Toptastic Trustee ( Marketing and communications)

Toptastic Trustee ( Marketing and communications)

Trustee/Governor
J102402
At a glance

Skills

  • Campaigning
  • Copywriting / Journalism
  • Marketing strategy
  • Public relations
  • Social media marketing

Where

Camberwell, SE5 7SY
Remote opportunity, or mainly at home.
Travel limit? We don't mind where but need you to commit to just two face to face meetings in London per year.

Time

Mostly outside office hours Estimate of time needed:
0-5 hours / month
We meet 5 times a year for about 2 hours. We need you to commit to 3 zoom meetings & 2 face to face meetings in London each year

Deadline

03 Apr 2025

Enthusiastic, self-motivated individuals, committed to the promotion of healthy relationships, passionate about Christ & experienced in Marketing and communications please

What will you be doing?

We want you to be:

  • Supporting the development of sound strategic partnerships with a particular focus on reaching young people living in communities & neighbourhoods experiencing disadvantage in relationships &/or sexual health.
  • Contributing to influencing the charity’s strategic direction in line with its charitable objectives with a particular focus on our work within the UK.
  • Overseeing the charity’s international work which supports the continuation & development of projects & programmes in line with our vision  mission.
  • Regular praying & raising awareness of acet UK through your own church, community & social network
  • Meeting 5 times per year, twice in person in Central London

acet UK is a Christian charity who deliver relationship  sex education (RSE), train educators to deliver RSE  support our international partners working in similar fields

Our comprehensive relationships  sex education (RSE) program, called Esteem, supports young people in making wise healthy choices. Building healthy self-esteem is key, as the program name suggests & is at the heart of our work. 

Our teaching on sexual health is delivered in the context of relationships  we promote respect, commitment  faithfulness within relationships. We communicate that sex is so good, that it deserves to be highly valued & is worth waiting for.

Our approach is to teach the facts in an engaging way, with a strong emphasis on developing confident decision-making  building positive relationships. The sessions are interactive  are designed to suit a variety of learning styles.

We have been delivering education  training on relationships  sexual health for over 25 years. We provide teachers, youth workers other professionals a fully accredited contemporary relationship  sex education training course. Accreditation is by the AIM - all our teaching staff are RSE specialists. We also run short courses for parents.

We support similar work with our acet family around the world who work in similar fields through churches other organisations.

What are we looking for?

We are looking to strengthen our current board & are seeking to appoint enthusiastic, self-motivated individuals who are passionate about Christ  & committed to the promotion of healthy relationships & good sexual health. You should have strong experience in finance & or fundraising please.

 

Our immediate need is for 

  • One trustee with marketing / communications/ social media   experience 
  • A trustee with education/teaching/ youth work experience

We are also keen to diversify our Board in terms of recruiting more women, disabled people, young people  from BAME backgrounds. 

 

We are seeking someone who is passionate, humble and lot of fun with:

  • Experience of governance, responsibility of Trustees on charitable organisation boards, or the ability willingness to learn develop this understanding over time
  • An ability to work with the rest of the Board to provide broad strategic leadership & areas of activity for our organisation to work in, including consideration of grant making, reserves  risk management, or to develop these abilities in this role over time.
  • A commitment to the aims of acet UK to ensuring it is effective & successful.

 

It would also be very helpful, though not essential if new Trustees had some knowledge of HIV/ STIs/ working in developing countries, education &/or social & cultural research. 

What difference will you make?

A massive one- your input will quite literally change lives. 

And without it- it won't happen. It's that simple. 

With family relationship break downs on the rise & poor mental health, emotional disorder & identity issues on the increase particularly in young people: we believe that improving healthy relationships & encouraging positive self-esteem is key to transforming the culture we live in.

So, yes, if you want to make a difference, then this is the role for you, without a doubt.

If this all sounds like you then please apply NOW! so that you don't miss out on working with us & we don't lose out on working with you! Please send us your CV & a covering email / note to tell us why we'd be bonkers not to choose you as our next board member we'll come back to you as soon as we can.

Before you apply

We meet 5 times per year, 2x in person 3x online . It is expected that you would be able to travel to London to attend the face to face meetings, so please do not apply if this would be a problem. It is also expected that you would be happy to champion us as an organisation in your own time, which might take the form of talks or posts on social media to raise awareness of the valuable work we do. For an informal chat about the role, or to forward your CV, journey to faith & supporting document, please contact us via the Reach Volunteering

Causes
  • Children / families
  • Counselling / advice
  • Education
  • Faith and ethics
  • Health and well being / research and care
  • International development
  • Local / community
  • Training / employment support
  • Young people
  • Organisation type: 
    Charity

    We want to see a world where people have healthy self-esteem and respect for each other, leading to positive relationships and good sexual health.

    We want to see people flourish and reach ...