SupportED is Scotland’s leading and fastest growing community eating disorder charity, providing peer support through Support Groups and one-to-one befriending for those with eating disorders and for parents, carers and families. Our services are volunteer-led, most of whom have lived experience of recovering from eating disorders.

We are seeing a fast rising need for the services we provide and with so much of a stretch on public services, the charity provides a vital source of help. Our support groups operate both face to face and online, and continue to provide the help that is so much needed.

Growing and developing our services is now a key focus so that we can support more people across Scotland in their recovery journey. Our plan to expand our services is led by our Operations Director and team, along with the support of our major funders including; The Robertson Trust, National Lottery and Comic Relief.

To help us deliver our vision and meet the needs of our communities in Scotland, we are looking to bring a new trustee onto the Board with specific skills as the charity Treasurer.

As a Board we work together as a close team, so we’re looking for a trustee who enjoys working collaboratively towards a common goal and is happy to roll their sleeves up to get things done, alongside making a strategic contribution.

We currently meet as a Board online once every two months, with additional monthly meetings for the Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. We also meet face to face on an annual basis, typically in Glasgow. Given the stage we’re at with our growth plans, you’ll likely need to commit around 8-15 hours per month, covering your role both as Treasurer and as a Trustee.

To find out more about the legal duties of a trustee, click here OSCR | Guidance and good practice for Charity Trustees.

As part of your overall trustee duties of leading and governing the charity’s activities, you will bring to the table financial or business leadership experience. In addition, you may also have experience in running or being involved with a charity.

Our various financial management systems are already established and running smoothly. The Charity Treasurer's role includes duties such as:

A. Financial

• Ensuring the Board of Trustees has all the financial information it needs to inform its decision-making, including the production of management accounts for each Board meeting.
• Managing our banking relationship
• Managing most payments from the account (there are 4 signatories to the account and we operate a dual authorisation)
• Book-keeping (we will soon outsource this)
• Ensuring a consistent match between our restricted income and the corresponding expenditure of this income
• Organising production of the annual accounts and, alongside our Operations Director, our annual budget (for example providing comment on affordability)

B. Trustee Duties

• Supporting the development of the charity
• Positive input at board meetings
• Financial advice on development proposals

What's in it for you?

You will be making a significant contribution to a fast growing charity, and will have an opportunity to make a real and direct impact on a major health challenge in Scotland. SupportED is a friendly, supportive and professional team. We take our governance seriously, undertaking an annual online survey to ensure understanding and compliance. Volunteering provides opportunities to give something back to an organisation or community, whether or not it has made a difference to your life. It enables people to play an active role in their society and contribute to positive social change, as well as improving employability and learning new skills.

We are Scotland’s leading community eating disorder charity, providing peer support through Support Groups and one-to-one Befriending for those with eating disorders and for parents, carers and families. Our services are volunteer-led, most of whom have lived experience of recovering from eating disorders.

We are seeing a rising need for the services we provide due to Covid and with so much of a stretch on public services just now, the charity provides a vital source of help. We have been fortunate that we have been able to move our support groups online and continue to provide the help that is so much needed.

Growing and developing our services is now a key focus so that we can support more people across Scotland in their recovery journey. Our plan to expand our services is led by our Development Manager with the support of our major funders, The Robertson Trust, National Lottery and Comic Relief and many other generous charitable trusts.

To help us deliver our vision and meet the needs of our communities in Scotland we are looking to bring new trustees onto the Board with specific skills sets in income generation and digital.

As a Board we work together as a close team, so we’re looking for trustees who enjoy working collaboratively towards a common goal and are happy to roll their sleeves up to get things done, alongside making a strategic contribution. We’re also planning to recruit some skills-based volunteers to help us deliver on key projects, and so having an interest in supporting their contribution to the Charity, and co-creating together, is important too.

We currently meet as a Board once a month, typically on a Wednesday between 3-5pm. Given the stage we’re at with our growth plans, you’ll likely need to commit around 2-3 additional hours during the working week.

