Our boards and committees
A number of boards and committees report into our Trustee Board. They make decisions on the finer details of our activities as we respond to the evolving world of IT.
Boards
Four boards feed into the Trustee Board, each one led by an elected Vice-President.
This board seeks to promote IT professionalism and ethics across all sectors. Every business relies on a form of technology, which means our purpose to make IT good for society is relevant across disciplines.
In addition, the board helps businesses set the foundations for long-term success by seeking practical ways to support their employees in essential IT knowledge and skills development.
Focusing on the ways in which digital advances affect everyone in society, this board makes sure our policies, strategies and services impact the world around us in a good way.
It keeps the goals of our Royal Charter at the forefront and works with the media and government to help us have real influence.
Our aim is to help the public understand the digital world by advancing computing education. This board puts in the groundwork to make computing education effective for everyone, from ensuring every child learns about computer science to helping teachers engage students, and supporting scholars and researchers.
It does this with the help of the following sub committees and groups: Academic Accreditation Committee; Computing at Schools Group; Professional Examinations Board; Women in Research Group; Academy Awards Committee; Turing Lecture Committee.
Being a BCS member has many great benefits, not least as a marker of your professionalism, and this board is responsible for ensuring it brings value to everyone. It helps us to grow our membership and member groups, and to make sure you’re fully supported and guided as a member.
Two sub committees help the Community Board to improve all aspects of our membership: Finance Committee and Programme, Practice and Policy Committee.
Committees
There are also four committees that report directly into our Trustee Board.
To make sure we’re always well managed in a sustainable way, our nominations committee helps us decide who to elect in certain positions and who to award.
They make recommendations for the following roles and accolades; Presidents, Deputy Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Executive, Distinguished Fellows and individuals they believe are deserving of public honours.
This board makes sure our finances are all in check. It makes sure our statements are correct, oversees all audit activities and reviews our financial and risk management policies.
This committee oversees the regulation of our professional standards, CITP and RITTech, and our membership admissions. It also ensures we meet our obligations to the regulators of the other professional registrations we award.
This delegated committee decides the pay and salary increases for senior executives.