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Volunteer Clinical Lead, Cultural & Emotional Therapy Liaison

Tell my Truth and Shame the Devil

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Unpaid role, expenses paid

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Charity Support

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Are you committed to supporting the emotional wellbeing of survivors and marginalised communities through culturally informed therapeutic practices? Tell My Truth and Shame the Devil C.I.C. is seeking a skilled Clinical Lead, Cultural & Emotional Therapy Liaison to join our founding volunteer team. This critical role ensures that all clinical and therapeutic support offered to members is safe, effective, culturally responsive, and aligned with the CIC’s survivor-led, values-driven mission.

As Clinical Lead, you will provide professional oversight, guidance, and liaison for all cultural and emotional therapy initiatives within the organisation. You will work closely with membership, engagement, and programme teams to ensure services are trauma-informed, culturally competent, and responsive to the needs of survivors, young people, and marginalised communities. This role blends strategic leadership, operational management, and community-facing support to build safe, transformative, and accessible therapy systems.

Experience Qualification and Requirements

Essential / Highly Valued Experience

Professional qualification and current registration in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling, or a closely related discipline (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, BABCP, or equivalent)
Demonstrable experience providing trauma-informed therapeutic support, with strong understanding of how trauma, culture, identity, and systemic factors affect emotional wellbeing
Proven ability to deliver or advise on culturally competent practice with diverse cultural, ethnic, faith-based, and marginalised communities
Sound knowledge of safeguarding frameworks, risk management, and ethical practice within clinical, voluntary, and community-based settings
Working understanding of GDPR and data protection principles, particularly relating to confidential health and safeguarding information
Experience supervising, mentoring, or providing reflective practice to clinical practitioners, facilitators, or volunteers (including non-clinical staff delivering emotional support)
Ability to assess risk, respond calmly to complex or sensitive situations, and provide clear, proportionate clinical guidance
Strong organisational skills, balancing strategic oversight with operational input in a volunteer or resource-limited environment
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain clinical concepts to non-clinical audiences and work collaboratively across teams
Experience working with survivors of abuse, trauma, exploitation, or systemic harm, and/or within grassroots, community-focused, or voluntary sector organisations
High levels of professional integrity, emotional intelligence, cultural humility, and commitment to inclusive, ethical care

Desirable / Can Be Developed

Role assumes senior-level competence; scope may evolve with organisational growth

Qualifications

Current professional qualification and registration with a recognised regulatory body (as listed above)

Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties

Provide strategic and hands-on clinical oversight to ensure the effective delivery of culturally informed emotional and therapeutic services. Ensure that programmes are safe, ethical, inclusive, and responsive to the diverse needs of members.
Oversee the planning, delivery, and evaluation of emotional wellbeing and therapeutic services, ensuring that interventions are culturally appropriate, trauma-informed, and aligned with the organisation’s mission and values. This includes supporting programme design, session structures, referral pathways, and evaluation frameworks to promote positive member outcomes.
Liaise closely with therapists, facilitators, programme leads, and safeguarding officers to ensure consistent alignment with clinical governance, ethical frameworks, safeguarding policies, and professional standards. Provide expert consultation on complex cultural considerations, trauma impacts, emotional safety, and effective engagement strategies, particularly for members from marginalised or under-served communities.
Support the recruitment, onboarding, training, and supervision of therapy facilitators and volunteers. Advising on role suitability, contributing to training content, offering reflective supervision, and promoting best practice in boundaries, self-care, and ethical decision-making.
Review and approve therapy protocols, session guidelines, risk assessments, and safeguarding procedures, ensuring they are clinically sound, culturally sensitive, and proportionate to the needs and risks of the service users. Ensure that all therapeutic activity complies with relevant professional regulatory standards, safeguarding legislation, and data protection requirements, including GDPR.
Monitor member wellbeing outcomes, qualitative feedback, and service impact data to inform continuous improvement, learning, and programme development. This includes identifying trends, risks, or unmet needs and advising on appropriate service adaptations.
As the primary clinical point of contact, the role holder will provide professional oversight for complex cases, escalations, or member concerns that require clinical judgement, risk management, or safeguarding intervention, working collaboratively with internal teams and external professionals where required.

What This Role Offers You:

Leadership experience in shaping culturally-informed clinical and therapeutic services.
Opportunity to influence the wellbeing and recovery of survivors and vulnerable community members.
Personal and professional growth through working in a values-led, trauma-informed, and survivor-centred environment.
The satisfaction of building safe, effective, and transformative support systems that align with community needs.

