{"id":43642,"date":"2025-11-21T12:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=43642"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:55:55","slug":"could-your-skills-and-experience-support-the-rsgb-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2025\/11\/21\/could-your-skills-and-experience-support-the-rsgb-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Could your skills and experience support the RSGB Board?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have skills and experience that would make you an asset to the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Board<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> RSGB elections<\/strong> <\/a>process has begun and there are two routes to becoming a Board Director. This week\u2019s focus is on Nominated Directors and there are two vacancies this year.<\/p>\n<p>Nominated Directors are selected by the Society&#8217;s Nominations Committee and then the RSGB membership votes to endorse them at the AGM. The closing date for these vacancies is <strong>5 December 2025 <\/strong>so don\u2019t delay!<\/p>\n<p>There is no functional difference between a Nominated or Elected Director, and all serve the Board in the same way for a three-year term.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to know more about what is required of an RSGB Board Director, the first step is to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/rsgb-2026-elections\/election-information-for-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>candidate pack for Elected Directors.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, if you\u2019d like to express your interest in being a Nominated Director or would like an informal chat, email the RSGB Company Secretary Stephen Purser, GW4SHF via <strong>company.secretary@rsgb.org.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have skills and experience that would make you an asset to the RSGB Board? The RSGB elections process has begun and there are two routes to becoming a Board Director. This week\u2019s focus is on Nominated Directors and there are two vacancies this year. Nominated Directors are selected by the Society&#8217;s Nominations Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43645,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43642\/revisions\/43645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}