We're looking for new Trustees to join our Board at Deveron Projects. We want to work with people who care about artists and communities, and understand the possibilities of our work in building deep and meaningful collaborations between them. 

As a Trustee you will be an ambassador, advisor and cheerleader for our work and for the team. You will bring your experience and expertise to help us work through challenges, realise our strategies and manage the charity well. We are looking for Trustees who are ready to get stuck in to explore, deliberate and experiment with us, towards our aims. We need people who can be responsive when the team needs support, who want to learn with us and are open to sharing their knowledge, experience and skills in collaborative and open-minded ways. 

Trustees are an essential part of Deveron Projects. As a Trustee you will hold collective responsibility for ensuring that the statutory purposes of the organisation are fulfilled, that the staff team is supported and that the use of resources qualifies an appropriate use of public funds in line with our constitution.

We are looking for:

There are many different approaches, skills and experiences that would make someone a brilliant Trustee. Just now, we are particularly looking for people with experience of:

• Alternative and transformational governance models.
• Buildings management and strategy, including capital development.
• Arts practice in the UK and/or internationally.
• Organisational leadership, business planning and strategic development.
• Finance management.

If you have experience beyond these areas and are interested in becoming a Trustee, we’d still love to hear from you as we recruit on a rolling basis.

We are particularly keen to receive applications from people of the global majority, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled, neurodivergent and working class people, and people with caring responsibilities. These lived experiences and identities are underrepresented in our sector and have less access to spaces of decision making in our local communities.

You can be local to us, or based across the UK. We aim to maintain a balance of around 50% local trustees. Regrettably we cannot currently work with people based internationally.

Access & Remuneration

The role of Trustee is unpaid. We cover travel, accommodation and access costs for our Trustees. We also provide honorariums for freelance Trustees to contribute towards earnings lost while carrying out the role. 

We recognise that Trustee positions are traditionally held by people who are used to holding power. People who understand business workings, whose background / lived experience has enabled them to get in and on in their careers. At Deveron Projects, our Board holds diverse knowledge, skills and lived experiences. Many of our Trustees haven’t been on Boards before. Please know that your knowledge and experience is valuable. Your perspective and lived experience is valid. Please don’t let that voice in your head put you off getting in touch!

Find out more and apply

Download the Trustee Recruitment Pack for full details on the role and information on how to send us an Expression of Interest:

• Trustee Recruitment Pack - pdf
• Trustee Recruitment Pack - plain text

If you want to find out more, you can book an informal, 1:1 information session with our Co-Director Jenny Salmean and one of our Trustees: book an information session

Or you can get in touch by contacting Jenny on jenny@deveron-projects.com / 01466 794494. If you are local you are welcome to drop by our office behind Huntly Library.