Get Involved

Looking for professional and personal development? Keen to offer your skills and experience to the sector? Wanting to network and build new professional relationships?

The South West Fed is entirely volunteer run. The Trustees, who are the Board, give their time and commitment as a team to manage and administer the organisation. The specific roles are listed below.

The board has a growing knowledge covering areas of interpretation, diversity & inclusion, wellbeing & the arts, museum ethics, collections, archaeology, managing change, curation, collection management, exhibitions, local history, using archives for outreach, outdoor & rural heritage, learning, young people and employability skills and we are looking to strengthen these and broaden our collective knowledge.

Each role below incorporates a generic role profile as well as a specific one indicated below:

• Chair (download role profile)
• Vice Chair (download role profile)
• Secretary (download role profile)
• Treasurer (download role profile)
• Communications Secretary (download role profile)
• Creative Programme Officers (each with a specialist area) (download role profile)
• Events Administrator (download role profile)
• Membership Secretary (download role profile)

SOUTH WEST FED IS RECRUITING NOW:
We are currently looking for:
• Treasurer (download role profile)
• Chair (download role profile)
  
  PROCESS
  Read the generic role profile and the specific role profile.
  To apply, send your CV and a covering letter explaining how your skills and experience meet the criteria for the role.
  Informal interviews will be held with two members of the Board.
  The Board can co-opt Trustees prior to the following Annual General Meeting (AGM). At the AGM, members will be provided with a list of those standing, and nominees are formally voted onto the board with a yes/no member vote.
  
  Contact info@swfed.org.uk if you would like to chat about any stages of this process.