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Non Executive Board Members

  • Management Board
  • Unpaid
  • On site: Edinburgh
  • Closing 10th December 2024


  • Advertised from 11th November 2024

Role

Summary

Project Esperanza (SCIO) launched officially in 2021. We are a trusted organisation whose social purpose is to offer practical, emotional and integration support predominantly to families of African heritage but also support a huge base of people from multi ethnic backgrounds. We are the pioneers of race and faith sensitive, culturally authentic and appropriate, specialised support and services in North Edinburgh. We are a registered charity (SC051454) looking for several new members to join the organisation’s Board of Trustees. We are seeking to appoint trustees that will fill vacancies at the end of the financial year in March 2025.

We are looking for a new Non Executive Board to shape our strategy around the future of Black families in Scotland, steer our direction, support the development of our organisation in its next phase of growth and hold us accountable to our mission. We are looking for applicants with specific skills, experience, and interest in any of the following areas:

  • Digital marketing and public relations
  • Secretary to the Board
  • Journalism/Publishing/Media (wider UK)
  • Accountancy
  • Fundraising
  • Employment Law
  • Sustainability/climate emergency
  • Women’s health

The role of on Executive Board members

This role involves:

  • Holding the CEO/Director and staff accountable to delivering our mission
  • Reviewing strategy, outcomes and progress against the mission and objectives
  • Identifying and agreeing new areas for development
  • Overseeing and supporting on strategies for funding and revenue generation
  • Making decisions to safeguard the reputation and maximising the success of the organisation, including:
    • Ensuring governance requirements are met
    • Complying with safeguarding and data protection policies

Non Executive Board members will be required to:

  • Board meetings take place four times per year in March, June, October, and December.
  • Trustees are appointed for a term of 2 years, with the option to stand for re-election for an additional 2-year period after a performance review
  • Attend our Annual General Meeting

Remuneration

There is no remuneration for this role but reasonable expenses incurred in attending meetings (including costs of childcare) and other Project Esperanza related activities will be paid.

Application notes

Get in touch

If you want to work with us and help build a solution to pressing social issues in the Black Community and you are passionate about migrant and women’s rights, we’d love to hear from you.

As an organisation that is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion, we aim for our board to be representative of the communities that we support, so we welcome applications from ethnically diverse backgrounds and with lived or professional experience of working with Black people and Black communities in the UK. We also welcome applications from younger people from the age of 16 who are keen to build their board and strategic leadership experience.

Please send your CV and a tailored cover letter demonstrating your knowledge of Project Esperanza and the work that we do, as well as

explaining your suitability to Victoria Nyanga-Ndiaye, Founding CEO, (vicky@projectesperanza.org.uk) no later than 9am on Monday 10 December 2024. Send your email with the subject title ‘Non Executive Board’ .

Timeline

Meetings with prospective trustees will be held in Edinburgh on Thursday 12 December 2024 (online interviews also possible on request).