Cumbernauld Action for Care of the Elderly (CACE) is looking for passionate individuals to join our dedicated team of Trustees. As a charity that promotes and supports the needs of older people in Cumbernauld and the surrounding areas, we play a vital role in enhancing the well-being and quality of life for our elderly community members.

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As a Trustee, you'll have the opportunity to share your skills and expertise, contributing to the well-being and independence of our elderly beneficiaries. You'll build strong relationships with fellow Trustees, staff, volunteers, and the wider community, while gaining valuable experience in governance, financial management, and strategic planning. By engaging with stakeholders and partners, you'll expand your network and promote our services in the community. Moreover, serving as a Trustee can also help you develop transferable skills that can enhance your career opportunities, such as leadership, decision-making, and project management.

Key Responsibilities of a Trustee:

• Collaborate with fellow Trustees to provide strategic leadership and governance to CACE.
• Ensure that our charity operates in line with its mission, values, and legal responsibilities.
• Review and approve budgets, financial reports, and funding applications to maximize our impact.
• Support our management team in delivering high-quality care and services to older people.
• Engage in fundraising and community engagement activities to promote our cause.

We are particularly interested in individuals with experience in HR and employment law, finance, and charity governance experience but we welcome applicants from all backgrounds who are committed to our cause. Previous Trustee experience is not always essential as we provide induction and training.

Chair Vacancy

Our current Chair is coming to the end of their term in 2023 and we would like to hear from candidates who are specifically interested in this trustee role. The Chair leads and facilitates the Board to ensure it fulfils its responsibilities for the governance of the organisation.

By becoming a Trustee or Chair of our Board, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of older people in our community. Your expertise and dedication will help shape our future and enable us to continue our essential work. Join us in creating a caring community where older people are supported, valued, and cherished.

We are leading the way for change!

At Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre we create healing and empowering environments that make the prevention of and recovery from sexual violence possible.

We need new trustees to support and guide us; inspirational women and critical friends who share and can promote our values: Survivor Centred, Kindness, Innovation, Diversity and Representation, and Transparency.

We are looking for women from all walks of life, whether you are an experienced trustee or looking to take your first steps onto a board, we want to hear from you. Our trustees will have skills, experience or passion for one or more of the following areas:

• accountancy
• lobbying skills
• fundraising
• business development
• ensuring services are accessible and inclusive
• ability to build effective and collaborative working relationships.
• commitment to feminism and feminist governance.
• commitment to eradicating the issues around sexual violence.
• commitment to incorporating survivors’ voices and lived experience to shape services that truly meet the needs of survivors

About Us

Zero Tolerance is a Scottish charity working to end men’s violence against women by promoting gender equality and challenging attitudes which normalise violence and abuse. We are a values-led organisation and seek to improve the way we integrate feminism, equality, and diversity into our work. We ensure our HR policies and practices reflect our values (including enhanced parental leave, miscarriage and menopause policies and flexible working) and our salary framework is fair and competitive. We are committed to staff learning and development and have recently launched a paid reading week for all staff and a whole team training programme about feminist leadership.

Our aims

1. We will lead campaigning in Scotland to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) by raising public and political awareness of its cause and challenging gender inequality.
2. We will challenge and support key institutions to embed VAWG prevention in their work.
3. We will advance and share the evidence base on preventing VAWG.
4. We will make Zero Tolerance a place where feminist leadership happens.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an experienced Policy Officer to join our team and lead on the development of robust, evidence-based policy responses to prevent violence against women and girls. You will support the organisation’s aims by building effective networks, monitoring and analysing public policy and researching and writing reports in line with campaign and policy priorities.

The successful candidate will often work in close collaboration with the women’s sector and other partners to influence key decision makers and stakeholders across local authorities, Scottish and UK governments and third sector organisations.

You will represent Zero Tolerance on advisory and working groups with stakeholders, acting as Chair/Co-chair as required and work with ZT colleagues to identify areas of influence and priority: incorporating the views and needs of marginalised women is essential in the role.

What we need

The successful candidate will have previous experience in a similar role, in a paid or voluntary capacity, with knowledge and understanding of violence against women and gender equality. You’ll be a skilled communicator with the ability to present complex ideas to a variety of audiences including senior politicians, stakeholders and partners.

You will also have:

• A shared understanding of our vision, values, aims and positions
• Understanding of the Scottish political landscape
• The ability to understand complex policy issues, articulate clear and focused responses, and make judgements based on evidence
• Organisational skills, managing both reactive and planned work
• Proven experience of building networks

Zero Tolerance has a commitment to diversity and challenging all forms of inequality alongside gender inequality. We are open to as many different voices as there are experiences, but particularly welcome applications from Minority Ethnic, LGBT, disabled, migrant, and other backgrounds currently underrepresented within the women’s sector.

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary with annual pay progression. We operate a grading structure based on five salary grades. New employees start on point 1 of each salary grade and receive annual increments until the top of the grade is reached. This role is Grade 3 £32,560.27-£35,940
• Staff pension scheme (6% employers’ contribution)
• 28 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays and a flexible working hours policy
• We actively encourage continuous professional development for all our employees and have implemented a paid reading week as well as continuous training opportunities for individual learning and whole team development.

We are a Registered Charity and SCIO SC046936. Established in 1985, the Charity has been delivering vital services for women and children across the Inverclyde area for over 37 years. Inverclyde Women’s Aid’s vision is of a society, in which women, children and young people are full and equal participants, free from the threat of abuse, violence or oppression.

We are looking for Trustees to join our Board. Would you like to help improve the lives of women, children and young people who have experience of domestic abuse in Inverclyde?

Do you have an understanding of the feminist analysis of domestic abuse? Do you have some time to give on a voluntary basis to provide leadership, legal and fiscal oversight, and to support the ongoing development of the vital services we provide?

We are looking to appoint enthusiastic and committed women, aged 16 years or over to our Board. We have several vacancies.

The Opportunity: This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our feminist governance team supporting and overseeing the development of the organisation to ensure the continued delivery of high quality, responsive services to vulnerable women, children and young people in our area. You do not need to know everything there is to know about domestic abuse, but you will need to prove that you are interested in our work, reliable, action focussed and committed to our principles and values.

We welcome applications from women with strategic vision, good independent judgement, and the ability to work as part of a diverse team. We are committed to diversifying our Board so women representing all sections of the community are welcome. We are keen to add to existing skills and knowledge, so we particularly want to hear from women with the following professional backgrounds: human resources/employment law, marketing & communications or social media, third sector or social enterprise experience, fundraising, business, property management, IT skills and women who have a legal background. We also strongly encourage women who have personal experience of domestic abuse to offer us their personal insight into accessing and using the range of services offered by women’s aid and partners.

Time Commitment: The Board currently meet bi-monthly via Zoom. The frequency and the method of meeting will continue to be reviewed regularly to meet the needs of the organisation. It is important that prospective trustees recognise that they will also be, at times, responsible for progressing pieces of work in between meetings, either on an individual basis on behalf of the Board or as part of a short life working group or a sub-group of the Board.

There is also an expectation that new Trustees will fully participate in a comprehensive induction, as well as ongoing training and support. Although the Board is meeting online, we would anticipate that the Board Members visit the staff team and that at least once a year there is a strategic planning day in person with the staff and Board.

Our posts are open to women only applicants as we are a woman only service, covered by the occupational requirement exemption under the Equality Act 2010.