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Salary: £92,000 plus benefits
Contract: Three-year fixed term role, 35 hours per week
Location: Hybrid/York
Main purpose and scope of the job: To develop and implement a comprehensive reparations programme which furthers JRCT’s charitable purposes for the public benefit and to act as a member of the senior leadership team
Reports to: Chief executive
Responsible for: External advisory group, intermediaries, community partners, legal advisors and other consultancy roles as required.
Please click through the side menu to see: a welcome from our CEO, a role description, person specification, and how to apply.
Day rate: £475 (payable either directly to the individual or to the individual’s employer) for up to nine days’ work per year. All additional expenses are paid, including travel, accommodation and childcare if required.
Closing date for applications: Monday, January 19, 9am.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) wishes to appoint a co-opted member to join our Power and Accountability Committee from April 2026. The committee is looking for someone with experience of issues of democratic accountability and reform in the UK.
The Trust’s Power and Accountability programme is working towards a vision of a world in which power is more equally shared, and in which powerful institutions are more responsive and accountable to wider society and more aligned with the long-term public interest.
The programme supports work seeking to achieve systemic change, through a variety of approaches, to support democratic and corporate accountability and encourage a responsible media. The programme funds work primarily in the UK, with a small number of grants for pan-European work as set out in our grants policy for the programme.
The role of a co-opted member is to complement the trustees’ grant-making knowledge with expertise in UK democracy. We welcome applicants with knowledge of the policy landscape and current challenges and opportunities, as well as an awareness of key organisations working in the field.
The committee usually meets three times per year for a full day, typically in February, May and November.
The main work of the committee is assessing grant applications. Co-opted members are fully involved in this process.
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All applications will be acknowledged. If we are interested in appointing you, we will arrange a meeting to discuss this further, provisionally on Wednesday, January 28.