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We’re looking for full stack developers to help us create a ground-breaking web app that promotes sustainable living and climate action.
You will play a major role in:
What are we looking for?
Three years web development experience with working knowledge of Python and, preferably Django framework. Ability to:
Preferably with PWA experience.
What difference will you make?
You will play a key role in delivering this innovative app and in ensuring it reduces carbon footprints, and, inspires and enables sustainable action across the population.
You will be at the forefront of bringing climate action into people’s homes across the UK, making sustainable living accessible and appealing to everyone – and driving real environmental impact.
We interview on a rolling basis—apply early! Include a brief outline of your motivation and skills, and portfolio links if relevant.
UK based applicants only.
Empowering people to live and work sustainably. We inform, inspire and enable people to take practical action on climate change and the environment.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
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We need volunteers in this role to help gather as much data as possible as part of our Wild Magic project, so we can see the way that new management techniques will impact upon wildlife, and how it contributes to The Owen Smith Charitable Trust; monitoring the changes in the numbers and types of species found at Wild Magic, and the changes in habitat provision.
We are aiming to undertake surveys and monitoring relating to birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and plant species. By volunteering you will be helping us to gain a better understanding of the species and habitats within the project area, and how the species, their populations and the habitat changes in relation to the management practices.
What this role entails
Qualifications, experience and skills needed
Benefits
Exciting opportunity to monitor wildlife and contribute to evidence-based conservation, while gaining real-world experience. We will offer training to ensure you are prepared.
Connecting people with nature via education, gardening, and outdoor activities
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Do you love nature, walking, and making a positive difference to others? We’re looking for friendly, community minded volunteers to help us keep our beautiful woodland and pathways safe, welcoming, and enjoyable for everyone who uses them from residents and visitors to our many dog walkers. It’s also a great opportunity to develop new skills, meet new people, and be part of a supportive village community. #wellbeing #CommunitySpirit
This is a lovely, outdoorsy role where you’ll be a reassuring presence around the village, helping people enjoy the woodland safely while supporting our conservation and wellbeing activities.
You’ll spend time walking the woodland trails, keeping an eye out for hazards, offering a warm hello to visitors, and helping residents feel confident and supported when out and about. You may also help with guided walks, light environmental care, and sharing simple information about the village and its pathways.
We’ll give you an induction and any training you need, and you’ll be part of a friendly, welcoming community. It’s a flexible role around 4–6 hours a week and perfect for someone who enjoys being outdoors, meeting people, and contributing to a place with a strong sense of community. And if you have a well behaved dog, they’re more than welcome to join you on your rounds.
If you’d like to spend more time in nature while making a genuine difference to the lives of our residents, we’d love to hear from you.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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A growing NGO in Malawi, working across education, livelihoods, health and environmental sustainability, is seeking a volunteer accountant to strengthen its finance systems.
The organisation has grown significantly and now manages multiple donor funded projects, with annual income of over £1 million. QuickBooks has been introduced, but is not yet fully embedded, and many processes remain manual.
The volunteer will work with the Finance and Administration Manager, wider finance team and senior leadership to review current systems, identify priorities and support practical improvements.
Key areas of support may include QuickBooks, budgeting, forecasting, cashflow, donor reporting, management accounts, internal controls, expenditure verification, audit readiness and mentoring.
This would suit a collaborative and adaptable finance professional who can balance a broad systems review with practical, hands on support.
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Accounting for International Development (AfID) matches experienced accountants with charities, NGOs and social enterprises around the world. Our volunteers provide practical finance support, helping partners strengthen systems, reporting, controls and confidence.
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Your expertise and experience could be vital to delivering our ground-breaking climate action and sustainability E-Save app. We're looking for UK-based people for a range of communications, marketing and multi-media roles.
What will you be doing?
You will join a team helping to launch and promote the E‑Save climate‑action app and improving its content and user experience.
By supporting creative campaigns, you will also help the team raise the profile of Eco Centre, and support local outreach initiatives, volunteer recruitment and communications, and stakeholder engagement.
Your work will help people discover and use the app to take practical climate action at home.
What are we looking for?
We are building a team with a range of skills and experience who can provide hands on help on regular basis and be responsive to changing needs.
