’ experience of operating at executive
level for large and small organisations in the UK and overseas. He became
finance director for Cornwall Hospice Care, a charitable organisation which
provides hospice care across Cornwall, in September 2016. Prior to that,
he spent five years as finance director for the Financial Reporting Council
(FRC), the UK regulatory body for the accounting, auditing and actuarial
professions.
Mrs Jill Williams
Jill is a law graduate and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
for England and Wales, who has extensive experience of financial
management and some legal experience in property matters. She worked
27 years for Pittards plc, a leather manufacturing company based in Yeovil
since 1826, joining as finance and planning manager in 1989, and working
her way through to company secretary, HR director and finance director
before spending her final months with the company as a non-executive
director. Jill is currently a generalist adviser for Citizens Advice Sedgemoor.
Ms Dawn Lang
Dawn Lang is currently housing delivery programme manager for the Isle
of Wight Council.
She was previously schools business manager for the Isle of Wight Council
and director of finance and business services at UKSA, a charity based on
the Isle of Wight. Prior to this she was chief executive at Homes in
Sedgemoor and has a sound knowledge of housing associations, having
held senior positions at Heart of England Housing Group, South Wight
Housing Association and North Wiltshire Housing Association.
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Dawn is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants and has been a board member for other housing
organisations.
Dr David Penny
David has a scientific background and worked in the energy and defence
sectors. He has experience of all aspects of business management including
financial control, business development and staff recruitment.
You can read profiles of our executive team here.
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Role profile
Department Policy, Governance and Research & Chief
Executive’s office
Responsible to: The MHL Board
Main purpose
• The Chair provides strategic leadership to the Board and to the organisation as a whole, working with
the Chief Executive to ensure that the design of the Board’s work supports Magna’s purpose.
• The Chair ensures that the Board delivers its key strategic role and provides effective governance of
the organisation, securing its viability and sustainability, and looking to maximise its effectiveness,
within the scope of its Terms of Reference.
• The Chair plays a lead role in shaping the Board’s development as a strong team, working in a
complementary way with the Chief Executive’s leadership of his or her team, to encourage quality
discussions and debate.
• The Chair contributes to the promotion and positioning of the organisation with a wide range of
external stakeholders.
Specific role responsibilities
Strategic leadership:
• Ensures the Board sets Magna’s vision, purpose, values and standards and that its obligations to its
stakeholders and others, including funders and regulator, are understood and met.
• Promotes good governance and ensures that Magna’s affairs are conducted in accordance with the
NHF’s Code of Governance.
• Contributes to the effective governance of Magna through membership or oversight of any
committees or sub-groups.
Conduct of Board Business:
• Ensures that the business of the Board is conducted efficiently.
• Ensures that Board members are given the opportunity to express their views and their views are
sought before important decisions are taken.
• Deals with paperwork associated with the function of chairing Board meetings, including
development of the agenda and forward planning with the Chief Executive.
• Ensures that the Board receives professional advice when it is needed from external sources.
• In the case of urgent business occurring between meetings, takes necessary decisions on behalf of
the Board, in accordance with agreed urgency arrangements.
Stakeholder engagement:
• Is a visible and known presence to customers and local stakeholders and can champion change
initiatives with them.
• Ensures that a constructive working relationship is established with and support provided for the
Chief Executive.
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• Ensures that the Board makes proper arrangements to appraise the performance of the Chief
Executive, to set objectives and to determine the remuneration for this role.
• When necessary ensures that any new Chief Executive is recruited in a timely and orderly manner in
line with the Magna’s employment policies.
Developing the Board team:
• Considers what the business needs from non-executive skills and takes an active role in Board
renewal, recruitment and succession planning.
• Ensures that annually the performance of individual Board members, including the Chair, and the
Board’s collective performance, is evaluated.
• Establishes a constructive working relationship with Committee Chairs and with fellow Board
members
Promoting the organisation:
• Acts as an ambassador for Magna externally and helps to build its brand and public image, ensuring
an effective local and regional profile in consultation with the Chief Executive.
• Represents Magna with key stakeholders, such as lenders, local authorities, other housing
associations and other influential decision-makers.
• Attends ad-hoc meetings as required (for example stakeholder meetings) to promote the values and
purpose of the organisation.
Core competencies
Leadership
• Exceptional leadership skills.
• Ability to chair meetings, listen, contribute to the discussion as required, interpret debates and drive
the Board to decisions, with a willingness to speak their mind.
• Can also hold their own in a range of public environments, presenting arguments with knowledge
and understanding of wider strategic contexts.
• Able to listen and make reasoned contributions to debate and a willingness to speak their mind.
Strategic thinking
• Demonstrates strategic vision, thinking, foresight and insight.
• Can encourage the Board to think about the level of risk it can entertain to achieve organisational
objectives and has ample experience of business planning and review.
Judgement
• Can provide clear, independent, balanced advice and guidance with the ability to challenge
constructively.
Compliance
• Experienced in appreciating the importance of corporate compliance, with a track record of its
application across a public-facing organisation.
