Our Management Structure
Our work is directed by a Board which is appointed by Scottish Ministers following an open public appointments process.
The OSCR Board is responsible for our strategy and future direction, oversight and governance. Our Board Members act as ambassadors for OSCR, promoting our policies and values and bringing their specialist knowledge to the organisation.
Our staff
The OSCR Board is supported by approximately 50 staff working at our office in Dundee. Corporate decision making that affects our day-to-day operations is delegated to the Senior Management Team, chaired by Jane Ryder, OSCR Chief Executive.
View our organisational chart for more information on our staffing structure.
Our work with the Scottish Government
Scottish Government Ministers have ultimate responsibility for policy in relation to charity legislation and third sector policy. We have a Framework agreement with the Scottish Government which establishes our relationship and provides the overarching framework for policy and corporate engagement within which the two organisations operate.
We work closely with the Scottish Government’s Charity Law Team, which has responsibility for implementing charity legislation.
Board Members
The Board consists of a Chair, a Deputy Chair and six Board Members. Board Members are appointed for a term of four years. The posts are part time at 1.5 days a month and attract remuneration of £200 a day.
View the Minutes of OSCR Board Meetings.
Read OSCR Board Members' Code of Conduct
John Naylor, Chair
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John Naylor OBE, Chair, was most recently Chief Executive of the Carnegie UK Trust for 11 years. Previously he was Chief Executive of YMCA England, where he was joint founder of Y Care International. John was on the Board of the UK Big Lottery Fund and chaired the Scottish Community Fund. He was founding Convenor of the Scottish Grant Making Trusts Group and a member of the McFadden Scottish Charity Law Review Commission which led to the establishment of OSCR. He is Chair of the UK Scout Association Development Grants Board and a member of the UK Scout Council. He is a member trustee of Medical Research Scotland, Vice Chair of Strange Town, an Edinburgh youth theatre group, and Treasurer of the Tomorrow Project, an independent charity researching people’s lives in the next 20 years. He is also a Kirk Elder in Edinburgh. All of these positions are voluntary.
Read John's register of interest.
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Lindsay Montgomery CBE, Deputy Chair is the Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Aid Board. He has a wide background in the public sector including having been a Director of Scottish Natural Heritage and held posts in HM Treasury and Export Credit Guarantee Department. Previously he was a Non-Executive Director of OSCR when it was a Scottish Executive Agency and is also the chairman of a small cancer charity.
Read Lindsay's register of interest.
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Read Fiona's register of interest.
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Read Kaliani's register of interest.
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Annie Gunner Logan is the Director of Community Care Providers Scotland (CCPS), the association of voluntary organisations providing care services in Scottish communities.
Annie began her career in Scotland’s voluntary and public sectors through a Community Programme placement with the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) in 1988. She went on to work with the Health Education Board for Scotland (now NHS Health Scotland) and Children in Scotland, where she was Information and Public Affairs Manager.
Annie is Vice Chair of the UK drug treatment charity, Phoenix Futures, and a board member of the Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium. She serves on a number of Scottish Executive advisory and reference groups, including the National Social Work Services Forum. Annie has a Masters Degree in Social and Public Policy from the University of Edinburgh.
Read Annie's register of interest.
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Read David's register of interest.
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Professor David Harrison is Head of Pathology at the University of Edinburgh; Clinical Director for Laboratory Medicine across NHS Lothian; Honorary Consultant Pathologist in Lothian University Hospitals Division; and the Director of the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit - one of three such units within the charity. He was Director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre and is a founding Board Member of the MRC/University of Edinburgh Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine. He is a member of the Committee on Toxicity, Food Standards Agency, and was recently Vice Chair of the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee. He is Chair of the research grant-making charity Medical Research Scotland, and the Nazareth Trust, a Scottish charity that owns and runs a hospital and nursing school in the Middle East.
Read David's register of interest.
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Read Oscar's register of interest.
Senior Management Team (SMT)
Our SMT consists of:
Jane Ryder, Chief Executive
Judith Hayhow, Head of Corporate Services
Quentin Fisher, Head of Policy & Development
Martin Tyson, Head of Charity Services
Laura Anderson, Head of Enquiry & Investigation
