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Management Committee Members

  • Management Board
  • Unpaid
  • Remote: Meetings held by Zoom
  • Closing 14th November 2024


  • Advertised from 3rd October 2024

Role

The One World Shop was established over 40 years ago and has played a lead role in the Fair Trade movement in Scotland, including helping Edinburgh and Glasgow become Fairtrade cities. As well as running a thriving city centre shop, we have an online shop and we support schools, faith groups and local businesses to learn about and sell fair trade products. We currently employ 7 paid staff and over 20 volunteers. Our aim is to reduce poverty in deprived areas of the world through trading fairly and we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and promoting low-carbon living.

We are seeking to appoint several new voluntary Management Committee members; we are particularly looking at people with skills and experience in any of the following:

  • Human Resources
  • Property, leases, surveying
  • Retail sales and management
  • Business management
  • Finance, funding, ethical investment

Board meetings are held every two months by Zoom

Application notes

If you are interested in joining us as a Management Committee member, we would love to hear from you. Please email a CV and covering letter outlining what skills you could bring and your motivation to Rachel Farey, Business Manager rachel@oneworldshop.co.uk or call her on 0131 229 4541.