DYP Scope & Responsibility of the Board

Introduction

Diepsloot Youth Project would invite potential board members to apply for Board Members Position.

Available Positions Available

1. Chairperson
2. Deputy Chairperson
3. Secretary
4. Treasure
5. Additional Member
6. Additional Member

Assumed qualifications and skills to be in place when you apply

• At least 5 years of experience in Cooperate Governance
• Financial background
• Project Management
• Fundraising experience
• Secretarial Skills
• A broad view of company management
• Growing and scaling the business
• Strategic thinking
• Problem-solving
• Understanding of independent director & governance best practices
• Good understanding of financial statements
• Operations Experience
• Change management
• Innovation

Board Members Roles and Responsibilities

• Establishing a clear organizational mission
• Forming the strategic plan to accomplish the mission
• Overseeing and evaluating the plan’s success
• Providing general support to the executive director and the president
• Functioning as an incubator and feedback mechanism for board, committee, and member proposals
• Establishing and maintaining a board culture that is open, inclusive, and promotes generative thinking
• Hiring a competent executive director
• Reviewing and updating the executive director succession plan
• Providing adequate supervision to the executive director 
• Attending board meeting
• Providing a strategic overview of the organization
• Hold management and staff accountable
• Ensure compliance through policies and procedures
• Fundraise and direct resources to the organization

The board and management

• The manager or executive director works to ensure the financial solvency of the DYP, and interprets and represents the DYP to the community, in line with the system of policies and procedures for staff management. 
• The board will accomplish its functions through regular meetings and by establishing and supporting a member committee structure that is appropriate to DYP. 
• The board will make decisions as a group, and work virtually year-round via several standing board committees. 
• The board periodically conducts a self-evaluation and regularly reviews its own composition to ensure diversity, constituent representation, board expertise, and commitment.  

About Diepsloot Youth Project

Diepsloot Youth Arts and Culture Project is a youth development non-profit organization founded in 2005 to empower communities through upskilling them to recognize and use the opportunities that are around them.  Our mission is to promote inclusive economic empowerment and health care services for unemployed and unskilled young people through our ICT-based Work and Life Skills and Opportunity Placement model.

And vulnerable young people aged 15-35 years old.

• Life Skills: Diepsloot Youth Arts and Culture Project understands that beneficiaries are coming from high school and have never found employment. Our soft skills enable Recipients to understand themselves and their families. The program includes Arts, Culture and Heritage, Financial Management, Leadership Development, Work readiness, Personal development, and Self Esteem.
• Technology: Diepsloot Youth Arts and Culture Project through its innovation hubs and development centers provides Technology Capacity Support, Digital Skills, Arts,
  Graphics, Coding, and Programming activities that prepare unemployed Youth and Women for the fourth industrial revolution.
• Education: Diepsloot Youth Arts and Culture Project works with Secondary Schools, Technical Vocational Education, and Training TVET Colleges by providing the learner
  educational and psychosocial support, teacher, and lecture development to retain and keep learners Youth, and Women in schools and TVET Colleges.
• Health: Diepsloot Youth Arts and Culture Project understands that Technology and Education cannot be achieved if our Youth and Women are not mentally and physically well Diepsloot Youth Arts and Culture Project provides health support to the Youth and Women through delivering HIV/AIDS, Gender-Based Violence, Human Rights, Sexual Reproductive and Psychosocial Support to ensure that unemployed Youth and Women Performs well in Technology, Education, and Employment.
• Employment: Diepsloot Youth Arts and Culture Project links unemployed Youth and Women to opportunities as an exit strategy. This includes leadership and internships,
  apprenticeships, bursaries, further education, temporary and permanent employment, or job opportunities.