We’re looking for volunteers with skills in writing, design, graphics video, social media, campaigning, web content, or marketing. Whether you’re experienced or building your portfolio, we welcome creative, proactive team players who can bring ideas, collaborate well, and help us communicate climate action in engaging and accessible ways.
What difference will you make?
Your support will help the E‑Save app be effective and inspire real climate action in everyday life. By helping shape and promote the app and organisation, you’ll make sustainable living more accessible.
You will be at the forefront of bringing climate action into people’s homes across the UK, making sustainable living appealing – and driving real environmental impact.
We interview on a rolling basis—apply early! Include a brief outline of your motivation and skills, and portfolio links if relevant.
UK based applicants only.
Empowering people to live and work sustainably. We inform, inspire and enable people to take practical action on climate change and the environment.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Using Anonymous Recruitment
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Wild We Stand is a fully volunteer-led collective and this is a volunteer opportunity. We are a flat collective where everyone belongs, a co-creation space where we get excited about your work, support your ideas, and want you to thrive with genuine freedom. We highly value our team’s time and expertise, and provide learning opportunities, perks, and a community for us all. While this is currently a volunteer role, as a registered Community Interest Company (CIC), our shared goal is to build a sustainable pathway to paid roles as the collective grows. For candidates who commit deeply and demonstrate strong long-term alignment, we are actively open to offering an equity % in the collective.
Time Commitment: We’re looking for long-term collective members and partners. We’re flexible on time commitment but it would be ideal if you were excited and available to dedicate 5+ hours per week to Wild We Stand.
Location Policy: Fully Globally Remote. Must be available for 1-2 hours of meetings weekly within core UK hours to collaborate with the team.
What is the role?
As our Movement & Strategy Director, you will be the first new addition to our leadership team, and directly work alongside our co-founders to create narrative strategy and translate concepts into clear movement direction.
You will help us design strategy and structure to help grow the collective. We are just starting our journey or assessing membership models, grants, and creating project timelines to host more & bigger events and build a sustainable pathway to pay our collective members and founder.
This is a volunteer position. Your work in our purpose-driven collective will have a direct role in shaping the visual language of a justice-centred environmental movement.
What will you be responsible for?
Partner directly with our co-founders to finalise and launch our Manifesto, create our Narrative Strategy, co-design campaign concepts and strategic hooks
Help to build and launch a community membership model to generate revenue for bigger events, project budgets, and collective pay
Map out project timelines and strategic roadmaps to turn ideas into structured, executable campaign timelines
Identify and help to submit applications for grassroots micro-grants, council climate funds, and community pots
Commitment to a decolonised imagination that connects conservation to the intersections of wildlife and oppression
An unwavering drive to confront the consequences of capitalism and systems of power with the urgency required for genuine change and justice
What are we looking for?
Proven experience growing or co-leading a collective, non-profit, grassroots movement, or community initiative
Background or experience in narrative strategy, movement communications, campaign messaging, in related spaces (conservation, environment, culture, social justice, community)
A strategic mindset, excited to ideate, build and create
Ability to bring strategic timelines and structure while preserving our grassroots ethos
Self-directed initiative to take big concepts and turn them into clear, structured project plans
A collaborative, non-hierarchical mindset that thrives in a flat collective structure
It would also be great if you had:
Existing connections to environmental, climate justice, or grassroots grant funding networks
Why Join Wild We Stand?
As a member of our Founding Collective, you will help lead an organisation dedicated to exploring the crucial intersections of conservation, wildlife, oppression, and the fight for justice and liberation. You will join a team focused on untangling these complexities through critical engagement and candid discussions to light the pathway for solving global challenges.
We are proud to offer:
Belonging in a truly flat, supportive co-creation space where we hype your work and give you space to be your best self
Membership in the Wild We Stand collective and access to all WWS programmes, events, and content
Opportunity for a formal Director stake in the Wild We Stand CIC
Collective mentorship and peer solidarity to process systemic issues and sustain the drive for change
The tools you and your team need to thrive
Access to all WWS programmes, events, and content
Team recognition, treats and physical & virtual get-togethers
A pathway to paid positions as part of a collective roadmap
Wild We Stand is ancollective dedicated to exploring and advocating for the intersections of conservation, wildlife, forms of oppression
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Circular Kitchens
Circular Kitchens is a social enterprise and membership platform designed to help restaurants, cafés, pubs, food stalls, and other catering businesses become fully circular: Plastic Free, Ecological, Local, and Zero Waste.
