Board of Directors

How you will make a difference

As a board member, you will help Shrimp Welfare Project grow its impact and improve the lives of farmed shrimp. You will work alongside fellow trustees to provide oversight, support and constructive challenge, helping to ensure SWP stays focused on its mission and uses its resources responsibly.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Strategic direction: Review and approve SWP’s overall strategy and budget, and help ensure our work supports our charitable purposes and creates meaningful impact
2. Supporting and overseeing the CEO: Support and provide constructive feedback to the CEO, agree what success looks like, review their performance and determine their compensation. The board is also responsible for appointing or removing the CEO when necessary.
3. Overseeing finances, legal responsibilities and risk: Help ensure SWP has sound financial controls, can meet its commitments and manages significant risks. Oversee legal compliance and safeguarding, contribute to the trustees’ annual report and approve the accounts (for our annual audit).
4. Board effectiveness: Help recruit, retain and replace trustees with the right skills and time availability. Hold fellow trustees accountable for their conduct and agreed work, and take part in reviewing and improving how the board operates.
5. Commitment and collaboration: Prepare for and attend board meetings, participate in decisions, and communicate openly and constructively with fellow trustees and the CEO.

Examples of skills we’re looking for:

We’re looking to strengthen our board in the following areas, listed in order of priority. You don’t need experience in every area to apply—we welcome candidates who bring a strong track record in one or more areas:

1. Strategic finance, financial management and risk

We’re looking for someone with substantial professional experience in charity or nonprofit finance. This could include financial strategy and management, treasury and investments, tax and VAT, or the management of charitable funds.

You would help the board assess financial decisions and risks, review financial information, and recognise when specialist advice is needed.

2. Senior leadership and management

We’re looking for someone with substantial experience leading complex organisations and teams, ideally at executive level and within the NGO, animal welfare or wider social impact sector.

Relevant experience could include leading multiple functions, managing growth or organisational change, developing effective systems and structures, and overseeing people and organisational performance. Experience working with or managing a global team would be a plus.