Change of CEO at mermaids…

Exactly this! I’ve got my eye on a Charity job that will be becoming available in the next year or so (current incumbent approaching retirement age). It’s in my industry which I know like the back of my hand, though I’ve not worked for a Charity before. I’ve been researching working in Charities to make sure I’m fully up to speed on what might be required of the role, and the key thing that keeps coming up is that you have to be passionate about and/or have in depth knowledge of the given Charity’s raison d’etre.

How on earth is anyone meant to know from that advert if it’s a topic they are passionate/informed about?!

I watched a House of Commons debate live (on the Parliament channel) a while ago and I don't know if anyone else remembers if, but Wera Hobhouse was absolutely beside herself when another MP mentioned something to do with transitioning or transgender. From her seat Hobshouse shouted, 'the most vulnerable!' and physically twisted herself around in an absolute froth. The speaker wasn't even saying anything contentious.

It was like watching someone caught up momentarily in a religious ecstasy. I guess that's passes for passionate politics these days in the political parties like the Lib Dems that have sold out on just about all their principles on environment, education, Europe and economy. What's left to get worked up about?

The Conservatives meanwhile have made massive safeguarding errors at governmental level because they lazily wanted to look like they were keeping up with the progressives. The absolute cynical bastards.

I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't something coming out in the Sunday papers. Felt sure there would be.

It could be something that the charities commission investigation has unearthed. But it's also possibly something more mundane. I saw someone saying that at the court case hearing it looked like the chair of trustees and SG weren't speaking to each other. It could just be that working relationships have just failed to the point of it no longer being viable to continue in post.

Nothing in the Sundays then?

If it's in the judgement and Mermaids have seen it ahead of time then that would mean it'll be published in the next couple of days.

Oh my life. If I was SG I’d be begging people like HW not to say stuff like that. It’s not exactly a glowing endorsement to a career and will show upon social media searches. Why would anyone think the support of a disgraced doctor would be useful. No sane charity will touch SG with a barge pole I think.

Someone has an income stream to protect.

A 'Badcharacter' reference

I get that would work with parents, I still don't understand how they got such buy in from MPs, donations from children in need, the national lottery.

Maybe I expect too much from those in power 😁

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SG is being lauded on Twitter by Helen Webberley - which is a bit like the police asking you to help with their enquiries and Charles Manson popping up to say what a good egg you are.

It is strange that the job advert gives no indication of the target group of the charity. I am currently looking for a new job and my search is targeted to the specialist area within the field.

Now for the CEO job I might apply for "The wonderful cat" charity, not so much the "Doggies Rule" charity. I'd like to know at the outset.

Grr - "we know why you don't fit in". Was quite pleased with that otherwise...

The real question is how such an amateur self invested organisation managed to get the influence and donations it did.

Answer's pretty easy - it was telling people (from all sorts of groups) what they wanted to hear.

"Yes, we know why you don't fit it"
"Yes, there's a simple explanation for your child's suffering"
"Yes, you were definitely always a girl, it's not a fetish"
"Yes, you're a super progressive person"
"Yes, you can work with vulnerable children"

Yes, jazz's pathway is pretty public.

Was there any indication that Jackie Green had a job, or degree, or anything of that nature? Or was it just travelling?

It wouldn't surprise me if that ad was for mermaids, they are a small and fairly amateur organisation, the details also fit in terms of location, salary, the challenges they face.

The real question is how such an amateur self invested organisation managed to get the influence and donations it did.

Isn't it a bit like the recruitment for that period dignity officer in Scotland where the ad went into the wrong category and so only one a few applicants spotted it and applied?

FWIW we pay our CEO £50k to oversee a staff of 25-30 and about 60 volunteers to run an Advice charity (benefits/debt/employment, I don't recall any gender discrimination issues). We always advertise senior roles in the Grauniad and Charity press (even though it isn't cheap, it gives us a good mix of applicants).

Thanks @boiled, with that recommendation I’ll be a shoo in. It’s so accurate. I’ll soon have mermaids in a much better place.

Re. the salary seeming low, wasn't Mermaids run completely by volunteers until 2016 when Susie Green became the first member of staff? I can see that starting salary being on the lower end, given no one else was being paid and that was only 6 years ago.

Of course and as for what to write about you, I've started already:

I've known happy for at least three days. I would trust them with the life of my first born mongoose. I can personally guarantee their dbs check is enhanced, so that's all fine. She will be an asset to your charity as she is very erm....happy?

Her work on the inner thoughts of MAPS is stunning, you would be amazed at what Tanzania is thinking.

Her inner thigh, arm and vulva photo shoot is used exclusively to teach the 2 to 4 age bracket on how to order pizza.

She's my first choice of person to employ. If i was looking for staff I'd hire her myself.

Not all medical interventions are tested using randomised controlled trials. Any attempt at evaluation, even just following up the initial patients properly, would have been better than what actually happened in most centres - nothing.

But I agree that nothing ever justified the risks inflicted on these kids. And SG, with her ‘Better a live girl than a dead boy’ lie was at the heart of pushing these experimental treatments on kids.

The stopping blockers and puberty point - while I don’t think full puberty is experienced there is still some circulating estrogen while ovaries are present.

Post menopausal women with identified BRCA1/2 issue are offered ovary removal despite the “inactive” state of their ovaries, which implies that the mere presence of ovaries has an impact on estrogen receptive functions.

It is purely a theory, I wish there was enough actual clinical data to evidence.

The Charity Commission website says that Mermaids has one employee with a package of £60-£70k.

It does strike me as a low salary for a Charity CEO, I had a look on the Charity Commission website at charities near me (East Anglia) with a similar level of turnover and of the three I could find, the listed packages (presumably for the CEO) range between £100k-£200k.

Agreed. I'm hoping that this was the right choice for Jackie.

Yes, some of the stuff hoping Jackie "wakes up" and sues the parents doesn't seem to realise how traumatic that would be for someone. It's not like the physical changes can be reversed.

There's no ethical way to do any of this research, it seems to me. How could you have a control group and a group undergoing PB/CSH interventions and it wouldn't result in a group with the problems as set out by Biggs? These things are known now, you couldn't ethically test for results, could you?

users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/Biggs_ExperimentPubertyBlockers.pdf