- Advertised from 10th March 2023
- Fee Paid. The Chair of the Board receives £323.29 per day.
Role
Scottish Ministers are looking to appoint a new Chair to the Board of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC).
About Us
SLCC provide a single point of contact for all complaints against Scottish lawyers (solicitors, advocates, commercial attorneys and licensed conveyancers). They investigate and resolve complaints about services and refer conduct complaints to the relevant professional body for investigation.
As a small and focussed public body this is an ideal opportunity for someone stepping up to a chair role for the first time or for an experienced chair wanting to feel they are making a direct and immediate contribution to an organisation. Knowledge of the legal sector is not essential, although we are looking for someone with good experience of governance and decision making.
What are we looking for in a new Chair?
The Chair plays a vital role in leading the oversight of the organisation and the Executive Team, engaging with stakeholders, ensuring a strategy is in place, risk and financial controls are appropriate. To enable the SLCC Board to work effectively and efficiently it is vital we have people with a variety of skills and experience from all walks of life.
Close working with the Chief Executive ensures an effective link between the Board and Executive Team. The Chair also sits on Determination Committees deciding on the outcome of complaints.
The SLCC need a Chairing Member with specific skills along with generic personal qualities. You may have gained your experience / knowledge by working, being active in your community, in a voluntary capacity or just through your own personal life experience – we have explained in the application pack exactly what we will be looking for and how they will be tested in the appointment process.
Training and support
Because of this varied role, the new Chair will be offered a full induction along with regular training. All members are supported by the management team, clerks and investigators, and the other staff of the SLCC and have taken on board members from a large variety of backgrounds.
Time commitment
In total, the time commitment for all work will be:
- around 30 days of fixed attendance (meeting or video calls, although with each meeting usually being a half day).
- around 8 days of work you can complete at home, at a time to suit yourself, and usually in one or two hour blocks.
Length of the Appointment
Appointment will be for a single term of five years. Therefore you can only apply to be a Board member again after a minimum gap of three years. No re-appointments are made to the SLCC Board, however, you can apply to be a Board member again after a minimum gap of three years.
If appointed you will be expected to take up your position on 10 July 2023.
Remuneration and Expenses
The Chair of the Board receives £323.29 per day. Expenses incurred as a result of carrying out the duties of the appointment, including reasonable travel and subsistence costs and dependant carer and childcare expenses, will be reimbursed.
The appointment is non-pensionable.
Application notes
Closing 4 April 2023 at 5pm
Interviews will be held on 11 May 2023.
To Apply: The Scottish Government’s dedicated public appointments website allows you to apply online: gov.scot/collections/public-appointments. You must complete both parts of the process for your application to be considered by the selection panel.
Please return your completed application form to PA_Applications_Mailbox@gov.scot by 5.00 pm on Tuesday 4 April 2023.
Further information about the online application process is attached
Public Appointments - Frequently Asked Questions.
General information about public appointments and guidance to help you improve your applications is attached gov.scot/collections/public-appointments.
Online event: Changing the Chemistry will be hosting an online event on Tuesday 21 March at 18.00 where you can find out more about the Chair role and the SLCC from the Chief Executive, Neil Stevenson and the Interim Chair, Niki Maclean. There will also be a Q&A session where you can put your questions to the panel. You can register for this event free at Eventbrite
If you experience any difficulties accessing our website, or in the event that you are unable to apply online and require a word version of the application form, please contact the Scottish Government Public Appointments Team on 0300 244 1898, or by email at PA_Applications_Mailbox@gov.scot.
Accessibility to public appointments is a fundamental requirement and the public appointments process promotes, demonstrates, and upholds equality of opportunity for all applicants. The Scottish Government will always consider disability-related reasonable adjustments that an applicant might request to enable them to demonstrate their merit and participate fully in the selection process. If you require any of the application pack documentation in an alternative format, please contact Freephone 0300 244 1898 or public.appointments@gov.scot.
Scottish Ministers particularly welcome applications from people with protected characteristics that are under-represented at Chair level on Scotland’s public bodies, such as such as women, disabled people, LGBTI+ people, those from minority ethnic communities and people aged under 50.
Appointed on merit; committed to diversity and equality.