To find out more about the legal duties of a trustee, click here OSCR | Guidance and good practice for Charity Trustees.

Digital Trustee

As part of your overall trustee duties of leading and governing the charity’s activities you will bring your digital mindset and expertise to the work of the Board, to enable us to engage with digital in an informed way.

You’ll help us identify how we can leverage digital solutions and innovate to increase the accessibility and inclusiveness of our service in a post-Covid world. You’ll create digital goals and metrics that support our wider strategic objectives, highlighting the opportunities and the risks of digital.

You’ll bring a digital perspective to our product and service design principles and bring insights from elsewhere in the Charity sector, connecting with organisations such as SCVO, Catalyst and Charity Digital.

You will also help us to work smarter behind the scenes to ‘digify’ our core processes and find better ways to make our operations run more efficiently.

If you also have experience of digital marketing, that would be helpful but not essential.

Our Organisation and Goals:

We are Scotland’s leading community eating disorder charity, providing peer support through Support Groups and one-to-one Befriending for those with eating disorders, and for parents, carers and families. Our services are volunteer-led, most of whom have lived experience of recovering from eating disorders.

We are seeing a rising need for the services we provide and with so much of a stretch on public services just now, the charity provides a vital source of help. We have been fortunate that we have been able to move our support groups online and continue to provide the help that is so much needed.

The service we provide:

Growing and developing our services is now a key focus so that we can support more people across Scotland in their recovery journey. Our plan to expand our services is led by our Development Manager with the support of our major funders, The Robertson Trust, National Lottery and Comic Relief and many other generous charitable trusts.

How you can help:

To help us deliver our vision and meet the needs of our communities in Scotland we are looking to bring new trustees onto the Board to help us grow our brand identity and awareness of the services we provide.

As a Board we work together as a close team, so we’re looking for trustees who enjoy working collaboratively towards a common goal and are happy to roll their sleeves up to get things done, alongside making a strategic contribution. Experience of helping to grow a small charity would be a great asset.

We’re looking for people who can think strategically and creatively to help us develop a sustainable funding plan with a differentiated proposition that’s clear on who we are trying to reach and the best way to do so. At the same time, you’ll also have the know-how to put this into practice and get things off the ground, and also measure our success.

We currently meet as a Board once every two months, typically on a Wednesday between 3-5pm. Given the stage we’re at with our growth plans, you’ll likely need to commit around 2-4 hours during the week.

To find out more about the legal duties of a trustee, click here OSCR | Guidance and good practice for Charity Trustees.

Trustee Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance and assistance on all aspects of our charity, in particular developing the brand identity and reputation to help build and implement our vision.
• Highlight the opportunities and the risks of of our business plan, in terms of our strategy in general, and development of the charity.
• Support the evaluation of proposals put forward to the board by the Development Manager
• Provide strategic oversight in input into the business plan and its implementation.
• Contribute to the work of selected Working Groups within the charity, be that Digital, Marketing, Innovation or other.
• Draw on your networks to support our work.

Your Qualities

• Successful track record in management at a senior management / leadership level.
• Demonstrable and practical experience of delivering transformational change to business, to deliver business benefit, cost savings and/or service improvements for customers.
• Experience of current agile project management practices
• Ability to work as part of a team and willingness to take collective responsibility for the governance of our charity.
• Ability to work at a strategic and visionary level whilst understanding the detail and complexities of delivery, and the influencing skills needed to bring staff and stakeholders along with plans.
• Strong communicator.
• Ability to analyse risks and opportunities, and take a balanced approach to both.
• Extensive networks, and a willingness to draw on contacts as appropriate

Time commitment and location

The Board meets at least six times a year. You will be a member of a sub-committee which will meet monthly.

Board meetings are held online, although the charity gets together face to face in Central Scotland at least once per year.

