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CCA is seeking to appoint a truly exceptional candidate to lead the Board of Trustees as Chair.

The Chair provides leadership to the Board and Management Team, harnessing and directing the Trustees’ efforts in support of the organisation’s wide-ranging creative and engagement activities. This is an exciting time for the organisation as we seek to appoint a new CEO/Artistic Director early in 2026.

Our Chair will work both with the Board and the CCA Management Team to support and implement the agreed ret-set plan commenced in April 2025. They should be passionate about Art and Community and its role in supporting emerging creatives, delivering education and participation programmes to underserved communities, and producing new work.

They should be committed to ensuring that the core values of equality, diversity and inclusion, Are founding principles along with environmental sustainability and business resilience are central to the CCA’s operations and everything it delivers.

Time Commitment

The Chair on average provides 1 – 2 days per month in support of the Board and Management Team and in addition contribute to the following:

• One Annual General Meeting and four Board meetings a year. Meetings currently take place on Mondays in the early evening and last up to two hours.

• Read Board papers in advance of each meeting, including artistic, financial, and strategic reports.

• Contribute to and attend at least one Board away day per year.

• Attend opening events (currently around 6-8 per year) and other activities that form part of the company’s programme of work

• Act as an ambassador for CCA and supporting fundraising initiatives

Location

Board meetings, sub-committees, and the AGM take place at CCA (Center for Contemporary Art), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. We believe there is a benefit to meeting in-person but Trustees can attend meetings virtually when they cannot be there in person.

Remuneration

The Board of Trustees are volunteers and are not financially remunerated, though reasonable expenses to enable attendance at meetings may be claimed. The Chair will discuss and agree expenses with the Executive Director and these could include travel, accommodation, postage, phone calls, childcare or care of other dependents while attending meetings.

We will ensure access provision is in place.

The Chair and Trustees can work for CCA in their professional capacity in appropriate circumstances.

Term:

• Three years with maximum of two terms (6 years in total)

For the full specifications of this role and our organisational values, please read the Board Chair Recruitment Pack.

How to apply

Please apply by sending us your CV and a covering letter (no more than 2 pages) telling us about your experience, your interest in CCA and what you would like to offer CCA as a trustee. Please refer to the skills and experience mentioned in this pack under ‘What we are looking for’. Please also indicate your interest in the role of co-chair as part of your application.

We are also happy to accept video applications. These should be no longer than 3 minutes long, and should tell us why you would like to join the board and what skills you have to bring. Please submit a CV along with a video application.

All applications will be reviewed in line with a scoring criteria established with CCA staff input. An easy read and audio file of this recruitment pack will be available from our website’s vacancies section.

Please email your application to recruitment@cca-glasgow.com and include ‘Chair’ in the subject title.

Applications are to be received by 10am Monday, 10th November 2025.*

*Please note this extended date to allow time for a wider pool of applicants.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited for interviews, expected to be held at CCA in the
week commencing 17 November 2025.

The new Chair will be invited to meet staff, along with new trustees, in December.

If you would like to speak to a member of the CCA team regarding your application, please contact the above recruitment email address, and we will come back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you for your interest in CCA.

Application Deadline: Monday 10/11/2025