Chair and Trustees

Design South East
Trustees - Pro-Bono

Join our board of trustees

We’re looking for new Trustees and a Chair who share our passion for better places to join us in 2020

Everyone deserves good design. At Design South East, we believe it is fundamental to quality of life – and to the development of healthy, resilient and sustainable communities.

As a not-for-profit organisation, we work entirely in the public interest, working with our panel experts to help shape better places.

To help further this mission, we are seeking to appoint new trustees to our board, including a new Chair, in 2025.

Trustee of the Board 

We are looking for new Trustees to join us with skills and experience in at least one of the following specific areas:

  • Planning
  • Business strategy, growth and development
  • Urban design, architecture and built environment-related disciplines
  • Sustainability and the built environment
  • Human resources
  • Information technology

To read more about the role of our trustees, click HERE

Chair of the Board 

We are also seeking a new Chair – a well-known and highly respected leader in design, architecture, planning, or development, with experience of:

  • Influencing government and its agencies
  • Working for or with local authorities
  • Working as an executive director

If you share this passion for community and the environment, and believe you can help grow our influence and deepen our impact, then we want to hear from you

To read more about the role of our Chair, click HERE

These are unpaid pro-bono positions, with an anticipated time commitment of 1-2 days per month for the Chair, and about half a day per month for Trustees.

We are committed to ensuring we reflect the communities we serve in terms of background, life experience and skills, and we particularly welcome applications from younger people and groups traditionally under-represented within the built environment.

Our current trustees are:

Hilary Satchwell, Director, Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
Ben Rogers, Chair of Design South East; Professor, University of London and Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow at LSE Cities
Mary Cook, Planning Barrister and Founding Partner of Town Legal LLP
Jonathan Martin, Director of Inward Investment at the London Borough of Waltham Forest
Joy Nazzari, Founding Director of brand consultancy DNCO
Jeremy Stockwell, Design South East Finance Sub-Committee Chair

How to Apply

If you would like to discuss the position further before making an application, please contact Chris Lamb chris@designsoutheast.org

To apply please submit your CV, a short covering letter explaining your interest in the position, and an outline of your relevant experience to Chris Lamb at the above email address.

 

The deadline for applications is 5pm on 17 February 2025.

Interviews will be held in person in March.

 

Closing Date
Monday 17 February 2025