Trustees of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) have approved a new medium-term business plan which includes a “new vision and structure” in the face of a currently “unsustainable” model.
The aim, said the CIWM, is to strengthen its “core role as the professional membership body” for the resources and waste sector and to return the CIWM Group to financial surplus in the short-term “after a challenging period in recent years”.
The actions from the business plan are likely to include some job losses as well as staff redeployment and will also see the sale of the Institution’s offices in Northampton, with a consequent move to more modern office premises in the town.
CIWM will now be run jointly by Sarah Poulter and Chris Murphy
The organisation will now be run jointly by Sarah Poulter, group director of membership and funding, and Chris Murphy, deputy chief executive. CIWM currently lacks a chief executive and recruitment of a new CEO has been put on hold pending an assessment of the skills needed.
Consultation
The plan has been developed by external consultant Andrew Garcia and follows “a detailed market and organisation review, internal and external consultation, and close working with CIWM’s senior management team”, the organisation said.
And, CIWM said the new plan is designed to ensure that it can respond effectively “to the changes happening in the sector as it expands to embrace the wider resources agenda. It will also help CIWM to increase its value and relevance at a time when membership bodies across the board have been hit by economic factors including austerity and modern professionals seeking a different ‘membership’ experience.”
WAMITAB
“CIWM remains financially healthy”
Professor Margaret Bates
CIWM executive chair
There will also be changes to the relationship between CIWM regional centres which are to become “an intrinsic part of the whole”. The regional centres will also be used to help sell WAMITAB training courses and this reflects closer links to be developed between the CIWM and WAMITAB – the training charity which is now part of CIWM – in a bid to offer services to more people.
Healthy
Commenting on the plan, Margaret Bates, CIWM’s executive committee chair, emphasised that “CIWM remains financially healthy”.
Professor Bates continued: “Through the hard work and professionalism of its staff, volunteers and members it continues to be seen as an authoritative and influential body for the sector. There is a lot of opportunity ahead, but the current model is not sustainable, and we have to change and gear up for the future.”
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