BrightPaths Support CIC
Board Secretary & Governance Lead - Volunteer
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Help BrightPaths bring structure and consistency to our governance.
You'll work alongside our CEO and Board to keep records, actions, deadlines and key paperwork organised. Looking for someone practical, organised and who cares about improving outcomes for children and young people.
What difference will you make?
Good governance might happen behind the scenes, but it has a real impact on what BrightPaths can achieve. As a growing CIC, we need simple, reliable systems that help our CEO and Board keep on top of decisions, actions, policies and responsibilities.
By bringing greater structure and consistency to our governance, you’ll help make sure important actions don’t get missed, trustees have the information they need and we can plan ahead rather than responding when deadlines arise. Your support will also free up valuable time for our small team.
When records are organised, responsibilities are clear and there is a straightforward way of seeing what needs to happen and when, our CEO and trustees can spend more of their time developing our services, building partnerships and securing opportunities for BrightPaths to reach more children and young people.
You’ll be helping us build stronger foundations, so that as BrightPaths develops, our governance develops with us. Ultimately, having the right structures in place behind the scenes means we can focus more of our energy where it matters most supporting children and young people who are struggling to feel safe, understood and able to take part, and the families around them.
What are we looking for?
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Essential Experience
- Good organisational and administrative skills, with an eye for detail.
- Comfortable keeping track of deadlines, actions and paperwork.
- Able to work independently and create simple systems that make things easier to manage.
- Confident, communicating with a small Board and senior volunteers.
- Able to handle confidential information appropriately.
- A practical approach - happy to notice what needs doing, suggest a better way of organising it and help put that system in place.
Bonus Skills (nice To Have)
- Experience of Board administration, governance, company, secretarial work or working with trustees.
- Familiarity with CIC governance annual filings, policies, compliance, or organisational recordkeeping.
- Experience taking or reviewing meeting minutes and maintaining action/decision logs.
- Familiarity with tools such as Google Drive, OneDrive, Microsoft 365.
- Previous experience volunteering with a community organisation or social enterprise.
Lived Experience/connection To Our Mission (valued)
We are especially value applicants who have lived experience themselves or within their family of neurodiversity, mental well-being, challenges, or difficulties accessing the right support for children and young people. You don't need to have worked in the neurodiversity sector - what matters most is that you genuinely care about improving outcomes for children and young people and understand why accessible, early support can make such a difference.
What's in it for you?
- A meaningful opportunity to use your organisational and governance skills to support a growing community organisation.
- The chance to help put simple systems in place that will make a real difference to how BrightPaths operates.
- Experience of governance within a Community Interest Company.
- The opportunity to work directly with the CEO and board and contribute to the organisation's development.
- A supportive, values-led environment with practical ideas and different perspectives are welcomed.
- The satisfaction of helping make sure the important behind-the-scenes things are properly organised, so the organisation can focus on supporting children, young people, and families.
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What will you be doing?
- Work alongside the CEO and board to support good governance and Board administration.
- Help organise and maintain Board records, minutes, decision logs, and key governance documents.
- Keep track of Board actions, meeting dates and agreed to follow ups.
- Help maintain a clear governance calendar, including policy review dates, trustee paperwork, annual CIC filings insurance renewals, safeguarding reporting cycles and other key organisational deadlines.
- Help make sure upcoming governance tasks are visible and don't get missed.
- Help implement and maintain simple systems so governance decisions, actions, and key information remain clear, organised and easy to find.
- Help bring consistency and order to governance paperwork and filing.
- Work collaboratively with the CEO and trustees helping things stay organised without taking over responsibility for them.
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