Shelter is working to mitigate the acute effects of the housing emergency, and to eliminate its underlying causes. Day by day, Shelter fight housing injustice, secure housing rights where they are under threat, and work to change the national conversation about the right to a home and the provision of social housing. They are fiercely ambitious in pursuit of their objectives; everything they do is directed towards a strategic goal of system change.

Shelter is a great place to become a Trustee – they've got a crystal-clear mission, a detailed and expert plan to transform our broken housing system, and a single-minded determination to seize the present opportunity and prevent yet another generation suffering avoidable harm.

As a result of planned retirements and board renewal, they now have a number of opportunities to join their Board as a Trustee. We’re looking for people with a range of professional and personal experiences: financial experience (including an accountancy qualification) will be essential for one of the roles, and we would also like to hear from people who have held senior positions in a large, complex organisation – ideally one which operates in the civic sector, and/or campaigns for social change. Strong candidates will relish the chance to join a high-performing board, working with an extremely talented and highly motivated executive team. Collaborative, optimistic and independent-minded, you will be able to operate as an effective and influential leader within a culture that prizes integrity and accountability.

Candidates should ideally understand the trustee role, but we encourage interest from those both with and without prior board experience. Your geographical location is unimportant: we actively seek interest from candidates based in areas of the UK outside London and the Midlands. Shelter would also encourage candidates who have experienced exclusion or discrimination, whether on the basis of their ethnicity, disability, identity, economic or educational status; and we are particularly interested in hearing from those who are experiencing the reality of the current housing crisis.

At Shelter staff are united by the purpose to defend the right to a safe home; their enemy is the social injustices at the core of the escalating housing emergency. They believe to win that fight, they must be representative of the people they are here to help and those who support their movement for change. In all their hiring decisions, they take pride in their aspiration to be inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent. They have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on their journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

For more information, please visit www.shelter-trustees.co.uk. If you have any queries which are not covered in the candidate materials, you can email us at shelter-trustees@cadencepartners.co.uk.

Closing date: midnight, 26 April 2023.