Trustee - HR

Sharebristol; Bristol; On-site; GBP 10,000 - GBP 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A community-focused organization in Bristol is seeking a Trustee to lead HR and People operations. This role involves enhancing HR policies and supporting a growing team of part-time staff and volunteers. Key responsibilities include coordinating recruitment processes and ensuring a welcoming atmosphere that promotes volunteer engagement. Ideal candidates should possess a strong HR background, with experience in managing teams and working with volunteers. Join us to make a tangible impact in the community!

Benefits

Opportunity to make a community impact

Work with a friendly team

Engage with local community initiatives

Qualifications

• Experienced manager of people, particularly part‑time staff across different sites.
• Skills to attract and retain the best people.
• Ability to support a growing team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead HR and People work as a Trustee.
• Coordinate new staff recruitment.
• Assist with volunteer recruitment and retention activities.

Skills

Strong HR background

Experience with volunteers

Safeguarding experience

Leadership skills

Job description

Our vision

Our vision is that everybody shares. Join us at Share Bristol, Bristol and South Gloucestershire's Library of Things, to help us protect the environment and support local communities, through providing the Things people need to live their lives.

What difference will you make?

As a Trustee with Share Bristol you will see first hand the pleasure that a Library of Things can bring to local people – from the dawning realisation that they will be able to access the Things they need when you are explaining the concept to someone for the first time, to seeing someone come back to borrow time and time again as they work on a big project and tell you about its progress.

Through our work we reduce the amount of goods that people buy, and the amount of packaging and eventually items that end up in landfill. We make accessing things affordable, bringing parties, DIY projects, deep cleaning and camping holidays within people's reach. And we help bring people together, through fostering a sense of community.

As a Trustee, you will be part of this, and help us increase our impact even more.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with a strong HR background – either as a very experienced manager of people (particularly part‑time staff based across different sites) or ideally as an HR professional.

If you have experience working with volunteers or being responsible for safeguarding in an organisation, that would be an added bonus.

We need to make sure that we attract and retain the best people, and that our team are performing to the best of their ability, and feel supported, and you will need skills that will help with this.

What will you be doing?

We’re at an exciting time in our journey, as we open our fourth location. So, we are seeking to enhance our Trustee team to increase our capacity, and our looking for someone to lead our HR and People work.

As a Trustee, you will be part of a team leading Share Bristol as we ensure our organisation is as good as it can be, and consider our strategy for the future, whilst listening to our local community, being inclusive, and responding to local demand. We already make a difference in many ways, including reduction in waste, creating more space in homes and giving people better access to things, but could do more!

We have four part‑time staff and expect this to grow to six in early 2026. We want to find a Trustee who can lead on HR policies and procedures, making sure they are fit for a growing workforce, and assist our Development and Operations Manager in her line‑management of the rest of the team. Our new Trustee will also coordinate new staff recruitment.

We have around 30–40 active volunteers, and this number is growing. We hope that a people professional will also be able to provide assistance with our volunteer recruitment, onboarding, training and development and retention activities – not carrying them out themselves, but assisting with the overall structure and processes.

We are looking for Trustees who complement our existing skills and experience to make us a fully rounded team of experts who will ensure we are financially sustainable and making an impact in the local community and beyond. Our team is friendly and welcoming, as well as motivated and enthusiastic, and therefore a pleasure to volunteer with.

All are welcome and we are particularly keen to hear from people belonging to groups who are under‑represented in the environmental field.