Digital delivery lead volunteer roles in Edinburgh
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About Us
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil CIC is a grassroots movement committed to confronting and eradicating Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) across the UK. We give survivors, families, and allies the power to speak out, heal, and educate communities through storytelling, outreach, and collective action. We work across all communities - Black, white, Asian, Caribbean, and African, ensuring no survivor feels alone or silencedOur CIC operates through a community-driven, volunteer-led structure, . built by people who believe in truth, justice, and love as law.
This Is Not a Marketing Role. It’s a System-Building Role.
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. exists to confront and expose the realities of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), centre survivor truth and accountability, support young people into economic empowerment, and build community-owned, open-source systems that serve people rather than capital.
We are:
- Values-led
- Anti-capitalist
- Community-driven
- Decentralised by design
We are not here to “optimise funnels” for profit alone. We are here to build ethical, scalable digital systems that mobilise people, protect the vulnerable, and sustain community-led change. The Founding Volunteer Digital Marketing Director plays a central role in making that possible.
About the role:
To design and maintain secure, usable digital systems that support operations, safeguarding and collaboration, enabling the CIC to function efficiently and scale responsibly.
The Purpose of This Role:
The Digital Marketing Director is responsible for designing, leading, and operationalising the CIC’s entire digital growth and outreach strategy during its founding phase.
This role exists to:
- Translate the CIC’s mission into measurable reach and engagement
- Build ethical digital pathways for donors, volunteers, ambassadors, and members
- Create infrastructure that allows the organisation to scale without losing its soul
You will not be inheriting a finished system. You will be helping to design it.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Design and own the organisation’s digital marketing strategy aligned to 2026 goals
- Define how digital channels support fundraising, membership, volunteering, and campaigns
- Set priorities across email, landing pages, CRM journeys, and paid campaigns
Operational Delivery
- Oversee digital marketing systems including:
- Email marketing and automation
- Landing pages and conversion journeys
- CRM integration (e.g. CiviCRM or equivalent)
- Ensure campaigns are planned, executed, tracked, and reviewed
- Work closely with Social Media, Fundraising, Membership, and Digital Systems teams
Growth & Campaigns
- Lead digital campaigns for:
- Donor acquisition
- Volunteer and ambassador recruitment
- Community engagement
- Programme launches
- Ensure all growth activity is ethical, trauma-aware, and values-aligned
Data, Learning & Improvement
- Monitor performance metrics and conversion data
- Use insights to refine systems and campaigns
- Contribute to organisational learning and long-term sustainability planning
Founding Responsibility
- Help design the future paid digital marketing department
- Document systems, workflows, and decision logic
- Act as a steward of ethical digital practice within the CIC
What This Role Requires
You must:
- Be aligned with the CIC’s mission, values, and anti-capitalist stance
- Be willing to commit at a founding level during the unpaid build phase
- Be able to work with incomplete systems and help build structure
- Be comfortable collaborating across multiple teams
You should bring experience in some of the following (placeholders for HR to refine):
- Digital marketing strategy and execution
- Email marketing and automation systems
- CRM-based journeys and segmentation
- Campaign planning and optimisation
- Working with limited budgets in non-profit or purpose-led settings
Formal qualifications are not required.
Equivalent professional or lived experience is acceptable.
What You Will Gain
- A founding leadership role in a national CIC
- The opportunity to design ethical digital systems from the ground up
- Significant leadership and systems-building experience
- Personal transformation through meaningful, purpose-driven work
- A pathway to shaping future paid roles as the organisation scales
We do not promise certainty or immediate compensation.
We offer responsibility, influence, and the chance to build something that matters.
This Role Is Not for You If:
- You are looking for quick pay or low commitment
- You prioritise growth at any cost
- You are uncomfortable working within safeguarding and ethical constraints
- You want to “plug in” rather than build from scratch
- You are not ready to take collective responsibility for long-term impact
A Final Word
The digital world shapes how people understand truth, power, and possibility.
If you believe digital systems can serve communities rather than extract from them and you are ready to help build that reality from the ground up - this role may be for you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Do you have experience in digital and social media? Can you help us improve our communications and raise the profile of the work we do?
We are seeking an expert, creative Volunteer Digital and Social Media Lead. You will help us promote our programmes supporting people in prison and young people at risk of entering the justice system, as well as our Community Bike Shop, which funds and strengthens this work.
What you’ll do:
• Design and schedule engaging posts, stories, and reels across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and more to grow our audience.
• Develop strategies for viral campaigns and collaborations to boost awareness and donations and share your expertise with our team.
• Analyse metrics (engagement, reach, growth) and refine tactics based on what resonates.
• Create eye-catching visuals using tools like Canva.
• Update our website as required and make suggestions for improvements.
• Work with our expert Trustee to consider how we can use online retail platforms to sell our refurbished bikes.
What we’ll provide:
· Creative freedom within agreed priorities and tone of voice.
· Access to the right tools plus shared photos, stories and impact stats.
· A named contact, light-touch sign-off, and occasional check-ins to remove blockers.
Time commitment: we’ll agree a realistic scope with the right volunteer based on their availability.
Reasonable agreed expenses will be paid.
Thank you
Mark Flannagan
Chief Executive
About us
UpCycle, works with individuals in prisons and young people at risk in marginalised communities. We use bicycle maintenance workshops to help build life skills, enhance employability, prevent offending and reoffending, and foster social reintegration. We also offer lead rides, bike fit-it sessions and other ways to engage with vulnerable people.
In prisons
· We delivered 956 un-refurbished bikes and received back 768 refurbished bikes across eight prisons and one Young Offenders Institution, training over 238 individuals.
In the Community
· Over 1034 bikes were donated to our Community Bike Shop, of those we refurbished and distributed more than 612 to underserved communities locally and overseas.
· Workshops in Bradford engaged 361 participants in diverse cycling-related activities across the area.
· "Bike to the Future" and other initiatives reached 220 young people with more complex needs.
We believe everyone deserves a better future. We prevent people from being pulled into crime and help those already in the system find paths out.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
RSBC are looking for digital volunteers to help out at our Boys Crew online club. At Boys Crew, the children and young people meet twice a month and engage in different activities via Zoom!
We are looking for volunteers to help facilitate the clubs admin, make sure everyone feels involved and potentially lead an activity!
