The FMC is seeking an independent Director to join its board and play a key role in improving people’s experience of family breakdown. You will join a board whose members are dedicated to promoting best practice and ensuring the public can confidently access family mediation services.
What difference will you make?
As an independent director, you can help ensure our board makes decisions that are in the interest of families facing separation, and ensure that every family facing separation has access to regulated family mediation, to enable them to move forward with their lives.
What are we looking for?
It is likely that the independent director will have the following experience, skills and attributes
* independence of mind, and a willingness to question and to challenge;
* experience of financial systems and processes and/or digital communications including social media;
* knowledge of the family justice system, different forms of dispute resolution or of regulation in any context;
* excellent verbal and written communication skills;
* the diplomacy and tact to work constructively and collaboratively;
* the capacity to see the bigger picture, to clarify issues and to work through problems;
* enthusiasm, energy and commitment to the role.
As this is an independent position designed to bring an outside perspective to the FMC board, the director will not be a family mediator.
Mediation participants come from all walks of life, and we think it is important that our directors come from a wide variety of backgrounds to be able to have the broadest understanding possible of mediation participants’ needs as well as to enable us to bring different experiences to the board table. We therefore welcome applications from everybody who believes they may have some of the desired skills and experience set out above, regardless of personal characteristics.
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What will you be doing?
The FMC's board is made up of representatives of the four biggest family mediation membership organisations in England and Wales, and three independent members.
As an independent director you will play an important role in providing an impartial voice on the Board and
* contribute to developing the FMC’s strategy by actively preparing for and contributing to FMC Board meetings and work arising from these;
* contribute to the good governance of the FMC by ensuring the Board follows good governance principles;
* contribute to the promotion of family mediation by representing the FMC to, and maintaining good relationships with, the family mediation community, government, other relevant organisations and the public;
* take responsibility for overseeing and acting as the board’s point of contact for a particular project or projects, or area(s) of work, depending on the board’s requirement and your own availability from time to time.
You will join the board at a time when the amount of mediation taking place is growing, but when it is becoming increasingly difficult for those with low incomes to access mediation due to challenges facing mediators who offer legal aid.
The FMC board works closely with the Family Mediation Standards Board (a standing committee of the FMC) and with the Ministry of Justice, Family Justice Council and other stakeholders, so you will work with a variety of people as well as fellow directors in your role.
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