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CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK CHAIR OF IOF CULTURAL SECTOR NETWORK Candidate Information Pack | Chair of IOF Cultural Sector Network
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INTRODUCTION FROM CURRENT CHAIR Thank you very much for considering the volunteer position of Chair of the Institute of Fundraising Cultural Sector Network. We are a Special Interest Group of the IoF, and as such are part of the Institute’s enormous strength in volunteering, designed to make fundraising more effective, more impactful and more robust in the United Kingdom.
fundraisers in healthcare or overseas aid or social policy or education have lives which engage with culture, as participants, as trustees, as donors and as past or future employees. All are welcome to become part of our Network and contribute to its growth.
As the part of the Institute concerned specifically with culture – uniting all those involved in the arts and heritage, from museums and performing arts
We were set up in 2015 to address the growing needs of cultural sector fundraisers to network amongst each other, to learn from their peers, to learn lessons from - and to teach our own lessons to – fundraisers working in other sectors. In particular, we have from the start been concerned to address the growing threats to fundraising in cultural sector organisations as austerity started
to libraries and the visual arts - we welcome members and non-members of the IoF to our activities, regardless of whether they actually work inside a cultural organisation. As far as we are concerned, cultural life is a key component of a civilised society, and
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to undermine support for many organisations, funding streams and employment. Our aim has always been to ‘Fly the Flag for the Charitable Case for Culture’ and we have been delighted – if at times a little surprised – at the effect we have had on the people we have engaged. Our national conferences, for instance – organised
wholly by volunteers, not by the IoF itself – have been the largest cultural sector fundraising conferences in the UK for the past 3 years. In 2017, working alongside the Institute’s staff and as its main partner, the IoF became the recipient of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisation grant of £435,000 over
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INTRODUCTION FROM CURRENT CHAIR four years to drive cultural sector fundraising across the English Regions of the Institute. The Arts Council paid particular emphasis to our ability to encourage peer learning, mentoring, connecting the unconnected with each other, and providing bursaries to our own conference and to the annual IoF Fundraising Convention in London. This RAISE Programme (supported by a four days a week staff member at the IoF Head Office) has been working initially with two Regions of the IoF. Over the course of four years, we will engage each English Region (outside London), working closely too with Young Arts Fundraisers, Black Fundraisers UK and the Sole Fundraisers Group. We want to provide a sustainable base for cultural sector fundraising in the most influential fundraising organisation in the country. To address the fact that Arts Council funding did not include London, we have set up a London Events Committee. In order to address the needs of cultural fundraisers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in addition to other IoF Regions who
do not necessarily want to wait several years before the RAISE programme directly involves them, we have started to set up a programme of recruiting Cultural Sector Network Advocates - the aim of these would be that in each UK Nation, Region and Special Interest Group of the IoF we will have fundraisers who are flying the flag for the charitable case for culture, and recruit cultural sector fundraisers to the IoF in the process. Organised around a committee system, the role of Chair is to ensure that success continues and that we build this national network. A particular challenge and an exciting opportunity will be to extend the diversity of cultural fundraisers in the UK, and to that end put into practice the recently agreed diversity programme of the Institute, its Manifesto for Change. Close liaison with the Arts Council’s RAISE programme – overseen by a Steering Group and a Project Delivery Group – will be a key feature of the work of the Chair in the coming period, alongside support for developing the National Rollout of the CSN outside
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the parameters of the Arts Council’s programme. The IoF CSN is in the process of changing its methods of committee operation in response to the needs of the RAISE Programme. The incoming Chair will play a major role in ensuring that a volunteer group like ours neither overstretches the resources of volunteers but also gives each of the Committee members, elected at an AGM, the maximum opportunity to use their own expertise and local knowledge to support our programme. This is an exciting time to take on the Chair’s role. I, as a founder member of the Group and its outgoing Chair, will be taking on the role of Chair of the Steering Group of the RAISE programme, but will be available to give whatever support I can to my successor as Chair of the IoF CSN. Martin Kaufman Chair Institute of Fundraising Cultural Sector Network
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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE OF FUNDRAISING The IoF is the professional membership body for UK fundraising. It supports fundraisers through leadership and representation; best practice and compliance; education and networking; and champions and promotes fundraising as a career choice. The IoF has over 600 organisational members who raise more than £10 billion in income for good causes every year, and over 6,000 individual members. About the IoF CSN A strong and financially sustainable cultural sector means a society in which all can flourish, with all the economic and social benefits that the cultural industries provide. State funding of the arts and heritage is under threat, local government funding declining and the charity fundraising sector is under scrutiny like never before. The charitable case for supporting culture is not promoted as powerfully and frequently as it should be. Despite all this, there has been no organisation to speak unequivocally for fundraising across the whole range of arts and heritage. The Cultural Sector Network - as part of the Institute of Fundraising - aims to become that organisation.
