Who we are

Citizens Advice Edinburgh (CAE) is an independent charity delivering free, confidential, and impartial advice and support to people living and working in Edinburgh. We specialise in Welfare and Consumer Rights, Debt, Employment, Immigration, Housing, and Health.

Our aims

• To provide the advice that people need for the problems they face

• To ensure that individuals do not suffer through not knowing about their rights and responsibilities and the services that are available.

About the role

Are you looking for an opportunity to contribute to your local community? If so, we have a vacancy for the post of Company Secretary to the Board of Trustee Directors. Whilst not a Board member position in itself, this post plays a vital and important role in overseeing Trustee Board governance as well as adherence to all statutory requirements of a registered charity.

Role responsibilities:

• Ensuring that CAE as a company limited by guarantee complies with all the statutory requirements flowing from its status, including all filings with Companies House etc;

• Maintenance of all statutory registers, including Register of Directors;

• Ensuring that an Annual General Meeting takes place, as required by the company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association, and that due notice is given;

• Providing advice on the company’s governance to the Board Chair and Trustee Directors;

• In consultation with the Chair, drawing up agendas for meetings, giving proper advance notice of meetings of the Board and arranging for the circulation of relevant papers;

• Drafting minutes of meetings of the Board and the AGM;

• Ensuring the minutes are circulated, signed and saved

About you

• In line with our constitution, you must live or work in Edinburgh or its surrounding areas to be eligible for this position.

• You have experience or knowledge of acting as a secretary to boards or committees in the public, private or third sector

• You are looking for an opportunity to contribute to the vision, mission and values of a community organisation that provides vital help and support to local people

• You are inspired by the idea of developing, supporting and overseeing the governance of a valuable public service

• You are motivated to help address the needs of minority groups resident in the Edinburgh area

• You have the time, energy and commitment to dedicate to support the development of CAE strategic aims and goals

If this describes you, then CAE would love to hear from you

We are committed to Equal Opportunities and are looking to ensure we are representative and reflective of the communities we serve. We are particularly interested in speaking to people who have lived experience of our community and may have used Citizens Advice services themselves.

The Rewards

This non-remunerated role is both high profile and respected within the local community. It offers new challenges, learning opportunities and will broaden your networks.

Time Commitment

There are usually eight Trustee Board meetings per year, starting at 6pm for about two hours, and held in a central location that has easy transport access. On occasion, these are instead held online.

Roxburgh & Berwickshire CAB are based in the Scottish Borders. The current Board members are a dynamic group with many different skill sets. There is a place for someone with financial experience, who could help with annual budgeting, financial reports to the Board and preparation of end of year accounts. As a member of our Board you will be providing a positive contribution to the community.

The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering training courses/sessions to enable the EASE Project end users (AFTAR/CAB tenants of five partner Housing Associations, located throughout North Lanarkshire) to empower digitally excluded clients to claim online benefits, grants, offer IT sessions and employability sessions. The post- holder will have responsibility for planning group training sessions as well as one to one coaching sessions for the end users in their own home, or at community based venues or at partners’ premises. Learning will be evaluated through client user surveys and other feedback.

Owing to the flexible delivery nature of this project, a clean current driving licence and use of a car is required for this post.

Employee Benefits

• Competitive reward package including annual performance bonus scheme

• 5% employer pension contributions

• Generous holiday entitlement 38 days inclusive of public holidays

• Additional holidays for length of service

• Family friendly policies

• Home & Flexible working scheme

• Occupational Sick Pay

• Dedicated Training and Personal Development Budget as part of our Talent Management Pool

• Leadership Mentoring

• A wide range of Social Events and Team Building Days

At Inverness, Badenoch & Strathspey CAB we are a friendly team of over 70 employees and volunteers working across 3 locations (Inverness, Raigmore and Aviemore) delivering a busy advice service. We strive to deliver a good quality service that meets the needs of our clients in a non-judgemental and confidential manner. We aim for individuals not to suffer through not knowing or understanding their rights and responsibilities or not being aware of the services available to them. We are looking for a Welfare Rights Coordinator to join our team.

You will coordinate and oversee the work of the Welfare Rights Team based in Inverness and Aviemore and ensure that the team is able to provide specialist advice on welfare rights and benefits matters. You will work collaboratively with colleagues within other advice areas (e.g. Housing, Money Advice) in delivering a holistic advice-giving service for our community.