Civil Society Covenant

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The management of a charity is delegated to the chief executive.

It's the trustees' responsibility to agree on the chief executive's role description.

Sample chief executive role description

This role description was written by NCVO's governance experts. It should be tailored to your organisation.

This page was last reviewed for accuracy on 26 July 2022

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