Overview
Volunteer Trustee | Opoka CIO
OPOKA CIO Mangotsfield, England, United Kingdom
Role: You will contribute actively to Opoka CIO board by providing strategic direction, setting policy, defining goals, and evaluating performance against agreed targets to meet the needs of our service users.
Responsibilities
* You will contribute to the strategic direction and growth of Opoka CIO, which sits in a group of subsidiaries providing a range of supporting services including addiction recovery, counselling, and specialised supported housing, helping to make a difference to our service users, tenants and clients lives, enabling them to live as independently as they are able.
* You will help ensure that Opoka complies with its governance documents, charity law, company law and any other relevant legislation or regulations, and keep up to date with internal and external factors that could impact Opoka’s activities.
* You will assist with the effective and efficient administration and financial stability of Opoka, supporting women and children escaping domestic violence across the Bristol and Southwest region from two safehouses and through advisory support to service users.
What difference you will make
You will contribute to the strategic direction and growth of Opoka CIO and support service users to live as independently as possible.
What we are looking for
* A passion to help others feel safe in their own home, supported appropriately, and able to operate within a Group structure while liaising with other boards.
* Willingness to develop areas of expertise within the sector and contribute your own skills toward future growth.
* Experience in the Domestic Violence and Abuse field is especially welcome. If you have experience working with vulnerable women groups or have governance, legal, or financial experience with a passion for helping those we support, we would like to hear from you.
What you will be doing
* Help ensure Opoka complies with governance documents, charity law, company law, and any other relevant legislation or regulations.
* Support effective administration and financial stability of Opoka.
* Work with the Bristol and Southwest region to support women and children fleeing domestic violence, including engagement with two safehouses and providing guidance, advice and support to service users to enable safe housing and independent living.
Seniority level
* Not Applicable
Employment type
* Unpaid, with paid expenses and a board development programme for all trustees
Job function
* Marketing, Finance, and Strategy/Planning
Industries
* Non-profit Organizations
(Female only applicants) OPOKA service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 and Part 1. Section 7(2) e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 applies. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.
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