Top job! Chair appointment to the board of the Scottish Food Commission
- Management Board
- Sessional
- Edinburgh (On site)
- Closing 8th May 2024
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and influence the development of a new public body: the Scottish Food Commission. It is expected that the Commission will be formally established by mid-2025.
The Scottish Food Commission is a new non-departmental public body that is to be established to provide an oversight role of provisions made in the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022.
As the first chair of the Scottish Food Commission, this appointment will play a crucial role in shaping the future and strategic direction of this new public body.
You will be actively involved in the recruitment of the chief executive, the first member of staff to the Scottish Food Commission, and in appointing the other members of the board.
You will work closely with the sponsor team and the chief executive, once in place, to enable the new public body to take on its statutory functions and full budgetary control once it is established.
Once the body is fully established you will be key in ensuring the Commission effectively fulfils its oversight role and provides constructive challenge, that is evidence based, to Scottish Ministers and relevant authorities in relation to their Good Food Nation Plans.
This is a high publicity role that will attract great interest from key stakeholders interested in the Scottish food system.
Remuneration and time commitment
The chair role is paid at a gross daily rate of £211 per day (7.5 hours).This role is non-pensionable. This means that there is no pension contribution paid.
We expect that the time commitment will change over the life of the body. While the body is being established and during the first months of operation more engagement will be needed – i.e. up to 80 days/year. During the establishment phase there may also be phases of increased activity.
It is likely that once the body is established the chair’s time commitment will decrease to approximately 50 days/year.
The chair’s time commitment will be reviewed on a regular basis.
Skills/Experience Required
Scottish Ministers welcome applications from people from a wide range of backgrounds who have the following
skills/knowledge/experience:
All of the following priority criteria:
- Experience of setting up a new organisation, and setting the direction for that organisation
- Experience of navigating a complex policymaking landscape, including communicating with a range of stakeholders
- Leadership and Management
All of the following essential criteria:
- Analysis and Decision-making
- Seeing the bigger picture
- Communication, influence and constructive challenge
- Understanding of the complexity of the food system
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Do you believe in the power of data to improve people’s lives and know that working with the public is vital to our mission? Research Data Scotland needs you!
We have an exciting opportunity to work in a multifaceted Business Management role to support the delivery of exemplary governance and operational excellence. This role works with stakeholders at every level in our organisation and as such we are looking to appoint a highly motivated and conscientious individual.
About us
Research Data Scotland (RDS) is a charity set up by the Scottish public sector and leading universities. We help researchers find and make use of data that can improve the lives of people in Scotland. Working in partnership, we do this by widening the range of data available, creating new data assets and providing a single point of contact for safe, secure and effective access to public data in a trustworthy manner.
Data is often locked away in lots of individual systems, across many different organisations, and isn’t in a format that makes access or integration easy. We can help researchers to unlock the potential of this data by giving them information and advice that speeds up and simplifies their work.
RDS aims to provide a step change in the service to researchers, whilst maintaining the high standards of information governance and data security already in place. We aim to work as openly as possible, maintaining standards in transparency and ethics. Our focus is on providing a streamlined service for researchers, as well as extending the range of data available through the service, particularly in the areas of Covid-19, NHS imaging, geospatial data, children and justice services.
Our partners include: Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. We work closely with the national and regional safe havens. And we are in contact with other organisations in Scotland and across the UK in the data research sector, including public sector, research and commercial bodies.
About the job
The Business Manager will work closely with the Chair, CEO and Operations Director to manage, coordinate and schedule the regular cycle of our governance and business activities. This will include coordinating board meetings as well as maintaining our internal registers and ensuring our reporting mechanisms are top-notch! This post will be highly varied and vital to the successful delivery of our Business and Delivery plans.
There is a strong focus on developmental projects, operational risk, records management, governance, improving our performance and delivering our day-to-day charity operations. You’ll be an important member of our Operations Team, sharing your expertise with colleagues and board members, as well as independently leading on activities.
Reports to Operations Director
About you
You are a self-starter, with experience of working with stakeholders at every level. You’ll understand the importance of engaging well with board members, senior leaders and your colleagues to get their input into your work and support great governance. You are highly organised and thrive on managing multiple projects with different deadlines. You are keen to deliver, with an eye for detail and the pragmatism to understand our context and environment.
Life at RDS
We are a small friendly and highly engaged team of people. We promote continuous learning and work hard to build an inclusive and supportive workplace culture. We live our values of; integrity, transparency, courage, collaboration and humility.
