Closing Date: 9th May
Interview Dates: 20th - 31st May
We are recruiting several board member roles including Secretary, Treasurer and General Non-Executive Directors. You can find a full recruitment pack here:
All board members share these responsibilities and requirements:
Provide governance oversight over our legal and financial duties as a Community Interest Company.
Guide OSN staff, team leaders and contractors, to deliver our mission and strategy.
For some responsibilities on the Board i.e.the legal, finance and fundraising, will require a degree of management of our delivery due to these being underdeveloped areas within the organisation.
Our Streets Now is a youth-led, grassroots and intersectional campaign to create a world in which everyone can feel safe and be safe in public space. Our aim is to end public sexual harassment (PSH), the set of sexually intimidating behaviours that 97% of young women have faced.
To achieve our vision of a world free from PSH for women and marginalised genders, we:
1. Educate on the causes, impacts and solutions to PSH
2. Drive community action through impactful awareness campaigns
3. Advocate for stronger policies and laws
In 2024/25 we are focusing on four strategic priority areas: schools, sports, higher education and high streets.
Our schools campaign launched in 2020 and focuses on equipping all students with the knowledge and skills to tackle PSH by providing resources and training for teachers and direct workshop delivery with pupils. OSN also engages with politicians and policy-makers, aiming to shape national decision making on policy, funding and curriculum.
The universities/higher education team started work in 2020, focussing on mobilisation and activism by running a successful ambassador programme. The team produces research into students’ experiences and works with university spaces to improve their
internal policies.
Sports is a new area of work for us which is launching in a few months aiming to raise awareness of the pervasive nature of harassment in sport. The team will be offering staff training and a toolkit for sports clubs, a template model PSH policy and posters for gyms and are producing research and multimedia resources showing the impact of PSH in sports.
Our Values:
Feminism and using a gender justice lens
Supporting and centring youth-led change
Placing prevention at the heart of our work
Intersectionality and using anti-racist and trans-inclusive approaches
Whole society approach of using a range of avenues and routes to change