Role: Online Activities Volunteer (Boys Crew)
Commitment: Boys Crew is currently run twice a month, usually on a Tuesday from 17:00 - 18:00. There are also other clubs you would be able to get involved in such as our Audiobook club.
Location: Remote
Availability: RSBC Events · https://lu.ma/rsbc
Age: 18+
Our Mission Statement:
RSBC believes that every blind young person should have the chance to live life without limits.
By giving young people the essential skills and confidence to take control of their life, they can unleash their true potential.
Our success depends on our values
Underpinning all RSBC’s work are values embedded in trust and excellence:
TRUST: Respect and accountability
ENERGY: Straight talking and constantly learning
AMBITION: Confronting reality and driving results
MOTIVATION: Vision impaired children and young people are our number one priority, and we look for solutions, not problems
What will I be doing?
Our amazing Activity Volunteers play a key role in supporting blind children and young people to take part in a variety of activities. These range from sports, creative (singing, performing, art), audiobook club and day trips. Our activities are designed for blind young people to meet new friends, gain confidence, learn new skills/sports, and become more independent. The skills you have developed in your career and personal life will be invaluable to our young people.
Key Tasks and Main Duties
Online activities:
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support the session timetable
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facilitate the communication and social interaction between participants
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encourage members of the group to participate and share their opinions
Who are you?
We welcome applications from people with a wide range of skills and experiences. You don’t need to have volunteered or worked before as full training will be provided. What’s important to us is that you are a team player, open to learning and willing to follow RSBC’s policies and can be an excellent ambassador for RSBC. We particularly welcome applications from people with lived experience of sight problems.
What’s in it for me?
RSBC offers the opportunity to gain insight and experience into helping others with sight issues. As part of your volunteering, you will have access to Sighted Guide training, a training session designed to help you understand the issues and complexities of sight problems and give you the ability to help others navigate the world.
RSBC also provides paid expenses for your volunteering experience, you can claim up to £10 per day.
RSBC can also provide references and impact reports from your volunteering if required.
You will be fully supported in your role by our team of expert and compassionate service delivery team.
Develop or utilise your skills – As a volunteer, you’ll be given plenty of opportunities to develop new skills or use those you already have, which can help to build your CV, boost your employability and give you a sense of satisfaction.
What's in it for the Community?
Make a difference to people’s lives
Help in your community
Help deliver creative services to help people with sighted issues feel included in the world around them.
Make a direct and tangible difference to the lives of blind and partially sighted children and young people.
Safeguarding:
Due to the nature of the role, before you can begin volunteering with RSBC there are some required safeguarding checks which will need to be completed.
All RSBC volunteers undergo an Enhanced DBS check (paid for by RSBC) and must provide two references.
All volunteers will also be booked onto safeguarding training.
RSBC risk assesses all its services and activities.
Next Steps:
If this sounds like you, please fill out an expression of interest, and one of our volunteer team members will get back to you!
To be there for blind children and their families with specialist support throughout their journey.
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As Social Media & Marketing Manager with The Skateboarding Foundation, your role is to develop and support our digital presence, raise awareness, and engage with our audience across various platforms.
This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference to young people's lives, supporting a small but growing charity.
A youth development charity that uses teaching and learning to skateboard to develop the skills and abilities of children and young people.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Do you have a passion for African and Diaspora history and a vision for empowering communities through knowledge? Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is seeking a dynamic Book Club Coordinator (African & Diaspora History Lead) to join our founding volunteer team. This role is central to curating, facilitating, and promoting a transformative learning space that nurtures understanding, critical thinking, and cultural pride for survivors, young people, and community members.
As Book Club Coordinator, you will design, manage, and facilitate a structured book club programme focused on African and Diaspora history, literature, and thought leadership. You will work closely with the Membership Director and Community Engagement Manager to ensure the club fosters critical reflection, inclusive discussion, and actionable learning. This role combines operational coordination, educational facilitation, and community engagement, offering a unique opportunity to impact knowledge sharing and collective empowerment.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential / Highly Valued Experience
- Strong knowledge of African and Diaspora history, literature, political thought, and cultural movements
- Experience in facilitation, teaching, programme coordination, or group learning environments
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and group leadership skills
- Ability to engage diverse participants in respectful, inclusive, and meaningful dialogue
- Confidence holding complex conversations around history, power, identity, and resistance
- Ability to motivate participation and sustain group energy over time
- Strong organisational skills, including session planning and follow-up
- Ability to document discussions and translate insights into learning outcomes
- Experience working in community, grassroots, or culturally rooted spaces
- Commitment to collective learning, cultural integrity, and community-centred education
- Reliability, consistency, and a collaborative approach to programme delivery
Desirable / Can Be Developed
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Competence with digital tools for scheduling, virtual engagement, and content sharing (e.g. video platforms, shared documents, community spaces)
Qualifications
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Formal qualifications in history, education, cultural studies, or related fields are welcome but not required; equivalent professional or lived experience is equally valued
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Curate reading lists and learning materials: Develop thoughtful, accessible reading lists focused on African and Diaspora history, literature, political thought, and cultural movements. Select texts that reflect diverse geographies, time periods, and perspectives, balancing academic depth with community accessibility.
- Plan and facilitate book club sessions: Organise, schedule, and lead regular book club sessions in both online and in-person formats. Design session structures that support preparation, discussion flow, and inclusive participation. Create a welcoming environment that encourages shared learning rather than hierarchical instruction.
- Lead critical discussion and reflection: Facilitate informed, respectful, and challenging conversations that encourage participants to analyse texts critically, reflect on historical and contemporary relevance, and apply learning to personal, collective, or organisational contexts.
- Participant engagement and learning tracking: Monitor attendance, participation levels, and learning outcomes to assess engagement and identify opportunities for improvement. Adapt facilitation approaches based on participant feedback and group dynamics.
- Coordinate guest contributors: Identify, invite, and coordinate guest speakers, authors, historians, or subject matter experts whose lived experience or expertise enhances discussion and deepens understanding of selected themes.
- Digital collaboration and engagement: Work with digital teams to support virtual sessions, share reading materials, discussion prompts, and supplementary content. Encourage ongoing dialogue through online platforms between sessions.
- Documentation and programme development: Capture key discussion points, insights, and participant feedback. Contribute to reflective summaries and recommendations that inform future reading selections and programme development.