By working with the hospitality sector, we are helping regenerate local communities, strengthen regional food systems, and increase demand for ecological and regenerative agriculture in the UK. Our current focus is launching Circular Kitchens in Whitstable and supporting our first mover restaurants to achieve 3 Star Circular Kitchens certification. Based on learnings from this pilot, we are preparing to scale across the UK, growing our environmental and social impact.
Role Description
We are seeking a volunteer to support our marketing and communications efforts as Circular Kitchens continues to grow. This role offers the opportunity to contribute creatively across a range of activities with particular focus on social media, graphic design, and video production.
Ideally, the volunteer will contribute to:
Creating and editing Instagram posts, with a focus on reels
Conducting video interviews with key stakeholders
Working in Canva to ensure communications materials (social media posts, newsletters, printed collatoral like flyers etc) all look fresh, professional, and consistent
The role is intentionally flexible, and contributions can be shaped around the volunteer’s interests, skills, and availability. There are no set hours or fixed expectations, and the focus is on collaboration, learning, and creative contribution.
An Ideal Candidate Will Be:
Interested in marketing, communications, or digital storytelling
Comfortable working with social media platforms and creating short-form video content (reels)
Comfortable working with graphic design tools such as Canva (integrating AI as needed)
Creative, curious, and keen to offer new ideas!
Interested in sustainability, food systems, or social impact
Happy working in a flexible, early-stage environment
This is a voluntary role with no fixed time commitment, offering the chance to support a growing social enterprise, collaborate with a small and mission-driven team, and contribute creatively to work with real-world impact. As Circular Kitchens grows, there may be opportunities for the role to evolve into paid work.
To apply, please share your CV along with a short note outlining your interest, any relevant experience, and your desired time commitment.
Building a circular, ecological and thriving hospitality sector.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Position: Volunteer Urban Ranger
Responsible to: Urban Ranger
Location: Various outdoor spaces across BD3, BD4 and BD5
Hours: Anything from two hours here and there, to two days a week.
Expenses: Travel expenses will be reimbursed for bus tickets, train tickets or car mileage
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At Better Place Bradford, our mission is to identify and oversee improvements to local parks and outdoor spaces with the aim of providing a healthier and happier environment for babies, young children and families. We work across larger parks, pocket parks, community centres, streets and green spaces across BD3, BD4 and BD5.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, passionate, and highly motivated individual, who is looking to gain some practical landscape maintenance experience.
As a Volunteer Urban Ranger, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining the upkeep of our sites, regularly checking that each site is safe, inviting, and free from rubbish — noting any issues that arise.
Duties include: Litter clearance, sweeping sand back into the sand pits, weeding, planting, watering plants, affixing signs, checking in on the Little Free Library boxes, strimming, raking leaves, supporting at event days, promoting responsible use and enjoyment of our sites.
This role is for you if you;
Volunteers must be in the UK already.
We are unable to accept applications from overseas. You must be living in the area when applying.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Are you a young person aged 18-35 with a passion for ensuring North Devon has a sustainable future?
🌍 Become a Youth Representative for North Devon UNESCO Biosphere
The North Devon UNESCO Biosphere is part of a global network of over 750 Biosphere Reserves working together to develop innovative approaches to sustainable development, protect biodiversity and culture, and support vital research.
At North Devon Biosphere, we are guided by our new 10-year strategy (2026–2036), 'living up to world class by nature'. Our vision is to ensure that people and nature thrive together, creating a truly sustainable future for our region.
🗣️ Why Youth Voices Matter
We place a high value on the perspectives, ideas, and energy of young people within our Biosphere. We are committed to supporting young adults to become active, engaged members of their communities and to help shape the future of North Devon.
We are seeking one Youth Representative to help bring fresh perspectives, highlight the priorities of younger generations, and contribute to conversations around sustainability, conservation, and community development across the Biosphere.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a wider movement—connecting with biospheres across the UK and internationally—to amplify youth voices and drive meaningful environmental and social change.
