Trustee with Chair Experience

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to build your Board experience and make an important contribution to Society? Are you a professional individual looking for a chance to provide your valuable knowledge and expertise to make a real difference to the people we serve?

Helplink Mental Health (www.helplink.ie) provides a range of accessible counselling, information and educational mental health services.  In addition to offering a comprehensive online counselling service, we provide in-person mental health counselling services via a panel of qualified professional counsellors in Galway & Mayo.  In 2023, we delivered over 7,000 counselling sessions under a variety of headings including couples, youth, addiction, bereavement and general counselling.  As well as play and art therapy.

The Role:

Helplink is now looking to expand its Board of Directors and in particular to deepen its succession planning by recruiting a new trustee with prior Chair experience. The Board roles are voluntary and expectations of Board members / Trustees are as follows:

• Members are required to become Directors of the Company.
• You will regularly attend Board meetings – sharing your knowledge and skill.  Board meetings are 10 times a year + AGM and are a mix of in-person (in Galway) and remote.

• You will commit to participating actively in committees including initiating and accepting strategic assignments, and will build effective relationships with other Board Members to ensure the successful operation of the Board.

Ideally the successful candidate will be located in Galway, Mayo, or Roscommon area but we are happy to consider other suitably qualified candidates who are resident in Ireland.  

Responsibilities: 

We are seeking someone with prior Chair experience to add to the experience of our existing Board of Trustees and deepen our succession planning pool.

In addition to more general board responsibilities, the successful candidate will be expected to offer general guidance / mentoring to the Charity's management and and newer Board members in the areas of governance, risk management and strategy formulation.

The successful candidate will also be expected to work closely with the current Chair, potentially with a view to succession.