- Link to wider CIC initiatives: Align book club themes with broader CIC educational goals, membership programming, and community initiatives. Support the integration of learning into collective practice, leadership development, and cultural programming.
What This Role Offers You:
- Leadership experience in designing and facilitating an educational programme with social impact.
- Personal growth through engagement with communities, critical reflection, and cultural education.
- Opportunity to shape a flagship learning initiative within a pioneering, values-led CIC.
- The satisfaction of empowering participants to connect with their history, identity, and collective culture.
What This Role Is Not For:
- Individuals seeking purely administrative tasks or content curation without engagement.
- Those unwilling to guide discussions that challenge assumptions and promote accountability.
- People expecting rigid, pre-defined responsibilities—this role requires creativity, facilitation skills, and adaptive problem-solving.
If you are ready to lead learning, inspire critical engagement, and strengthen community knowledge of African and Diaspora history, we want to hear from you. Apply now and become a key driver of transformative cultural education.
A Final Word
Learning is about people, not just books.
If you know that:
- Trust is built through thoughtful facilitation, care, and intellectual honesty
- Respectful handling of stories, histories, and lived experiences is a safeguarding responsibility
- Listening deeply and honouring diverse voices keeps learning communities strong
…then you understand the heart of leading a book club rooted in African and Diaspora history.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This Role Turns Strategy into Impact
At Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C., content and ideas are only as powerful as their execution. The Campaign Manager ensures that our messaging, campaigns and launches reach the right people, at the right time, in the right way.You are the operational lynchpin between strategy, creators, analysts and ambassadors, translating insight and content into measurable outcomes — whether that’s donor growth, volunteer mobilisation or VFAP engagement. This is not a creative role; it is a precision, execution, and optimisation role.
Purpose of the role:
Plan, execute, and optimise multi-platform campaigns. Manage paid ad campaigns for donations, volunteer recruitment, and ambassador activation. Align landing pages, creatives, and content across platforms. Track campaign performance and pivot strategies in real time. Coordinate across analysts, content creators, and automators for seamless delivery. Your work ensures that strategy becomes tangible, actionable, and results driven.
About the role:
The Volunteer Campaign Manager will support the planning, coordination and delivery of digital campaigns and platform launches that raise awareness, drive engagement and support organisational goals. This role focuses on helping manage campaign timelines, messaging and performance tracking across media and launch activities.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential Technical Competencies:
- Experience supporting or managing digital campaigns, media, marketing initiatives or launch activities (professional, academic, freelance or volunteer).
- Basic understanding of advertising platforms (e.g. Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads or similar) and campaign structures.
- Experience, or strong familiarity, with campaign planning, timelines and coordination across multiple channels.
- Familiarity with digital tools used for campaign management, collaboration or reporting.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, particularly during campaign launches.
Desirable / Can Be Developed:
- Experience or interest in paid digital advertising, growth marketing or campaign launches.
- Awareness of campaign performance metrics and how insights are used to improve results.
- Ability to coordinate campaign timelines and launch activities across teams.
Qualifications:
- Formal qualifications are not required but desirable.
- Experience in marketing, digital advertising, communications, business or a related field is valued
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Support the planning, setup and coordination of paid digital campaigns and platform or product launches.
- Assist in managing campaign timelines, launch checklists and key milestones to ensure activities are delivered on schedule.
- Work with marketing, communications and technical teams to align messaging, creative assets, targeting and launch requirements.
- Help monitor paid campaign performance, budgets and spend, flagging issues or opportunities for optimisation.
- Collaborate closely with Social media Director, Social Media Analysts and Insights Officer.
- Support basic analysis and reporting on campaign results, using platform insights and analytics tools.
- Report campaign performance to the leadership team.
- Maintain documentation of campaign strategies, budgets and outcomes.
- Assist with audience targeting, creative testing and campaign adjustments based on performance data.
- Ensure campaigns and launch activities follow organisational guidelines, brand standards and data protection requirements.
- Support post-launch reviews to capture feedback and contribute to continuous improvement of future campaigns.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders, providing updates and supporting coordination across teams.
What You Gain:
- Hands-on campaign leadership experience in a high-impact CIC.
- Founding contributor status.
- Operational and strategic credibility.
- Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams
- Priority pathway to future paid roles.
- This role builds executive-level experience in campaigns, optimisation and social impact delivery.
What This Role Is Not For:
- Want a purely creative role without operational responsibility.
- Avoid data-driven decision-making.
- Are uncomfortable working with sensitive or trauma-informed content.
- Expect immediate paid employment
Important to Be Clear:
- This is a volunteer role during the build phase.
- It carries real authority over execution and delivery.
- Paid roles will emerge as funding and sustainability allow.
Next Steps
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to
A values-led discussion.
- A practical campaign and execution scenario conversation.
- If you believe that impact is built on disciplined execution, not just ideas and that strategy without action is wasted potential, this role is for you.
A Final Word
Events bring people together. Safety keeps them coming back.
If you know that: Inclusive spaces protect dignity.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
We are looking for someone who shares our vision of shaping a recognised, valued and inclusive sport and physical activity sector that everyone can be a part of, and who is committed to the highest levels of governance, risk management and assurance.
The Audit and Probity Committee reports directly to CIMSPA’s Board of Trustees and is a crucial part of our governance structure, overseeing our risk landscape. By ensuring that risk is adequately managed and that the organisation is governed with integrity, the committee guides CIMSPA’s strategic decision-making processes. Alongside this, the committee provides oversight, challenge and scrutiny across a range of areas, including our internal controls and our financial performance and management.
Specialisms
Based on the committee’ annual skills review, we have identified the following specialisms as a priority for recruitment:
• Government and policy-making
• Legal and regulatory
Therefore we are seeking to appoint a committee member with significant experience in at least one of these areas.
Core Skills
We also expect all committee members to have significant experience in one or more of the following:
• Finance
• Audit and risk
• Governance and compliance
• Our system interventions (as detailed in our strategy)
• Business and commercial
• Digital
Please note - an in-depth knowledge of the sport and physical activity sector is not essential.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Ensuring that the committee fulfils its purpose as stated in its Terms of Reference.