What This Role Is Not For:

Individuals seeking traditional, hierarchical clinical roles without collaborative or community-facing responsibilities.
Those unwilling to work within a survivor-centred, anti-capitalist, and culturally responsive framework.
People expecting rigid structures or hands-off supervision—this role requires active leadership, decision-making, and engagement.

If you are ready to guide, shape, and oversee culturally-informed therapeutic support while making a tangible social impact, we want to hear from you. Apply now and become a key leader in building safe, transformative systems for survivors and communities.

A Final Word

Care is always about people, never just processes.

Trust grows through compassion, professionalism, and accountability.
Confidentiality is part of safeguarding, not an afterthought.
Respect, cultural awareness, and emotional safety are what sustain meaningful therapeutic relationships.

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Posted on: 02 April 2026

Closing date: 01 May 2026 at 22:25

Tags: Advice / Information, Communications, Advocacy, Counselling, Conflict Resolution / Peace, Insights, Mental Health, Mentoring / Coaching, Psychology / Therapy

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.

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Freelance Counsellor

Guardian Light Enterprises

Remote

Unpaid role, expenses paid

Voluntary

Housing and Homelessness

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Location: Remote or In-person (London-based preferred, flexible)
Hours: 20 hours per month (flexible)
Compensation: Revenue split per session – 60% to Counsellor / 40% to Guardian Light Enterprises LTD
Payment Schedule: Weekly or monthly, depending on preference (flexible to support cash flow)

About Guardian Light Enterprises LTD

Guardian Light Enterprises LTD is the revenue-generating arm of Guardian Light Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers, and single-parent families affected by homelessness, abuse, and hardship. Every service we provide contributes directly to creating safe spaces, housing, education, and empowerment programs for vulnerable communities.

As a freelance counsellor with us, you are not just offering sessions—you are helping people heal, build resilience, and find hope, while supporting a social mission that changes lives.

Role Overview

We are seeking a compassionate, skilled, and dedicated Freelance Counsellor to provide emotional support, guidance, and therapy sessions to our clients. This is a unique opportunity to work in a mission-driven social enterprise where your expertise directly fuels social impact.

As a counsellor, you will:

Provide individual and group counselling sessions for children, teenagers, and single-parent families.
Use your professional expertise to guide clients through challenges including trauma, grief, anxiety, and abuse recovery.
Maintain strict confidentiality and safeguarding standards in line with UK regulations.
Collaborate with Guardian Light Enterprises and the Foundation team to refer clients to additional support programs where appropriate.
Participate in impact reporting to help shape future programs.

Key Responsibilities

Conduct high-quality counselling sessions tailored to individual client needs.
Document sessions and maintain records securely in compliance with safeguarding and GDPR policies.
Promote emotional wellbeing, resilience, and empowerment for clients.
Engage with Guardian Light Enterprises LTD in strategic discussions to improve program delivery.
Attend occasional training and team meetings (via Microsoft Teams).

Ideal Candidate

Accredited Counsellor, Psychotherapist, or Mental Health Professional with relevant UK registration.
Experience working with children, teenagers, and vulnerable families.
Strong empathy, emotional intelligence, and a trauma-informed approach.
Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Passionate about social impact and committed to transforming lives.

Hours & Compensation

Recommended: 8–12 hours per month (approx. 2–3 clients per week, depending on session length).
Compensation: Revenue split per session – 60% to you, 40% to Guardian Light Enterprises LTD.
Payment Schedule: Flexible – weekly or monthly, depending on mutual preference and cash flow management.

Benefits

Even at this early stage, joining Guardian Light Enterprises LTD offers unique benefits:

Impact-driven work: Every session contributes to funding programs that directly support children and single-parent families in crisis.
Flexible schedule: Set your hours around your availability.
Professional growth: Access to training and development opportunities.
Career progression: Exceptional counsellors may be invited to join our Advisory Board or eventually become a Board Member, shaping the direction of Guardian Light Foundation.
Recognition: A chance to build your personal and professional brand as part of a pioneering social enterprise.
Supportive environment: Collaborate with a passionate, mission-driven team dedicated to real change.

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Refreshed on: 17 April 2026

Closing date: 31 May 2026 at 00:00

Tags: Advice / Information, Advocacy, Counselling, Care Management, Dementia

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Senior AI Agent Architect (Volunteer, Remote)

African Development Choices

Remote

Unpaid role, expenses not paid

Voluntary

International Development

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African Development Choices (ADC) is a UK-registered charity on a mission to reduce poverty by empowering communities to make more informed choices in the management of public resources.

