Group Board Member, Thirteen

Closing Date: Friday 11th September @5pm

Final Interviews: Friday, 25th September, in person, Middlesbrough

We work together to provide quality homes, build stronger communities and offer individual support that gives people the freedom to live well. Most of our homes are in our Tees Valley heartland, with a growing presence across the wider North East, Yorkshire and Humber.

We own and manage more than 36,000 homes, support around 100,000 customers and employ over 1,600 colleagues. Our vision is to be the most trusted housing association with happy customers, and our mission is to provide fantastic homes and services through brilliant people.

Our Business Strategy  is built around three connected priorities: happy customers, fantastic homes and brilliant people. It is underpinned by values that ask us to be accountable, proactive, courageous and considerate in the way we work and make decisions.

We’re proud to be recognized as a strong, well governed organization, with the highest C1, G1 and V1 regulatory ratings. We have a clear long-term strategy and strong track record in in development and asset management. Our Board must nevertheless keep looking ahead, testing whether our decisions remain right for customers and ensuring that governance and assurance continue to develop as expectations, risks and regulation change.

As part of our ongoing approach to Board succession and skills planning, we’re now seeking one Group Board Member with current expertise in legal, governance and regulatory matters. You’ll bring up to date professional insight that will strengthen Board discussions and decision making. You’ll also help us maintain strong links between governance, risk assurance and strategic oversight.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to a large, complex organisation with a strong social purpose. As a Board member, you’ll help shape decisions and support our ambition to provide fantastic homes and services through brilliant people.

As a Group Board Member, you’ll share collective responsibility for our strategic leadership, governance and long-term success. You’ll bring independent judgement, current professional insight and constructive challenge, while respecting the distinction between Board oversight and executive management.

You’ll:

• Contribute to the development, approval and oversight of our strategy, purpose and values.
• Help the Board connect legal and regulatory expectations with strategy, organisational risk and major decisions.
• Test whether governance, assurance and accountability arrangements are clear, robust and proportionate.
• Support the continued development of Board and committee arrangements, bringing current insight into good governance practice.
• Hold the Executive Team to account for performance and seek sound assurance on customer outcomes, regulation, risk, financial resilience and delivery.
• Bring independent judgement to complex decisions, ask direct and well-framed questions, and contribute to collective accountability.
• Champion the interests and voice of customers and the long-term wellbeing of the communities Thirteen serves.
• Prepare thoroughly, attend meetings and development activity, declare conflicts and uphold collective responsibility and confidentiality.

We’re looking for someone with senior-level experience in law, governance, company secretarial work, regulation, risk or a closely related field. Your experience is likely to have been gained in social housing, the…