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management committee volunteers

About Gordon Park ELC

Gordon Park ELC (“GPELC”) is a small charity based in Ellon, Aberdeenshire. We strive to provide high quality play-based learning and childcare that is fun, nurturing, safe, inclusive and has the child at the centre in everything we do to enable children to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective communicators. We are committed to our aims and values and delivering first class childcare.

About the role

We are now actively recruiting volunteers to share their skills and join our management committee. Our Management Committee is composed of a group of professionals from a diverse background, with a wide range of skills who give up their free time to support Gordon Park ELC to achieve its charitable aims.

Our Management Committee are responsible for:

  • line management of our Operations Manager and Finance Officer

  • working with the Operations Manager to set the strategic direction of the organisation

  • the overall governance of the charity and ensuring that we are legally compliant

  • management of the charity’s finances and ensuring its financial health.

Our Management Committee normally meet four times a year and each meeting lasts for a maximum of two hours. A Board Pack is released ahead of each of these meetings so there is normally some reading to do in preparation for the meeting. Our Management Committee are not remunerated in any way.

We are interested in hearing from people from all walks of life but following a recent skills audit, we are interested in hearing from people with experience in the following areas:

  • Finance

  • Fundraising

  • Lived experience as a looked after child

  • Marketing & Communications

  • Social Care/Social Work.

Requirements

Given the nature of our organisation and the vulnerable people that we support, all staff and volunteers (including our Management Committee) are subject to background/reference checks and must undertake an enhanced Protecting Vulnerable Groups (“PVG”) check with Disclosure Scotland. We reserve the right to determine if charges/cautions/convictions affect your suitability for joining our Management Committee.

To be eligible to join our Management Committee you must:

  • be at least 18 years old

  • not previously have been removed as a trustee, or as a charity officer, agent or employee, by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (“OSCR”) or the High Court due to misconduct or mismanagement

  • be able to hold the position of Charity Trustee and not previously have been disqualified

  • be of good financial standing and have no issues that would prevent you from becoming a Charity Trustee, such as undischarged bankruptcy

  • provide us with two references and satisfactorily complete an enhanced PVG check

  • be of good character and work with and share our aims and values.

We ask that you give consideration to the requirements of being a trustee of a charity - you can find more information on the website of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (“OSCR”).

We are a diverse organisation and our staff team and Management Committee should represent the community that we serve, so we welcome applications from groups that are under-represented, including those with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ and BAME applicants and those with lived experience as a looked after child.

recruitment process

If you wish to make an application to join our Management Committee, you should make an informal enquiry using the contact form below. We will then contact you to ask that you provide us with a copy of your CV and a cover letter (no more than 1 x A4 page) outlining why you wish to join our Management Committee and what you believe you will bring in terms of your skills, qualities and experience.

If on initial review we wish you progress your application, a member of our Management Committee will contact you to arrange for you to come along and have a coffee and an informal meeting with our Chairperson. We receive a large volume of applications at times and make appointments to our Management Committee based on skills and experience. You should therefore note that not all applications to join our Management Committee are successful. If your application is not successful, you are welcome to explore alternative volunteering opportunities with us.

If following the informal meeting we wish to progress your application, you will be invited to attend a Management Committee Meeting as an observer. Thereafter, if you still wish to join our Management Committee, you will be appointed in line with our Constitution, either by Management Committee resolution or at our Annual General Meeting, subject to you meeting the requirements outlined above.

You must at this stage apply to become a member of Gordon Park ELC. Management Committee Members are appointed for an initial year term, and must be re-appointed every year at our AGM.

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 2nd June 2023.