Board/Characteristics

The Governance Committee agreed to recommend this framework to the Board as a working document to guide the current Trustee search and inform recommendations about co-options after the AGM.

Skills & Experience

Programme

• Experience of the open-knowledge movement, and Wikimedia in particular
• Experience within the education, research, or cultural (GLAM) sectors

Community

• Experience with the Wikimedia community, and the wider open content community
• Experience of volunteer-driven organisations outside the Wikimedia movement
• Experience of organisations with multiple tiers of structure (e.g. national/regional, international/national)
• Experience of online communities outside the Wikimedia movement

Governance

• Experience of governance roles in non-profit organisations, e.g. charities, school governors, local councils
• Experience of organisations with a high public profile
• Experience of governance in a global movement

Specific skills

• Technology (in particular, website and community development)
• Fundraising
• Accountancy and finance
• Law
• Regulatory compliance
• Charity governance

Diversity

A diverse Board, including but not limited to the following characteristics:

• A reasonable gender balance (no more than 2/3 of the Board being of either gender)
• Varied in age
• Reflecting the diversity of the UK in race, ethnicity, language, culture and sexual orientation
• Geographically spread across the UK, including Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales