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Are you a technically skilled problem-solver ready to contribute to transformative social impact?
Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is seeking a pioneering Open-Source Platform Engineer to join our founding volunteer team. This role is central to building and maintaining the digital infrastructure that will power our survivor-led, community-owned membership ecosystem for 2026 and beyond. You will be directly shaping the systems that enable vulnerable and marginalised communities to access resources, engage safely and participate in transformative personal development.
Purpose of the role:
The Volunteer Open-Source Platform Engineer contributes to the development, maintenance and improvement of open-source software platforms that support the organisation’s mission. This role involves collaborating with developers, contributors and stakeholders to build scalable, reliable and efficient solutions while ensuring code quality, security and accessibility.
About the Role:
As our Open-Source Platform Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain the core technology stack for our membership platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and aligned with open-source principles. You will work closely with the Membership Director, Technical Systems Liaison, and other team members to integrate community-facing tools, data systems, and collaborative features that support our anti-capitalist, values-led mission. This is a hands-on, impact-driven role where your technical expertise directly enables social change.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential Technical Competencies:
- Experience designing, integrating and maintaining APIs, as well as managing secure authentication and data practices.
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted and on-premises system environments, including deployment and maintenance.
- Proven experience in open-source development, software engineering or systems architecture.
- Ability to clearly document technical processes, system workflows and platform architecture.
- Skilled at communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Contributing to open-source projects or collaborative software development initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities to debug code, optimise performance and implement improvements.
Desirable / Can Be Developed:
- Basic understanding of open-source software principles and collaborative development practices.
- Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash or similar).
- Developing knowledge of system reliability, security best practices and performance monitoring.
- A problem-solving mindset, curiosity and enthusiasm for learning new tools and technologies.
Qualifications:
- Formal qualifications are not required but desirable.
- Practical experience through open-source contributions, personal projects, study or volunteering is valued.
- Willingness to learn and complete required induction or training.
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Develop, implement and maintain the open-source membership platform and associated tools to support community engagement and organisational objectives.
- Build scalable, secure and accessible systems that facilitate user registration, content management and interactive community features.
- Build robust content management systems (CMS) to enable efficient creation, organisation, publishing and retrieval of digital content for community members and volunteers.
- Integrate third-party tools, APIs and plug-ins to extend platform functionality in alignment with organisational goals and requirements.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical team members to understand community and organisational needs, translating them into functional and user-friendly systems.
- Provide technical guidance and insights to inform strategic decisions around system architecture, integrations, platform design and development priorities.
- Monitor platform performance and troubleshoot issues, proactively identifying and resolving technical problems to ensure smooth operation.
- Ensure documentation supports compliance and best practices, including data protection, accessibility standards and organisational policies.
- Use documentation as a tool for continuous improvement, identifying gaps, optimising workflows and refining platform usability based on feedback.
- Document technical processes, system architecture and user guides to maintain organisational knowledge, support future development and assist team onboarding.
- Contribute to the ongoing strategy for digital systems development and platform innovation, suggesting improvements, new features and best practices for long-term sustainability.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer by providing documentation that supports onboarding of new volunteers, technical contributors and staff members.
What This Role Offers You:
- The opportunity to shape the digital foundation of a pioneering C.I.C. and directly impact survivor-led and community-driven initiatives.
- Hands-on leadership experience in open-source systems design and platform development.
- Personal growth through working in an innovative, mission-driven environment tackling real-world social challenges.
- The satisfaction of contributing to a platform that empowers marginalised communities, amplifies survivor voices and builds collective culture.
What This Role Is Not For:
- Individuals seeking traditional corporate structures, hierarchies or purely financial reward.
- Those unwilling to work within an anti-capitalist, collaborative, values-led framework.
- People expecting pre-built systems or rigid processes—this role requires creativity, problem-solving and adaptability.
Next Steps
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to
- A values-led conversation.
- If you are ready to apply your technical skills to a high-impact, community-driven initiative and help build systems that empower survivors and marginalised communities, we want to hear from you.
- Apply now and be part of creating something truly transformative.
A Final Word
Platforms enable communities to connect.
If you know that: Turn organisational needs into practical. User-friendly digital solutions support communities to connect.
Registered Charity The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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This Role Turns Digital Campaigns Into Real-World Impact. At Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C., online fundraising is more than clicks—it’s building a movement.
The Online Fundraising and Campaign Manager ensures that all digital campaigns—from social media drives to crowdfunding initiatives—are strategically designed, executed, and optimised for impact. You will lead online engagement, campaign planning, and donor acquisition strategies, connecting supporters to the CIC’s mission and converting attention into meaningful action. This is not a passive posting role—it is strategic, high-energy, and central to scaling the CIC’s digital impact.
This role exists to:
- Plan, launch, and manage online fundraising campaigns across multiple digital platforms
- Coordinate with Content and Donor Communication Specialists to ensure cohesive messaging
- Analyse campaign performance, adjusting strategies in real time for maximum engagement
- Support the Fundraising Director with digital strategy, reporting, and optimisation
- Ensure campaigns comply with safeguarding, ethical, and CIC standards
- Develop creative fundraising initiatives that engage online communities
- Track donor journeys from awareness to contribution, improving retention and growth
You are the digital architect of campaigns that mobilise supporters and funds.
Why This Role Matters
Online fundraising is critical for the CIC’s sustainability:
- It generates immediate and scalable revenue for programmes
- It grows awareness and community support beyond geographic boundaries
- It empowers supporters to engage meaningfully with the CIC’s mission
Without this role, online campaigns risk low engagement, wasted effort, or lost opportunities. With it, the CIC can reach thousands of supporters efficiently and ethically.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential / Highly Valued Experience
- Experience using online fundraising platforms such as JustGiving, GoFundMe, Stripe, Patreon, or similar tools
- Experience in digital campaign planning, execution, and optimisation
- Strong understanding of social media marketing, including platform-specific strategies and analytics
- Experience with email marketing tools and CRM systems for supporter engagement and fundraising
- Ability to monitor, analyse, and interpret performance data to inform decisions
- Experience producing clear reports and insights for non-technical audiences and leadership
- Strong written communication skills, with an ability to craft compelling calls to action
- Creative mindset with the ability to generate and test innovative campaign ideas
- Good organisational skills and ability to manage multiple campaigns and deadlines
- Understanding of ethical fundraising, safeguarding, and data protection principles
- Ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams and volunteers
- Confidence working independently in a volunteer role, with proactive problem-solving skills
- Commitment to the organisation’s mission, values, and respectful supporter engagement
Desirable / Can Be Developed
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Basic knowledge of digital design or content tools
Qualifications
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Formal qualifications not required; equivalent professional or voluntary experience is highly valued
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Design and deliver online fundraising campaigns: Plan, implement, and manage end-to-end digital fundraising initiatives across social media, crowdfunding platforms, email marketing, and web-based channels. Ensure campaigns are aligned with organisational goals, audiences, and key fundraising moments.
- Develop innovative engagement strategies: Create and test creative campaign ideas, challenges, peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives, and digital engagement activities that motivate supporters to donate, share, and advocate. Continuously explore new trends and tools in online fundraising.
- Coordinate creative assets: Work collaboratively with Content, Communications, and Donor Engagement teams to develop compelling copy, visuals, videos, and calls to action. Ensure consistent messaging, tone, and branding across all digital channels.
- Campaign optimisation and performance monitoring: Track and analyse campaign metrics such as reach, engagement, conversion rates, donation values, and supporter growth. Use insights to adjust strategies in real time and improve campaign effectiveness.
- Data-driven decision making: Interpret analytics and audience behaviour to refine targeting, messaging, timing, and platform use. Support evidence-based recommendations for future fundraising activity.
- Compliance and ethical standards: Ensure all online fundraising activities comply with relevant regulations, platform terms, safeguarding policies, data protection requirements, and ethical fundraising standards. Promote transparency and donor trust at all stages.
- Reporting and accountability: Prepare clear and timely reports on campaign performance, outcomes, and learning for leadership and stakeholders. Highlight successes, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
- Volunteer collaboration: Engage and coordinate volunteer teams and digital ambassadors to amplify campaigns, encourage peer sharing, and extend reach within communities and networks. Provide guidance and motivation to support consistent messaging.
- Continuous improvement: Contribute to the development of best practices, templates, and processes for online fundraising. Share learning across teams to strengthen organisational digital fundraising capacity.
Who This Role Is For
This role is suited to someone who:
- Understands online fundraising and digital campaign strategy
- Can plan, execute, and monitor campaigns independently and collaboratively
- Is creative, data-driven, and solution-oriented
- Can translate social media trends into actionable fundraising opportunities
- Values transparency, ethics, and mission-aligned digital engagement
You are a strategic digital leader and campaign innovator.
What You Gain
- Founding-level experience in online fundraising strategy and execution
- Strategic insight into digital engagement and campaign optimisation
- Leadership exposure in managing multi-channel campaigns
- Priority consideration for future paid roles
- Direct contribution to community empowerment and CIC sustainability
This role builds digital strategy, fundraising, and online community leadership skills.
What This Role Is Not For
This role is not suitable if you:
- Prefer low-responsibility volunteer work
- Avoid digital tools, analytics, or campaign strategy
- Are seeking immediate paid employment
- Are uncomfortable managing ethical online engagement and fundraising
Important to Be Clear
- This is a volunteer role during the CIC’s build phase
- It carries real responsibility for digital campaign success and donor engagement
- 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 campaign strategy, performance, and collaboration
If you believe that digital campaigns can create meaningful impact, and that online engagement is a tool for real-world change, this role is for you.
A Final Word
Fundraising is about people, not just donations.
If you know that:
- Trust is built through transparency, consistency, and care
- Privacy and safeguarding are essential to ethical digital engagement
- Respectful communication strengthens supporter relationships and loyalty
…then you already understand the heart of effective online fundraising and campaign management.
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Thank you!
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This Role Ensures Content Reaches Its Full Potential
At Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C., we create thousands of pieces of content daily, but content is only effective when it reaches and resonates with communities.The Ambassador Content Enablement Officer ensures that our network of ambassadors knows exactly how to use content effectively, aligning messaging, timing and call-to-actions to maximise impact.This is not a content creation role. It is a teaching, coordination and enablement role critical to turning production into real-world change.
Purpose of the the role:
Train and guide ambassadors on how to use CIC content across platforms. Deliver weekly “what to post” packs with clear instructions. Ensure content is used safely, ethically and effectively. Collect feedback from ambassadors and report trends back to creators and leadership. Monitor adoption and alignment with campaign and CIC priorities. You are the bridge between content and community action.
About the role:
The Volunteer Ambassador Content Enablement Officer plays a crucial role in empowering our community to share, speak and act with clarity and purpose. This role focuses on enabling ambassadors, volunteers and supporters to create and amplify content that aligns with our mission and values. Through this role, you’ll help transform individual voices into collective momentum, ensuring that every ambassador feels equipped to contribute meaningfully and that the organisation’s message is consistently visible, coherent and impactful.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential Technical Competencies:
- Experience in social media, content creation, community engagement or digital communications.
- Experience in Program or campaign management and Training or coaching distributed teams.
- Monitoring and reporting adoption and impact.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ideas, values, or initiatives into clear, engaging content.
- Deliver weekly “what to post” packs with clear instructions.
- Understands how content translates into real-world outcomes.
Desirable / Can Be Developed:
- Experience or confidence with basic graphic design, video or multimedia content tools.
- Ability to interpret social media or content performance data to guide improvements.
- Growing confidence in mentoring volunteers or ambassadors in content creation.
Qualifications:
- Familiar with social media platforms, content tools and analytics.
- Experience working with volunteers, ambassadors or community members to support content creation or advocacy.
- Professional experience and practical skills are highly valued
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Act as the primary point of contact for ambassadors and volunteers regarding content creation and sharing.
- Provide guidance, tools and resources to enable community members to produce content that aligns with organisational messaging and values.
- Develop templates, guides and resources that make content creation accessible and effective for volunteers.
- Train ambassadors and volunteers on best practices for digital storytelling, social media posting and engagement.
- Review volunteer-generated content to ensure it reflects organisational values, tone and messaging standards.
- Monitor the impact of volunteer content and identify opportunities to amplify strong messages.
- Share insights with the Social media Director to inform strategy and future initiatives.
- Track volunteer engagement, content production and impact metrics where appropriate.
- Serve as a role model for authentic, values-aligned communication.
- Ensure all volunteer content and interactions uphold the organisation’s integrity and mission.
Safeguarding & Ethics Responsibility:
All content and ambassador guidance must align with:
- Trauma-informed principles.
- CIC safeguarding and ethical policies.
- Privacy and consent standards.
- You ensure ambassadors use content responsibly and safely.
What You Gain:
- Founding experience in community enablement at scale.
- Leadership and coordination skills in social media and volunteer management.
- Influence over the CIC’s outreach and impact.
- Priority consideration for future paid roles.
- Direct contribution to community trust, safety, and mobilisation.
- This role builds strategic facilitation, operational leadership and training expertise.
What This Role Is Not For:
This role is not suitable if you:
- Want to create content instead of enabling it.
- Avoid communication or teaching responsibilities.
- Prefer low-commitment volunteer work.
- Seek immediate paid employment.
- Are uncomfortable working with sensitive or trauma-informed content
Important to Be Clear:
- This is a volunteer role during the build phase.
- It carries real responsibility for amplifying CIC impact.
- 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 ambassador enablement, workflows and feedback systems.
- If you believe that great content is only as powerful as its use and that teaching and enabling others is a critical part of change, this role is for you.
A Final Word
Building bridges, not just content. Turning inspiration into action
If you know that: Every voice matters, every story counts. Impact matters more than reach.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
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Fair Trade Wales is looking for a Chair who can use their skills to guide our strategic direction, lead our Board, support employees and champion Fair Trade in Wales.
Our mission is to drive a thriving and inclusive Fair Trade movement in Wales by developing communities, shaping policy, and creating global connections that support ethical and sustainable trade. We have an ambitious new strategy for 2025-2028 including our plans to grow - beginning with our current transition from a not-for-profit organisation to a registered charity.
If you care about justice and global equality, and want to support the growth of the Fair Trade movement, this role lets you shape Fair Trade Wales’ direction and strengthen connections across Wales and beyond. Join us for our next chapter.
Fair Trade Wales is a company, limited by guarantee with not for profit status, and currently applying for charitable status. We work as part of the Hub Cymru Africa (HCA) partnership. Hub Cymru Africa is currently funded by the Welsh Government’s Wales and Africa programme.
Details
- Closing Date: 24 February 2026
- Interviews: 4/5 March 2026
- Time commitment: approx ½ day a month
- Approximately four Board meetings per year
- Regular 1-2-1s with Head of Fair Trade Wales
- Reward: Voluntary role with reasonable expenses and training covered
- Term: 3 years (with a possibility of further terms)
- Location: Online with one in person away day per year
Role Description
The role of the Chair leads the Board, ensuring its effectiveness in setting the organisation’s culture and direction, and maintaining high standards of governance. The Chair also manages the Head of the staff team to deliver the strategy, workplans and objectives. The Chair of the Board shares the same legal responsibilities as other members of the Board.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Board in setting and promoting the strategic direction of Fair Trade Wales, ensuring good governance and holding staff to account.
- Chair Board meetings (approx 4 per year), ensuring the Board functions effectively, meetings are led inclusively, and the Board carries out its duties.
- Line manage the Head of Fair Trade Wales including setting objectives, and regular one to one meetings to support and monitor progress.
- Ensures that the Board reviews its structure, effectiveness, delegations and key policies, and implements agreed changes as necessary.
- Represent Fair Trade Wales to decision-makers, partner organisations and the public, acting as an ambassador.
Key relationships
- Other Fair Trade Wales Board members
- Head of Fair Trade Wales and other staff members
- Hub Cymru Africa partnership Chair and Head
- Current and potential funders and partners
Person Specification
Essential
- Commitment to Fair Trade principles and global responsibility
- Understanding of the voluntary sector and current issues affecting it
- Ability to foster and promote a collaborative environment
- Ability to motivate staff and Board members
- Experience of chairing or facilitating
- Ability to listen, engage effectively and build relationships
- Understanding the differences between strategic and operational leadership
Desirable
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Experience of working with or as part of a Board or other type of strategic leadership
- Understanding of the resource constraints of a small organisation
- Awareness of charity/not-for-profit governance
- A broad understanding of charity finance and funding
- Experience of working with Government, the Senedd and civil society in Wales
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Cadeirydd
Mae Cymru Masnach Deg yn chwilio am Gadeirydd sydd yn gallu defnyddio eu sgiliau i arwain ein cyfeiriad strategol, arwain ein Bwrdd, cefnogi staff, a hyrwyddo Masnach Deg yng Nghymru.
Ein cenhadaeth ydy ysgogi mudiad Masnach Deg llwyddiannus a chynhwysol yng Nghymru, trwy ddatblygu cymunedau, siapio polisi, a chreu cysylltiadau byd-eang sy'n cefnogi masnach foesegol a chynaliadwy. Mae gennym strategaeth newydd uchelgeisiol ar gyfer 2025-2028, sy'n cynnwys ein cynlluniau i dyfu – sydd yn dechrau gyda'n cyfnod presennol o drawsnewid o fod yn sefydliad nid-er-elw i fod yn elusen gofrestredig.
Os oes ots gennych chi am gyfiawnder a chydraddoldeb byd-eang, ac eisiau cefnogi twf y mudiad Masnach Deg, mae'r rôl hon yn caniatáu i chi siapio cyfeiriad Cymru Masnach Deg a chryfhau cysylltiadau ar draws Cymru ac ymhellach. Dewch i ymuno â ni ar gyfer ein pennod nesaf.
Mae Cymru Masnach Deg wedi'i sefydlu fel cwmni, wedi'i gyfyngu drwy warant gyda statws nid-er-elw., sydd ar hyn o bryd, yn gwneud cais am statws elusennol. Rydym yn gweithio fel rhan o bartneriaeth Hub Cymru Africa (HCA). Ar hyn o bryd, mae Hub Cymru Africa yn cael ei ariannu gan raglen Cymru ac Affrica Llywodraeth Cymru.
Manylion
- Dyddiad Cau: 24 Chwefror 2026.
- Cyfweliadau: 4/5 Mawrth 2026
- Ymrwymiad amser: tua ½ diwrnod y mis
- Tua phedwar cyfarfod Bwrdd y flwyddyn
- Cyfarfodydd wyneb yn wyneb rheolaidd gyda Phennaeth Cymru Masnach Deg
- Gwobr: Rôl wirfoddol gyda threuliau rhesymol a hyfforddiant yn cael eu talu
- Tymor: 3 blynedd (gyda phosibiliad o ragor o dermau)
- Lleoliad: Ar-lein gydag un diwrnod i ffwrdd mewn person y flwyddyn
Disgrifiad o'r Rôl
Mae rôl y Cadeirydd yn cynnwys arwain y Bwrdd, sicrhau ei fod yn effeithiol o ran gosod diwylliant a chyfeiriad y sefydliad, a chynnal safonau uchel o lywodraethiant. Mae'r Cadeirydd hefyd yn rheoli Pennaeth y tîm staff i gyflawni'r strategaeth, cynlluniau gwaith a'r amcanion. Mae Cadeirydd y Bwrdd yn rhannu'r un cyfrifoldebau cyfreithiol ag aelodau eraill y Bwrdd.
Cyfrifoldebau
- Arwain y Bwrdd i osod a hyrwyddo cyfeiriad strategol Cymru Masnach Deg, a sicrhau bod y Bwrdd yn cael ei lywodraethu'n dda, a dwyn staff i gyfrif.
- Cadeirio cyfarfodydd Bwrdd (tua 4 y flwyddyn), a sicrhau bod y Bwrdd yn gweithredu'n effeithiol, bod cyfarfodydd yn cael eu harwain yn gynhwysol, a bod y Bwrdd yn cyflawni ei ddyletswyddau.