Negotiating and influencing
• Demonstrates effective skills in persuasion and negotiation to influence others.
• Can set the style and tone of Board meetings in order to promote effective debate and decision
making.
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• Can network and make an impact with wider audiences.
Team working
• Ability to develop positive relationships that generate confidence and respect.
• Ability to engage and enthuse people individually and in groups.
• Experience of working in collaboration with others, working towards common goals and shared
objectives.
• Can bring team unity from a range of different backgrounds and experiences.
Change management
• Ability to find ways of keeping everyone on board with change, is willing to challenge unhelpful or
disruptive behaviours and can keep everyone to task around the evidence for decision-making.
Ability, skills and knowledge
• Has non-executive experience, including having chaired at committee or Board level.
• Has an excellent understanding of good governance and would be able to apply this to the
development of the Magna Board and its ways of working.
• Has a proven track record of leading or having high level management experience in an organisation,
whether commercial, charitable or public sector, and delivering impact.
• A strategic thinker, who can apply creative and imaginative solutions, with good judgement and a
commitment to results.
• Skilled at bringing people together to generate a strong team spirit, able to work collaboratively,
building consensus and encouraging ‘cabinet style’ decision making.
Personal attributes
• Must bring a genuine passion for housing and a willingness to promote its benefits for personal and
community well-being.
• Diplomacy – able to present, defend or champion changes of different kinds to a variety of
audiences, in a way that is authentic, inclusive and demonstrates the capacity to entertain and
engage with other points of view.
• Is recognised as a person of integrity and credibility in the conduct of all aspects of the role and can
command confidence across a wide range of stakeholder interests.
• Can devote the necessary effort and input to the role. Estimated time commitment for the role is 1-2
days per month. Can be flexible in the application of time.
• Has effective self-management skills: will take the time needed to learn, engage, prepare, discuss
and negotiate as needed.
• Has a personal and clear commitment to equality and diversity and how it might apply within the
work of the Magna.
• Is business minded but with a social ethos.
Term of Membership
The maximum period of office for the Chair is six years. The Chair is subject to annual re-election.
Magna Housing April 2019 11Chair Structure chart Magna Housing March 2019 12
Chair Key terms and conditions The role Chair Remuneration £12,000 p.a. Time commitment 2-3 days per month. Meeting schedule See meeting calendar overleaf. Travel Most meetings are held in Dorchester, West Dorset. Occasional travel to our offices in Williton, West Somerset, will be required as well as attendance at external events from time to time. The Chair receives a monthly travel allowance and we also reimburse other reasonable expenses. Magna Housing March 2019 13
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Board & Committee Meetings Calendar 2019-20
April 2019
Tuesday 16 10.30 Risk and Audit Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 25 10.00 Strategy Review Committee and Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
May 2019
Friday 17 10.00 Finance Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 30 10.00 Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
June 2019
St Peter’s House,
Thursday 20 10.00 Board meeting
Williton
St Peter’s House,
Thursday 20 2.00 pm Membership and Remuneration Committee
Williton
July 2019
Wednesday 10 10.00 Joint Finance and Audit Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Wednesday 10 2.00 pm Risk and Audit Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 25 From 11.35 Charter and MHL Board meetings and AGMs, plus lunch, including presentation Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 25 2.00 pm Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
August 2019
No meetings
September 2019
Wednesday 11 10.00 Finance Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 19 10.00 Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
October 2019
Tuesday 8 10.30 Risk and Audit Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 24 10.00 Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
November 2019
Wednesday 13 10.00 Finance Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 28 10.00 Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
December 2019
No meetings
January 2020
Tuesday 14 10.30 Risk and Audit Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 30 10.00 Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
February 2020
Wednesday 12 10.00 Finance Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 27 09.30 Membership and Remuneration Committee Oak House, Dorchester
Thursday 27 10.00 Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
March 2020
Thursday 26 10.00 Board meeting Oak House, Dorchester
Magna Housing April 2019 14Chair Key dates and the selection process Closing date: 3rd May 2019 12.00 noon. We will be in touch with candidates on 10th May 2019 to advise on outcome of application. First interviews: 17th May 2019 Longlisted candidates will be invited to an interview with a Campbell Tickell panel and candidates will also have an opportunity to meet with the Chief Executive and Chair of the selection panel. This will take place at Magna’s office in Dorchester. Final interviews: 4th June 2019 The final stage of the process will be a panel interview. The panel will comprise Dawn Lang (panel chair), Jill Williams, Phyllida Culpin and Asit Acharya, Board Members, Selina White, Chief Executive and James Tickell, Partner, Campbell Tickell. This will take place at Magna’s office in Dorchester. If you are unable to attend on any of the identified dates for interview, please speak to Campbell Tickell before making an application. Magna Housing April 2019 15
Chair Media advertisement Magna Housing April 2019 16
Chair Telephone 020 8830 6777 Recruitment 020 3434 0990 info@campbelltickell.com www.campbelltickell.com @CampbellTickel1 Magna Housing April 2019 17
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