Work with BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK's largest reading charity. Each year we reach millions of children across the UK with books, resources and support.

Our books and resources are delivered via health, library, schools and early years practitioners and are supported with guidance to encourage the development of a reading habit. Reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on educational outcomes, wellbeing and social mobility and is also a huge pleasure in itself. We are committed to starting children on their reading journey and supporting them throughout. 

Trustees (three positions)

Location: England
Remuneration: This is a voluntary position but includes reasonable expenses.
Time commitment: An initial term of three years, which can be renewed for two terms.

We have a fantastic opportunity for three individuals to join our passionate and skilled Board. 

Our Board is committed to bringing the value of reading (and the joy) to disadvantaged children across the UK. Becoming a BookTrust Trustee offers scope to positively influence the life outcomes for millions of children, through the benefits of reading.

For this intake of Trustees, we are seeking individuals offering expertise in Systems Thinking (working through complex at scale partnership models), Income Generation, Influencing (especially across national, regional and local government) and also in Communications and Digital.

We value a diversity of thought and of experience in our Board and encourage applications from candidates with lived experience of disadvantage and from under-represented communities. We would also particularly welcome applicants from the North of England.

For more information, please click on the 'get more information and apply' button below. To arrange a confidential conversation, please contact Oliver Startup at [email protected] or Emily Nevins at [email protected].

Closing Date: 5pm, Friday 10 May

Download the Trustees job pack

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Our commitment to diversity and inclusivity

We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: BAME candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from under-represented communities.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team on [email protected] or 020 7801 8855/8856 to discuss your requirements further.

In order that our equality policy is effective we carry out regular monitoring of job applicants, and we would therefore ask you to complete the equality monitoring form.This information will be kept centrally within our secure HR department, completely separate from your recruitment application form and will be used for the sole purpose of compiling statistical information. The information will be separated from the application form and will not be given to the selection panel. The completed monitoring form will be destroyed once the information given in it has been collated.

BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding, therefore the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, with pre-employment checks.

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