The Role

The Bob Brown Foundation seeks a person with demonstrated skills in the areas of media and communication skills, networks, and a current knowledge of communication platforms. Persons with proven experience in communications as an activist or in an activist organisation are invited to nominate to join the board to support the work of the Foundation. 

The successful board member will have demonstrated experience and skills suitable for working on the board of a NGO, and who can provide accurate and sound advice in conjunction with the foundation’s campaign manager and CEO to foster and promote the foundation’s campaigns. 

The foundation identifies as an activist organisation, and sees the task of protecting the planet as our crucial priority.  

The Board

The Board is comprised of a diverse range of professionals with a variety of backgrounds. 

Board members are required under the Foundation’s constitution to become members of the Foundation.

This is a voluntary position, and no sitting fees are payable. 

Board meetings are usually held five times a year on a Monday evening for 2 hours.

Appointment to the board is generally for a period of three years.

Further Information

If you wish to discuss joining the Board, please contact Mr Roland Browne, President, Bob Brown Foundation, vie email [email protected], using the subject line: Board Member (voluntary) enquiry via EthicalJobs, or on 0419 388 360.

For further information about the Bob Brown Foundation, please visiting the Foundation’s website at https://www.bobbrown.org.au/.

About the Foundation - from Bob Brown

In this age of rapid destruction of the biosphere, attended by cynicism and pessimism, our foundation will use ecological reality and optimism to promote real environmental wins.

We aim to help campaigns and activists who show real pluck and intelligence in protecting ecosystems, species and wild and scenic heritage.

My appeal to fund a Federal Court case to stop the logging destruction of Tasmania’s magnificent Wielangta Forest drew a generous response from people all over Australia and beyond, though none of this generosity was tax deductible.

Now the Bob Brown Foundation will carry on that work, to protect more scenic land environments, wildlife and marine ecosystems in Tasmania, around Australia, in Antarctica and across our region.

The Foundation is a non-profit fund which will promote the protection and enhancement of, and the provision of information and education about: 

• The wild and scenic beauty of Tasmania
• The ecological integrity of Australia
• Earth's wilderness
• The happiness of humanity on Earth

Bob Brown