- Ensuring that the committee complies with CIMSPA’s Charter and Statutes, charity law, company law and all other relevant legislation/regulations as they relate to the committee.
- Managing CIMSPA’s resources responsibly and honestly, with a duty of prudence.
- Working in partnership with CIMSPA’s CEO or senior leadership team to ensure the strategic aims of the organisation are achieved as they relate to the committee, maintaining a management and oversight role.
- Ensuring that the committee is accountable.
Closing date for applications: Monday 2nd March 2026 at 9am
Provisional date for virtual interviews: Monday 16th March 2026
Shaping a recognised, valued and inclusive sport and physical activity sector that everyone can be a part of
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you an organised and proactive leader who enjoys bringing people together to achieve meaningful results? Join us as a Volunteer Project Manager and play a key role in coordinating our remote volunteers across multiple teams.
You’ll be at the centre of ensuring projects run smoothly, collaboration stays strong, and our initiatives continue creating impact in youth empowerment and skills development.
About the Role
As a Volunteer Project Manager, you’ll oversee the full project lifecycle — from planning to successful delivery. You’ll coordinate timelines, deliverables, and communication across various volunteer teams, supporting team leads and maintaining project momentum.
This is a great opportunity to strengthen your leadership, coordination, and communication skills in a mission-driven, international environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee and coordinate progress across multiple volunteer teams and projects.
- Plan and manage project timelines, deliverables, and follow-ups.
- Support team leads in maintaining engagement, motivation, and productivity.
- Track progress, analyse outcomes, and provide regular updates to leadership.
- Identify and address challenges to ensure efficient project execution.
- Foster collaboration and effective communication between volunteers and management.
Skills & Qualifications
- Strong organisational and coordination skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Proven experience managing projects or teams (remote experience is a plus).
- Comfortable using digital tools and project management platforms.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and able to work independently.
- Genuine interest in youth development and social impact.
What You’ll Gain
- Hands-on experience in leadership and project management.
- The opportunity to collaborate with a global, values-driven community.
- Mentorship and guidance from the management team.
- A meaningful role contributing to youth empowerment and skills development.
- A professional reference and recognition for your contribution.
Please note the role is a voluntary position and could be entirely remote. Any incurred reasonable expenses will be paid.
Tackle and reduce youth unemployment by providing with the necessary tools to develop skills, aptitudes, knowledge and self-confidence.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Inclusive Boards is delighted to support Scope in their search to appoint two new Trustees.
Scope is the UK’s disability equality charity. They campaign to transform attitudes to disability, tackle injustice and inspire action. They create opportunities and provide information and support that empowers.
About Scope
Scope wants a society where all disabled people enjoy equality and fairness. We provide practical advice and emotional support to people and families who need it most. We use our collective power to deliver social change and end injustice for disabled people. We do this by working to change attitudes. We inspire policy change, by both local and national government. We work with organisations as employers and product or service providers. Our shops are at the heart of communities around the country, each one increasing impact. Last year, we supported over 4 million disabled people through our services, our online advice and online community forum. This also importantly gives us the authority to speak to power on behalf of disabled people and their families across the country.
Scope’s new strategy was approved by the Board in 2023 and focuses on achieving seismic change for and with disabled people and their families. We want to build on the impact we have achieved over the last few years. We want to go further in driving social change, achieving equality for all disabled people. Our work is underpinned by our commitment to diversity and inclusion in everything we do, and our values. We are pioneering, courageous, connected, fair and open.
About the Trustee opportunities:
Scope is seeking to strengthen the Trustee Board further and want to welcome 2 new Trustees with expertise in the following areas:
- A qualified accountant with audit/risk or governance experience
- Fundraising
Trustees act as ambassadors for the organisation, engaging with stakeholders such as donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries. They foster relationships, build networks, and advocate for the organisation’s mission, enhancing its visibility and impact.
The Trustees we appoint will work closely with other Trustees, the Chief Executive and the Executive Leadership Team. Together they will oversee the delivery of our ambitious new strategy. They must be committed to equality, and to involving disabled people in decision making.
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Are you passionate about creating transformative learning experiences that empower individuals and communities?
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is seeking a skilled Instructional Designer to join our founding volunteer team. This role is central to designing, structuring and delivering educational programmes that support survivors, young people and marginalised communities to access knowledge, develop skills and achieve personal and collective growth.
Purpose of the role:
The Volunteer Instructional Designer supports our mission by designing engaging, effective and learner-centred educational materials. In this role, you will collaborate with subject matter experts, program staff and other volunteers to transform ideas and content into structured learning experiences that are accessible, inclusive and impactful.
About the Role:
As Instructional Designer, you will work closely with the Membership Director, Book Club Coordinator, and Social & Digital Media Education Lead to develop structured learning pathways, modules, and resources for our membership programmes. Your work will ensure that all learning experiences are engaging, accessible, and aligned with our anti-capitalist, community-driven, and survivor-centred mission. This is a hands-on, impactful role combining strategy, creativity, and operational delivery.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential Technical Competencies:
- Experience in instructional design, curriculum development or educational programme creation in formal or informal learning environments.
- Proven experience designing and delivering community-based education, training or learning programmes.
- Experience using content creation tools (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Workspace, Canva).
- Basic familiarity with e-learning tools, learning management systems or content creation software is a plus.
- Ability to develop structured learning pathways with clear outcomes and assessments.
- Ability to translate complex or technical information into clear, accessible and inclusive learning materials.
- Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design best practices.
- Hands-on experience contributing to open-source projects.
- Implementing security, accessibility or system optimisation practices in real-world projects.
Desirable / Can Be Developed:
- Experience in instructional design, learning design or educational content creation.
- Developing skills in structuring learning objectives, activities and simple assessments.
- Willingness to collaborate with facilitators, subject matter experts and community members.
Qualifications:
- Formal qualifications are not required but desirable.
- Experience in education, instructional design, learning and development or a related field is valued.
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Design and develop educational programmes, courses and learning resources for members and volunteers.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts, facilitators and leadership to ensure content is accurate, relevant and impactful.
- Structure learning experiences with clear objectives, assessments and progression pathways.
- Integrate digital platforms, multimedia resources and interactive tools to enhance accessibility and engagement.
- Evaluate learning outcomes and gather participant feedback to continuously improve programmes.
