Join Our Board! Applications open until 5pm, Friday 14th June

Join Our Board! Applications open until 5pm, Friday 14th June

The Consortium is a small organisation, but our impact and reach is significant and growing! We want to be an effective, highly valued, and sustainable network for human rights in Scotland. Our Board plays a crucial role in making this happen, and we are currently looking for up to 5 new trustees who will help us shape the organisation to be human rights-based, with excellent governance and strategic priorities.

At this stage of the Consortium’s development, we are particularly looking for people with expertise around:

• Charity finance
• Existing experience of serving on a board
• Fundraising

In particular, we are looking for a Board Member to serve as HRCS Treasurer.

More than anything, we are looking for thoughtful, positive, and enthusiastic people who are committed to human rights, and to the Consortium thriving and fulfilling its purpose to the full.

n Autumn 2025, HRCS plans to hold its first Board elections as a 2 Tier SCIO – therefore, we are looking for trustees to serve for approximately 1 year, until those elections are held. After that, board members will have the option to stand for election or be co-opted on with the board’s agreement.

We will provide any particular types of support that Board members might need, such as BSL, transcription, pre-meeting conversations about the papers etc. If it would be helpful to chat about support available before you apply, please get in touch. Otherwise, we’ll ask you to let us know any support needs if your application is successful.

Please complete our application form and equality monitoring form if you would like to join our Board. Applications are open until 5pm on Friday 14th June.

After this closing date, the current Board will shortlist the applications. Interviews will be held on Zoom and arranged at a suitable time for both the candidate and the current Chair of our board.

If you would like to chat about the role and find out more, you can contact Ruari Macneil at ruari@hrcscotland.org.uk.

Click here to read our Board Recruitment Pack

Click here to fill in the application form

Click here to fill in our Equalities Monitoring form