Trustee with immigration and asylum law background

Deadline: 20 Nov 2024
Hybrid

Organisation Overview

We have a strategic legal focus, working to ensure refugees seeking asylum have material access to safe and legal routes to protection and a dignified life. We champion refugees' rights to legal safe passage through direct casework, strategic legal work, advocacy, capacity building and community organising to effect systemic change in European refugee policy; with offices in UK, France and Greece.

Role Details

Time commitment: Up to 8-10 evenings/afternoons a year in addition to a full 1-2 days (including preparation for meetings).

Attendance: Hybrid.

Role Description

Safe Passage International is looking for people to join our Board of Trustees who are passionate about our mission to champion safe passage for people seeking asylum.

The overriding duty of all charity trustees is to advance the purposes of their charity as well as several basic legal duties. You can find out more about Trustees’ legal responsibilities here.

As a new Trustee, you will be a full and equal Board member. The Board of Trustees works closely with the Chief Executive and Senior Leadership Team of Safe Passage International to achieve its mission, and is responsible for providing support, guidance, and decisions in the following areas:

  • Leadership: appointing the Chief Executive, supporting them in their role and holding them accountable.
  • Accountability: ensuring that Safe Passage International is transparent and accountable to the public, our beneficiaries, and our donors about the way we carry out our mission and the way we spend the funds our supporters entrust to us.
  • Strategic thinking: helping the charity to set goals and objectives, and work towards achieving them.
  • Financial Oversight: including a formal review of the charity’s annual budget and supporting the Senior Leadership Team in financial management and organisation.
  • Fundraising: including helping the charity to gain access to potential donors and supporters and providing general advice on areas of fundraising.
  • Guidance and Support: including advising, where appropriate, the Chief Executive and Senior Leadership Team in areas such as employee management, strategic choices, and legal requirements.

Required Skills and Experience

We would particularly welcome applications from people who have lived (personal) experience of having to leave their home and cross borders in search of asylum and from people from Black, Asian, and other Minoritised Ethnic communities.

We are particularly seeking expertise in the following areas:

  • UK and, international / EU law and public policies on the subject of asylum-seeking and immigration.
Causes: Legal Advice and Justice
Roles: Trusteeships and Governance
Safe Passage International
International charity based in London E2 2HS
London

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