Legal Trustees – property and/or charity law

Legal Trustees at Aston-Mansfield

Do you have the legal experience to help our charities’ Boards with sound decision-making?

If you also have the strategic skills to support our CEO & senior leadership team, then you could be a Legal Trustee, here at Aston-Mansfield or Aston-Mansfield Charitable Trust!

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your knowledge of property and/or charity law to support a charity in a values-led role. As well as collaborating on governance discussions, you’ll also act as an ambassador for our organisation and our mission.

So, if you have the legal know-how to identify risks and guide our Board, we’d love to hear from you.

Who is Aston-Mansfield?

Aston-Mansfield is a community charity with a proud legacy of over 140 years serving the people of Newham. The Aston-Mansfield Charitable Trust is its sister charity. We use a community-focused approach, fostering opportunity, and inspiration for children, families, and young people in Newham and East London.

We do this by:

• supporting people who live in poverty and experience isolation or exclusion
• partnering with other organisations to create seamless pathways of support
• addressing racial injustice and inequality through all of our work
• creating trusting relationships with children, young people

What matters to Aston-Mansfield?

Committing to equality, diversity and inclusion throughout all areas of our work is a vital part of us achieving our vision. We want to see more children, young people and families in Newham and east London leading happy, healthy lives, realising their potential and unlocking their ambition.

We will:

• put children and young people first, and at the centre of what we do
• support and encourage diversity and aim to treat everyone fairly
• strive to be connected to local communities

If you join us at Aston-Mansfield…

You’ll help us fulfil our ambitions for our young people and their families and our community, ensuring we provide good quality services. As a Legal Trustee, your expertise will strengthen our work in supporting areas of significant deprivation and need, helping the next generation to grow and prosper.

We can offer you a welcoming environment, interesting work and the chance to feel you are making a meaningful contribution to our organisation, and society. Previous trustee experience isn’t required, and you will be supported into the role through a full onboarding and induction process.

In addition to legal expertise, we are especially looking for applications from women and people from minoritised communities, as we are keen to broaden both the diversity and gender balance of our Board.

Please make sure you read our Candidate Information Pack before applying. It contains important details about the role and our organisation.

Don’t think you quite meet all the specifications? Please don’t count yourself out. We’d still love to learn more about your interest in joining Aston-Mansfield!

If you have specific questions about the role or the application process, please contact Lucinda Shaw, [email protected] to arrange a call. Having a call of this kind will not influence the success or otherwise of your application.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential. If you have a disability or require reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please contact us so we can support you appropriately.