Join the Board of East and Southeast Asian Scotland (ESAS)

About ESAS

East and Southeast Asian Scotland (ESAS) is a community-led organisation working for justice, rights, and empowerment of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities across Scotland. We centre the voices of ESEA people while building solidarity and belonging across diverse communities.

• Founded in 2020 and incorporated as a Community Interest Company, ESAS has grown into a trusted and recognised voice. Our achievements include:
• Leading community research (Migrant Life in Scotland survey) on ESEA migrants’ access to services during the pandemic.
• Delivering emergency food, clothing, and IT support during COVID-19.
• Supporting wellbeing and inclusion through peer support groups, befriending, English lessons, and women’s sessions.
• Partnering with COSLA and the Scottish Government to support Hong Kong BN(O) migrants and improve access to services.
• Providing hate incident reporting and casework support through the national On Your Side service.
• Advocating for labour rights across the UK through the ESEA Migrant Alliance UK project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

The opportunity

We are seeking new Board Directors who share our commitment to justice, rights, and empowerment. As a Director, you will play a vital role in shaping strategy, strengthening governance, and ensuring our work has lasting impact.

Previous Board experience is not essential—we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, skills, and lived experience. We are particularly interested in candidates with knowledge or experience in:

• Governance and organisational leadership
• Finance (including an applicant for the Treasurer role)
• Fundraising and understanding of the NGO/funding landscape
• HR and compliance
• UK policy and systems that shape migrant and community wellbeing

Commitment

This is a voluntary, non-executive role (reasonable expenses reimbursed). The time commitment is around 29 hours per year, covering meetings, preparation, and occasional reviews. Meetings are mainly online, with one in-person meeting in Scotland annually. Every five years, Directors attend a Governance Development Weekend (the next in Jan/March 2026).

Why join us?

• Make a meaningful contribution to long-term systemic change for ESEA communities.
• Help shape the governance of a growing, grassroots organisation at a pivotal stage.
• Gain experience in third-sector governance, policy advocacy, and organisational development.
• Connect with grassroots communities, statutory partners, and national networks.

Inspiring Scotland is seeking passionate and proactive Participation and Engagement Lead to join our Intandem team. This role is pivotal in shaping Intandem’s work over the next five years, driving meaningful improvements in support for young people growing up in kinship care and their kinship carers.

As a key member of the Intandem team, you will design and deliver engaging participation activities, build strong relationships with families and partner charities, and champion the insights of lived experience at local and national levels. Bringing creativity, empathy and strong project leadership, you will help build a more equitable support system for kinship families while managing and developing our participation programme over the coming years.

About Intandem

Intandem is a mentoring programme for children and young people experiencing the care system, or at risk of care. The majority of children and young people supported are living at home, or with family and friends in kinship care. Established in 2016, Intandem is managed by Inspiring Scotland and delivered by 12 partner charities across 20 local authorities in Scotland.

Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, we are embarking on a five-year growth plan to ensure every young person growing up in kinship care can access a mentor, no matter where they live in Scotland.

Learn more about Intandem.

“Are you looking for a new challenge which will directly improve a community? Do you want a job with responsibility to plan and execute projects with lasting impact? Are you self-motivated? Adept at sourcing funding opportunities? Able to motivate others and focused on driving delivery? We have the opportunity you’ve been looking for!

The Kilmadock Development Trust (KDT) has secured funding for a Project Officer 2 years on a part-time basis for two days a week/ 14 hours a week.

We are looking for someone with relevant qualifications and experience to work with the KDT, involving engagement with the local Community Council, the Community, external stakeholders and funders on community projects. Initially this will involve completing some projects that have been started and are at various stages. Also identifying funding streams to allow major community projects to progress. The suitable candidate should be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication, excellent interpersonal, presentation and IT skills. They will be proactive, able to work on their own initiative, provide reports and plans working strategically. Salary £14,560 per annum, position will be based from the Centre, but homeworking will be considered as appropriate. The position requires someone educated to degree level and/or previous experience in these areas.

The Conservation Volunteers connects people together to protect and restore nature.

About the role:

We’re looking for an experienced People Advisor to support the Green Skills John Muir Way traineeship programme. The programme is a 3-year initiative, with up to 24 paid trainees per year engaging in practical biodiversity tasks and projects along the route. The programme aims to bridge the skills gap and workforce challenges, increase connectivity and break down the disconnect with nature, working in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council, Falkirk Council, Scottish Canals and East Dunbartonshire Council, and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The Green Skills initiative is designed for 16 – 24-year-olds facing barriers to employment. The 10-month traineeships involve a combination of practical work experience, and accredited training. This role is a hand on, people centred opportunity where your expertise will directly support young people to succeed. As a People Advisor, you’ll deliver a high quality, responsive HR advisory service to the Green Skills team. You’ll manage a varied caseload of employee relations matters including absence, wellbeing, performance, disciplinaries, and grievances, ensuring fair, lawful, and timely outcomes. A strong focus of the role is supporting leaders to confidently apply people processes, particularly around absence management and early intervention.

You’ll also play a central role in the end-to-end recruitment and onboarding of the trainees, ensuring processes are inclusive, well-coordinated, and aligned with safer recruitment principles. From shortlisting and interviews to pre-employment checks, contracts, and inductions, you’ll help create a smooth and positive journey for new starter trainees.

In addition, you will oversee compliance processes, including criminal record checks for trainees. You’ll manage the full process, from collating ID and checking applications to updating electronic records, monitoring due dates, and escalating issues where necessary. You will also maintain accurate HR records, track trainee absence and leave in the HR system, and ensure information flows efficiently for payroll processing.

About You

You’re an experienced HR professional with a strong grounding in employee relations and recruitment. You’re confident applying employment law in practical situations and enjoy coaching leaders to build their people management capability. Organised, adaptable, and detail oriented, you can manage competing priorities while maintaining high standards.

You’ll bring:

• Proven HR advisory experience across employee relations and recruitment
• CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent HR qualification)
• Experience interpreting employment law and HR best practice
• Strong organisational and data management skills
• The ability to analyse trends and present meaningful people insights
• A proactive, collaborative approach and a commitment to confidentiality

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during your application. If you would like to discuss your requirements further please contact the People Team via recruitment@tcv.org.uk or by telephone on 01302 388883 . We also offer reasonable adjustments on the job.

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We are The Conservation Volunteers.

Our vision is Better Nature For All.

Our mission is to connect people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both.

Since 1959, The Conservation Volunteers has been a charity creating opportunities for people to create, improve and care for nature in the green spaces around them across the UK.

Our variety of projects cover a bit of everything involving nature. Volunteers muddy their boots in parks, community gardens, woodland, sites of special scientific interest, nature reserves, schools and hospital grounds, helping create a glorious network of protected green space across the UK.

This work connects people with nature, and that connection delivers powerful results. Join in, feel good.