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Dove Air 🕊️ (We're hiring!) · 2 months ago

Chairperson – Remote

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

Dove Air is on a mission to provide vital medical supplies globally using autonomous aircraft. They are seeking a Chairperson to lead the Board, ensuring effective governance and strategic direction while engaging with stakeholders and promoting high standards of integrity and ethics.

Air TransportationConsumer GoodsDronesMedicalNon Profit

Responsibilities

Chair and oversee the performance of the Board, ensuring its effectiveness in all aspects of its role and set a Board agenda, which is primarily focused on strategy, performance, value creation, and accountability, ensuring that issues relevant to these areas are reserved for the Board decision

Ensure, in conjunction with the Group Chief Executive, that the Board determines the nature and extent of the material risks the Group is willing to embrace in the implementation of its strategy

Ensure that the directors receive accurate, high quality, and timely information and reports to enable them to effectively monitor all aspects of the Group’s business

Ensure the Board has effective decision-making processes, is fully appraised of the Group’s strategic direction, and has the opportunity to debate and contribute to major proposals

Ensure the Board’s Committees are properly structured with appropriate terms of reference

Chair the Governance and Nomination Committee ensuring regular consideration of succession planning and the composition of the Board and its Committees

Facilitate the effective contribution of non-executive directors and encourage open constructive communication, both in and outside the Boardroom, between the non-executive directors and the executive team

Hold meetings with the non-executive directors, without the executive directors being present

Lead the development of the Group’s culture by the Board

In conjunction with Dove Air’s Chief Executive ensure effective engagement with shareholders, including ensuring their views are communicated to the Board as a whole

Ensure, in conjunction with the Group Chief Executive, and supported by the Deputy Chairman, effective engagement with stakeholders to understand issues and develop relationships, in particular clients and customers, employees, governments and regulators, business partners, rating agencies, the media, special interest groups who have legitimate concerns or involvement and the communities in which the Group operates

Promote high standards of integrity, probity, ethics, diversity & inclusion

Ensure that the Group operates to the highest standards of corporate governance

Consult the Senior Independent Director on board matters under Corporate Governance Codes

Lead evaluation of the performance of the Board, its Committees and individual directors at least once a year, and act on the results by recognizing the strengths and addressing the weaknesses of the Board

Oversee the assessment of fitness and propriety of those non-executive directors who are not in the scope of the Senior Managers Regime and the related notification requirements to the Prudential Regulation Authority

Lead on matters of director development, including the development and monitoring the effective implementation of policies and procedures for the induction, training and professional development of all directors and regular reviews with all directors