Who are the IoF CSN? The IoF CSN is a group of volunteers working with the IoF to address these challenges. The CSN is one of the IoF’s strategic Special Interest Groups and sees enormous added value in being part of a professional membership organisation with a solid record of training, research expertise and advocacy with government. The Institute has welcomed the opportunity to engage with cultural fundraising and strengthen the whole profession by working alongside arts and heritage fundraisers. Who does the CSN work with? Two priority audiences have been identified: 1. fundraising practitioners in organisations across arts and heritage 2. consultants and service providers working across the cultural sector The CSN also partner with public funders, cultural stakeholders, private donors, sponsors and academic institutions involved in research and teaching.
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The CSN's vision The aim is to break down the silos separating arts and heritage fundraisers nationwide and develop a truly public understanding of the charitable case for supporting culture. The CSN's mission The mission is expressed as three principal goals: 1. To raise the profile of fundraising for arts and heritage and extend its influence 2. To enhance the expertise of cultural sector fundraisers and share that knowledge 3. To engage with other charitable sectors to develop best practice and ethical fundraising
How does the CSN deliver against these goals? With five committees – Events, Marketing, National Rollout, Professional Development and Research – the CSN works to deliver the following: Content: best practice knowledge through events and the annual conference, benchmarking, training, mentoring and information. Networks: connecting the unconnected, linking up the unlinked and developing partnerships, in order to create a common language fostering co-operation and complementarity. Influence: engaging with national and local government, cultural stakeholders, philanthropy organisations and donors to extend the reach of cultural sector fundraising and awareness of the charitable case for supporting culture.
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CHAIR OF CULTURAL SECTOR NETWORK TERMS OF REFERENCE The Chair of the IoF Cultural Sector Network is the volunteer chair of a Special Interest Group of the Institute of Fundraising, and as such cannot operate independently from the agreed parameters of the policy and practice of the Institute of Fundraising. Notwithstanding this, the Chair is expected to lead on the development of the IoF’s policy and practice within the particular remit of the Special Interest Group. The Chair will ensure that the Network’s activities adhere to the enhancement of its declared Mission and the realisation of its Vision agreed at any one time. The Chair of the IoF Cultural Sector Network will be a full and paid-up Individual Member of the IoF, elected at an AGM of the Network in accordance with the rules then currently in place and which have been approved by the IoF.
The term of a Chair is one year from AGM to AGM. An existing Chair should normally indicate to the Committee an intention to stand again as Chair at any time within three months of an upcoming AGM. There is at present no limitation on the number of years a Chair may stay in post if elected at successive AGMs. The Chair is supported in this position by a Vice-Chair who is also a full and paid-up Individual Member of the IoF. The Vice Chair will take over any operational duties of the Chair in the latter’s absence, subject to confirmation where appropriate at a subsequent Committee meeting. The Chair may also chair one other Committee or Sub-Committee of the Network when appropriate.