🙋 Who Can Apply
This unpaid role is open to individuals who:
You don’t need to be an expert in sustainability—we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from individuals and communities who are currently underrepresented.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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About Circular Kitchens
Circular Kitchens is a social enterprise and membership platform designed to help restaurants, cafés, pubs, food stalls, and other catering businesses become fully circular: Plastic Free, Ecological, Local, and Zero Waste.
By working with the hospitality sector, we are helping regenerate local communities, strengthen regional food systems, and increase demand for ecological and regenerative agriculture in the UK. Our current focus is launching Circular Kitchens in Whitstable and supporting our first mover restaurants to achieve 3 Star Circular Kitchens certification. Based on learnings from this pilot, we are preparing to scale across the UK, growing our environmental and social impact.
Role Description
Circular Kitchens is seeking a volunteer to support our early-stage software platform development, with a focus on how we manage restaurant resources, pledges, and audits using Coda. We are already working with a highly-skilled volunteer who has developed a strong plan of action and who will serve as a project manager and mentor.
This role will include working with tools such as Coda, Softr, and Mailchimp to set up automations, clean up data, and brainstorm on future platform improvements. This work supports the early foundations of a scalable platform designed to support hundreds of Circular Kitchens members over time. It is a chance to work with fantastic people, quickly see the impact of your contribution, and be a part of truly building sometihng from the ground up!
An Ideal Candidate Will Be:
Experienced in computer science, data science, or a related field
Comfortable working with digital tools, databases, and information management platforms like Coda
Excited to work on evolving, early-stage systems
Well organised with a strong attention to detail
Interested in digital systems, platforms, or operational design
Curious about startups, social enterprise, and/or sustainability
This is a voluntary role with a flexible time commitment, offering the opportunity to contribute to the operational backbone of a growing social enterprise and work closely with the founding team on systems designed to have real-world impact.
To apply, please share your CV along with a short note outlining your interest, any relevant experience, and your desired time commitment.
Building a circular, ecological and thriving hospitality sector.
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EcoManka
We empower marginalized communities through gamified eco-education, eco-entrepreneurship, and immersive sustainable tourism.
We’re looking for a passionate Impact Fundraising & Partnerships Lead to help EcoManka grow internationally.
EcoManka is an international eco-education initiative that has recently been awarded a two-year grant from the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) to develop a gamified teacher toolkit, facilitator training programme, and digital learning platform for youth sustainability education.
As we begin this exciting new phase, we’re looking for someone who can help us secure the additional funding and partnerships needed to scale our impact.
Your responsibilities may include:
We’re looking for someone who is proactive, entrepreneurial, and excited about building something meaningful from an early stage.
This role offers the opportunity to work directly with an international consortium of organisations across Europe, Latin America and Africa, contributing to a project that combines education, sustainability, technology and social innovation.
This role begins on a volunteer basis, with the intention of transitioning into a paid position as fundraising goals are achieved and new grants are secured.
Minimum Hours per Week:
7-9 hours per week
Duration:
6+ months
We connect professionals with impact startups matching their causes, skills & schedule.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Overview
FRONTLINEdance is seeking two Board Directors and one Board Member to join our Board. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen and evolve our governing team, FRONTLINEdance will be welcoming new Board Directors/Members to join it at the AGM on Saturday 26th September 2026.
Now is a great time to join!
Our overarching ambition is to strengthen our foundations, expand our impact, and ensure d/Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent people (dDDN) and those with long‑term health conditions (LTHC) can access, enjoy, and thrive within arts and culture across Stoke‑on‑Trent, North Staffordshire, and beyond. We want our Board to reflect the people and communities of FRONTLINEdance and to expand the diversity of voices represented within it.
Key dates
Deadline for applications: 12pm, Monday 7th September 2026
Interviews are likely to be held via Teams on: 5:30pm, Monday 14th September 2026
What we're looking for / experience
We are recruiting Board Directors/Members with lived and/or professional experience in one or more of the following areas:
How to Apply
Please visit our website to view the Applicant Pack (including plain text version) for this role and for more details on how to apply. Applications can be made by text, audio and video, including BSL video.
