Recruiter charity SoldierOn! looking for well-connected trustees
12 September 2013
SoldierOn!, Recruiter magazine’s charity of choice for 2013-14, is look for two or three new trustees with connections to money and people across the world of business – and recruitment professionals could well fit the bill.
Thu, 12 Sep 2013SoldierOn!, Recruiter magazine’s charity of choice for 2013-14, is look for two or three new trustees with connections to money and people across the world of business – and recruitment professionals could well fit the bill.
Senior police officer Chris Dreyfus, the organisation’s chair since predecessor Julian Dawson stepped down at the end of August, tells recruiter.co.uk that SoldierOn! currently has the legal minimum of two trustees – himself and former British Army captain Harry Lort-Phillips.
SoldierOn! is our charity of choice for 2013-14, with money raised for the cause at the 2013 Recruiter Awards for Excellence, sponsored by Eploy. It works to find meaningful employment for wounded or injured service people, and indeed one of its own candidate managers is an injured former soldier.
Dreyfus tells recruiter.co.uk what the charity needs from trustees is “to put it very crudely, access to money and access to contacts, because they’re the two things that make SoldierOn! tick on”.
The access to contacts means being able to “influence business to take us on as a preferred supplier”, meaning this “could indeed” be a role for a recruiter, Dreyfus notes.
He adds: “We are quite active trustees, so this isn’t a position for someone who wants something on the CV.” He estimates that even before becoming chair, he “spent a couple of days a month” on SoldierOn! business.
Formal time commitment is one meeting a month, either in person or conference calls but, he adds: “We are quite active trustees so this isn’t a position for someone who wants something on the CV… we are looking for people who want to do something that’s hands on.”
A full job ad for the position can be viewed on Facebook, or email Dreyfus on [email protected].
SoldierOn!’s annual running costs are around £300k, and the organisation has helped 78 wounded military and ex-military personnel this year to date. It has also recently announced a new honorary consultant, Annelisa Eccles, formerly of the Intelligence Corps, who runs Reviewpoint Consulting, an employment law consultancy for recruitment companies.
Senior police officer Chris Dreyfus, the organisation’s chair since predecessor Julian Dawson stepped down at the end of August, tells recruiter.co.uk that SoldierOn! currently has the legal minimum of two trustees – himself and former British Army captain Harry Lort-Phillips.
SoldierOn! is our charity of choice for 2013-14, with money raised for the cause at the 2013 Recruiter Awards for Excellence, sponsored by Eploy. It works to find meaningful employment for wounded or injured service people, and indeed one of its own candidate managers is an injured former soldier.
Dreyfus tells recruiter.co.uk what the charity needs from trustees is “to put it very crudely, access to money and access to contacts, because they’re the two things that make SoldierOn! tick on”.
The access to contacts means being able to “influence business to take us on as a preferred supplier”, meaning this “could indeed” be a role for a recruiter, Dreyfus notes.
He adds: “We are quite active trustees, so this isn’t a position for someone who wants something on the CV.” He estimates that even before becoming chair, he “spent a couple of days a month” on SoldierOn! business.
Formal time commitment is one meeting a month, either in person or conference calls but, he adds: “We are quite active trustees so this isn’t a position for someone who wants something on the CV… we are looking for people who want to do something that’s hands on.”
A full job ad for the position can be viewed on Facebook, or email Dreyfus on [email protected].
SoldierOn!’s annual running costs are around £300k, and the organisation has helped 78 wounded military and ex-military personnel this year to date. It has also recently announced a new honorary consultant, Annelisa Eccles, formerly of the Intelligence Corps, who runs Reviewpoint Consulting, an employment law consultancy for recruitment companies.
