• LOCATION: Anywhere in Australia (remote)
• YOUR COMMITMENT: Estimate of 4-6 hours per month to prepare and contribute to making strategic decisions via dynamic governance processes. Timings may vary depending on organisational need and opportunity.
• REPORTS TO: Board Chair or Managing Director
• Directors are expected to maintain their position for a minimum of 12 months, with a maximum term of six years.

This is a volunteer role and not remunerated.

DisasterWISE is made up of a bold community-led learning network (DisasterWISE Communities Network) and supporting company (DisasterWISE Ltd), which has been co-designed to disrupt current paradigms for stronger, just and thriving futures for all. As a vital piece of social infrastructure, the DisasterWISE Vision is to grow and sustain a movement of people who are building disaster resilience through self-determination and community-led action.

With DisasterWISE Ltd established to support the growing learning network, we are seeking to appoint a diverse range of Board Members to provide advocacy, strategic support and stewardship on behalf of the members, investors and learning partners.

Together, the learning network and supporting company exemplifies the principles of connect, learn and change to:

• Cultivate broad and diverse connections
• Broker varying ways of knowing and learning across the membership (knowledge dissemination)
• Amplify community voices as equal partners in recovery and resilience dialogue.
• Support pathways to influence policy and practice change
• Advocate, promote and support community-led initiatives

We’re currently recruiting board members to steward the principle-driven network to achieve the vision.

We’re looking for innovators, change-agents and collaborators to fill three board positions and grow a new non-profit organisation. This follows significant investment in research, development and prototyping to develop DisasterWISE, catalysed and incubated by the Fire to Flourish program. DisasterWISE is now set to become independent and reach the next stage of maturity - shaping its overall strategic direction and growth as a bold, national presence for community-led disaster resilience.

If you embrace different ways of working that include dynamic governance (sociocracy), trauma informed spaces, and decentralising and decolonising practices, then this is a volunteer role for you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Board is responsible for the overall performance and compliance of DisasterWISE Ltd. As a Board Director, you’ll play an important leadership role in overseeing the company’s strategic direction, governance, finances, legal compliance and risk management processes.

The Board will conduct 6 ordinary meetings each calendar year, in addition the Annual General Meeting.

ABOUT YOU

We’re currently looking for expressions of interest for the following office bearer positions: Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. These positions are to be filled by people with diverse skills and experience, with particular interest in people with backgrounds in dynamic governance, fundraising, risk and compliance, innovation, and community networks and movements. First Nations people are encouraged to apply.

We are led by the membership which is inclusive of people with lived experience of disaster events. We are also committed to developing and improving our governance, together with a board composition which represents the diversity of our membership.

All Board Members, staff and volunteers at DisasterWISE are expected to embody the DisasterWISE Vision, Principles, Ways of Working and Values in Practice.

The Board Position Statements outline the desired skills, experience and competencies required to be a Director. As a skills based Board it is not expected any individual will possess all the desired skills and competencies. Selection of each board member will aim to achieve the best balance of competencies, lived experience and behavioural capabilities across the Board.

COMPETENCIES

• Governance - dynamic/sociocracy/shared power experience
• Finance and accounting
• Strong sense of social justice/decolonising
• Organisational leadership
• Experience working alongside community members and organisations
• Trauma Informed practice
• Advocacy and influencing
• Fundraising and philanthropy
• Organisational culture and development, including volunteer management
• Legal

Expression of interest

For further information, to view the board position statements or for a confidential conversation about the Director’s roles, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Board Director (Voluntary) - Flexible Location enquiry via EthicalJobs