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Indigo Volunteers - Board of Trustee Member

Location: London
Job Type: Temp – Full Time
Salary: Unpaid/Voluntary

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Indigo Volunteers is a charity that recruits volunteers, support grassroots organisations, and creates networks along the European refugee route. We believe in the power of ordinary people, and enable them to work together to support refugees and displaced people. We work within a community of incredible grassroots charities, volunteers, sector experts, and humanitarian organisations that are positively dedicated to supporting communities coping with displacement, inequality, and social injustice

Job Description

Indigo is looking for board members to support us in running and growing the charity to achieve our vision.

The following roles are needed (click on the title for the job role profile):

  1. Treasurer

  2. Secretary

  3. Advisor

We are particularly interested in hearing from people with any of the following skills:

  • Legal: Has an understanding of our legal duties as a charity.

  • Fundraising: Understands individual and community fundraising, has experience working with charitable trusts or other grant-giving organisations, and is able to help us secure sustainable funding.

  • PR/Marketing: Understands the importance and dynamics of advertisement and public relations – i.e. communication, marketing, (social) media, etc.

  • Business/social enterprise/tech: Knows how to create and implement a business plan, which can help us further develop our working model and strategy.

  • Has lived experience, or worked at senior-level within the refugee context.

We particularly welcome applications from groups that are often underrepresented. Indigo Volunteers is against discrimination of any kind and committed to upholding an equal and inclusive working environment irrespective of ethnicity, gender, gender identity, marital status, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, mental health, religion, or age. We recognise that unconscious bias and internalised prejudice are present in the sector and we actively work to educate ourselves in allyship and non-discriminatory practice. We recognise that having a diversity of experiences and perspectives is crucial to growing and improving as an organisation and particularly welcome applications from a wide variety of backgrounds who are motivated by these values and who can drive and inspire change for refugees and displaced people.

Send an email to recruitment@indigovolunteers.org for any questions, or if you would like to apply send us your CV and cover letter.