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Ballarat & Grampians Community Legal Servcie

http://www.bgcls.org.au/

Role: General Board Member Type: Not-for-Profit & Community Organisations Location: Victoria, Ballarat City Council
Social Sciences
Annual Budget: more than $1,500,000
Number of Paid Staff: 11 - 20
Number of Volunteers: 5 or fewer
Current Board Size: 4-7
Board Meetings (frequency): monthly
Board Meetings Held: At Night

Area of Expertise Being Sought:
Law & Legal Services, Community Services

Board Meetings (Mode):
Face-to-face, Online/Dial-in

Targeting:
Females, People with Disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQI

Payment:
Nil - honorary role

Any further information about this vacancy:

Inviting Expressions of Interest

Striving for an informed community with access to justice, Ballarat and Grampians Community Legal Service (BGCLS) delivers high quality professional legal services, education, support, and advocacy to the communities of the Ballarat and Grampians region.

We assist and support clients dealing with individual legal matters including family, family violence, civil and criminal, as well as working more broadly with our partners in capacity building and law and policy reform projects to address community need.

Our Board seeks to strengthen its skill base by recruiting 2 Board Directors (Voluntary) who can bring their specialist expertise as a lawyer or community services manager to the BGCLS Board as it fulfills its strategic direction-setting, oversight, and governance responsibilities.

To enhance our capacity to deliver on our purpose BGCLS is seeking to structure a diverse board of committed individuals, with a range of thinking styles, qualifications, skills, and life experiences.

We welcome expressions of interest from people of all genders, ages, First Nation peoples, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse and intersex people.

A Board Recruitment Pack, including Expression of Interest details, is available by visiting the website – www.bgcls.org.au/careers.html

 

If you wish to explore further, please call Paul Ryan, Board Chair, on 0407 416 010

We welcome Expressions of Interest until 5pm on Wednesday, 26 February 2025

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Once you have filled in the following form, your details will be emailed directly to Ballarat & Grampians Community Legal Servcie. They will contact you on the telephone number and/or email address you provide. We will not disclose your details to anyone apart from the recruiting organisation.

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