Engine room/2015

Chief Executive search

I've just posted a page with the draft job description and person specification for our next Chief Executive. A working group from the Board has drafted this but we are keen to get views from the community prior to finalising the job description in two weeks' time! Please have a look and let us know what you think. The Land (talk) 12:37, 11 January 2015 (GMT)

Applications for the permanent CEO role are now being accepted via the agency. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:32, 6 February 2015 (GMT)

The deadline for applications is 23rd February. Fabian Tompsett (WMUK) (talk) 17:34, 12 February 2015 (GMT)

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Things are moving along with the Chief Executive recruitment process - Just a reminder: The deadline for applications is February 23rd.

We are continuing to discuss the format of the selection process, one element of which will be a short (likely ~10 minute) presentation.

** I’d like to invite suggestions for presentation-prompts here **

We have some ideas of course, but I think people had conversations very relevant to this at the volunteer strategy day in Birmingham. I can build off some of the thoughts there for ideas, but others may be feeling more creative, or have better memories(!). Thoughts welcome here or via email Sjgknight (talk) 10:42, 20 February 2015 (GMT)

Update: initial interviews for the CEO post took place last Friday, 20th March. In the event, we did not feel that any of the candidates we interviewed were an ideal fit for the charity's needs. We are reviewing the job description and the advert to see if they can be improved for the next round, and will re-advertise more widely. We feel it much more important to get the right person, even at the cost of some delay, than to appoint quickly. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:23, 22 March 2015 (GMT)

2015 AGM

The 2015 AGM will be held on Saturday 25th July. To conserve funds it is expected to be held in London in a donated venue, most probably on the same day as the re-scheduled second volunteer gathering. More details to follow once known. The board will recommend making a few changes to the articles to improve its ability to make best use of external expertise on board committees, and generally to improve operational efficiency. The draft resolutions can be seen here. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:29, 8 March 2015 (GMT)

Can I suggest considering a venue outside of London? We've had a tradition of alternating between holding the AGM in London and outside of London, which was started to reduce the geographical constraints of attending an AGM (at least one AGM every two years would be closer to any given attendee than the other one). Since last year's was in London it would make sense to have this year's outside of London. Manchester and Birmingham would be good candidate cities, as they're centrally located and have good transport links, and if there's a clear set of requirements for the venue then local volunteers (including myself in Manchester) could see whether there are any suitable venues that would be willing to donate their space for the day. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:25, 8 March 2015 (GMT)

That was the original intention, and is something we would like to continue to do in the future. For the moment, though, we need to reduce expenditure very significantly, and we cannot this time justify in terms of increased charitable impact the additional board and staff travel/hotel costs arising from an out-of-London venue. Maybe next year. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:29, 8 March 2015 (GMT)