Thank you for your interest in joining us! Get in touch if you have any questions.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Title: Company Secretary & Finance Director
Location: Swaffham, Norfolk PE37 7RB
Time commitment: approx. 1 day per month
Role Type: Unremunerated Volunteer
About Iceni Partnership
The Iceni Partnership is a registered charity and social enterprise dedicated to promoting the economic, social, and environmental well-being of Swaffham and its surrounding villages. It acts as a focal point for community development by managing vital local assets and coordinating services to improve the area's overall quality of life.
The charity's primary aims and core activities are centred around Managing Community Facilities: The Iceni Partnership manages and operates the Swaffham Community Centre and the Assembly Rooms. These venues host a wide range of social groups, adult learning courses, and provide office space for vital support organisations, together with our Community Fridge that promotes saving food waste going to landfill.
We need your expertise to ensure we remain financially sustainable, and legally and statutory compliant, so we can keep the Iceni Partnership Charity making a difference in the local community.
The Role
We are seeking a dual-hatted Company Secretary and Finance Director to ensure our operations are legally compliant, financially sound, and well-governed. You will work closely with our management team to ensure we have the solid infrastructure needed to maximize our social impact.
Key Responsibilities:
Finance Director
As our financial lead, you will provide strategic oversight and guidance to fellow trustees and our team. Key responsibilities include:
Strategic Oversight: Advising the board on financial strategy, reserves, and long-term sustainability.
Financial Reporting: Overseeing the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and annual accounts.
Governance: Ensuring robust financial controls are in place and that we remain compliant with Charity Commission guidelines.
Company Secretary
Legal & Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring that the charity submits its annual returns, reports, and accounts on time. Acting as the "guardian of governance" to ensure the board complies with its governing document (Articles of Association) and charity law.
Record Keeping: Maintaining statutory registers, updating trustee details.
About You:
You do not need to have previous charity board experience; we welcome fresh perspectives. We are looking for someone with:
Proven experience in finance, accounting, or corporate governance, ideally with charity sector knowledge.
You hold a relevant qualification in accountancy or possess equivalent demonstrable experience.
You understand the Companies Act 2006, Charity Governance Code, and charity law.
Proven history of adhering to regulatory frameworks
You are enthusiastic about our mission and eager to contribute your skills to help a small charity thrive.
What We Offer:
A meaningful role at the heart of a values-driven organisation making a tangible difference.
The opportunity to develop your non-executive director (NED) portfolio and governance skills.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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Summary
The Sussex Area of the Ramblers has two Countryside Officers, one for East Sussex and one for West Sussex. The main activity in the role is to act on behalf of members where a planning development is likely to have an adverse impact on the walking environment in the Sussex countryside.
Description
The Ramblers, the Sussex Area of which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026, is the only charity dedicated to removing barriers so everyone can enjoy walking in green spaces, and to improving Britain’s most popular and least-known walking places. We’re committed to campaigning to keep our footpaths open to all and to fighting for the things that matter most to walkers. We lead the way, and the walks, for a vibrant community united by the joys of walking, helping everyone get more out of their walks.
The role of East Sussex Area Countryside Officer involves reviewing planning applications published by Local Authorities and creating and submitting objections on behalf of Sussex Ramblers if an application is likely to have an adverse impact on the Sussex countryside and the places where people walk. Objections may be expressed in writing through a response to the planning process, but could also involve site visits and on occasion attendance at public hearings or meetings with representatives of Local Authorities or with other stakeholders such as Parish Councils and environmental and wildlife organisations.
The role holder will work closely with other Ramblers volunteers such as the East Sussex Area Footpath Officer, the West Sussex Area Countryside Officer and Local Footpath Wardens in East Sussex and where necessary will seek advice and guidance from Ramblers' Central Office. Other main contacts include the Local Authorities, Parish/Town Councils, the South Downs National Park Authority and the East Sussex Local Access Forum. The role holder will be a member of the Area leadership team (Area Council). You will need to be a member of the Ramblers and to live in or close to East Sussex.
What Impact will you have?
