Call for Trustees and Vice-President

CILIPS invites nominations from members for the following positions:

Trustees 

CILIPS seeks nominations for 3 places on the Trustee Board to serve from 1st January 2023 – 31st December 2025. The Trustee Board meets 4-6 times a year and determines CILIPS strategy and policy as well as benchmarking progress against the annually agreed business plan.

Prospective candidates must be members of CILIPS and willing to commit to trustee duties as prescribed by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). All trustees are offered training for their role.

We welcome applications from people at all stages of their career who believe they can meet the role description below. We also strongly welcome applications from anyone who considers themselves to have a protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010. We are fully committed to increasing diversity within our Governance structures and the CILIPS Trustee Board recently approved our strengthened Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Commitment.

If appointed, we will be happy to discuss all your requirements with you to ensure that we meet all your accessibility requirements.

Nominations for Trustee positions are open from 1st September to 7th October at 4pm.

Access the nominations form here.

Trustee role description.

We have 2 mythbusting Q&A sessions on Zoom where we will give a short presentation on the role of Trustee, and you can ask any questions. These are taking place on:

Friday 9th September 11am-12pm

Wednesday 21st September 6-7pm

If you would like any of the above information, the Trustee role description or the application form in an alternative format, please contact us by email at admin@cilips.org.uk, by telephone using these numbers, or via Contact Scotland BSL. This service supports British Sign Language (BSL) users to contact CILIP Scotland via an online BSL/English interpreter.

Vice-President (and 2024 President)

CILIPS seeks nominations for the position of Vice-President to serve from 1st January 2023.  Candidates serve for two years firstly as Vice President and then President in Year Two with an optional third year as immediate Past-President. The Vice-President is an ex-officio member of the Board but does not serve as a Trustee.

We welcome applications from people at all stages of their career who believe they can meet the role description below. We also strongly welcome applications from anyone who considers themselves to have a protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010. We are fully committed to increasing diversity within our Governance structures and the CILIPS Trustee Board recently approved our strengthened Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Commitment.

Nominations for this position are open from 1st September to 7th October at 4pm.

Access the nominations form here.

Vice-President and President role description.

For further information or an informal discussion (with no commitment) about the role of Vice-President and President, please email admin@cilips.org.uk.

If you would like any of the above information, the Vice-President and President role description or the application form in an alternative format, please contact us by email at admin@cilips.org.uk, by telephone using these numbers, or via Contact Scotland BSL. This service supports British Sign Language (BSL) users to contact CILIP Scotland via an online BSL/English interpreter.