Trustee Recruitment for Academy Trusts - Market Engagement Event

Descriptions

Academy trustees have a huge opportunity to make a positive impact on children and young people's futures by supporting academy trusts to be high quality through effective and robust governance. Academy trust boards need skilled trustees to uphold the charitable objects of the trust, oversee the strategic direction, and hold the executive to account for educational performance, and financial and risk management. Academy trust governance is modelled on charitable company governance, and boards need volunteers with the expertise and commitment required for effective governance of large charitable organisations. The contractor will recruit academy trustees, including chairs of trustees, onto academy trust boards that have been identified by Department for Education (DfE) Regional Directors' teams. These will be academy trusts that are experiencing significant challenges with financial or educational performance and need additional experienced, high calibre individuals to join the board and improve the governance of the trust. The successful contractor will also promote awareness of the role of academy trustee to target audiences to increase the supply of volunteers for trustee vacancies more broadly. This activity will be complemented by DfE communications and stakeholder engagement activity. This procurement is subject to financial business planning, and the DfE reserves the right to not procure the services outlined below following the conclusion of this review.