Our people typically work a 35-hour week, with hybrid working on offer from day one. You can choose to work flexibly from home or use one of our desks in the Bayes Centre in central Edinburgh. The whole RDS team meets one day per month in-person in Edinburgh or at an off-site away day in the Central Belt. Individual teams organise their own in-person days to collaborate, develop and socialise together.
We offer 33 days’ annual leave (including public holidays) and have no set closure days. We have a generous pension and enhanced pay for parental/adoption leave. This list of benefits is being added to as the organisation develops, and you can help shape it as part of the team. Our Culture Group helps us seek feedback from colleagues across the organisation to make RDS an even better place to work.
Relationships Scotland is the largest provider of family and relationship support in the country. We offer relationship counselling, family mediation and child contact centres through a network of 21 Member Services across Scotland. Around 18,000 people receive a face-to-face service each year.
We are looking to appoint a new treasurer to join our Board. The treasurer will be responsible for overseeing financial matters on behalf of our Board and will be responsible for ensuring that the organisation has robust financial processes to ensure it meets its legal and constitutional requirements. While we encourage and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, we are keen to hear from candidates that have experience of charity financial management or are chartered in a suitable accountancy field.
This role would include four board meetings a year (currently a mix of in person and online), along with four online Office Bearer meetings each year, and our AGM.
We want our Board to reflect the diversity of the modern communities we work with, and value the benefits of having different experience and points of view on our Board. We particularly welcome applications from people living with a disability or long-term health condition, LGBTQ+ people, younger people and those from ethnic minority communities.
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Thank you for your interest in applying to become a Member of the Lothian Pension Fund’s (LPF) Pensions Committee, which is hosted by its administering authority the City of Edinburgh Council (CEC). As one of our Pensions Committee Members, you would play an essential role in ensuring that the pension fund has strong governance in place now and in the future.
Acting in the best interests of the members and employer bodies of the pension funds, the Pensions Committee (Committee) exercises oversight of LPF and, for example, determines the overall policy objectives and strategy, and monitors the overall performance of LPF and the Scottish Homes Pension Fund in accordance with its separate statutory remit. It also, for example, oversees the effective management and administration of pension funds and determines the strategy for the investment of pension fund monies.
We are seeking applications for the Committee’s two external, non-elected, member seats. One of these is drawn from LPF’s membership and the other from LPF’s employer bodies.
Although each member is sourced from those stakeholder groups, importantly they will be required to act in accordance with their separate duty to all the stakeholders of the pension funds collectively and are not appointed to represent one particular group.
About LPF
LPF administers the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in Edinburgh and the Lothians and is one of the largest pension funds in the UK. We’re a multi-employer scheme with around £10 billion assets and are over 157% funded as at our most recent actuarial valuation serving 79,000 records attributable to 81,500 members from 67 employers across a broad range of sectors.
We also manage the Scottish Homes Pension Fund on behalf of the Scottish Government. This is a closed fund and has 1,550 deferred and pensioner members with £0.16 billion investments.
LPF is unique in Scotland in operating an established FCA regulated in-house investment team. We manage over 85% of the fund’s assets via internal equity, bond and other real asset portfolios (e.g. infrastructure, property and timberland investments).
We also work closely with other LGPS funds delivering investment management and strategic investment advisory services across their portfolios (e.g. equities, bonds, private markets, and listed and indirect property investments).
In March 2017, we became the first UK LGPS awarded accreditation for the Pensions Administration Standards Association and we’re proud to have held the Customer Service Excellence Award for over fifteen years.
The day-to-day running of LPF is carried out by a specialist team who undertake pension administration, accounting and investment functions.
LPF colleagues are employed by an arms-length company, LPFE Limited (LPFE), which is wholly owned by CEC.
The opportunity
We’re seeking applications for two external, non-elected, Committee seats; one drawn from LPF’s employer bodies (Employer seat) and one from LPF’s membership (Employee seat).
Committee membership is made up of five elected (Councillor) members of the CEC and two external, non-elected, members for which nominations are currently being sought.
To be eligible to apply for the role of external Committee Member Employee seat, you need to be either an active, deferred or retired member of the LPF.
To be eligible to apply for the role of external Committee Member Employer seat, you need to work within an employer body that participates in the Fund and be nominated by your employer.
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