Our Organisation and Goals:

We are Scotland’s leading community eating disorder charity, providing peer support through Support Groups and one-to-one Befriending for those with eating disorders, and for parents, carers and families. Our services are volunteer-led, most of whom have lived experience of recovering from eating disorders.

We are seeing a rising need for the services we provide and with so much of a stretch on public services just now, the charity provides a vital source of help. We have been fortunate that we have been able to move our support groups online and continue to provide the help that is so much needed.

The service we provide:

Growing and developing our services is now a key focus so that we can support more people across Scotland in their recovery journey. Our plan to expand our services is led by our say Operations Director with the support of our major funders, The Robertson Trust, National Lottery and Comic Relief and many other generous charitable trusts.

How you can help:

To help us deliver our vision and meet the needs of our communities in Scotland we are looking to bring new trustees onto the Board to help us grow our brand identity and awareness of the services we provide.

As a Board we work together as a close team, so we’re looking for trustees who enjoy working collaboratively towards a common goal and are happy to roll their sleeves up to get things done, alongside making a strategic contribution. Experience of helping to grow a small charity would be a great asset.

We’re looking for people who can think strategically and creatively to help us develop a sustainable funding plan with a differentiated proposition that’s clear on who we are trying to reach and the best way to do so. At the same time, you’ll also have the know-how to put this into practice and get things off the ground, and also measure our success.

We currently meet as a Board once every two months, typically on a Wednesday between 3-5pm. Given the stage we’re at with our growth plans, you’ll likely need to commit around 2-4 hours during the week.

To find out more about the legal duties of a trustee, click here OSCR | Guidance and good practice for Charity Trustees.

Trustee Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, guidance and assistance on all aspects of our charity, in particular developing the brand identity and reputation to help build and implement our vision.
• Highlight the opportunities and the risks of of our business plan, in terms of our strategy in general, and development of the charity.
• Support the evaluation of proposals put forward to the board by the Development Manager
• Provide strategic oversight in input into the business plan and its implementation.
• Contribute to the work of selected Working Groups within the charity, be that Digital, Marketing, Innovation or other.
• Draw on your networks to support our work.

Your Qualities

• Successful track record in management at a senior management / leadership level.
• Demonstrable and practical experience of delivering transformational change to business, to deliver business benefit, cost savings and/or service improvements for customers.
• Experience of current agile project management practices
• Ability to work as part of a team and willingness to take collective responsibility for the governance of our charity.
• Ability to work at a strategic and visionary level whilst understanding the detail and complexities of delivery, and the influencing skills needed to bring staff and stakeholders along with plans.
• Strong communicator.
• Ability to analyse risks and opportunities, and take a balanced approach to both.
• Extensive networks, and a willingness to draw on contacts as appropriate

Time commitment and location

The Board meets at least six times a year. You will be a member of a sub-committee which will meet monthly.

Board meetings are held online, although the charity gets together face to face in Central Scotland at least once per year.

SupportED is looking for a Volunteer Coordinator (Community Engagement & Events) to assist the Operations Director and Volunteer Services Manager to develop and expand the volunteer led services. The charity is the leading community eating disorder charity in Scotland and supports people with eating disorders, their carers and families in a growing number of geographical areas across Scotland, with face-to-face groups and by Zoom.

The charity recruits, trains and supports volunteers who facilitate support groups for people with eating disorders and carers and has also has a growing 1 to 1 telephone befriending service.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and well organised self-starter with skills and experience of community engagement, marketing and events and a passion for helping others. Full training will be given, and ongoing development and support provided.

The ability to attract, train, supervise and lead volunteers is essential and a good understanding of eating disorders and/or related mental health conditions is desirable.

For this post it is essential to have excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills. PVG Scheme Membership is a requirement

*Based at: Flexible homeworking, potentially office based in future. Some travel around Scotland is required. Access to a car and a driving licence is required, with mileage reimbursement in accordance with the charity’s travel policy.

Further details of the post are set out in the Job Description.