Join the Think+DO Tank Foundation Board
Think+DO Tank Foundation is seeking experienced and values-driven leaders to join our voluntary Board. We are looking for people who are committed to social justice, collaborative leadership, entrepreneurial solutions, and creating lasting systems change alongside community members.
As a Board member, you'll work alongside a passionate team to provide strategic guidance, strengthen governance, manage risk, expand our networks and help grow the impact of our work across South Western Sydney, Greater Western Sydney and regional NSW.
Whether your expertise is in governance, finance, community development, social policy, fundraising, strategic planning, innovation, evaluation, communications or the arts, we'd love to hear from you.
BOARD MEMBER Position Description
Please read the full Position Description below before submitting your expression of interest.
About Think+DO Tank Foundation
Since 2013, Think+DO Tank Foundation (TDTF) has been working within local communities in low-income parts of South Western, Greater Western Sydney and regional NSW, co-creating artistic projects and social enterprises in which creativity and collaboration are driving forces.
At the beginning of our second decade, our commitment to collaborative experimentation through the arts is as bright as ever.
Our mission is to ensure women have agency to shape their lives and that their experience and aspirations guide the development of public programs, investment and solutions to address shared challenges.
We confront the complex social issues affecting women (typically with an experience of migration or displacement) – issues usually addressed without consulting these same women and their communities. Issues like:
Access barriers including language, transport, digital disconnection, caring/gendered responsibilities, and poverty.
Culture shock, discrimination, and racism.
Separation from family, trauma, mental illness, and social isolation.
Gender inequalities, and,
Their qualifications, talents, and experiences going unrecognised.
Our solution to these issues is to think, listen, and act differently to disrupt our social systems, challenge notions of value, and redefine who belongs to our communities. We build the power of the women, generate connections between them and our networks, and expand the sense of power, connection and possibilities.
If we achieve all that we set out to do, then the strengths, creativity and knowledge of these communities will have disrupted the systems and attitudes that reinforce their exclusion. The result will be a healthier, more creative, enriching, and connected community.
Learn more about:
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Previously, this space used to be home to our now online bookshop, Lost In Books. In consultation with community, we redeveloped it to be a community hub, a gathering place and event venue for our creative programming.
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Since 2013, Think+DO Tank Foundation (TDTF) has been working within local communities in low-income parts of South Western and Western Sydney, co-creating artistic projects and social enterprises in which creativity and collaboration are driving forces.
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This year, for Think+DO Tank Foundation and Lost In Books has been shaped by people — artists, storytellers, community members, partners, volunteers, educators, and supporters — coming together to imagine what’s possible and then doing the work to make it real – to shape it and build it.
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Role of TDTF Board Directors
Think+DO Tank Foundation Board members are highly experienced in their field of expertise. Our Board provides expertise in one or more of the following portfolios:
Strategic planning
Monitoring and evaluation of social, economic and cultural impacts
Design thinking and incubation of innovation
Community and economic development
Advocacy and social policy
Artistic programming for social impact
Governance, risk and financial integrity
Expanding our network of collaborators, supporters, funders and champions
Communication of the impact of TDTF 's work, and,
Fundraising and grant-seeking.
We are now recruiting:
Board Director, Financial Management
We seek a Certified Public Accountant with a strong track record of entrepreneurialism, financial literacy and well-calibrated risk management. Think+DO Tank Foundation increasingly depends on generating its own revenues and will draw on this Director’s perspective to strengthen existing revenue streams and to develop new business.
Board Director, Social Change/Campaigning
We seek an experienced social change-maker with community campaigning, organising, advocacy and lobbying experience. Our work depends, in part, on communicating and influencing government and other interests. We seek a Director with extensive government relations expertise, and a track record of success (alongside failures!). Think+DO Tank Foundation will draw on this Director’s experience in our advocacy, influencing and policy work.
Board Director, Marketing, Communications & Business Development
We seek a marketing, communications and business development expert with a track record with nationally recognisable brands or causes.
How to apply
To register an expression of interest, please email your CV and a statement of how you think your skills, experience and expertise would contribute to the work of the Think+DO Tank Foundation.
Attn: Jane Stratton via email hello@thinkanddotank.net.au
Meet our current board, CEO and TEAM