The Ramblers help everyone, everywhere, enjoy walking and protects the places we all love to walk. By volunteering as an Area Countryside Officer you will be playing a vital role in making sure we can achieve this by holding Local Authorities to account for planning decisions, and helping to ensure that our countryside and the places people walk, essential to health and wellbeing, are safeguarded.
Skills and Experience Required
You should have a passion for walking and for the preservation and protection of the natural beauty of the countryside and the special qualities of urban space, and a good knowledge of the county. Experience and knowledge of the Local Authorities' planning process is not essential but would be an advantage. The role is suitable for someone who is highly reliable, organised, capable of taking initiative and with an ability to articulate strategic issues clearly in written and spoken form. A desire and ability to work in a team environment is essential. You will also need to be comfortable using a computer and the internet, and managing information.
Applicants should have a passion for walking and for preservation and protection of the natural beauty of the countryside and the special qualities of urban space, and a good knowledge of East Sussex. Experience and knowledge of the Local Authorities planning process is not essential but would be an advantage. The position is suitable for a mature professional individual who is highly reliable, organised, capable of taking initiative and with an ability to articulate strategic issues clearly in written form. A desire and ability to work in a team environment is essential. You will also need to be comfortable using a computer and the internet, and managing information.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Rights & Security International (RSI) is offering this exciting opportunity for new volunteer Trustees to join our Board.
About us
We are a small, expert charity dedicated to promoting the freedoms of expression, belief and identity, while stopping governments from treating people as ‘terrorism’ threats simply because of who they are.
We challenge religious, racial and gender bias in national security programmes, promote justice and transparency, and ensure that the voices of communities facing discrimination are heard.
We were founded by a group of women activists in Northern Ireland in 1990 to seek justice for rights violations committed as part of the conflict in the region, and now work throughout the UK and internationally.
Today, we focus especially on ending Islamophobia and racism in counter-terrorism programmes, stopping governments from treating migrants and asylum-seekers as ‘security’ threats unfairly, and upholding the rights of peaceful protesters.
Globally, we work primarily to support civil society and expose harmful ‘security’ or ‘emergency’ laws in several parts of Latin America and East Africa; our project on environmental human rights defenders also brings together activists from Southeast Asia. We raise the profile of rights violations and help develop new narratives and strategies.
We have a large impact for our size, publishing groundbreaking investigations and carrying out effective advocacy in Westminster, at the UN and elsewhere.
About you
The successful candidates will bring a dedication to upholding human rights and equality, especially in the counter-terrorism and national security contexts. You should have a strong dedication to human rights principles and an understanding that human rights are for everyone.
You should have experience in a field that is relevant to charity work, such as community organising/grassroots activism, law, communications, advocacy, accounting, management or supporting human rights defenders.
We are especially interested in applications from candidates with lived experience of:
· Migration to, or seeking asylum in, the UK; OR
· Promoting people’s fundamental rights in El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru or Chile.
About the Trustee role
As a Trustee, you will have an active role in shaping our organisation and ensuring that we are well run. We welcome enthusiastic, active governance and a curiosity about why and how we do our work. You would have an impact by shaping our strategies, helping us build our networks and (as appropriate) collaborating directly with staff. We work from the grassroots level (advising migrants) to the international one (drawing UN attention to rights violations), so your impact as a Trustee will ultimately make a difference to both individual lives and broader systems.
Trustees are expected to attend remote Board meetings approximately six times per year.
Trustees who live in/near the UK are also expected to attend one annual in-person ‘away day’ in London.
We are looking for Trustees who will enthusiastically promote RSI, including to potential donors.
All Trustee roles are unpaid, although reasonable expenses arising due to the role will be reimbursed.
Application Details: If you are interested in this volunteer role, please send a statement of interest (no more than two pages) and your CV through Charity Job.
RSI strives to be diverse, equitable and inclusive. We treat all staff, trustees and interns like team members and encourage everyone to bring their full selves to our work. We welcome applications from candidates from groups that have historically been underrepresented in the human rights, legal or policy fields, and/or who are from communities that have been directly impacted by the issues we address. All applications are considered on an equal-opportunity basis.
By submitting your application, you consent to our processing and retention of your personal data to the extent, and for the time period, necessary to consider the application. We will keep your application on file for no more than one year.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.