- Ensure all learning programmes comply with safeguarding, accessibility and data protection standards.
- Ensure all integrations follow best practices for security, data privacy and performance, maintaining
- compliance with GDPR and other relevant standards.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer by providing clear resources for onboarding new volunteers, team members and technical contributors.
- Maintain documentation of course materials, learning pathways and instructional guides for internal use.
- Support capacity-building by training facilitators, volunteers and community members in programme delivery.
- Collaborate with leadership, technical teams and stakeholders to define the long-term vision and goals for digital platforms and systems.
- Identify opportunities for innovation, including new features, technologies, tools or workflows that improve platform functionality, user experience and operational efficiency.
- Continuously monitor the open-source platform to ensure optimal performance, uptime and reliability, using monitoring tools, analytics, and performance metrics.
- Identify and diagnose technical issues, bugs, or system errors promptly, assessing root causes and prioritising fixes based on impact and urgency.
What This Role Offers You:
- Leadership experience in designing and delivering learning initiatives that directly impact communities.
- Personal and professional growth through hands-on instructional development and facilitation.
- The opportunity to shape transformative learning systems within a pioneering, values-led CIC.
- The satisfaction of empowering survivors, young people, and community members through education.
What This Role Is Not For:
- Individuals seeking purely administrative or content curation work without engagement.
- Those unwilling to adapt learning resources to diverse audiences and community needs.
- People expecting pre-packaged or rigid course structures—this role requires creativity, collaboration, and active problem-solving.
Next Steps
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to
- A values-led conversation.
- If you are ready to design meaningful learning experiences that empower communities and foster personal transformation, we want to hear from you.
- Apply now and help build education systems that create lasting social impact.
A Final Word
Design learning turns knowledge into action. Shapes the path from curiosity to competence.
If you know that: Education is the bridge between knowledge and action.A bridge between knowing and doing
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Are you highly organised, people-focused, and passionate about creating safe, meaningful experiences for communities? Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is seeking a Retreat Support & Member Travel Liaison to support the planning, coordination, and delivery of retreats, gatherings, and in-person programmes for survivors, young people, and community members. This plug-in role is essential to ensuring that members can participate in transformative experiences with clarity, dignity, and practical support.
As Retreat Support & Member Travel Liaison, you will coordinate the logistical and communication aspects of member participation in retreats and events. You will act as a key point of contact for travel planning, accommodation coordination, accessibility needs, and member queries before, during, and after retreats. Working closely with programme leads, clinical and safeguarding teams, and community managers, you will help ensure retreats are delivered smoothly, safely, and in alignment with our values-led, anti-capitalist, community-driven mission.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential / Highly Valued Experience
- Experience in event coordination, travel liaison, member support, or administrative logistics
- Strong organisational skills with high attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, timelines, and communications calmly and reliably
- Clear, professional, and compassionate communication skills (written and verbal)
- Confidence supporting participants who may be anxious, unfamiliar with travel, or attending for the first time
- Ability to handle sensitive and personal information confidentially, in line with safeguarding and data protection policies
- Ability to work collaboratively with programme leads, facilitators, venues, and volunteers
- Proactive problem-solving skills and sound judgement when escalating concerns
- Reliability and responsiveness during pre-event and live delivery periods
- Alignment with values of care, respect, and participant-centred delivery
Desirable / Can Be Developed
- Good understanding of, or willingness to learn, safeguarding and wellbeing protocols
- Confidence using digital tools for scheduling, communication, and record-keeping (e.g. email, shared documents, spreadsheets, CRM or event platforms)
- Experience supporting vulnerable groups, community programmes, or residential retreats
- Willingness to contribute to improving systems and processes through reflection and feedback
Qualifications
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Formal qualifications not required; relevant professional, voluntary, or lived experience is valued
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Coordinate member travel logistics: Provide clear guidance on transport options, arrival and departure details, accommodation information, and local travel considerations. Support members to plan journeys confidently while balancing consistency, cost-awareness, and accessibility needs.
- Primary point of contact for members: Act as a calm, reliable, and approachable contact for participants attending retreats or in-person programmes. Respond to queries promptly, clearly, and sensitively, recognising that travel and participation can be stressful or unfamiliar for some members.
- Support retreat and programme planning: Work alongside programme leads to support retreat schedules, attendance tracking, check-in processes, and on-the-day coordination. Assist with practical arrangements that enable facilitators to focus on delivery and participant care.
- Liaison with venues and teams: Coordinate with venues, facilitators, and internal teams to ensure accommodation, access, catering, room set-up, and transport arrangements meet programme needs, safeguarding standards, and agreed expectations.
- Accessibility, wellbeing, and safeguarding: Proactively identify potential accessibility barriers, wellbeing needs, or safeguarding concerns shared by participants. Escalate issues promptly and appropriately to designated leads, following organisational safeguarding procedures.
- Data management and compliance: Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of participant details, travel arrangements, access requirements, and communications. Ensure all information is handled confidentially and in full compliance with GDPR and data protection policies.
- Post-retreat follow-up and evaluation: Support post-programme processes, including follow-up communications, feedback collection, and contribution to evaluation activities. Help ensure participant experiences inform learning and continuous improvement.
- Systems and process development: Contribute to the creation and refinement of checklists, guides, templates, and systems that improve the consistency, care, and efficiency of future retreats and in-person programmes. Share learning and practical insights with the wider team.
What This Role Offers You:
- Practical leadership experience supporting impactful retreats and in-person programmes.
- Opportunity to contribute directly to transformative experiences for survivors and marginalised communities.
- Personal growth through service-led, community-centred work in a values-driven organisation.
- The satisfaction of helping members feel supported, informed, and safe as they engage in deep personal and collective development.
What This Role Is Not For:
- Individuals seeking hands-off or purely behind-the-scenes work with no member interaction.
- Those unwilling to work flexibly around programme timelines or respond to live operational needs.
- People expecting rigid structures or corporate event management environments—this role requires adaptability, care, and collaboration.
If you are ready to support powerful in-person experiences and ensure members can engage fully, safely, and confidently, we want to hear from you. Apply now and help us deliver retreats that foster healing, connection, and transformation.
A Final Word
Logistics are about people, not just plans.
