Join Our Board: Chair and Trustee Opportunities with Live Borders

At Live Borders, the leisure and culture body serving the Scottish Borders, we are delighted to be seeking a new Chair and Trustees to help shape the future of our dynamic organisation.

We keep ourselves busy: Live Borders manages more than 60 venues, in addition to providing a range of programmes, to deliver our goals of encouraging cultural engagement, sports participation, and physical activity. We are proud to reach over 1 million sports- and 300,000 culture- participants annually. And as a registered charity, we reinvest every penny into creating healthier, happier, and stronger communities. This is an opportunity to become part of a forward-thinking organisation that improves lives every day across the Scottish Borders.

As a member of our Board of Trustees, you will play a vital role in our governance and strategic direction, helping to guide Live Borders through an exciting period of recovery and growth. The role offers a chance to give back to the region, influence its future, and work collaboratively with others who share your passion for community impact.

Whether you are an experienced board member or considering your first non-executive role, we welcome your unique perspective and expertise.

We are particularly interested in individuals with experience in the following areas:

• Governance
• Leadership
• Finance
• Legal
• Marketing

However, more than technical skills, we value enthusiasm, commitment to our mission, and the ability to work well as part of a team. We are seeking one individual to take on the role of Chair, leading our Board of Trustees – for this role, prior Chair or Vice-Chair experience would be highly useful, as would exposure to public sector non-executive boards and committees.

Trustee involvement will include attending board and committee meetings up to two days per quarter, as well as contributing outside of these meetings to support the organisation’s goals. The time commitment demanded of the Chair is expected to be similar although may at times exceed. These roles are undertaken on a voluntary basis, though reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.

By joining Live Borders, you will have the chance to help govern a charity that is the largest provider of culture, sports, and leisure services in the Scottish Borders. You will work with a committed team, helping to shape the organisation’s future and ensuring it continues to deliver exceptional services for local communities. The Board continues to serve as an excellent platform for professional and personal growth for its members.

About QNIS: The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS) is a small charity doing big things. QNIS works with and supports community nurses and midwives all over Scotland, providing leadership and practice development opportunities. We also work closely with a range of other public and third sector organisations to advocate for the community nursing and midwifery professions.

The role: We have a great opportunity for a business support officer to join our small team. This wide-ranging and diverse role will see you providing high quality, professional business support across the organisation. You will be involved in a wide range of activities including supporting projects and events, diary management, and coordinating external suppliers. You will engage with stakeholders at all levels, including liaising with nurses and midwives, supporting senior managers, and coordinating committee meetings for the Board of Trustees. Being a small team, we need someone who is also happy to roll their sleeves up and pitch in, scanning documents, packing boxes, or running to the shops when required.

The post is full time (37.5 hours). The place of work is our office in central Edinburgh. We support hybrid working, this is dependent on business needs and would likely require a minimum of two days per week in the office. We are offering a starting salary of £30,686 (FTE). Benefits include:

• Contributory pension scheme, and salary sacrifice.
• Non-contributory death in service benefit scheme.
• 38 days of annual leave including public holidays and a day off on your birthday.
• The opportunity to work with a passionate and friendly team focused on making a difference for community nurses and midwives, and the people they support, across Scotland.
• Learning and development opportunities.

About you: An experienced administrator, you will be able to meet deadlines while maintaining a very high level of attention to detail. With strong IT skills and an ability to manage a range of work with many parallel sub-projects, you will have excellent organisation and planning skills. Experience of working with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems would be an advantage. Crucial to success in the role will be a high level of self-awareness, the ability to communicate clearly, cheerfully and tactfully with people at all levels, both internally and externally. We are looking for someone who brings energy, creativity and kindness to the team.

For more information about the role and the organisation, please download the Excellence Profile and visit the QNIS website. The Excellence Profile sets out how we might expect someone who is experienced and flourishing in the role to perform and we are not assuming that an individual will have the full suite of capabilities at appointment.

Person Specification

Essential

• Confident working across multiple workstreams and projects simultaneously
• Experience of providing comprehensive support to committees and or project leads
• Minute taking and meeting and diary management
• Experience of building relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to prioritise, plan and organise own workload to meet deadlines.
• Able to work collaboratively as part of a team and contribute to a positive working environment and culture
• Strong IT skills including proficient use of Office 365, MS Teams and Sharepoint
• Interest in working for a small charity

Desirable Experience

• Previous PA experience
• Experience planning and supporting events
• Use and management of a CRM system
• Willingness to provide support across the organisation when required

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The role of Director is a unique voluntary opportunity for women from diverse backgrounds who have expertise, time and are committed to making a real difference to the lives of women and children who have experienced domestic abuse.

As a member of WLWA Board, you will play a key role in shaping the strategy of WLWA and overseeing its governance to ensure it can continue to provide high quality services. You don’t need to be an expert in domestic abuse, but you do

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Further information can be found in the documents below.

Elected by our members, our directors help to set the strategic direction of the organisation, review and monitor its work and activities, and support our staff in meeting its mission and vision. Board members play a key role in bringing their own experience from a variety of backgrounds and sectors to inform strategy and to act as ambassadors and facilitators for the organisation.

Apart from attending monthly meetings, directors provide oversight to the projects GCFN are engaged in, help organise and attend quarterly networking events that bring together our members under a changing theme, and sit on working groups that cover all aspects of our operations, from finance, HR and governance, to communications & membership and funding & opportunity development.

Board members are also invited to participate in the working groups of the Glasgow City Food Plan, of which we are a key stakeholder, as well as in any projects happening in the city that share our aims of working together to build a healthier, more sustainable food system for everyone. While the call is open to everyone with a passion for food and making a difference in your community, we particularly welcome applications from individuals with experience in HR, comms and funding/social enterprise development.