- Gweithredu fel rheolwr llinell ar gyfer Pennaeth Cymry Masnach Deg, gan gynnwys gosod amcanion, a chyfarfodydd un i un rheolaidd i gefnogi a monitro cynnydd.
- Sicrhau bod y Bwrdd yn adolygu ei strwythur, effeithiolrwydd, dirprwyiaethau a pholisïau allweddol, a'i fod yn gweithredu newidiadau y cytunwyd arnynt ôl yr angen.
- Cynrychioli Cymru Masnach Deg i benderfynwyr, sefydliadau partner a'r cyhoedd, gan weithredu fel llysgennad.
Perthnasoedd allweddol
- Aelodau eraill o Fwrdd Cymru Masnach Deg
- Pennaeth Cymru Masnach Deg ac aelodau eraill o staff
- Cadeirydd a Phennaeth Hub Cymru Africa
- Cyllidwyr a phartneriaid presennol a phosib
Manyleb Person
Hanfodol
- Ymrwymiad i egwyddorion Masnach Deg a chyfrifoldeb byd-eang
- Dealltwriaeth o'r sector gwirfoddol a'r materion presennol sy'n effeithio arno
- Y gallu i feithrin a hyrwyddo amgylchedd cydweithredol
- Y gallu i ysgogi staff a chynghorwyr y Bwrdd
- Profiad o gadeirio neu hwyluso
- Y gallu i wrando, ymgysylltu'n effeithiol a chreu perthnasoedd
- Dealltwriaeth o'r gwahaniaethau rhwng arweinyddiaeth strategol a gweithredol
Dymunol
- Y gallu i siarad Cymraeg
- Profiad o weithio gyda, neu fel rhan, o Fwrdd neu fath arall o arweinyddiaeth strategol
- Dealltwriaeth o gyfyngiadau sefydliad bach o ran adnoddau
- Ymwybyddiaeth o lywodraethu elusen/nid-er-elw
- Dealltwriaeth eang o faterion cyllid a chyllido elusen
- Profiad o weithio gyda'r Llywodraeth, y Senedd a chymdeithas sifil yng Nghymru
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We are looking for one Trustee & Deputy Chair to join our Charity Trustee Board to support the Union through its next steps. A strong and active Board is crucial for us as we develop and implement our strategy, face challenges, maximise opportunities and endeavour to create an even better Union; one that continues to be flexible and agile enough to react quickly to the changing needs and interests of our student members and achieve our vision.
The Person
The right candidate will thrive in a student led, highly responsive environment and have an enthusiasm for supporting and guiding a student organisation. They will command confidence, have sound judgement and strong communication and leadership skills. We are looking for a trustee with the following skills/experience
Finance Experience:
- Preferably financial experience from a charity outside of the SU sector
- Understanding of financial oversight
- Ability to interpret financial information to support strategic decision-making
- Awareness of charity finance and regulatory requirements
Chairing Experience:
- Ability to deputise for the Chair, and chair meetings of the Board
- Ability to build a strong and effective working relationship with the Board of Trustees Chair
- Ability to foster, maintain and ensure that constructive relationships exist with and between the Trustees
- Assist and support the Chair in providing leadership to the Board, through the governance arrangements, and also acting as a ‘sounding board’ and confidante to the Chair in the execution of their role
Due to the current make-up of our Trustee Board, we are not actively searching for candidates with skills, knowledge and experience related to the Student Union and HE sector and we would welcome candidates from other sectors or regions to apply. That said, we would very much like to encourage anyone who feels that they could bring something to our Board to apply, regardless of experience - our purpose and values also lead us to welcome first time Trustees too!
We are strongly dedicated to embedding equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within our community and we are passionate about creating a welcoming and inclusive environment which supports everyone from recruitment through to appointment, regardless of your background. We welcome applications from all talented people and as part of this commitment, we are working to improve the diversity of our Trustee Board to ensure that it is as relevant and representative of our student community as possible and are actively encouraging applications from underrepresented groups.
Further Information
Application is via a comprehensive CV plus a supporting statement (of no more than two sides of A4) detailing why you are applying for the position and what requirements you meet to carry out the role
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.