If you know that:
- Trust is built through clear communication, care, and reliability
- Privacy and safeguarding are essential when supporting travel and participation
- Respectful, attentive support helps people feel safe and welcomed
…then you understand the heart of effective retreat support and member travel liaison.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Us
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil CIC is a grassroots movement committed to confronting and eradicating Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) across the UK. We give survivors, families, and allies the power to speak out, heal and educate communities through storytelling, outreach, and collective action. We work across all communities - Black, white, Asian, Caribbean, African and beyond, ensuring no survivor feels alone or silenced. Our CIC operates through a community-driven, volunteer-led structure, built by people who believe in truth, justice, and love as law.
This Role Is Not Symbolic. It Is Structural.
Safeguarding is not a policy document; It is not a checkbox; It is not a compliance exercise. In this CIC, safeguarding is the infrastructure that allows the work to exist at all.
We work with:
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Survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA)
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Vulnerable adults
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Young people
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Ex-offenders
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Volunteers with lived trauma
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Communities historically failed by institutions
If safeguarding fails, everything fails. This role exists to make sure that never happens.
Purpose of the Safeguarding Officer Role
The Safeguarding Officer is responsible for designing, implementing, and protecting the safeguarding framework that allows the CIC to operate safely, ethically, and lawfully at scale.
This role ensures:
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Survivors are protected, not re-exposed
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Volunteers are supported, not exploited
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Risks are identified early, not ignored
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Safeguarding is embedded into every system, not bolted on
About the role:
To design and uphold safeguarding systems that protect survivors, volunteers and the organisation, ensuring safety, ethics and legal compliance are built into every practice as the CIC grows. Safeguarding is the infrastructure that allows the work to "SAFELY" exist at all.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Experience in safeguarding within:
Charity; Statutory services; Education; Health; Grassroots or community settings
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Experience working with vulnerable adults and/or children.
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Strong understanding of trauma-informed practice.
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Ability to respond to disclosures calmly and appropriately.
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Experience writing and implementing safeguarding policies.
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Risk assessment and incident management experience.
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Understanding of UK safeguarding legislation and guidance.
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Confidence challenging unsafe practice at any level.
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Ability to balance care with boundaries.
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Strong judgement under pressure.
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Clear written documentation skills.
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Capacity to work unpaid and full-time during build phase.
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Emotional regulation and professional restraint.
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Integrity, steadiness and clarity.
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
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Design, implement, and maintain a safeguarding framework that protects survivors, volunteers, members and the organisation.
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Develop and own safeguarding policies, procedures and reporting pathways covering:
- Adults and children at risk
- Volunteers and peer supporters
- Digital spaces, storytelling, and online engagement
- Ensure safeguarding is embedded into:
- Recruitment and onboarding
- Training and supervision
- Programme design and delivery
- Digital systems and data handling
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Establish clear risk assessment processes for activities, campaigns, and content.
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Act as the safeguarding lead for concerns, disclosures, and incidents, ensuring:
- Timely, appropriate responses
- Accurate recording
- Correct escalation to statutory agencies where required
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Build systems that prevent re-exposure, re-traumatisation, or exploitation of survivors.
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Ensure volunteers are supported, supervised and not placed in unsafe or inappropriate roles.
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Advise leadership on safeguarding risks, capacity limits and ethical boundaries.
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Deliver safeguarding guidance and training proportionate to role and risk.
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Monitor safeguarding practice across teams and intervene early where drift appears.
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Work closely with Digital, Membership, Fundraising, and Social teams to manage risk in:
- Storytelling
- Online engagement
- Data use
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Maintain professional distance and emotional steadiness when handling complex situations.
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Review and update safeguarding systems as the CIC scales.
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Contribute to external accountability and transparency where appropriate.
You must:
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Be able to commit 80% dedication during the build phase
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Be comfortable working unpaid while the CIC is being built
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Be emotionally grounded and professionally boundaries
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Understand trauma without centring yourself
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Be able to hold complexity without collapsing into control or avoidance
You should have experience in some of the following:
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Safeguarding (statutory, charity, education, health, or grassroots)
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Working with vulnerable adults and/or children
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Trauma-informed practice
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Policy development and implementation
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Risk assessment and incident management
Formal qualifications are welcome but not essential - Integrity, clarity and steadiness are.
This role is not for you if:
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You want safeguarding to be “light touch”
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You avoid difficult conversations
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You seek authority without responsibility
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You are uncomfortable challenging leadership when needed
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You are looking for a title rather than accountability
What You Gain:
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A founding leadership role in a CIC tackling real harm
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The chance to build safeguarding the right way
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Influence over how protection, care, and accountability coexist
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The opportunity to shape a future paid safeguarding role
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Deep purpose-driven work that actually protects people
As the CIC scales, this role is expected to evolve into a paid senior safeguarding position, shaped by the person who built it.
Formal qualifications are not required, but desirable.
Essential equivalent experience mandatory.
Next Steps:
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to:
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A values-led conversation
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A practical discussion about event planning, coordination, and execution
If you believe that well-organised, purposeful events can change communities, and that experiences inspire action, this role is for you.
A Final Word
Safeguarding is an act of love.
It is also an act of discipline.
If you know that:
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Survivors deserve better systems
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Vulnerable people deserve real protection
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Community work must be safe to be sustainable
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
This Role Transforms Words Into Funding for Change. At Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C., compelling storytelling and clear proposals unlock the resources we need to grow and sustain our mission.
The Grants and Proposal Writer ensures that the CIC secures funding from trusts, foundations, and grant-making bodies. You will research opportunities, craft persuasive applications, and maintain documentation for reporting and compliance. Your work directly supports programmes, events, and initiatives that impact vulnerable communities.
This is not a generic writing role—it is strategic, high-impact, and central to CIC sustainability.
This role exists to:
- Research and identify grant and funding opportunities aligned with the CIC’s mission
- Develop high-quality proposals, applications, and supporting materials
- Coordinate with the Fundraising Director and other team members to ensure accurate and compelling submissions
- Maintain records of applications, deadlines, and reporting requirements
- Track outcomes, feedback, and lessons learned to improve future proposals
- Ensure compliance with grant conditions, CIC policies, and ethical fundraising standards
You are the storyteller who converts opportunity into actionable support.