ADC’s purpose is to enable communities to independently meet their needs for essential services, such as clean water and safe sanitation, and improve lives in Africa.

At ADC we encourage a working culture of seeking and giving input, showing and taking initiative, and commitment to the organisation and its purpose.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a volunteer Senior AI Agent Architect to join ADC and help build a live prototype of MajiGuard AI.

Main purpose of job:

To lead the technical design and hands-on development of MajiGuard AI, an agentic AI prototype that helps ADC identify underused WASH resources, structure recovery and reallocation cases, and verify that recovered value reaches facility upgrades and operations and maintenance.

Division: Technology / AI Innovation

Department: Product & Engineering

Position reports to: Head of AI Innovation

Direct reports for the position: Volunteer AI engineers, developers and technical contributors

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Lead the end-to-end architecture of MajiGuard AI, including the selection and integration of models, agent workflows, orchestration tools, retrieval systems, data structures and human-in-the-loop controls appropriate for a live prototype.

Translate ADC’s operational goals into practical AI workflows, especially for identifying underused WASH resources, standardising evidence and case preparation, supporting recovery and reallocation decisions, and verifying delivery of value to facility improvements and ongoing operations and maintenance.

Build and iterate a live prototype using pragmatic, cost-effective tooling, with strong attention to reliability, traceability, security, maintainability and ease of future scaling.

Design structured inputs, prompts, evaluation criteria and decision logic so that outputs are useful to non-technical ADC teams working across programmes, research, partnerships and leadership.

Establish a technical roadmap for the prototype, including architecture choices, milestone planning, testing priorities, deployment options and documentation for future funders, partners and developers.

Work closely with ADC leadership to shape the product vision and ensure the prototype aligns with ADC’s wider governance and public service innovation model.

Advise on suitable approaches for data governance, privacy, model risk, hallucination control, auditability and responsible AI use in the context of public-resource management and service delivery.

Define and monitor prototype success metrics, including usefulness, accuracy, turnaround time, workflow fit, and operational learning that can strengthen grant applications, partnerships and future product development.

Support the transition from local experimentation to a live prototype environment, including basic cloud or hosted deployment thinking, version control practices and engineering handover readiness.

Mentor and coordinate other volunteer technical contributors where relevant, helping ADC build a small but high-quality AI capability around MajiGuard AI.

Knowledge, skills, and experience:

Essential

8+ years of relevant experience in AI, machine learning, applied NLP, intelligent automation, agentic systems, or modern software engineering for production-grade data or AI products

Strong hands-on experience designing and building AI systems, including LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation, agent workflows, orchestration frameworks, evaluation pipelines and API integrations

Experience taking ideas from concept or prototype stage into a usable live product, pilot or production-like environment

Excellent technical judgement on model selection, system design trade-offs, latency, reliability, observability and cost-conscious engineering

Strong programming ability, ideally including Python and modern backend tooling, with the ability to work across architecture, implementation and troubleshooting

Experience designing structured workflows where AI outputs must be reviewable, auditable and useful for operational decision-making
Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and translate mission goals into practical product choices
Interest in using AI to strengthen public service delivery, accountability, governance, resource allocation, or adjacent social impact problems
Ability to actively take initiative and help set things up in a start-up environment
Ability to actively seek and give input in a collaborative team environment
A committed team player with good communication skills
Available to volunteer at least 8-12 hours a week

Desirable

Experience with agentic AI products involving workflow automation, task routing, multi-step reasoning, document intelligence or evidence-based case management
Experience with cloud deployment, containerisation, CI/CD, databases, vector stores, authentication and production monitoring for AI systems
Experience working on civic tech, govtech, development, WASH, infrastructure, audit, compliance or public-finance-related products
Experience working in an early-stage start-up or mission-driven organisation and comfortable operating with ambiguity
Experience mentoring engineers or leading small technical teams across different locations and time zones

What ADC Offers You

This is a volunteer, remote and unpaid position with the following benefits:

A chance to play a foundational role in shaping MajiGuard AI from concept into a live prototype with real strategic relevance to ADC’s mission
An opportunity to apply advanced AI and product-building skills to a meaningful public-interest challenge connected to WASH, accountability and service delivery in Africa
An opportunity to work with a diverse global team and contribute to an organisation seeking systemic social change
Professional learning, leadership and portfolio-building opportunities through high-ownership work
Work reference provided

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Here at African Development Choices, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our teams are made up of people from all over the world and we welcome all applications. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition, and you require any reasonable adjustments for your application with us, please let us know by contacting recruitment(at)africandevelopmentchoices(dot)org.

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