JustRight Scotland is a human rights charity founded in 2017 by a group of solicitors passionate about using the law to drive systemic change. Our vision is a Scotland where everyone’s human rights are realised and where structural barriers to justice are dismantled.
We work towards this by using the law to defend and extend people’s rights, particularly for those who are furthest from justice and face the greatest barriers to accessing it. Last year, we directly supported thousands of people and indirectly benefited many more.
We do this by:
We currently operate four specialist legal centres: the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre, the Refugee and Scottish Migrant Centre, the Scottish Anti‑Trafficking and Exploitation Centre, and the Scottish Just Law Centre.
We also run a successful policy, communications and participation hub, which strengthens and further develops the implementation of our strategy through communications, participation, and fundraising.
In almost ten years, we have grown from a small group working around a kitchen table to a team of around 20 staff, based in our Glasgow office.
Having invested heavily in strengthening our organisation in recent years, we are now embarking on the next stage of our development. With our bold five‑year strategy, Paving Routes to Justice, well underway (2024-2029) – and with several strategic challenges ahead – this is the right moment for a change in leadership, bringing new energy and fresh perspective.
As JustRight 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 JustRight 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 JustRight 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 and dynamic staff team and the Board.
The CEO is an ambassador for JustRight Scotland. As a strategic leader in the Human Rights sector, the CEO will represent JustRight 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.
JustRight 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.
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