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ROLE DESCRIPTION THE CHAIR’S PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES ARE • To Chair Committee meetings; • To work in close liaison with the IoF Director of Partnerships and the IoF Membership Co-ordinator (or their equivalent) or other relevant senior IoF officer to ensure the optimal co-ordination of the Network with the IoF’s strategy, policy, conduct and practice; • To represent the Network at other IoF activities such as the IoF Special Interest Group Chairs’ meetings; • To be the principal public spokesperson of the Network in liaison with the IoF press office; • To be responsible to the IoF for the proper functioning of the Network and the conduct of its Committees and Sub-Committees; • To ensure that the highest professional and reputational standards of the Network and of the IoF are
• To work closely in liaison with and support of the Vice Chair;
THE VICE-CHAIR (OR CO-VICE CHAIR) DEPUTISES FOR THE CHAIR IN ALL THE FUNCTIONS OUTLINED OPPOSITE WHEN THE CHAIR IS:
• To support the Secretary in ensuring the correct management of an AGM according to the practice of the IoF;
• Not available due to other IoF or essential professional commitments;
• To support the Treasurer in ensuring the correct financial management of the Network;
• Not available due to illness, holiday or urgent personal business;
• To work with and support the activities of each of the Committees and Sub-Committees;
• After a resignation and before the election of a subsequent Chair.
maintained and presented to the outside world;
• To ensure that partnerships agreed between the Network and other organisations outside the IoF are developed equitably and in the reputational interest of the IoF (e.g. with Young Arts Fundraisers); • To produce a report on the Network’s activities to the AGM; • To carry out any reporting function as a Special Interest Group Chair as required by the IoF; • To give optimal support to the progress of any externally funded programme through which the IoF may wish to interact with the Network, e.g. the RAISE programme supported by Arts Council England; • To ensure that the spirit and content of the IoF’s diversity and accessibility policy entitled ‘Manifesto for Change’ is brought into the practice of the Network and the delivery of which is evaluated at least annually.
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The Chair (or the Vice Chair in the circumstances outlined in above) will not normally vote at Committee, but will have a casting vote in any cases where a decision receives an equal vote.
The Chair can be removed from post either through the election of an alternative candidate at an AGM or an Extraordinary AGM or through the disciplinary procedures of the IoF in cases warranted by IoF disciplinary procedures.
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ROLE DESCRIPTION TIME COMMITMENT
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Four committee meetings a year (but the Chair will play a role in deciding whether or not
The ideal candidate for this role will:
this is the requisite number, in the context of supporting the programme as outlined). Committee meetings have up to now taken place in London, usually in the early evening on a weekday with additional attendance via skype, but that location can be altered if necessary. The Chair has up to now also chaired one of the sub-committees of the IoF CSN – but that will be for agreement between the incoming Chair and the Committee. The Chair is supported by the Vice Chair, who is available for monthly or ad hoc discussion, either face to face (in London) or by phone or email. In addition, the Chair is expected to attend the twice yearly meetings of the Chairs of IoF groups, in London, and is provided with a free entry to the Fundraising Convention in order to attend the IoF AGM and the Chairs’ meeting at that event.
• be a motivated, well networked indivdual with extensive experience of fundraising within the cultural sector; • have experience of working at a senior level for a number of UK cultural organisations (either as an employee or consultant); • have in-depth understanding of the funding landscape for the UK cultural sector; • be committed to driving forward the mission of the CSN; • have a passion for sharing knowledge, building networks and improving standards across the cultural sector.
TERM The Chair is elected at the AGM (held annually or not later than 18 months after election) for one term. The decision on multiple terms is yet to be discussed inside the CSN, but as the outgoing Chair has been in post for around four years, it would be expected that the Chair would be available for at least two terms.
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FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPENSES The Chair has cheque signing rights alongside the Vice Chair and authorisation from the Treasurer. All necessary travel and accommodation expenses will be provided, but the post is a volunteer role.
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