Want to lead innovation? join our Board!

We’re looking for curious, thoughtful people to join our Board.?

Here at Iriss we want to create the conditions for social work and social care support to flourish. We help the people who support others to make real change through research, improvement and innovation. We do this because we know that great social work and social care can make all the difference in people’s lives.?

But we don’t do this alone. We have a Board that helps us by:?

• Setting our direction: Iriss operates in an uncertain and changing environment, our Board helps us set our course and balance the need to be flexible to changes
• ?Keeping us (and me in particular!) accountable: checking we are doing our work well, and that Iriss is effectively run and a good place to work?
• Helping us review and learn from our work: As a charity with innovation at its heart we try out new ideas and approaches, some work and some don’t. It’s critical to have people to help us sort through our learning

Why join a Board?

Being on a Board is really valuable. I am on the Board of Key and this role gives me insight into the challenge of providing people led support in a complex, critically important and under-resourced sector. I also get the? chance to see and learn from leaders like Andrea and her colleagues about how to create culture, solve problems and negotiate tough situations.

So whether you’re experienced, just starting out or even planning a future career as a charity CEO being on the Iriss Board will give you:

• The opportunity to work with a great group of talented and thoughtful people
• Space to focus on innovation, ideas and learning?
• Experience in helping an organisation perform well and navigate change and challenge effectively
• A lens into how SME charities work

What we are looking for?

We are looking for people with experience of using, or working in social work and social care support, but that’s not critical, if you have experience from elsewhere we’d like to hear from you.?

You don’t need to be in a super senior role, or have been working for a long time. We’re interested in hearing from people who are curious, strategic and above all share our ambition that social work and social care support can and should do better for people.?

So if you’re interested in helping us make the system better read more and apply!