Small Steps for Africa
Trustee - Volunteer
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Small Steps for Africa is seeking a new trustee
Small Steps for Africa is seeking a new trustee to join our board and help shape our next phase of organisational development. It's an exciting phase for SSFA as we continue our evolution away from a child sponsorship-based model into wider impact programmes with our partners in Madagascar.
What difference will you make?
Above all, we are looking for trustees with energy and ideas, and a genuine passion for changing lives in a challenging context. We also need any trustee to be aware of the 'kitchen table' nature of our organisation, with no paid staff and limited resources. We focus on excellence within the remit of our programmes, and have no plans to vastly expand the scale of our work, but instead are working to make our funds and strategic inputs as impactful as possible.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for a trustee who is willing to get stuck in, bring energy, enthusiasm and a willingness to help with specific defined tasks, as part of a friendly, 'can-do' team.
The ideal candidate would have previous experience working or living in the Global South (especially Africa), ideally with French language skills (but not compulsory).
We are particularly interested in applications from global majority and disabled trustees, as these are under-represented on our board at the moment.
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What will you be doing?
Small Steps for Africa is a small 'kitchen table' charity with a six-person trustee board and a voluntary Operations Director who founded the charity over a decade ago.
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Since our foundation in 2013, we have supported almost 200 young people in Madagascar to access education and developed community healthcare programmes that have reached over 2000 people since 2022.
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world - 75% of the population live on less than $2 per day, with malnutrition and stunted growth common. Our work centres around the transformative impact of education and access to healthcare on the lives of people in Madagascar.
Through our education, healthcare and social protection programmes, co-created together with, and delivered by, local Malagasy NGOs, we aim to support young people to lead healthy, active lives and gain skills that lead to secure future employment.
SSFA raises between £20,000 and £27,000 in any given financial year, from individual restricted and unrestricted giving, events and grants. This is currently disbursed to two partner NGOs in Madagascar to fund programmes that we co-develop with these partners.
We have low overheads, which means almost everything we raise goes directly to our programmes. We have a loyal donor base, many of whom have supported SSFA for over a decade and appreciate the direct impact of the money they donate.
SSFA set out a new Strategic Plan in 2022 - detailed in our 2022 Annual Report - which involves moving away from a child-sponsorship focused model, and moving to a more holistic programme focus - with the overarching aim of helping the young people we support access education and healthcare, and eventually, good employment opportunities.
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We now have four main workstreams:
- Education: Supporting children to access primary, secondary, further and higher education, and supporting them to excel in their chosen area.
- Healthcare: Our Community Healthworker Programme involves the employment of two qualified nurses based with our partners Ankizy Gasy to provide health triage, advice and education in the community of Ambohidratimo.
- Social Protection: Supporting families going through particular difficulties with meeting the costs of daily life, usually for a short period of time. This can involve covering food, rent and basics like clothes, and also includes grants to start up small businesses.
- Bike Project: Providing loan bikes to young people living in remote areas, to enable them to access education, training, employment and healthcare.
We are now looking for a new trustee to join our board and help us drive forward this new strategic direction. We'd particularly welcome trustees with change management and strategy experience. Experience working in the Global South and French language skills would be particularly welcome.
Our board ethos is informal, friendly and focused on the big picture strategic questions that matter most to the charity. We meet 2-3 times per year and have an active WhatsApp group to facilitate informal discussion and idea sharing between trustees. Additionally, we have a Finance Subcommittee, which oversees the budget setting process and grant application decisions.
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