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Date Posted: Friday, March 03, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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About Restless Development
Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power. We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most. Our current priorities are Education and Livelihoods, Gender and Sexual Rights, Voice and Democracy and Climate Justice. We also run the Youth Collective – a growing network of over 4000 local youth civil society groups and organisations in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally. Read our strategy in a nutshell.

About our Board of Trustees
The Restless Development Global Board of Trustees is the ultimate governance body for the organisation, serving as stewards of its resources and ultimately responsible for our strategy, operations and financial management. You can find out more about our current Board and a link to our latest Board reports here.
Our global board is diverse and globally distributed. It meets virtually once a quarter (in addition to at least once a quarter through our board committees). The registration for our global board currently sits in the UK, with the Charity Commission but please note that we expect changes to our governance structure as we continue to transform the global agency, and shift power to the majority world. The Trustees work closely with Restless Development’s Global Leadership, supporting them to achieve our Agency's goals and also provide support, guidance and decisions in the following areas:
1. People and Culture including providing advice on our people proposition and the design of strategic development and reward initiatives in line with our power shifting values and behaviours framework.
2. Leadership selection, including appointing theCEO(s) and approving the appointments of the Global Leadership Group (GLG) and Hub Directors.
3. Strategic thinking, including approving the strategy proposed by the GLG and on-going development of the Youth Collective.
4. Safeguarding, including providing advice and direction in relation to safeguarding culture & best practice and ensuring mechanisms for reporting incidents are in place and well utilised.
5. Financial oversight, including a formal review of the organisation’s annual budget and supporting the Restless Leadership Team in financial management and planning.
6. Guidance and Support, including giving advice to the Co-CEOs and GLG about the operations of the organisation in areas such as people management, strategic choices and legal requirements.
7. Networking, including using your personal and professional network to assist the Co-CEOs and GLG in gaining high level access to relevant individuals and institutions to support the operation and growth of the organisation.
8. Fundraising, including assisting the Co-CEOs (and other key staff) in gaining high level access to potential donors and supporters, and providing advice and assistance more generally on areas of fundraising.


Our approach to Safeguarding
Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognise that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.

About the Role
When we updated our strategy last year we were mindful to ensure we are taking a power shifting approach in all that we do. We recognise systemic and historic inequalities and injustices and are intentional in our efforts to shift power, enabling young people and communities, previously marginalised, to lead.
Restless Development is historically locally-led, grounded in and led by communities in Africa and Asia, providing a youth-led alternative to western-led development practices. We also recognise the many practices and systems in the international development sector and systems derive from a colonial era and certain practices and norms continue to reinforce colonial norms. We aim to play an active role in decolonising development, striving for a anti-discriminatory approach in areas of our work, and being feminist in our approach.
We have a newly recruited Power Shifting Director responsible for driving transformation and a Power Shifting approach across everything we do. By Power Shifting Approach we mean taking a more intentional approach to our work and how we do it - consciously shifting historical power imbalances, to ensure our work is powered by young people and not perpetuating top-down structures. This approach is embedded through our values and behaviours, our mindsets and ways of working, and our fundraising and programmes. We are looking for someone who can speak to what we previously called Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion as well as bringing thought leadership in the International Development arena (#ShifthePower or People Power debates). To help we've developed a Power Shifting Checklist which guides our work.

Our current focus is on:
Culture and Operations: We are currently finalising our new Agency Model routed in our Power Shifting approach, this includes updating our previous Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy to a Power Shifting People approach, and the people data we now monitor on a new HR software to ensure we are progressing. We celebrate our culture as unique and are also updating our values to align with our Power Shifting approach.

Strategy: Restless Development aims to strengthen youth civil society, we have a power shifting philanthropy approach - with commitments to youth co-created and youth-led initiatives and funding and supporting youth civil society groups through the Youth Collective. We are committed to learning, transforming our approach but also sharing this with the wider sector.

We’re looking for a Trustee who will work closely with our new Power Shifting Director, and Global Leadership Group to advise, provide insight and support as we continue on our transformational journey. We would like someone to help focus on a mixture of the the following areas:

Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Change management and transformation - especially on a global scale
Thought leadership on shifting power and building community based youth movements
Power shifting philanthropy (and working with funders to shift decision making to young people)
We’re looking for someone who is a compassionate and effective communicator - who can work across the various pillars of our power shifting approach. Who’s keen to help us continue to innovate, create and showcase our power shifting work and go on this journey with us.


Desirable Skills and Experience
1. A commitment to youth-led change and global justice is a must.
2. A natural communicator - building trust and relationships with a diverse global team.
3. Collaborative approach to working with a globally diverse team that won't always get it right but are always committed to learning and doing the right thing.
4. Experience in at least one of the following areas:
5. Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
6. Overseeing organisational change and transformation
7. Power Shifting Philanthropy
8. Community-led Development
9. Thought Leadership on Shifting Power
10. Networks and connected to the #ShiftthePower, locally-led and doing development in different spaces.


Time Commitment
Trustees serve on a voluntary basis, serving on at least one Trustee Committee (meeting quarterly) as well as additional meetings when required. We’re open to remote candidates as well as those in our major hubs - the Board runs remotely. You would be expected to attend:
5 x board meetings annually (currently held quarterly on Wednesday between 12pm to 3pm GMT);
4 x quarterly Business (Finance and Fundraising) Committee meetings;
2 x annual ½ day Board away/development sessions.
Trustees can serve up to two terms of four years (if desired)



Location
All meetings can be joined virtually, and whilst we’re open to trustees being anywhere our preference for this would be to have someone based in one of our Hub countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone, India, Nepal) or UK as it would be a bonus to have someone that is also able to attend and co-create some of our in-country based events and opportunities.


Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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