Chief Executive Officer

Job Purpose & Context

As Just Right Scotland continues to mature as a nationally significant human rights organisation, the CEO will lead the next phase of development—delivering our current Paving Routes to Justice strategy and preparing for our next beyond 2029, strengthening organisational sustainability, establishing a more visible and impactful policy presence, and scaling impact. The CEO of Just Right Scotland is the organisation’s strategic lead, with oversight of our four centres of legal excellence and our policy, communications and participation work.

The CEO is responsible for leading implementation of the organisational strategy to deliver Just Right Scotland’s mission to use the law to defend and extend people’s rights in Scotland. Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the CEO is the accountable officer for the charity, responsible for strategic planning and financial sustainability. The CEO is the primary link between the organisation’s committed staff team and the Board.

The CEO is an ambassador for Just Right Scotland. As a strategic leader in the Human Rights sector, the CEO will represent Just Right Scotland at senior levels across civil society and government. They will build and sustain strategic relationships to influence policy and systems change, and to build the profile and reputation of the organisation in Scotland, the UK and internationally.

Just Right Scotland operates in a dual structure of SCIO and LLP, which requires collaborative governance between senior leaders to ensure alignment across these structures. The organisation operates a distributed leadership model in which the Senior Executive Team, comprising the CEO, the Chief Operating Officer and the two Legal Directors (who are also the LLP Partners), share authority and responsibility for senior leadership of the organisation.

This is intended to ensure wellbeing, innovation and adaptive capacity at leadership level, aligned with shared values and strategy. The CEO will therefore work closely with the Legal Directors, building on their significant expertise, ensuring a clear and consistent organisational voice.

This is a unique opportunity to lead one of Scotland’s most influential human rights organisations at a pivotal stage in its journey. We are seeking an inspiring, strategic and values-driven leader who can build on Just Right Scotland’s strong foundations and help shape the future of rights-based change.