Why This Role Matters
Grants and proposals are a critical revenue stream:
- They provide predictable and scalable funding
- They allow the CIC to expand programmes and reach more communities
- They strengthen credibility with partners, donors, and funders
Without this role, potential funding opportunities may be missed or poorly executed. With it, the CIC can secure long-term resources and scale impact ethically.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential / Highly Valued Experience
- Experience in grant writing or proposal development, producing clear, persuasive, and well-evidenced applications
- Ability to research funding opportunities, assess eligibility, and interpret complex funder guidelines
- Strong written communication and storytelling skills, particularly for social change, community impact, and beneficiary-centred narratives
- Ability to translate programme data and outcomes into measurable impact statements
- Experience preparing or contributing to reports and documentation for funders, including outcomes and financial narratives
- Understanding of, or experience within, non-profit, CIC, charity, or social impact sectors
- High attention to detail with strong organisation and deadline-management skills
- Confidence collaborating with diverse internal stakeholders to gather accurate information
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple applications, and prioritise effectively in a volunteer capacity
- Commitment to the organisation’s mission, values, and principles of equity, inclusion, and integrity
Desirable / Can Be Developed
- Awareness of ethical, legal, and compliance considerations, including CIC requirements and data protection
- Proficiency with basic digital tools (e.g. Word, Google Docs, spreadsheets, shared tracking systems)
Qualifications
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Formal qualifications not required; equivalent professional or voluntary experience is highly valued
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Identify funding opportunities: Proactively source and monitor relevant grant-making organisations, charitable trusts, foundations, statutory bodies, and corporate funders aligned with the organisation’s mission, values, and programmes. Maintain awareness of emerging funding trends and opportunities within the non-profit and social impact landscape.
- Research eligibility and priorities: Analyse funder guidelines, eligibility criteria, strategic priorities, funding cycles, and assessment processes to determine suitability. Provide clear recommendations on which opportunities to pursue and advise on positioning applications for best alignment.
- Write high-quality grant proposals: Develop clear, persuasive, and well-structured grant applications, expressions of interest, and supporting documents. Translate complex programmes and outcomes into compelling narratives supported by evidence, budgets, and measurable impact.
- Collaborate with internal teams: Work closely with programme leads, finance, monitoring and evaluation, and leadership teams to gather accurate data, budgets, case studies, outcomes, and delivery plans. Ensure proposals reflect current activities and realistic capacity.
- Application and deadline management: Maintain an organised and transparent system to track funding opportunities, application stages, deadlines, submission requirements, and reporting obligations. Ensure timely preparation and submission of all materials.
- Compliance and quality assurance: Ensure all grant submissions meet ethical standards, legal requirements, and Community Interest Company (CIC) regulations. Review applications for accuracy, consistency, safeguarding considerations, and data protection compliance before submission.
- Funding tracking and reporting support: Record funding awarded, declined, or pending. Assist with donor acknowledgement, progress updates, and end-of-grant reports by collating outcomes, financial information, and impact evidence in line with funder requirements.
- Continuous improvement: Reflect on feedback from funders, analyse success rates, and contribute to improving grant-writing processes, templates, and organisational funding strategy over time.
Who This Role Is For
This role is suited to someone who:
- Can write persuasively and strategically
- Understands grant-making processes or is willing to learn
- Is organised, deadline-driven, and detail-oriented
- Can translate programme impact into compelling narratives
- Values ethics, transparency, and trauma-informed storytelling
You are a strategic writer and funding advocate
What You Gain
- Founding-level experience in grant writing and fundraising strategy
- Strategic insight into funding cycles, donor expectations, and impact storytelling
- Leadership exposure in shaping sustainable funding models
- Priority consideration for future paid roles
- Direct contribution to community empowerment and CIC growth
This role builds strategic writing, research, and funding acquisition skills.
What This Role Is Not For
This role is not suitable if you:
- Avoid strategic or detailed writing tasks
- Prefer low-responsibility volunteer work
- Are seeking immediate paid employment
- Are uncomfortable representing an ethical, trauma-informed organisation
Important to Be Clear
- This is a volunteer role during the CIC’s build phase
- It carries real responsibility for securing ethical funding
- Paid roles will emerge as funding and sustainability allow
Next Steps
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to:
- A values-led conversation
- A practical discussion about grant writing, deadlines, and proposal strategy
If you believe that well-crafted proposals can fuel meaningful change, and that writing can create impact beyond words, this role is for you.
A Final Word
Grants are about people, not just funding.
If you know that:
- Trust is built through honesty, clarity, and accuracy
- Ethical compliance and data protection safeguard both funders and communities
- Respectful storytelling strengthens long-term partnerships and impact
…then you already understand the heart of effective grants and proposal writing.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Closing Date:
We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis and applications will be reviewed as they are received.
The Role:
We are currently seeking a Finance Trustee to join our Board as Treasurer. It’s a voluntary role that requires a committed individual with financial expertise to take a collaborative approach, supporting our Trustees, our Head of Finance and Governance, and our management team to oversee the financial affairs of our charity and ensure that they are legal, constitutional, and within accepted accounting practice.
Our Organisation:
Greener and Cleaner delivers locally but thinks, and influences, nationally. Our vision is greener, healthier, better connected communities across the UK. We seek to achieve this through normalising 360-degree sustainable living, bringing the community together to make changes that can deliver a big impact. We have a non-judgemental peer-to-peer approach, so that all elements of the community feel empowered to take action in how they live, work, and play and in how they use their voice to push for change.
Treasurer Role:
The primary role is to ensure alongside other Trustees that they accept ultimate responsibility for the affairs of G&C and ensure that it is solvent, well run, and delivering the charitable outcomes for which it has been set up. As well as fulfilling the duties of a Trustee, the Treasurer ensures that effective and appropriate financial measures, controls, and procedures are put in place and reports to the Board at regular intervals about the financial health of the organisation.
- Overseeing the presentation of budgets, internal management accounts, and annual financial statements, as produced by the finance team or others where appropriate, to the Board of Trustees
- Ensuring that proper accounting records are kept, and that appropriate accounting procedures and controls are in place.
- Liaising with any paid staff about financial matters, as appropriate.
- Ensuring that robust and comprehensive financial policies are in place and being implemented, and supporting the development of policies covering financial reserves, and cost management.
- Overseeing financial controls and adherence to systems.
- Drawing any major financial concerns to the attention of the trustee and the management team.
