Job Description
JOIN OUR BOARD AS A TRUSTEE
In the spring of 2025, the Dunhill Medical Trust changed its name to the Vivensa Foundation as part of a wider plan to better reflect its work as a funder and impact-intentional investor.
It was back in the 1980s that the Board of the predecessor charity recognised that the shifting demographics would drive a need for investment in a high-quality research base to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of ageing and ageing-related disease and the delivery of innovation in the health and social care of older people. Since then, the Foundation has been funding some of the very best of the UK’s researchers and community innovators to do just that.
The Foundation plans to play its part in three broad ways:
- investing in ideas
- connecting research and practice and
- fostering flourishing communities.
With our new identity and with our refreshed Strategic Framework and priorities for the next five years launched in April, we are looking forward to writing our next chapter.
Board vacancy
Owing to a retirement, we welcome applications for the position of Trustee from candidates with expertise in one of the priority areas set out in our new plan.
We will prioritise applications, from either:
- research active geriatricians or gerontologists with demonstrable expertise in translating research and evidence into practice or;
- professionals with a background in delivering innovative change in NHS or local authority settings, social care or housing provision with the experience and networks to turn the latest evidence into practice. The work we fund means that we know all too well the negative impacts of inequity. We are therefore committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work and improving the diversity of representation on our Board of Trustees and on our Committees and we welcome applications from under-represented groups.
How to apply
It’s an exciting time to be joining us and we’re looking for people with the commitment, vision and expertise to support and work with our small but highly experienced and professional executive team and make your contribution to writing the next chapter in our story. If you think this could be you, go to our website to find out more about us and how to apply.
Closing date 17.00 on 10th July.
