Ever considered going back to school?

Would you like to give something back to the local community and gain vital board-level experience, whilst providing the best start in life for our most valuable resource – young people?

By volunteering as a school governor or trustee with Inspiring Governance, you can do all of this and more.

Inspiring Governance is a government backed governor recruitment service connecting volunteers with schools in England. It is run by the charity Education and Employers and comes with 12 months of individual support for all newly appointed governors, provided by sector experts the National Governance Association (NGA). Since June 2020 IMechE has partnered with Inspiring Governance as an official School Governor Champion. IMechE is actively supporting Inspiring Governance’s Take a Closer Look campaign to encourage more engineers to consider becoming a school governor or trustee.

Once you have signed up you can search for vacancies in your chosen geographic location; there are lots of resources on the Inspiring Governance website to help you. They also have a small dedicated support team who will be happy to answer any questions you might have,  enquiries@inspiringgovernance.org.

Engineers are perfectly suited to the role of school governors, possessing the skills and experiences that could really benefit a governing board, including: 

• the ability to challenge and ask questions
• strategic leadership and project management
• creative problem solving and seeking improvements
• experience of technical and vocational education
• team working and working collaboratively
• curiosity, innovation and an analytical approach.

Since IMechE partnered with Inspiring Governance numbers of engineer volunteers have quadrupled – so why not join those from STEM fields who have already signed up to volunteer with Inspiring Governance.

Dominic Judge, Director of Governance Programmes at Inspiring Governance explained, 

“Engineers are perfectly suited to the role of a school governor; they bring a rational ability to ask questions and many bring strong strategic leadership and project management experience. All bring the necessary skills of working collaboratively as a team and a strong focus on seeking improvements.”

So why not watch our #JoinThe250k campaign video and sign-up today to search for a governor vacancy in your area.