The role of the Presidential team

The President and Vice President should:

• Be an effective leader for the profession and an ambassador for CIH
• Be an inspirational figure for CIH members and the wider housing sector and provide "challenge" for improvement
• Be a "champion" for housing issues
• Lead CIH’s international relationships and development work
• Be one of the "public faces" of CIH alongside the Governing Board Chair and Chief Executive and attend CIH and other events as a speaker and spokesperson
• Promote the housing profession and seek to ensure that the profession is not brought into disrepute and use his or her best endeavours to protect CIH’s reputation
• Have some responsibility for seeking to ensure that the broad governance of the CIH is effective
• Be regarded as an informal natural arbiter
• Communicate with members and the wider housing sector on important matters of housing policy and professionalism
• Undertake international liaison (including overseas visits) in line with CIH objectives and policies decided by the Governing Board
• Be an ex-officio (non-voting) Governing Board member, with a right to attend and speak and bound by its decisions and support the task of recruiting Trustees
• Set, or have set, a specific strategic objective or project to be undertaken during the term of office

CIH President - Paul Tennant

CIH Vice President - Steve Stride