Chair of board of Trustees - job opportunity - Primary Trauma Care Foundation
About the job:
Life+Limb / the Primary Trauma Care Foundation (PTCF) ) is looking for a new Chair of Trustees to join our excellent team and help lead the charity into our 30th anniversary year, 2026, and beyond.
Location: remote, work from home. UK based. Some travel to UK meetings and occasional travel abroad.
By law this is a voluntary role.
PTCF is an Oxford virtual-based international charity that teaches people, primarily healthcare professionals, in low resource areas of the world how to manage people who suffer major injury. The charity has been going since 1996, is about to go into its 90th country, is active in all present global conflict and disaster zones and has trained over 1 million healthcare professionals. The training is recognised and accredited by all major global healthcare organisations and is the largest low resource injury training programme in the world (that no one has heard of). We aim within 10 years for no one in a low resource area of the world to be more than 30 minutes from accredited trauma/injury care.
The organisation is primarily voluntary. You would work with: a board of Trustees, a Chief Executive, an Operations Manager, a lead ambassador/fundraiser, a consultant advisor/mentor, and, be guided by and answerable to the board of Trustees.
About you -
we are looking for UK based individual to be the new Chair of the board of Trustees and help lead the charity globally, with:
• proven strong leadership skills (essential) with senior management experience
• leadership experience at Trustee board level within the charitable/third sector (essential)
• diplomacy skills, experience dealing with cultural diversity and low resource areas of the world
• experience within the healthcare sector (desirable but not essential)
• ability to be flexible in terms of time commitment and approach, able to assimilate information and make decisions quickly, be organised, manage budgets, an ease in managing multiple stakeholders at all levels of organisations; comfortable working autonomously and be able to shape your own working pattern in line with PTCF's structure and objectives, whilst keeping the board informed.
How to apply / express interest:
Please send your CV and expressions of interest to:
Job description will be sent on application.