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Rights Information and Advocacy Centre

http://riac.org.au

Role: General Board Member Type: Not-for-Profit & Community Organisations Location: Victoria
Human rights
Annual Budget: more than $1,500,000
Number of Paid Staff: 21 - 50
Number of Volunteers: 6-20
Current Board Size: 8-12
Board Meetings (frequency): every two months
Board Meetings Held: At Night

Area of Expertise Being Sought:
Fundraising, Information & Communication Technology (ICT), Marketing / Branding, Media / Communications / Public Relations

Board Meetings (Mode):
Online/Dial-in, 1-2 meetings held in-person per year, all other meetings online

Targeting:

Payment:
Nil - honorary role

Any further information about this vacancy:

About Us

Rights, Information, and Advocacy Centre Inc. (RIAC) is a non-profit community organisation committed to building the capacity and wellbeing of individuals, families, carers and communities through advocacy, access, and support services. RIAC works across 22 Local Government Areas throughout central and north-western regional Victoria and parts of southern New South Wales on the lands of the First Nations people, the Djaara, Yorta Yorta, Wurundjeri, Ladji Ladji, Barkinji, Wadawurrung, Bangerang, and Taungurung, with offices in Bendigo, Geelong, Shepparton, and Mildura.

RIAC has been working for over 40 years, advocating for the human rights of people with disabilities. RIAC is an incorporated association, registered as a charity with the ACNC, and has Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status.

About the Opportunity

RIAC’s Board is the Governance body for RIAC, with responsibility for the organisation’s strategic direction, satisfying ACNC and statutory governance requirements, and appointment and oversight of the CEO.

We are seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced people for appointment to the RIAC Board in a voluntary Board member role.

RIAC’s Board embraces diversity and is keen to recruit members that expand its diversity in terms of age, gender and ethnicity. As a disability advocacy organisation, it is particularly important that its Board membership is inclusive of and open to people with disability.

Thus, we place particular value on involving people with direct lived experience of disability on our Board. 

Appointment would be to a casual vacancy, subject to confirmation at the next
Annual General Meeting for a two-year (renewable) term.

About You

As RIAC is a regional organisation, with a geographically dispersed Board, most meetings are online, and we are flexible about the location of members, though our preference is to recruit members from our service catchment areas.

Prospective Board Members will ideally have direct lived experience of disability, along with experience as a member of a board or committee in the community sector, and a demonstrated ability to be strategic and solutions focussed.

In addition, skills, knowledge or experience in at least one of the following areas is highly desirable:

  1. Fundraising/marketing
  2. Cyber and tech related issues

For more information or to express interest, please contact Sandy Ross on 0417 557 420 or lauren@riac.org.au

Duty Statement: VIC

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