The Watertrek Foundation, an association invested in the protection of aquatic ecosystems, environmental education, ecological awareness and participative science through the means of Stand-up Paddle is looking for a professional candidate with extensive charity and corporate experience to join its Board of Trustees.
About the board
Watertrek is currently in the process of setting up a Board of Trustees, and aims to recruit a proactive and charities and corporate experienced professional to join it; whose objectives include leading an expected group of four others.
–  Source fundraising to establish a new Chief Executive
– Oversee the recruitment and transition of the Chief Executive
– Provide guidance and support to develop their growth strategy, advise on key decisions, and clarify and implement a long-term vision and strategy
– Develop a governance structure between the Board of Trustees and its senior management team
– Support sourcing of new sponsorship opportunities and fundraising objectives
Compensation
You will agree to intervene on a pro-bono basis until the charity has established sustainable fundraising/income. Leading Watertrek will expose you to a rich surrounding at the forefront of the social and environmental world, and to a wide network of stakeholders; including social enterprises, NGO, and key policy-makers.
About you
You are genuinely excited and passionate about the opportunity to work with a dynamic and authentic organisation that is deeply motivated in tackling environmental issues on a global scale; and in some cases directly whilst on the water.
Watertrek is a Franco-British charity involved in protecting aquatic ecosystems, i.e. our very own waterways and oceans. It provides environmental education and citizen science programs to fight against the global epidemic of plastic waste and pollution; and such programming is achieved through the unique medium of Stand-Up Paddling (SUP) and other such nautical activities. At its core, Watertrek offers a playful and physical approach the environmental education, awareness and action.
Its primary means of intervention lies in three key areas: Â Plastic Pollution, Climate Change and Water Quality. Its mission is to educate, initiate and federate a community of like-minded waterway users; drawing upon the rest of the world attention and awareness of the vital need to reconnect human beings with nature and its waters so to better measure the challenges of its preservation.
Watertrek is primarily operated from France and England and in that context, it is specifically structured around a network of local hubs, now based in Paris, Brittany, Normandy, the French Riviera, Belgium and London.
Throughout this growing geographic network, Watertrek organises events such as SUP paddles focused on river clean-ups, marathon SUP paddles to draw attention to plastic pollution, and many other hosted environment education programs, like the current Plastic Ocean Festival, combining screenings and foreshore waste collections.
It is also engaged in sustainable and circular economy projects linked to aquatic practices and environmental education in India, Thailand, and Myanmar – the last instance of which it runs new exciting Mangrove growth projects.
In addition to educational programs by means of SUP, Watertrek also delivers its message through its various films, contents, SUP eco-expeditions and key partnerships in the charity and SUP communities (discover more through their website and blog www.watertrek.org).
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