- Ensuring that the charity has appropriate reserves in line with its reserves policy, and monitoring and advising on the financial viability of the charity.
- Advising on the financial implications of the charity’s strategic plan, including overseeing the charity’s financial risk-management process.
- Ensuring that the charity has an appropriate investment policy and that investments and assets are maximised.
- Leading on the appointment of and liaison with external auditors.
- Overseeing the development and implementation of systems for appraising, mitigating, and reporting corporate risk.
- Ensuring that the accounts are prepared and disclosed in the form required by relevant statutory bodies – for example, the Charity Commission and/or the Registrar of Companies.
- Keeping the board informed about its financial duties and responsibilities.
- Supporting other Trustees in understanding the charity’s financial position and decision making.
- Contributing to the fundraising strategy of the charity and its ethical fundraising policy.
- Making a formal presentation of the accounts at the Annual General Meeting and drawing attention to important points in a coherent and easily understandable way.
The Person We’re Looking For:
- A finance professional with a firm understanding of charity finance and some experience of fundraising and pension schemes.
- Knowledge of charity fundraising, bid writing, and/or other income generation and/or securing funding through creation or leveraging of partnerships and networks (at a national or local level).
- A strategic thinker with an ability to balance risk and opportunity and the skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences.
- Clear communicator with the ability to explain financial information to members of the Board and other stakeholders.
- Willing to play an active role in areas such as forecasting, setting budgets, and liaising with auditors.
In addition, the Treasurer will also have the responsibilities and qualities of all Trustees.
Responsibilities of All Trustees:
- Demonstrating a commitment to G&C’s objectives
- Contributing to setting the strategic goals and monitoring performance by active participation in Board discussions and decision-making
- Actively assisting the charity to build their connections and partnerships for the purposes of most effectively delivering their goals and fundraising
- Ensuring that G&C complies with its governing documents, the law, and all other relevant documentation
- Helping to identify risks and ensuring appropriate controls are in place
- Helping the Board to make sound decisions by making available their own personal knowledge and experience
- Assisting the Chair to appoint and appraise the performance of the Senior Leadership Team members
- Sharing relevant skills and expertise with the Senior Leadership Team members
- Making all reasonable efforts to attend Board meetings, away days, development meetings, publicity events, and other such public functions as requested by the Chair
- Ensuring the charity’s focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion remains at the heart of its strategy and delivery
Trustee Person Specification:
In addition to the Treasurer role specific above, our Trustees will ideally also demonstrate the following:
- A commitment to the objectives and activities of G&C
- A willingness to devote time and effort to G&C beyond attending board meetings
- Have strategic vision, an ability to think creatively, and an appropriate level of financial literacy
- Understanding of and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of their position
- Have good independent judgement
- Be willing to effectively act as part of a team
- Adhere to the Nolan Principles of public office: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership
- A willingness to allow the Employee/s to make reasonable decisions and to act within the limits prescribed by the Board
To Apply:
To see the full job advertisement with details on how to apply, and to learn more about the role and our organisation, please see the attached supporting documents.
GFS is a charity dedicated to enabling girls and young women to become unstoppable. We are seeking people who are committed to gender equality, passionate about youth development, and who value safe, inclusive spaces for girls and young women.
Roles: Various Trustee positions, including Safeguarding, HR and Treasurer
As a Trustee you will provide leadership and contribute to the Board of Trustees enabling the fulfilment of responsibilities for the overall governance and strategic direction of GFS.
We are looking for Trustees who care deeply about our mission and who bring experience, skills and enthusiasm to help steer the charity into its next chapter.
- The Treasurer is a member of the GFS Board of Trustees and is responsible for leading the Board’s oversight of the organisation’s financial strategy, governance, and sustainability.
- The Safeguarding Trustee provides strategic leadership and assurance on all aspects of safeguarding across GFS. They ensure that the Board of Trustees fulfils its collective duty to protect all children, young people, and adults at risk who come into contact with GFS’s activities.
- We are also looking for Trustees with experience in Human Resources and being part of People teams.
- See Safeguarding and HR Trustee roles for more details.
The Treasurer is a member of the GFS Board of Trustees and is responsible for leading the Board’s oversight of the organisation’s financial strategy, governance, and sustainability. Working closely with the Chair, fellow Trustees, and GFS staff, the Treasurer ensures that GFS manages its resources responsibly and in line with its charitable aims to support girls and young women.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Governance & Oversight
- Ensure that GFS operates within its financial policies, charitable objects, and legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., Charity Commission guidance).
- Oversee the financial strategy of GFS and provide leadership to the Board on financial planning, sustainability, reserves, and investment decisions.
- Review and monitor financial reports, management accounts, and forecasts, ensuring the Board receives clear and accurate information to support decision-making.
Budgeting & Reporting
- Work with the CEO and finance staff to review the annual budget and recommend it for Board approval.
- Oversee the preparation of annual statutory accounts and ensure timely submission of all regulatory filings.
- Present the annual accounts at the AGM in a clear and accessible way for members.
- Ensure that financial information is understood by all Trustees, supporting good collective financial stewardship.
Risk & Control
- Oversee financial risk management processes, including internal controls, cashflow, reserves, and investment management.
- Ensure GFS maintains appropriate financial procedures, controls, and delegations.
- Provide scrutiny and challenge where needed to support robust governance.
- Committee Leadership, Co-Chair the Finance and Fundraising Committee
Collaboration & Support
- Act as a key support to the Chair on matters requiring financial insight.
- Work in partnership with the CEO and finance staff, acting as a sounding board while respecting the boundary between governance (trustees) and operations (staff).
- Provide financial guidance to Trustees, helping to build confidence and capability across the Board.
Time Commitment
- Board Members serve an initial three-year term and are eligible for reappointment for an additional term.
- Three Virtual Board meetings and an in person in either in Central London or a central city (meetings are currently held on Saturdays).
- Occasional strategy days, workshops or working groups.
- Quarterly Sub - Committee membership depending on skills and capacity.
- Additional time for reviewing reports, advising staff, and supporting financial planning cycles.
- Attendance at the Annual General Meeting
Closing date: Monday 16 th February, 9am
Optional Q&A Session: To be booked individually by contacting our recruitment team.
Interviews: Thursday 26th and Friday 27th February
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.