Join Our Dynamic Team! Be a Non-Executive Board Member at West College Scotland!

Are you passionate about education, community development, and making a positive impact? West College Scotland (WCS) is looking for enthusiastic, dedicated individuals with enquiring minds to join our leadership team as Non-Executive Board Members.

Why West College Scotland?

At West College Scotland, we believe in using the transformative power of education, learning and skills to unlock people’s potential and enable their success – with around 24,000 students every year trusting WCS to support them on their learning journeys.

Our students are at the heart of everything we do, with West College’s team working to help transform people’s lives, to equip them for the world of work, and to provide them with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to make positive contributions to their communities.

As a Non-Executive Board Member, you will play a crucial role in helping steer our college to sustained success. With a commitment to innovation, community, and business engagement, WCS is a hub of inspiration and opportunity - teaching today, to provide the workforce of tomorrow.

Your Chance to Make a Difference!

As a Board Member, you will have the unique opportunity to contribute your expertise, ideas, and passion to influence the strategic direction of West College Scotland. Your insights will shape and guide strategies, drive initiatives, and through good governance ensure that we continue to provide the highest quality education for our students, the best possible workplace for our 1000-strong team and be a fantastic business partner.

Diverse Perspectives Welcome!

Respect is at the core of who we are. We value diversity and inclusion, and we believe that a range of perspectives, walks of life and cultures makes us stronger. Whether you come from a background in education, business, or community development, your unique experiences and skills may be what WCS is looking for.

You may never have considered a Board position before, but your knowledge and ideas may be invaluable to us and could be a great opportunity for you to enhance your network and your own skills. WCS is especially keen to hear from those groups currently under-represented on Boards of Scottish public bodies, such as those from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, people aged under-50 and women. It is not essential that you live/work in areas where our campuses are based.

An Innovative, Collaborative and Supportive Environment!

Being a part of West College's Board means becoming a valued member of a collaborative team, choosing to undertake change and development to create value for our students, team and partners. It’s a chance to engage in meaningful discussions, exchange ideas, and work with other professionals to create an environment that fosters growth and success.

Join our Board of Management and Let Learning Flourish

City of Glasgow College is seeking to fill three vacancies on our Board. We are delighted to invite applications from people with a belief in the value of college education and a commitment to widening access, lifelong learning and the student experience.

Who Are We?

We are Scotland’s largest professional and technological education and skills college – and the third largest in the UK. The College traces its roots back to 1850 and our core purpose is to “Let Learning Flourish”. Our commitment to excellence, innovation and inspiration is recognised in Scotland, across the UK and throughout the world.

Our multi-award-winning, state-of-the-art, twin-site campus in the heart of Glasgow offers outstanding resources and opportunities for students to gain essential skills and nationally and internationally recognised qualifications – from entry-level to degree-level study, as well as chartered professional qualifications. We've prepared over 100,000 graduates for the world of work.

Our Board

Our Board, as the College’s governing body, is responsible for setting our strategic direction, ensuring its effective management and delivering high-quality learning and outcomes. Board members serve on a voluntary basis, with reasonable expenses reimbursed, and spend approximately 10 working days throughout the year to fulfil the core duties and responsibilities of their roles. Meetings are hybrid, take place in the late afternoon/early evening and last approximately two hours.

Make A Difference and Let Learning Flourish

Whether you have served on a Board before or this is the first time you have considered it, this is a fantastic opportunity to contribute your skills and experience and share your ideas to shape the future of the College. Together as a Board, you will play a pivotal role in guiding our strategies and upholding good governance – ensuring we remain an inspirational place of learning, an excellent place to work, and an innovative and valued partner with industry.

We Value Diversity

The College is committed to ensuring it represents the diversity of the city and region the College serves. We, therefore, encourage applications from groups currently under-represented on the boards of Scotland’s public bodies, including women, disabled people, those of different cultural and social backgrounds and people under the age of 50.

This is an exciting new role designing and delivering digital communications to strengthen the reach and impact of the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) and offering some support to the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures (IICF) and aims to build on the synergies and complementarity between the two University centres. Both centres have complementary missions, yet with their own distinct partners, projects and work across Scotland and internationally. The post is based within CYCJ.

About Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice:

CYCJ works towards ensuring that Scotland’s approach to children and young people in conflict with the law is rights-respecting, contributing to better outcomes for our children, young people and communities. We produce robust, ground-breaking work by bringing together children and young people’s contributions, research evidence, practice wisdom and system know-how to operate as a leader for child and youth justice thinking in Scotland and beyond. An evaluation of CYCJ, published in 2020, highlights how our significant contribution stems from our unique role and positioning:

‘CYCJ is a boundary-spanning intermediary organisation. Boundary spanners are capable of contributing to system change. Their work to redress the imbalances of information, to connect and share insight across groups, to coordinate people to collaborate on key issues as well as focused interventions on seemingly intractable issues can come together to create paradigm shifts in the system’.

Our focus for 2020-2025 is on supporting Scotland to comply with its international commitments for children and young people in conflict with the law in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). You can read more about this in our strategy.

We work across three workstreams: Practice and Policy Development, Research, and Participation and Engagement.

CYCJ is primarily funded by the Scottish Government and is based in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Our Executive Governance Group has oversight of CYCJ and our strategic direction, and consists of representatives from across policy, practice, research and lived experience.

About the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures (IICF)

The Institute for Inspiring Children's Futures works with partners to reveal and resolve the structural barriers to children in adversity reaching their potential. We bridge multiple perspectives to tackle big, complex challenges. We seek new solutions to long standing problems. We have an international outlook, a policy orientation, and a focus on the role of government, drawing on multiple disciplines to enable sustained impact for children.

We partner with international organisations and young people, and across the University and around the globe. Together, we engage governments to support policy responses that benefit children who face adversity. Our work focuses on Justice, Rights and Wellbeing.

We are a small team with international reach, and a range of established networks, including UN, intergovernmental, service-delivery, governmental, academic and advocacy bodies.

We actively seek to bridge research with impact, across disciplines and perspectives, convening people with differing experiences and roles to identify new solutions intergenerationally, and to apply this learning together for transformative change, with and for children.

Together - with our staff team, our Doctoral Research Centre doctoral students, a wide range of Non-Governmental Organisations and multilateral agency partners, and at times with children and young people themselves - we work to develop the evidence-base, strengthen political will, and support effective policy and practice responses for children facing adversity worldwide.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Carly Elliott, Participation and Policy Lead (carly.elliott@strath.ac.uk).

The University of Glasgow has been changing the world for more than 573 years, and today we are one of the world's top 100 universities. We are delighted to have recently been awarded Scottish University of the Year by the Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, demonstrating that we are not only one of the best universities in the United Kingdom, but one of the best universities for the world. Our people have always been at the forefront of innovation, and our past achievements inspire our current world changers.

This is a great opportunity for a Change Coordinator to join the University’s Museum & Art Gallery on a fixed term basis.

In this role you will support The Hunterian’s Head of Strategy Development and Delivery to coordinate and deliver community-led consultations, engagement events and workshops that extend the reach and capacity of our ongoing Power in this Place programme in delivering fundamental change within the organisation and the individuals and communities with which it works.

You will work across our collections and organisation and with communities and individuals across Glasgow to support the embedding of anti-racist, participatory approaches in The Hunterian and the wider University within which we work.