Rowing Committee: Community Representative

Purpose

To be an active participant of the Committee, supporting the Chair and British Rowing to achieve its terms of reference and goals.

Responsibilities

• Be prepared for all meetings, reading papers in advance, raising issues in advance.

• Actively contribute to all meetings using your skills, experience, and expertise.

• Support the Chair in the smooth running of the Committee.

• Contribute to agenda planning by raising ideas and thoughts with the Chair.

• Act as a conduit between the community group commitees and the Rowing Committee raising issues and communicating decisions and actions.

• Contribute as required to task and finish groups.

• Be responsible for your own personal development and training to stay effective and relevant in performing the role.

• Participate in the periodic evaluation of Chair and Committee effectiveness.

Person Specification 

• Be able to build effective relationships with fellow Committee members, Board, and the executive, ensuring all are aligned to the Committee’s common purpose.

• Be able to constructively challenge, act as a “critical friend”.

• Be open, honest, and respectful in all communications.

• Apply critical thinking and analysis to evaluate a complex range of viewpoints and information and focus on the key issues / strategic priorities / outcomes.

• Bring long term thinking and planning to the Committee, anticipating future challenges and opportunities. 

• Contribute insights using your skills, experience, and expertise.

• Be able to exercise independent judgement beyond personal views or agenda

• Have an understanding of the established principles of current corporate governance and the need for frameworks for assurance and accountability.

• Have a clear understanding of and the ability to empathise with volunteers who make an important contribution to the running of the sport.

• Keep up to date with all the required technical knowledge needed for the role.

• Maintain a knowledge of the sport and broader sector wide issues to stay relevant.

• A commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.

Essential: The successful candidate will have the challenging role of acting as a conduit between the Rowing Committee and the relevant stakeholder groups;

• Able to gather and represent the views of the Community Committees (these currently include; Juniors, Masters, Recreational)

• Strong understanding of the relevant stakeholder groups (e.g. British Rowing, relevant interest groups/community sub-committees, regional representatives and chairs etc)

• An ability to  develop communication routes for the relevant stakeholder groups 

• Knowledge of rowing and experience as an athlete, coach, cox, event or club official

• Subject matter expertise within one or several of the Community Committees areas of work 

• A desire to support the development of the sport

• A strong, highly collaborative team player with a positive mindset. 

• Ability to commit to four formal and four informal meetings per year in addition to supporting specific work strands and task-and-finish groups.  

Desirable: A variety of skills and experience is desirable, and therefore the following list is not exhaustive:

• Have experience in a variety of different elements of the sport, either established or emerging (ie adaptive, coastal, racing)

• Represent diversity in relation to experience of regions, broader experience and time in the sport

• Bring significant experience from beyond rowing, ie emerging technology, education, communications, event management, risk management, financial management etc.

• Experience in the broader sports sector, grant funded and/or volunteer led organisations